#159 New Archaeological Discovery Challenges Bible Skeptics - with Jeremiah Johnston
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 26 June 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In 2019, an ancient curse tablet was found by archaeologists in Israel that is likely at least 3,200 years old. Scholars believe it may show the earliest Hebrew name for God. This calls into question the Documentary Hypothesis, which speculates that the first five books of the Bible were not written by Moses, but by various editors and authors. Dr. Jeremiah Johnston joins me to talk about what he thinks is the archaeological find of our lifetime.
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| 0:00.0 | One example that |
| 0:02.3 | Minimalist hyper skeptical scholars would give they would say you don't have the the two names of God |
| 0:07.0 | L and Yahweh |
| 0:08.8 | Together anywhere there hundreds of years apart. Well, guess what we have in this cursed tablet Alisa |
| 0:13.6 | We have the name of L and then the covenant name of God Yahweh |
| 0:17.6 | multiple times |
| 0:19.2 | In the same cursed tablet from the late Bronze Age era and it is so exciting |
| 0:42.4 | Welcome to the Alisa Childers podcast |
| 0:44.8 | What do explorers spies espionage? |
| 0:49.1 | MI6 the office of strategic services, which is the forerunner to the CIA |
| 0:55.0 | Battles attacks in some cases death |
| 0:59.2 | bribery |
| 1:00.2 | Thievery defamation lawsuits |
| 1:03.6 | Identity theft what all of these things have in common |
| 1:08.4 | Biblical archaeology we're going to talk about it today |
| 1:10.8 | We're going to talk about a recent find that made headlines because of the implications it has for what we know about |
| 1:18.7 | The Old Testament what we know about other things very fascinating. So of all the religious |
| 1:25.4 | Beliefs in the world and we're talking about past beliefs present beliefs |
| 1:30.3 | None have been more thoroughly based in history than Judaism and Christianity |
| 1:36.3 | So it's a huge advantage that Christianity has if you look at the way that many other religious systems were formulated or how they came to be |
| 1:44.9 | You have a guy sitting under a tree or in a cave and they get some kind of mystical revelation |
| 1:50.7 | They germ up some followers. There's some practical things you can do the rituals and in all of these things |
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