Afterlife 13: 50 Years of Biblical Archaeology Review

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 693 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The year 2025 marks fifty years of publication by Biblical Archaeology Review, often known as BAR. This is halfway between a journal and a magazine, rather like National Geographic. It has worked as a bridge between professional archaeologists and historians, and the general public.

In this show I am joined by my old mate Steve Guerra of the History of the Papacy podcast. We discuss BAR’s history, and present some of its articles.

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0:00.0	G'day. I'm Gary Stevens.
0:07.6	Welcome to the afterlife of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:16.1	Afterlife episode 13.
0:20.2	50 years of biblicaliblical Archaeology Review.
0:24.6	Hello, happy people. The year 2025 marks 50 years of publication by biblical archaeology review, often known as BAR.
0:38.2	This is halfway between a journal and a magazine, rather like National Geographic.
0:45.1	It has worked as a bridge between professional archaeologists and historians and the general
0:51.8	public.
0:53.7	In this show, I am joined by my ultimate Steve Guerra of the History of the Papacy podcast.
1:01.3	We discuss BAR's history and present some of its articles.
1:07.0	Hope you have fun.
1:09.5	Welcome back to another exciting and hopefully interesting collaboration between History of the Papacy podcast hosted by me, Steve Guerra, and History in the Bible podcast hosted by the one and only Gary Stevens.
1:25.9	Gary, how are you?
1:27.3	I'm just tickety-boo as ever, Steve. Not dead yet.
1:32.2	And that's good. We're all both here at the moment of this recording.
1:38.0	Today we're going to do something a little bit different and something that might even become a
1:43.1	regular staple is we're going to do
1:45.4	a podcast version of a reaction video, except we're not reacting to a video.
1:51.5	We're reacting to an article from the magazine Biblical Archaeology Review.
1:59.6	The article we're going to react to today is called New Directions,
2:05.0	How Archaeology Illuminates the Bible, written by Jenny Ebeling. And Jenny Ebeling is an
2:13.0	associate professor of archaeology at the University of Evansville. This article came from the latest
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