Biblical Archaeology Review Turns 50 - Garry and Steve React

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In this reaction episode, Garry Stevens of the History in the Bible Podcast and Steve take a deep dive into Biblical Archaeology Review's 50th anniversary article. What does half a century of digging in the Holy Land really tell us? I break down the claims, question the hype, and offer some context that may be missing from the glossy retrospective. From Solomon’s Temple to sensational headlines, let’s talk about what archaeology can and can’t prove. Whether you’re a skeptic, a believer, or just a fan of old stones and strong opinions, this one’s for you.
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0:47.8	Welcome back to the History of the Papacy podcast, a podcast about the Popes of Rome and Christian Church.
0:55.4	Prepare yourself to step behind the ropes and leave the official tour of the story of the popes and Christianity.
1:00.0	I am your host, Steve Guerra, and I thank you for joining me on this journey. 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.
1:27.3	Gary, how are you?
1:28.8	I'm just tickety-boo as ever, Steve. Not dead yet. And that's good. We're all both here at the
1:36.3	moment of this recording. Today, we're going to do something a little bit different and something
1:43.0	that might even become a regular staple is we're going to do something a little bit different and something that might even become a regular staple is
1:45.8	we're going to do a podcast version of a reaction video, except we're not reacting to a video.
1:53.4	We're reacting to an article from the magazine Biblical Archaeology Review.
2:01.0	The article we're going to react to today is called New Directions,
2:06.7	how archaeology illuminates the Bible, written by Jenny Eveling.
2:12.7	And Jenny Eveling is an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Evansville.
2:18.5	This article came from the latest edition, as of the recording, the latest edition of the magazine Biblical Archaeological Review from the spring 2025 edition, which was actually a retrospective of 50 years of the Biblical
2:40.6	Archaeological Review magazine. So Gary is going to give us a little bit of background on
2:46.8	BAR. That's just what we'll refer to it as from now on, make our lives a little easier.
2:52.2	Gary, tell us a little bit about B.A.R. And what you think about B.A.R.
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