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Theology in the Raw

Does Archaeology Prove the Trustworthiness of the Bible? Dr. Todd Bolen

Theology in the Raw

Theology in the Raw

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Dr. Todd Bolen is professor of Biblical Studies at The Master's University (my alma mater) and the founder of BiblePlaces.com—one of the most comprehensive pictorial library of biblical sites. Todd was one of my all-time favorite professors in college and was one of my main inspirations for wanting to become a biblical scholar. Join the Theology in the Raw community for as little as $5/month to get access to premium content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology to Rall. My guest today is Dr. Todd Boland, who is a

0:05.6

professor of biblical studies at the Masters University in Southern California, which is my alma mater.

0:10.7

And he's the founder of Bibleplaces.com, which is one of the most comprehensive pictorial

0:19.2

libraries of biblical sites.

0:22.6

Gotta go check it out.

0:23.4

He's got thousands and thousands of thousands of extremely high quality photos of all the biblical sites.

0:31.8

Todd was one of my all-time favorite professors in college.

0:36.7

And honestly, he was one of my main inspirations for even

0:39.8

wanting to become a biblical scholar. I spent the fall of 1999 at the Israel Bible extension campus

0:47.1

for the Masters University, then called Masters College. And Todd was one of my main professors

0:53.4

there. We've chit-chatted here and there over the years,

0:57.8

but we have not, this is the longest conversation I've had with him since probably shortly after

1:03.2

1999. So it was really, really good talking to him. We dig deep, okay, deep into biblical archaeology. And Todd is just an encyclopedia when it comes to this topic.

1:16.9

So if you're into archaeology, you'll love it. If you're not into archaeology, I hope you will be at the end of this episode.

1:23.4

So please welcome to the show for the first time. The one and only Dr. Todd Bullen.

1:36.0

Yeah. So please welcome to the show for the first time. The one and only, Dr. Todd Bullitt. Todd Bullitt.

1:36.8

Oh, my gosh.

1:37.2

It's been a minute.

1:39.0

That's great to see you, Preston.

1:40.7

So apart from a few brief interactions here and there at conferences, it's been actually 26 years when I studied under you in fall of 1990, 1999 in Israel.

1:54.4

And you were my land and the Bible professor, which, you know, there's a few professors out there, but the landon Bible Proff is the one who's in charge of touring us around and everything. So do you, okay, question,

2:09.2

do you remember my final paper that I wrote and the comments you left on it? I don't expect

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