Welcome to the Eric Metaxus show with your host, Eric Mettaxas.

Hey there, folks. Israel, Jerusalem. Have you heard of those places? So have I. But the more I look into them,

the more fascinated I become. I have as my guest today the author of a new book called Jerusalem

Rising, the City of Peace reawakens.

Doug Hershey, welcome the program.

Thanks for having me.

Okay, you were here, I don't know, a year ago or something to talk about Israel Rising.

That's right.

You're an author, but you work with a photographer to do, how do you call it?

It's like time travel. Yeah, it's then and now photography, but it's

it's what? It's then and now photography. Then and now photography. But it's even a little bit more

than that just simply because the series is called ancient prophecy modern lens. So we're

documenting a, we're providing visual documentation of ancient prophecies from the Bible

as they're coming to pass and getting some photographic evidence of those things unfolding.

Now, I've become really fascinated with Israel and Jerusalem in the last year because I just finished writing my new book, Is Atheism Dead?

Which you can pre-order right now.

And Is Atheism Dead deals with a lot of biblical archaeology.

And in the course of doing the research, I just had to dig in, no pun intended, to Jerusalem and the history of Jerusalem.

And I was so fascinated.

I thought the more people know about this, you know, it's the old cliche, the Bible comes to life.

It really, really does.

And I feel like I know the city, even though I was doing it virtually and studying maps and photos and things.

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