Welcome to Think Bibbically, Conversations on Faith and Culture, a podcast from

Taubal School Theology Biola University. I'm your host Sean McDow,

Professor of Apologetics.

And I'm your co-host, Scott Ray,

Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics.

We're here with Dr. Titus Kennedy

to talk about his recent book that is now officially my go-to book on archaeology and Jesus and it's simply

called Excavating the Evidence for Jesus.

Dr Titus Kennedy also is an adjunct faculty with us here at Biola University and the author of a bunch of other books and a field archaeologist.

So eminently just train and qualified to talk about this. We're going to jump into your book but

thanks so much for coming on. Yeah I appreciate you guys having me on the

podcast. Yeah I'm really curious as a whole if you could kind of give us a

sense of your assessment as an archaeologist of the archaeological

evidence for Jesus.

And what I mean by that is the archaeological evidence available during the time period,

the life Jesus lived, is it less than we would hope for,

is it roughly what we would expect, or would you say it's surprisingly more than what we might expect?

Well, if we look at Jesus in terms of his social status and the

area in which he lived during the Roman period then I would say that overall the amount of archaeological and historical

evidence that we have for Jesus and his life is astounding because he was not a king, he was not a general a prince a wealthy businessman or major religious leader of

of established religions at the time, he was essentially a craftsman who became an itinerant

teacher and had disciples. And yet when we look at the accounts and the Gospels and then we connect that to archaeology and historical sources outside of the Bible,

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