Hello and welcome to the Scriptures A Real podcast.

This is the podcast where we talk about elements that have made the scriptures become real to us because we believe that helps us draw more power out of them.

And we need all the help we can get.

I'm your host, Kerry Mulestein, and I'm thrilled to have with me, my good friend and colleague,

who's a returning guest, George Pierce. Welcome, George.

All right, thanks for having me, Carrie. Appreciate it.

Happy to have you here. So if you want to go back and review our episode on Joshua,

you can get a more lengthy introduction

of George, but I'll just tell you that George has a fascinating background coming from, I guess,

kind of more of an evangelical Christian background and going to evangelical Christian universities,

and then going to UCLA go

Bruins. I almost said go Cougars, we go Cougars too. But yeah, we're both Bruins and Cougars,

George and I, where he joined the church. He is an archaeologist that has worked on several

excavations in Israel and works with me,

kind of on my excavation in Egypt, and we hope he's out there soon with us this season

is the plan. But in any case, tell us a little bit more about yourself, George. What else should we

know? I think that's, you pretty much carry everything in a nutshell. My wife, Dr. Crystal Pierce, we met at UCLA,

so another Bruin. And we have two children who are currently in school, hopefully having a good

time, Victoria and Gio. And that's about it. I work at Telshimron in Israel,

in the, in the Galilee. It is just a stone store away from Nazareth. We have a great

middle bronze age city there, which looks to be fairly large. But we also have a very...

So for our audience, middle bronze age is roughly the time of Abraham.

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