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Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

JOHN BECK | Connecting the Land with Its Stories (Ep. 777)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome John Beck to the show. He is a Biblical geographer, professor, and host of the docu-series “The Holy Land: Connecting the Land with Its Stories”. He is also the author of “Our Daily Bread Bible Atlas”. In this interview, we discuss why his faith in Christ and his interest in geography started to connect, his hundreds of trips to Israel over the last 30+ years, how understanding the geography of where Bible history took place helps bring the Scripture to life, his favorite place he’s explored, the one place he would love to explore if given the opportunity, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE. Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is undaunted life, a Man's Podcast.

0:23.9

I'm your host, Kyle Thompson.

0:25.6

Let's get into it.

0:26.9

All right, guys, we've got a special guest on the podcast today.

0:28.7

His name is John Beck.

0:29.6

He also goes by Jack, so we have those names kind of interchanged throughout the interview here.

0:33.5

But he is a biblical geographer, professor, and author.

0:36.4

He's also the host of a docu-series

0:38.1

called The Holy Land, Connecting the Land with its stories. And he's the author of this book,

0:42.5

which we talked about here on the show, Our Daily Bread Bible Atlas. And so the thing about

0:46.3

an interview like this is, this is obviously a unique guy. I've talked to a biblical archaeologist,

0:50.0

but not like a biblical geographer, but it's kind of nebulous. Like, what exactly does that mean?

0:59.5

But he really, during this interview for me, brought the Bible to life. He told some stories on here that I was like literally on the edge of my seed. It's similar to what he does with the

1:03.8

Holy Land Show. It's similar to what he has here in the book. But there are certainly some times and some stories in the Bible, some historical accounts from the Bible, that if you understand the geography of what's going on and where you're doing it and where it's taking place, it changes the story for you.

1:18.7

It deepens your level of understanding of the Bible.

1:21.6

And so that's the intro for today.

1:23.2

I just want us to get right in and get after it.

1:24.8

So without further ado, let's get into it.

1:27.8

John Beck, welcome to Don the Life of Man's Podcast. Hey, thanks so much for having me, Kyle.

1:32.5

Appreciate the chance to visit. Yeah, absolutely. Well, we're going to get into kind of your job,

1:36.7

and we talked a little bit off air because what you're technically called, no one really knows

1:40.4

what that is. So we got to dispel some rumors. We got to do some detective work today.

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