S8 Ep762: Professor Eric Cline discusses the search for Biblical evidence in the Amarna tablets, specifically identifying early mentions of Jerusalem and describing the "kid-like" squabbles between Canaanite vassal kings writing to the Egyptian Pharaoh. (12)
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🗓️ 18 April 2026
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| 0:50.1 | This is Globalized Mediterranean basin. Bronze Age. |
| 0:55.5 | Before the collapse of many of these competing civilizations, certainly before Troy. |
| 1:01.1 | This makes Rome look like landing on Mars would look today. |
| 1:07.7 | This is the period of time when Egypt dominates the Fertile Crescent and the Hittites of |
| 1:14.6 | Central Anatolia dominate Mesopotamia and the entrance to Mesopotamia. The Mesopotamian kingships |
| 1:21.6 | are lesser kings. They're not dominant at this point. They have ancient civilizations, but that doesn't matter. |
| 1:28.5 | It's who can bring the most to the battlefield. |
| 1:31.6 | I mentioned just because we've heard the word Armageddon much these last days |
| 1:35.3 | to do with the crises of the 21st century. |
| 1:39.2 | Megito is part of the story here. |
| 1:42.2 | It's an irony I can't explore more than to mention that. Professor, |
| 1:46.7 | I want to emphasize this is a time period when Bible studies included the search for the |
| 1:53.6 | historical Jesus, and that meant that there was great reward for anyone finding evidence of |
| 2:00.3 | Pontius Pilate, of the cross, of anything to do with |
| 2:04.3 | Jesus' family, certainly with things in the Bible in the Old and New Testament that have |
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