America needs this voice.

The times are crazy, and a time of confusion, division, and lies.

We need a brave voice of reason, understanding, and truth. This is the Dinesh DeSuzza

podcast. Coming up, guys, a special episode of the podcast. We're going to be talking

biblical archaeology with one of the renowned and in the field practicing archaeologists.

I'm referring to the man next to me, Scott Stripling. He's in studio today, which is great.

He's director of excavations for the Associates for Biblical Research, based in ancient Shiloh in Israel. He's also provost and director of the Archaeology Institute at the Bible Seminary in Katie, Texas.

He serves as president of the board of directors of the Near East Archaeological Society.

He's got innumerable credits, which I won't go into, but I will tell you, you can follow him on X at Stripling underscore Scott.

The website, very simple, Scott with two T, Scottstripling.net.

Scott, welcome.

Great to have you in studio.

And I'm really looking forward to this conversation.

As I mentioned, we have a kind of basic introduction to biblical archaeology in my latest film, The Dragons Prophecy.

But I want to get to the fundamentals of what this field is and what it does. And so let's begin really in a very basic way

by me asking you, what is archaeology? Well, first, thanks for having me on the program. I've

been looking forward to meeting you. I'm in South Houston. You're in North Houston,

almost like two different worlds, so glad we could connect.

Archaeology is a subscience of anthropology.

Anthropology is the study of human beings and human behavior.

Archaeology studies human remains.

And so in that sense, we are limited to the last few thousand years where we have stratified

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