Unraveling Biblical Mysteries: Archaeology, Scholarship, And The Intersection Of History & Faith
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Meet Dr. Robert R. Cargill, the Roger A. Hornsby Associate Professor in the Classics at The University of Iowa. He is a devout scholar of Jewish and biblical studies and an archaeologist, author, and digital humanist. In this episode, he joins us to unveil how our scholarly capacity and critical thinking can lead us to unravel some of history's most perplexing mysteries…
Dr. Cargill's research interests are vast, including second temple Judaism, literary criticism of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha, and the archaeology of Southwest Asia. He is also the author of Melchizedek, King of Sodom: How Scribes Invented the Biblical Priest-King and The Cities That Built the Bible – and has appeared on CNN, History, Discovery, Nat Geo, and other networks.
Jump in to discover:
- Must-know facts about the Old Testament.
- The importance of reading the Bible critically.
- How Biblical history is infused with other ancient cultures.
- How to resolve faith-based contradictions with scientific methods.
To learn more about Dr. Cargill and his work, click here now!
Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/30PvU9C
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| 0:31.2 | Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | That is Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | My guest today is Robert Cargo, B.H, B. He's the Roger Hornsby Associate Professor in Classics with their Classics. |
| 0:48.0 | He's the Director of Undergraduate Studies, again Department of Classics, an editor, part of the Bible and Archaeology area at the University of Iowa. |
| 0:55.7 | And we're going to talk about some biblical archaeology and I think it'll be very interesting. |
| 1:00.3 | So welcome. |
| 1:01.3 | Rich, thanks for having me. |
| 1:02.3 | Yeah. Well, tell for having me. Yeah. |
| 1:03.0 | Well, tell me a bit about your background. |
| 1:05.0 | How did you get interested in, you know, the areas that you study? |
| 1:08.0 | Sure, I was a baseball player growing up, so I, that was, that's what I was supposed to be doing right and I basically |
| 1:15.9 | couldn't hit a slider I was a very good defensive catcher so I decided to |
| 1:20.3 | forego that and I went into a pre-med discipline so I was a science mind everything was pre-med I wanted to know how things worked so I was a pre-med student at Fresno State and went to Fresno City College College, went to Fresno State, and then I decided, |
| 1:34.8 | you know, I want to know how things work with regard to religion as well. So I decided to go to |
| 1:39.5 | Pepperdine and they were gracious enough to have me come down there and I did master of |
| 1:45.2 | div, essentially a seminary degree, did an MDIV there, went and worked at |
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