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January 7, 2021

How Archaeology Helps Us to Understand the Bible

Flowing with how much milk and honey?

A veteran of many excavations of ancient sites in Israel, Cynthia Shafer-Elliott discusses the experience of discovering biblical-era fingerprints, how archaeological discoveries can illuminate difficult-to-understand scriptural passages, the technological advances that took place during the time of the Hebrew Bible, and what exactly it means that the Holy Land was one “flowing with milk and honey”—among much else. (Interview by Dru Johnson. Audio, 53 minutes.)

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