GORDON GOVIER

ARCHAEOLOGY CORRESPONDENT for CHRISTIANITY TODAY

Gordon Govier's Biblical Archaeology reports for CHRISTIANITY TODAY
include the award-winning October 2003 cover story entitled "Biblical Archaeology's Dusty Little Secret."
"...the James bone box story by Gordon Govier sure has the stuff of a ripping good thriller."
- Bruce Jespersen, Calgary, Alberta



Articles written for CHRISTIANITY TODAY:

• The Dead Sea Scrolls at the Museum of the Bible - 2026
  
• Remembering Gabi Barkay - an inspirational archaeologist - 2026
  
• Astounding Discoveries in the City of David - 2026
  
  
• Biblical Archaeology's Top 10 of 2025 - 2025
  
• War Interupts Biblical Archaeology - 2025
  
• Megiddo Mosaic comes to Washington DC - 2025
  
• Biblical Archaeology's Top 10 of 2024 - 2024
  
• Biblical Archaeology Gets Subatomic Help - 2024
  
  
• Biblical Archaeology's Top 10 of 2023 - 2023
  
• How Archaeology Affirmed the Historic Stature of a Biblical King - 2023
  
• Biblical Archaeology's Top 10 of 2022 - 2022
  
• Wanted: More Christians to Dig in Israel - 2022
  
  
• Biblical Archaeology's Top 10 of 2021 - 2021
  
• Wet Sifting Brings Us Closer Than Ever to the World of Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Hezekiah - 2021
  
• Sodom Destroyed by this Fireball? Probably Not - 2021
  
  
• Biblical Archaeology's Top 10 of 2020 - 2020
  
• Where Are the Other Fake Fragments of Dead Sea Scrolls? - 2020
  
• Digging Stopped in Ancient Biblical Cities - 2020 || Quoted by Aleteia
  
• Largest Evangelical Archaeology Program Finds New Home in Nashville - 2020
• Bible Museum Must Send One More Artifact Back to Iraq - 2020
• Scholar Arrested for Allegedly Stealing Ancient Bible Texts from Oxford - 2020
• COVID-19 impacts Biblical Archaeology - 2020
• Bible Museum Criticism 'Was Justified,' Bible Museum Founder Says - 2020
  
• Fake Dead Sea Scrolls Displayed at Museum of the Bible - 2020
  
  
• Biblical Archaeology's Top 10 of 2019 - 2019
  
• Biblical Archaeology's Top 10 of 2018 - 2018
  
• Biblical Archaeology's Top 10 of 2017 - 2017
  
  
• Links older than 2016 may not work due to CT website redesign
  
• Biblical Archaeology's Top 10 of 2016 - 2016
  
• Why Two Tombs Compete for Jesus' Burial - 2016
  
• Ancient Sticky Notes Shift Secular Scholars Closer to Evangelicals on Bible's Age - 2016
  
• Biblical Archaeology's Top 10 of 2015 - 2015
  
• Modern Monuments Men Seek to Save Christian History from ISIS - co-written with Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra - 2015
  
  
• Biblical Archaeology's Top 10 of 2014 - 2014
  
• O Subtle Star of Bethlehem - 2014
  
• Christians Flee Former Christian Stronghold (contributor) - 2014
• Why Everything Looks Like Jesus - 2014
  
• Searching for Sodom - 2014
  
• Camels are not a Biblical Anachronism - 2014 - Referenced: World magazine || Breakpoint commentary
  
• Top Ten Biblical Archaeology Discoveries of 2013 - 2013
  
  
• Philistine border digs helping define David and Solomon - 2012
• James Ossuary Verdict Not Set in Stone - 2012
• Sensation Before Scholarship - Gospel Fragment Tantalizes Experts - 2012
• Scholars Aim to Bust Archaeological Fantasies - 2012
• Fraudulent Antiquities Trial Ends But Not the Controversy - 2012
  
  
  
• Archaeology's Rebel: Eilat Mazar - 2011
• Major Finds in Asia Minor - 2011
• Lead codices - 2011
  
• The Khirbet Qeiyafa Ostracon - 2010
  
  
  
• Searching for the Star of Bethlehem - 2008
  
• Dead Sea Scroll in Stone - 2008
  
• Finders of the Lost Ark? - 2008
  
• Digging for Sodom - 2008
  
• Nehemiah's Wall Identified - 2008
  
  
• Herod's Tomb Unearthed - 2007
  
• Three Big Digs - 2005
  
• The Pool of Siloam - 2005||HAARETZ updated this story
  
  
• Temple Mount Rubble Sifting - 2005 || Washington Times updated this story
  
• Widespread Antiquities Fraud Alleged - 2005
  
  
• The Shroud's Second Image - 2004 (confirmation||interest)
  
• IAA accused of Rush to Judgement over James Ossuary - 2004
  
• Explorers Seek Noah's Ark on Mt. Ararat- 2004
  
• Ossuary questions remain after IAA verdict - 2003
  
• Ossuary offers stunning evidence for NT - 2002
  
• Violence equals cancelled excavations - 2001
  
• Temple Mount artifacts removed - 2000
  
  
• Israel prepares for millenium pilgrims - 1999
  
• Religious rivalry complicates millenial planning - 1999
  
• Israeli budget cuts imperil archaeology - 1999
  
• Astronomer Discovers Star of Bethlehem - 1999
  
• Temple Mount on Shaky Ground - 1998
  
• Pottery sherd points to Solomon's Temple - 1998
  
• Signs of Canaanite Jerusalem found - 1998
• Disciples' village opens to tourism - 1998
  
• "Oldest Church" discovered in Jordan - 1998
  
• Signs of oldest Jerusalem found - 1998
  
  
• Excavations continue despite budget cutbacks - 1997
  
• Jewish archaeologists enter Shroud debate - 1997
  
• Satellite photos may contains signs of lost Edenic River - 1996
• Dead Sea Scrolls 1st English translation published - 1996
  
  
• New Qumran digs set to start -1995
  
• New evidence for Israeli exodus - 1995
  
• Is academia losing interest in Mideast excavations? - 1995
  
• A time for reconciliation - 1994
  
• Dig uncovers Davidic roots - 1993
  
• Scholars eager for look at new Scrolls fragments - 1991
  
• Computer recreates long awaited text - 1991
  
• Gulf War Slows Holy Land Digs - 1991
  

Additional reporting on Biblical Archaeology includes:

• Hobby Lobby Returns "Priceless" Artifacts Stolen from Iraq (quoted), Christianity Today - July 6, 2017
• Archaeology Points to Jesus, National Association of Evangelicals Insight - Spring 2015
• Volunteers unearth ancient Biblical discoveries, Pentecostal Evangel - September 2004
  
• ARTIFAX magazine
  
• THE BOOK & THE SPADE radio program

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