"The only new FACTS about the Bible and the Biblical world are coming from the ground."-William Dever

A weekly news and interview program focusing on the latest discoveries and developments
in Biblical Archaeology, hosted by Gordon Govier and professor Keith Schoville.

    LISTEN NOW TO THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM!
#1218   -   "Shrouded Hinnom Burial" with professor Keith Schoville
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We invite our listeners to consider participating in an archaeological excavation.
Information on specific excavation sites is available at the Biblical Archaeology Review website.

EXCLUSIVE REPORTS: Two previous programs #1210 and #1211 dealt with a new interpretation of the Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon.
(Gordon Govier's article on the Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon was posted online by Christianity Today.)
Also check "The Shasu of Yahweh," program 1201 with Egyptologist Charles Aling and Professor Clyde Billington
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:::: Read about the latest discoveries and developments ::::
Solomonic wall in Jerusalem - February 2010
At Jaffa Gate: Archaeologists Find Main Jerusalem Street and Ancient Aqueduct
Jerusalem's Shrouded Burial and the Shroud of Turin || New reading for Khirbet Qeiyafa Ostracon + response
Jesus-era house in Nazareth || Hall of Ages in Jerusalem || First century Menorah ==> more stories==>

CHRISTIANITY TODAY's October 2003 focus on Biblical Archaeology includes:
Gordon Govier's cover story on Politics and Archaeology -- more reports for Christianity Today listed here==>

ARTIFAX is our quarterly magazine, produced with the Institute for Biblical Archaeology and the Near East Archaeological Society. Subscribe here.

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Program History:

THE BOOK & THE SPADE has been
produced since 1983 in Madison,Wisconsin,
where Gordon Govier was for many years an
award-winning radio news director.
... Dr. Keith Schoville is professor emeritus
at the University of Wisconsin Department
of Hebrew and Semitic Studies, where he
taught Biblical Archaeology. He is the
author of the textbook BIBLICAL
ARCHAEOLOGY IN FOCUS, and
a past president of the Near East
Archaeological Society.
...Over the past 25 years, THE BOOK &
THE SPADE has talked with more than
200 archaeologists and Bible scholars
about their work in the field, and visited
many of these sites on our BOOK & THE
SPADE tours. Listeners have gained new
understanding of how Biblical research is
done and realized anew Archaeology is
"the only source of new facts about the
Bible and the Biblical world."

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