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Archaeology

Out of Time: My Trip to “Noah’s Ark”

On the most perfect, blue-skied April day of 2024, we arrived at the Ark Encounter. The structure is spectacular in scale, both inside and outside, and so I scanned my pass with an open mind, genuinely wanting it to be more “amazing” than “embarrassment.”

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Archaeology

The Red Sea of Reeds

In the Hebrew, the words that our Bibles tend to render as “Red Sea” are yam suph. Yam means “sea.” No problem there. But suph is a little trickier….

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Archaeology

When Did We Lose the Ark?

We don’t know much about when or how the Ark of the Covenant disappeared, but we do know that it was never inside Ezra’s second Temple.

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Archaeology

Armageddon

Armageddon means the “end of the world” to most of us today, thanks to popular culture. But that definition isn’t quite accurate.

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Archaeology

Esau’s Lost “Death-right”

According to Jewish tradition, Esau’s frustration with Jacob did not end in Genesis 33; he challenged the sale of his birthright as Jacob’s body was being interred in the Cave of Machpelah with his parents’.

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Copper Finds a Manger

Copper the basset hound travels the world with his friend, Amanda, while she digs on archaeological sites. On this trip to Bethlehem, the ancient city where Jesus was born, this adventurous dog follows his nose to an ancient stone manger. There he meets a new friend who tells him all about life in first-century Judaea and the night a special baby was born in the house Amanda’s excavating.

This book features

  • a Page for Parents that explains the historical facts behind the story,
  • grades 1-3 reading level,
  • 34 pages of edge-to-edge full-color illustrations, and
  • durable heavyweight pages with a glued binding (no staples!).


Join Copper as he learns the history of the first Christmas!