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Archaeologist Buys a House
In the ancient world, houses were designed for families. Today, it seems, families must adapt to houses.
March 19, 2025
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In the ancient world, houses were designed for families. Today, it seems, families must adapt to houses.
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.”
Was there no room for Mary and Joseph in an “inn” or in an “upper room”?
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….
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.
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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When we first encounter the Bible, we are taught its stories—Adam and Eve, Moses and the Red Sea, David and Goliath, Jonah and the whale, and more. When a story lacks the details we crave, we fill in the blanks–with what we’ve seen in movies, read in books, and been told by our Sunday school teachers. But there’s a better way to encounter the whole story of Scripture: uncovering and understanding the ancient world and the people who experienced biblical events.
In Stones Still Speak, Harvard-trained archaeologist and theologian Amanda Hope Haley scrapes back 2,000 years of misguided cultural interpretations to reveal God’s Word in its historical, archaeological, and literary contexts. Far from a dry academic exercise, this process explains how our misunderstandings developed and revitalizes the Scripture you thought you knew, with the greater purpose of encouraging a more intentional, rigorous study of the Bible in your daily life.
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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.
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