A description of the verse at the heart of the first Biblical Proof, One kings 9:15, and it's significance in the history of Biblical Archaeology. "Everything depends on one verse in the Bible"... to decide if its archaeological fact of fiction.
Introduction to the Documentary "Digging for the Truth" ending with the title shot of Dan Pride excavating a square at Tel Gezer. (in the hat next to the Title "Digging for the Truth"). The years following the first biblical proof by archaeology, saw an astounding spiritual proof in the form of an amazing set of coincidences and events, that are still ongoing.
A Description of the three Gates of King Solomon, what they are and how they combined to provide the first proof of a Biblical Passage in History. The clip ends on the shot of Yigael Yadin posing as Osiris symbol of the New Age in a Mocking gesture of Dan Pride seen just over his right shoulder in the Background. Yadin had assumed a religious man would complete the first biblical proof, not a hardworking, but completely biblically ignorant, 19 year old party animal :).
A Revelations event predicted for a thousand years occured at the election of Pope Benedict. A complex series of events culminates in Dan Pride's appearance immediately following the completion of the announcement, the ceremonial closing of the book of the Habemus Papam.
Dr William Dever, the giant of Biblical Archaeology, briefly and effectively disposes of the minimalist viewpoint. Dr Dever lead the Tel Gezer dig in 1971, where the Third Gate of King Solomon was found.
A summary of the state of Biblical Archaeology following the work of Kathleen Kenyan at Jericho. The roots of the Minimalist arguments which were laid to rest by the discovery of the Gates of King Solomon.
A summary of the viewpoint of the Minimalists in Biblical Archaeology who maintain the Bible was written in Greece in the second century and not Iron Age Palestine. The clip includes the viewpoint of Israel Finkelstein that the Solomonic Gate at Megiddo is not Solomonic. An increasingly discredited viewpoint.
This clip sumarizes the Israeli reaction to the Minamilist claims that the biblical history was entirely fictional. Arguments finally refuted by the three Gates of King Solomon
Summary of the problems of Biblical archaeology in proving the time of the unified monarchy.
The announncement was to be heralded by a flock of birds in the dream.