Who Brings the Smoking Gun?

Archaeological remains often tell a different story than what is written in the Biblical texts. Rami Arav, the Director of the Bethsaida Excavation Project and a Professor at the University of Nebraska- Omaha, uses the analogy of a courtroom to explain the differences between textual scholars and Biblical archaeologists.

To learn more about what Biblical archaeology is and what it means to be a Biblical archaeologist, watch Rami Arav’s full lecture “Redefining Biblical Archaeology” in the new BAS DVD Scholars Speak: The Elusive Biblical Archaeology today.