Archaeology

He is the author of 40 books books.

Most of them are quite scholarly books and commentaries, and he's written several books on the book of Revelation, including Seeing Things John's Way, The Rhetoric of the Book of Revelation, and Archaeology and the Revelation of John, which just came out.

So I invite you to check out his various works on the book of So for this episode, we walk through the entire book of Revelation, obviously not hitting every passage, but getting our minds and hearts around how we should read it, the literary flow, whether we should read it as prediction of the future or insight into the present.

And we discuss the pervasive and rather scathing theopolitical message of the book, which is unapologetically anti-imperial and challenges us.

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Welcome to Dirtbags, the podcast where we excavate archaeology's greatest legends and find out what's lurking beneath the top soil.

I'm Louise.

And I'm Nat.

And together we're digging into the rivalries, the disasters, the stolen credit, and the extremely questionable methods behind some of archaeology's biggest stories.

We'll introduce you to people whose work transformed archaeology, even when their methods destroyed evidence, their conclusions were spectacularly wrong, or they simply helped themselves to whatever they found.

We are not here to cancel archaeology's heroes.

We just want to put some of the mess back into their stories.

What if the ground beneath our feet could tell us something about the reliability of the Bible? Well, for generations, skeptics have questioned whether the people, places, and events recorded in Scripture are history, legend, or some combination of the two.

But archaeology keeps giving us something tangible to examine, like the inscriptions, ancient cities, artifacts, ruins.

Those discoveries are connecting us to the world described in the Bible.

And today, my guest, Dinesh D'Souza, he is a best-selling author, filmmaker, and commentary, has written a new book, The Stones Cry Out, Biblical Archaeology Prophecy and the Last Days.

And it takes him into somewhat different territory.

Dinesh began asking some fascinating questions.

What can archaeology actually establish about the historical claims of the Bible? What do these discoveries tell us about ancient Israel and the people we read about in Scripture? That is where our conversation goes today.

Hi, I'm Connie Albers, and I'm glad that you have tuned into this episode of Equipped to Be.

Then conditions change again, and the pattern flips back.

Archaeologically, that might show up as layers dominated by one kind of DNA, one style of tools, one signature of fire use sitting above or below a layer with a different pattern.

From the cave's point of view, it's just a new set of tenants every so often.

On shorter timescales, overlap could be seasonal.

[upbeat music] Hi, everyone.

Welcome to Dirtbags, the podcast where we excavate archaeology's greatest legends and find out what's lurking under the topsoil.

We deep dive into the rivalries, the disasters, the stolen credit, and the extremely questionable scientific methods.

My name's Louise, and I have a co-host for the day.

We are fully aware that archeology is stuffed full of brilliant, difficult, and contradictory people, and many of the people that we're gonna talk about in this series are products of their time, and we will try very hard not to laugh at the past from the comfort of the present.

Their work transformed archeology, even when their methods destroyed evidence or their conclusions turned out to be spectacularly wrong.

We are not out to cancel archaeology's heroes, more to put some of the mess back into their stories.

We also know that there is no getting away from the fact that archeology is a discipline that evolved through some very questionable periods of time.

tension in archaeology or arch, right? Just so I remember the context, but ultimately the more important idea is that last sentence, right? Which is that archaeology is politically useful, right? It has political value, which makes it important.

The most important thing to get is that last sentence.

So I did A-R-C-H, like arch, is politically useful, which little arrow star, like that's what makes it important.

That's what makes it relevant.

That's why we talk about archaeology is it's being, again, used for these political movements and situations.

I mean, that would have been... an awesome sight to see.

Archaeologically, that city, they found walls.

They had a couple walls, actually.

Lower walls, and then they had upper walls.

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And now, here's Laura Kennedy with the audio news from Archeologica.

We hope you find this to be a valuable part of your day.

Welcome to the audio news from Archeologica.

I'm Laura Kennedy, and these are the headlines in archeological and historical news for the week of August 30th through September 5th, 2026.

[music] Our first story this week takes us to Mexico, where new scientific analysis confirms pre-Hispanic origin of an important indigenous manuscript.