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Jim Hoffmeier

Jim Hoffmeier

James K. Hoffmeier is an Egyptian-born American Egyptologist and emeritus professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

Aug 24, 2026

18:38
[laughs]
18:39
... [laughs] um, as the same person.
18:41
Um, so yeah, but what, what we also have are, um, if you will, the landscape of the Bible.
18:50
That is places that are mentioned where things occur.
18:54
And little things in verses give clues to things that without the benefit of the study of the land, the history, the archeology, would sort of just go right over our heads.
19:06
So for instance, in Exodus 13:17, when God let the Israelites go, he did not lead them by the way, the way, that's the route, the road, uh, of the land of the Philistines.
19:19
Uh, roads in the Bible are named by their destination.

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69:57
Yeah.

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