Scott Stripling

A recent dig uncovers some startling discoveries that give us insight into this ancient city, but also might challenge skeptics to redate its occupation to more closely align with the biblical chronology.

Our guest today, you recognize because he's been on the show a couple times before, Scott Stripling is an author, he is a practicing archaeologist, and leading the dig at Shiloh here to tell us this fascinating story.

Scott, thanks for coming on.

Thanks for having

But as you pointed out earlier, Dinesh, world-famous archaeologists have said this, that there's been no...

There's no archaeological discoveries ever controverted or contradicted a biblical reference, including Scott Stripling, who has endorsed your book.

Scott Stripling is one of the best archaeologists out there.

He's excavating at Shiloh, and he endorsed your book, Dinesh.

Yeah, he's looking for the tabernacle, which, if he finds it, will be a massive archaeological finding, one of the most important of the 21st century, to be sure.

This structural evolution indicates that the site began as a localized sacrificial installation and later expanded into a sanctuary.

In December 2019, an archaeological team led by Scott Stripling of the Associates for Biblical Research went to Mount Ebal to sift the discarded dump material left behind by Adam Zertal's excavations.

To his team's surprise, they recovered a small folded lead sheet known as a curse tablet.

Measuring roughly two by two centimeters and only a few millimeters thick, the tablet was folded in half.