
Rulers in Stone
Many first-century finds are being unearthed at Caesarea, an ancient city on Israel’s Mediterranean coast. The first extra-biblical reference to Pontius Pilate was found there, as well as a full-size Temple replica. At Tel Dan in northern Israel, the “House of David” has been confirmed archaeologically. We also discover there an altar with metal shovels.
Air dates: 2012-Dec-09
Production Code: 1241
Episode 3 of 12 in the series “The Stones Cry Out (2012)”
Duration: 28:30
Year: 2012
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Caption transcript for The Stones Cry Out (2012): “Rulers in Stone” (3/12)
- 00:01 (♪ "The Stones Cry Out" ♪)
- 00:23 Male Singer: ♪ IF NO ONE STANDS TO SPEAK, ♪
- 00:28 ♪ IF NO ONE PRAYS, ♪
- 00:34 ♪ THESE VERY STONES CRY OUT ♪
- 00:40 ♪ "I AM." ♪♪
- 00:46 Myles: SHALOM AND WELCOME
- 00:47 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
- 00:48 I'M MYLES WEISS.
- 00:49 Katharine: AND I'M
- 00:50 KATHARINE WEISS.
- 00:51 Myles: AND WE ARE BLESSED
- 00:52 TO BRING YOU OUR NEXT PROGRAM
- 00:53 IN THE SERIES:
- 00:54 "THE STONES CRY OUT."
- 00:55 REMEMBER THIS VERY SCRIPTURE
- 00:57 COMES FROM LUKE 19:40.
- 01:00 IT WAS JESUS HIMSELF
- 01:02 WHO SAID THAT IF THE DISCIPLES
- 01:03 DIDN'T PRAISE HIM,
- 01:04 IF THE WORLD DIDN'T PRAISE HIM
- 01:06 THE VERY STONES WOULD CRY OUT.
- 01:07 IN THIS SERIES WE'RE
- 01:09 DEMONSTRATING THE STONES CRYING
- 01:10 OUT TODAY IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL
- 01:12 AS ARCHAEOLOGY CATCHES UP
- 01:14 TO THE BIBLE AND VERIFIES,
- 01:16 THROUGH SCIENCE,
- 01:17 EVERY WORD THAT IS IN THIS BOOK.
- 01:18 IT'S VERY EXCITING.
- 01:19 Katharine: AND THE EXISTENCE
- 01:20 OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
- 01:21 THE EXISTENCE
- 01:23 OF THE LINE OF DAVID...
- 01:24 Myles: ESPECIALLY,
- 01:25 THE LINE OF DAVID.
- 01:26 TODAY, IN THIS PROGRAM, WE'RE
- 01:27 LOOKING FOR RULERS IN STONE,
- 01:28 AND WE HAVE WITH US
- 01:29 A COPY OF THE VERY WORK
- 01:32 THAT WAS FOUND IN TEL DAN,
- 01:33 UP IN THE NORTH OF ISRAEL,
- 01:35 WHICH DEMONSTRATES
- 01:36 THE HOUSE OF DAVID, BEING
- 01:38 IT'S INSCRIBED ON THIS STONE;
- 01:40 AND IT DEMONSTRATES
- 01:42 THAT DAVID WAS NOT
- 01:43 A MYTHOLOGICAL CHARACTER.
- 01:44 HE WAS NOT A FANCIFUL KING THAT
- 01:46 WAS MADE UP BY THE JEWISH PEOPLE
- 01:47 OR INVENTED BY BIBLE PEOPLE;
- 01:49 BUT HE WAS A REAL PERSON
- 01:51 WHO LIVED A REAL LIFE
- 01:52 AND HIS DYNASTY ALSO EXISTED.
- 01:54 AND THAT'S GOING TO BE PROVEN BY
- 01:56 THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES
- 01:57 IN THIS PROGRAM TODAY.
- 01:59 Katharine: YEAH.
- 02:00 WE'RE SO EXCITED
- 02:01 TO BRING YOU THESE PROGRAMS.
- 02:02 AND WE WANT TO MAKE THEM
- 02:03 CONTINUALLY AVAILABLE TO YOU AND
- 02:06 WE DO THAT ONLY BY YOUR GIFTS
- 02:07 OF FUNDS, SO WE THANK YOU
- 02:08 SO MUCH FOR THAT.
- 02:09 WE KNOW THAT YOU'RE FAITHFUL
- 02:11 AND WE'RE FAITHFUL TO CONTINUE
- 02:13 THIS MESSAGE THAT'S BEGUN
- 02:15 THREE DECADES AGO,
- 02:16 TO STAND WITH ISRAEL
- 02:18 AND TO CONTINUE
- 02:19 TO UNCOVER THE TREASURES
- 02:21 THAT ARE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
- 02:23 Myles: AMEN, THAT'S PERFECT.
- 02:24 YOU KNOW, WE REALLY WANT TO
- 02:25 CONTINUE TO BRING THIS TO YOU
- 02:26 AND SO WE THANK YOU FOR STANDING
- 02:28 WITH US AND FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
- 02:29 NOW, LET'S GO TO DR. TOM McCALL
- 02:32 ON LOCATION WITH ARCHAEOLOGIST
- 02:34 ROSS VOSS AT TEL DAN.
- 02:38 Tom: WELL, ROSS, HERE WE ARE,
- 02:39 SITTING IN FRONT OF THE WALLS
- 02:41 AND THE GATES OF TEL DAN.
- 02:43 CAN YOU TELL US WHY TEL DAN IS
- 02:45 SO IMPORTANT IN THE MIDDLE EAST
- 02:47 AND BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY?
- 02:49 Ross Voss: WELL, FIRST OF ALL,
- 02:50 I THINK THE MOST IMPORTANT THING
- 02:52 ABOUT DAN IS
- 02:53 IT'S THE BEST PRESERVED
- 02:54 OF ALL THE BIBLICAL CITIES
- 02:55 EVER EXCAVATED AND UNCOVERED
- 02:56 IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
- 02:57 AND IT WAS ONE
- 02:58 OF THE LARGEST CITIES
- 03:00 AND ONE OF THE ONLY CITIES
- 03:01 THAT WE'VE EXCAVATED,
- 03:02 THAT HAS A HIGH PLACE OR A CULT
- 03:04 CENTER THAT'S BEEN EXCAVATED,
- 03:06 THAT CAN LET US KNOW WHAT THE
- 03:08 PHYSICAL REMAINS OF AN ISRAELITE
- 03:09 CENTER OF WORSHIP ARE LIKE.
- 03:11 Tom: WELL, WE'RE RIGHT HERE
- 03:13 IN THE FRONT OF THE GATE,
- 03:15 THE ENTRANCE INTO THE CITY.
- 03:17 CAN YOU DESCRIBE
- 03:18 WHAT ALL OF THE THINGS ARE
- 03:19 THAT WE SEE HERE AT THE GATE?
- 03:21 Ross: IN THIS SOUTH SIDE
- 03:22 OF THE CITY WHERE WE SIT,
- 03:23 WE'RE OUTSIDE THE WALLS
- 03:24 OF THE ENCLOSURE
- 03:26 OF THE ANCIENT SITE OF DAN.
- 03:28 AND IN THE OUTSIDE, THERE'S
- 03:30 A LARGE PIAZZA OR PAVEMENT
- 03:32 OF THE SALT FLAGSTONES WHICH
- 03:35 CREATE AN OPEN SPACE WHERE
- 03:37 IN THE BIBLICAL PERIOD
- 03:38 THERE WERE THE MARKETS.
- 03:40 IN THE HEBREW THEY CALL IT
- 03:41 THE "HUTSOT,"
- 03:42 WHICH IN THE TIME OF KING AHAB,
- 03:44 WERE THE PLACE OF MEETING
- 03:47 FOR THE MERCHANTS,
- 03:48 FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BAZAAR
- 03:50 WHO WANTED TO TRADE
- 03:51 AND SELL COMMODITIES.
- 03:53 ALSO, FROM THE NEIGHBORING
- 03:54 KINGDOMS OF THE ARAMEANS
- 03:55 AND THE PHOENICIANS,
- 03:56 THIS WAS THE ONLY OPEN SPACE
- 03:58 NEAR THE CITY.
- 03:59 INSIDE THE CITY IT WAS VERY
- 04:00 CROWDED AND CONGESTED BUT
- 04:02 ON THE OUTSIDE, THEY WOULD HAVE
- 04:03 THESE LARGE COURTYARDS.
- 04:06 Zola: WE READ
- 04:07 IN II SAMUEL 19:8,
- 04:22 THIS MODEL OF THE CITY OF DAN
- 04:24 SHOWS HOW THE EXISTING
- 04:25 LOWER STONE STRUCTURE SUPPORTED
- 04:27 VERY IMPRESSIVE DEFENSIVE
- 04:29 TOWERS FORMED HERE IN WHITE.
- 04:31 AS SEEN FROM ABOVE,
- 04:33 THE KING'S THRONE
- 04:34 WAS STRATEGICALLY PLACED.
- 04:35 ♪ ♪
- 04:40 Tom: IT WAS SOMETHING LIKE
- 04:41 A TRAVELING COURT,
- 04:43 WHERE PEOPLE WOULD,
- 04:44 WHEN THEY HAD THEIR PROBLEMS,
- 04:45 THEY WOULD COME
- 04:46 AND PRESENT TO THE JUDGE,
- 04:48 IN THIS CASE,
- 04:49 THE TRAVELING KING.
- 04:50 Ross: THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT,
- 04:51 BECAUSE THE KING WOULD, WHEN
- 04:53 IN THE COURSE OF HIS RESIDENCE,
- 04:55 WOULD LEAVE HIS CAPITAL,
- 04:57 WHETHER IT WAS SHECHEM IN
- 04:58 THE CASE OF JEROBOAM, OR SAMARIA
- 05:00 IN THE CASE OF KING AHAB,
- 05:01 HE WOULD HAVE TO CONSUME
- 05:03 THE TAXES OF THE KINGDOM
- 05:05 THAT HE WAS DUE BY GOING TO
- 05:07 DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE KINGDOM.
- 05:08 AND HE WOULD THEN, IN THE COURSE
- 05:09 OF DOING THAT, COME INTO THE
- 05:11 VARIOUS CITIES OF THE VARIOUS
- 05:13 TRIBES AND IN THE CASE OF DAN
- 05:14 WHERE IN THE TRIBAL CITY OF THE
- 05:15 TRIBE OF DAN, HE WOULD COME AND
- 05:17 LIVE HERE FOR A CERTAIN PERIOD
- 05:19 OF TIME AND CONSUME THE TAXES
- 05:20 AND THE PRODUCE AND THE WINE AND
- 05:23 THE GRAIN THAT WAS DUE TO HIM.
- 05:25 AND IN THAT PARTICULAR PERIOD OF
- 05:26 TIME HE WOULD ALSO THEN ENGAGE
- 05:29 IN JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS.
- 05:30 AND THIS IS WHERE OUR WORD
- 05:31 "THE TRAVELING COURT" COMES FROM
- 05:33 OR "THE CIRCUIT COURT."
- 05:34 Tom: WELL, ROSS, YOU HAVE DONE
- 05:35 ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORK IN THIS TEL
- 05:38 IN TIMES PAST AND WE UNDERSTAND
- 05:43 AND HAVE HEARD ABOUT
- 05:44 THIS FAMOUS HOUSE OF DAVID STONE
- 05:47 THAT WAS FOUND HERE
- 05:48 A COUPLE OR SO YEARS AGO.
- 05:50 WHAT IS--HOW AND WHERE
- 05:52 WAS THAT FAMOUS STONE FOUND?
- 05:55 Ross: THE INSCRIPTION WAS
- 05:56 DISCOVERED REALLY BY ACCIDENT
- 05:57 AS MOST GREAT ARCHAEOLOGICAL
- 05:59 DISCOVERIES USUALLY ARE.
- 06:00 IN THE COURSE OF RESTORING
- 06:03 THE WALLS OF THE CITY SO THAT WE
- 06:05 COULD TURN THE SITE OF DAN
- 06:06 INTO AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK AND
- 06:08 VISITORS COULD COME AND SEE HOW
- 06:10 IMPRESSIVE THE FORTIFICATIONS
- 06:11 WERE AND THE PLACE WHERE
- 06:13 THE KING WAS SITTING AS WELL.
- 06:15 WE FOUND THESE ROOMS
- 06:17 ON THE OUTSIDE PIAZZA
- 06:18 WHICH WE'RE CALLING THE HUTSOT
- 06:19 OR THE BAZAARS.
- 06:21 AND IN THE WALLS THAT I'M
- 06:22 SITTING ON WE FOUND ONE PIECE OF
- 06:23 INSCRIPTION WHICH FOR THE FIRST
- 06:25 TIME OUTSIDE THE BIBLE GIVES US
- 06:27 THE NAME " BEIT DAVID."
- 06:29 IN HEBREW THAT MEANS
- 06:30 "HOUSE OF DAVID"
- 06:32 Zola: CHIEF ARCHAEOLOGIST
- 06:34 AND FINDER OF THE STONE,
- 06:36 DR. AVRAHAM BIRAN,
- 06:38 TRANSLATES FROM THE ARAMAIC
- 06:39 CHISELED IN
- 06:40 THIS MOST IMPORTANT FIND.
- 06:42 Avraham Biran: YOU SEE THE
- 06:43 WORDS ARE SEPARATED BY DOTS.
- 06:45 NOW THE EXCITING THING IS
- 06:47 WHEN YOU FIND SUDDENLY
- 06:49 AN EXPRESSION,
- 06:50 WHICH YOU KNOW VERY WELL
- 06:51 FROM THE BIBLE,
- 06:52 LIKE "MELECH YISRAEL",
- 06:53 "THE KING OF ISRAEL".
- 06:54 THE WORD "MELECH"...
- 06:56 KING...
- 06:57 "YISRAEL"...
- 06:58 OF ISRAEL.
- 07:00 "KING OF ISRAEL" WRITTEN
- 07:02 IN ANCIENT ARAMAIC SCRIPT.
- 07:04 AND BELOW THAT, ANOTHER LINE
- 07:07 AND YOU HAVE THE LAST LETTER
- 07:10 OF THE WORD "KING"...
- 07:12 OF THE WORD "MELECH"
- 07:13 SIMILAR TO THE ONE BEFORE,
- 07:14 THE LAST LETTER OF THE WORD,
- 07:16 "KING"...
- 07:18 HALF "MELECH"
- 07:19 AND THEN NEXT TO IT
- 07:20 IS "BEIT"...
- 07:21 "BEIT JUDAH"...
- 07:23 "BEIT"..."HOUSE"...
- 07:25 "DAVID"...
- 07:26 "HOUSE OF DAVID"
- 07:29 WITHOUT THE DOT BETWEEN;
- 07:31 NOW THAT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE
- 07:32 THAT EXPRESSION "BEIT DAVID,"
- 07:35 "HOUSE OF DAVID" WAS APPARENTLY
- 07:37 A KNOWN EXPRESSION.
- 07:40 Zola: DR. BIRAN RESPONDS TO
- 07:42 THE SCHOLARS WHO QUESTION THE
- 07:44 IMPACT OF THIS INCREDIBLE FIND.
- 07:47 Dr. Biran: THERE ARE SCHOLARS
- 07:49 WHO HAVE THEORIES THAT MOST OF
- 07:52 THE HISTORICAL EVENTS MENTIONED
- 07:54 IN THE BIBLE ARE POSSIBLY
- 07:59 LATE INVENTIONS AND WERE NOT SO.
- 08:03 AND SINCE THE HOUSE OF DAVID
- 08:05 FOR EXAMPLE, THE NAME,
- 08:07 THE EXPRESSION,
- 08:08 AND THE NAME "DAVID,"
- 08:09 FOR THAT MATTER,
- 08:10 WAS NEVER FOUND OUTSIDE
- 08:11 THE BIBLE, PEOPLE USED TO SAY,
- 08:14 WELL, YOU KNOW,
- 08:15 PEOPLE INVENTED A LEGEND.
- 08:18 SO NOW YOU HAVE EVIDENCE
- 08:22 ON STONE,
- 08:24 ENGRAVED ON STONE OF
- 08:26 THE EXPRESSION " BEIT DAVID,"
- 08:28 "HOUSE OF DAVID,"
- 08:30 AND I THINK THAT ENDS UP
- 08:34 WITH ALL THE DISCUSSIONS OF THE
- 08:35 EXISTENCE OF A--AND THAT MEANS,
- 08:38 " BEIT DAVID" MEANS
- 08:39 A DYNASTY OF DAVID.
- 08:41 AND THIS IS WRITTEN--
- 08:43 I CALLED YOU TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL--
- 08:45 THEY BELIEVE THE BIBLE
- 08:46 ON EPIGRAPHIC GROUNDS
- 08:47 IN THE 9th CENTURY,
- 08:49 SAY ABOUT 100 YEARS, 150 YEARS
- 08:53 AFTER DAVID'S EXISTENCE.
- 08:55 Tom: WE READ IN THE BIBLE THAT
- 08:58 JEROBOAM I, WHO BROKE AWAY
- 09:01 FROM THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM
- 09:03 IN JERUSALEM AND ESTABLISHED
- 09:04 THE NORTHERN KINGDOM OF ISRAEL,
- 09:08 ESTABLISHED AT THE SAME TIME,
- 09:10 CULT WORSHIP OR THE CULT
- 09:12 WITH THE GOLDEN CALF.
- 09:14 AND ONE OF THE MAIN PLACES
- 09:15 WAS HERE IN DAN.
- 09:18 IS THERE ANY EVIDENCE THAT
- 09:19 SUCH A CULT EXISTED HERE?
- 09:21 Ross: YEAH,
- 09:22 AND ONE OF THE EXCITING THINGS
- 09:24 ABOUT THE WORK THAT I WAS ABLE
- 09:25 TO PARTICIPATE IN IS SUPERVISE
- 09:26 AN AREA OF THE HIGH PLACE.
- 09:28 WHAT WE CALL "THE HIGH PLACE"
- 09:29 IN HEBREW IS " BAMA ."
- 09:31 THAT WAS THE SITE WHERE
- 09:32 THE GOLDEN CALF WAS ESTABLISHED
- 09:34 AND SET UP BY JEROBOAM.
- 09:36 NOW, THE CALF,
- 09:37 IN THE BIBLICAL TRADITION,
- 09:39 WAS NOT AN OBJECT OF WORSHIP.
- 09:41 IT WASN'T TO BE AN IDOL THAT
- 09:42 THE ISRAELITES WERE EQUATING
- 09:44 WITH THE GOD OF ISRAEL.
- 09:45 THEY WERE VERY MUCH LOOKING
- 09:46 AT IT LIKE THE CHERUBIM IN THE
- 09:48 TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM THAT SOLOMON
- 09:49 HAD BUILT AS THE THRONE
- 09:51 OR THE FOOTSTOOL FOR THE DEITY.
- 09:55 Zola: THIS IS THE ENTRANCE
- 09:56 TO THE HIGH PLACE OR "BAMA"
- 09:58 IN HEBREW.
- 09:59 ENTERING THIS GATE, THE PEOPLE
- 10:00 WOULD BRING THEIR OFFERINGS
- 10:02 AND BULLS AND YOUNG CALVES
- 10:03 FOR SACRIFICE.
- 10:05 THE METAL FRAME SHOWS
- 10:06 THE EXACT SIZE AND LOCATION
- 10:07 OF THE ORIGINAL STONE ALTAR.
- 10:09 PRIESTS WOULD ASCEND THE STEPS
- 10:11 AND LAY THE ANIMAL ON THE FIRE
- 10:13 OF THE ALTAR.
- 10:14 A FLAT STONE PLATFORM COULD BE
- 10:17 SEEN IN BACK OF THE METAL FRAME
- 10:19 ON WHICH JEROBOAM PLACED
- 10:20 THE GOLDEN CALF REFERRED TO
- 10:22 IN I KINGS 12:28-31.
- 10:26 Ross: WE HAVE IN THE DESTRUCTION
- 10:27 OF THE CITY OF DAN
- 10:28 BY THE ASSYRIANS, WHO ENDED
- 10:30 THE KINGDOM IN 733 B.C.E.,
- 10:33 WE HAVE A ROOM WHERE AN ALTAR
- 10:35 WAS FOUND WITH THE VESSELS
- 10:37 USED IN THE SACRIFICE.
- 10:38 WE HAVE THE IRON SHOVELS,
- 10:40 THE CENSERS THAT TOOK THE COALS
- 10:42 OFF THE ALTARS AND THE INCENSE
- 10:44 OUT OF THE INCENSE ALTARS
- 10:46 THAT WERE BURNED TO THE DEITY.
- 10:48 AND WE HAVE A BEAUTIFUL BRONZE
- 10:50 LIBATION BOWL WHICH WAS POURED
- 10:51 AS AN OFFERING TO THE DEITY
- 10:53 AS WELL.
- 10:54 Tom: SO THIS VALIDATES
- 10:55 THE HISTORICITY OF THE CULTIC
- 10:58 WORSHIP THAT WAS DESCRIBED
- 11:01 IN THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES?
- 11:03 Ross: IT GIVES US OUR FIRST
- 11:04 TANGIBLE EVIDENCE OF WHAT
- 11:06 THE DIMENSIONS OF THE HIGH PLACE
- 11:07 ARE LIKE.
- 11:08 IF WE LOOK AT THE BIBLICAL
- 11:09 DESCRIPTION OF THE TABERNACLE
- 11:10 IN EXODUS IN THE TIME OF MOSES
- 11:13 AND WE LOOK AT THE MEASUREMENTS
- 11:15 OF THE HIGH PLACE,
- 11:16 THE ALTAR WHICH WAS 10 CUBITS
- 11:19 ON A SIDE ROUGHLY 5 METERS OR
- 11:21 ABOUT 5 YARDS TO A SIDE SQUARE,
- 11:24 THAT WAS THE SIZE OR THE
- 11:26 PRESCRIPTION FOR THE SIZE OF
- 11:27 THE SACRIFICIAL ALTAR MENTIONED
- 11:29 AT SINAI THAT MOSES WAS TO BUILD
- 11:31 FOR THE BURNING OF THE SHEEP
- 11:33 AND GOATS AND THE BULLS.
- 11:34 AT DAN WE HAVE AN ALTAR THAT
- 11:35 FITS EXACTLY THOSE DIMENSIONS.
- 11:38 AND THEN THE ALTAR IN THE
- 11:39 TABERNACLE IS TO BE 10 METERS
- 11:41 IN FRONT OF THE TABERNACLE WHICH
- 11:43 WAS THE TENT SHRINE THAT HOUSED
- 11:45 THE ARK OF THE COVENANT.
- 11:46 AND IN THE HIGH PLACE,
- 11:48 WHAT WE CALL THE " BAMA ,"
- 11:49 WE HAVE A PODIUM, WHICH IS
- 11:51 EXACTLY OF THE SAME DIMENSIONS
- 11:52 AS THE SIZE OF THE TABERNACLE
- 11:55 OR THE TENT SHRINE
- 11:56 NORTH OF THE ALTAR.
- 11:58 SO THAT SHOWS US HERE
- 12:00 THAT IN ISRAELITE WORSHIP
- 12:02 THEY'RE FOLLOWING A FORMULA OR
- 12:04 A PRESCRIPTION THAT GOES BACK TO
- 12:06 AN ANCIENT TRADITION THAT WE CAN
- 12:08 DEMONSTRATE EXISTS HERE AT DAN
- 12:10 IN THE 9th CENTURY B.C.
- 12:12 IN THE TIME OF KING AHAB.
- 12:15 ♪ ♪
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- 12:59 (♪ Soft Flutes ♪)
- 13:07 (♪ Loud Lively Music ♪)
- 13:13 (♪ Gentle Flutes and Violins ♪)
- 13:34 Katharine: ISRAEL,
- 13:35 THE LAND OF GOD'S COVENANT;
- 13:36 IT'S THE LAND OF GOD'S PROMISES
- 13:38 AND THE LAND OF GOD'S
- 13:39 ETERNAL PRESENCE.
- 13:41 YOU KNOW, HE'S THE SAME
- 13:42 YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER
- 13:44 AND YOU REALLY SENSE THAT
- 13:45 WHEN YOU GO TO ISRAEL.
- 13:46 SO COME WITH US
- 13:47 ON OUR NEXT TOUR.
- 13:48 WE'D LOVE TO HOST YOU AND WE'D
- 13:49 LOVE TO JUST SHARE MORE ABOUT
- 13:51 THE HEBREWNESS OF THE GOSPEL.
- 13:52 Myles: EXACTLY,
- 13:53 THERE'S SUCH AN EXPERIENCE OF
- 13:54 THE JEWISH ROOTS OF THE FAITH.
- 13:56 ANOTHER WAY THAT YOU CAN LEARN
- 13:57 MORE ABOUT YOUR ROOTS
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- 14:16 A SMALL HEBREW LESSON.
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- 14:19 LITTLE MAGAZINE.
- 14:20 WELL, REGARDING THAT,
- 14:21 OUR RESOURCE THIS WEEK IS
- 14:22 ZOLA'S INTRODUCTION TO HEBREW.
- 14:24 IF YOU LIKE
- 14:25 THE SHORT HEBREW LESSON
- 14:26 THAT'S IN THE LEVITT LETTER,
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- 14:34 AND THE LANGUAGE
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- 14:41 AND NOW LET'S GO BACK TO ISRAEL.
- 14:42 ♪ ♪
- 14:47 Myles: ALONG THE MEDITERRANEAN
- 14:48 COAST IN CAESAREA,
- 14:49 TOM INTERVIEWS AVNER RABAN,
- 14:51 THE DIRECTOR
- 14:52 OF CAESAREA EXCAVATIONS.
- 14:54 ♪ ♪
- 14:57 Avner Raban: BEHIND US,
- 14:58 TO THE WEST, THERE WAS A PORT
- 15:02 THAT, ACCORDING TO JOSEPHUS,
- 15:04 WAS LARGER THAN THE PIRAEUS
- 15:07 WHICH THE PORT OF ATHENS
- 15:08 WAS CONSIDERED TO BE
- 15:10 THE BIGGEST PORT OF THE TIME.
- 15:12 BUT UNLIKE THE PORT OF PIRAEUS,
- 15:14 WHICH IS A NATURAL BAY,
- 15:16 THIS WAS A FREE-STANDING,
- 15:17 TOTALLY ARTIFICIAL HARBOR.
- 15:19 IT WAS ATTEMPTED OR DARED INTO
- 15:21 THE OPEN OCEAN AND IT WAS
- 15:24 UNPRECEDENTED BY ITS DARING
- 15:27 SCALE AND ENGINEERING AND THE
- 15:30 COMPLEXITY AND SOPHISTICATION.
- 15:34 Tom: THEY HAD TO BUILD A
- 15:35 COMPLETELY ARTIFICIAL PORT HERE.
- 15:36 Avner: YEAH, THEY WENT OUT
- 15:38 HALF A MILE INTO THE OPEN SEA
- 15:39 WITH FREE-STANDING MOLES WIDE
- 15:42 WITH STORAGE FACILITIES
- 15:46 ON THE MOLES, PROMENADES,
- 15:50 BOATING FACILITIES
- 15:51 FOR THE SAILORS, WHAT HAVE YOU.
- 15:53 AND THE OTHER PART
- 15:54 JUST BELOW US HERE IT'S
- 15:57 THE INNER HARBOR BASIN WHICH
- 16:00 AFTER THE MAIN ONE SUBSIDED,
- 16:02 WAS EVENTUALLY A SAND FIELD
- 16:06 AND FULLY LAND-LOCKED AND
- 16:09 WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE NOW DOING,
- 16:11 THEY'RE TAKING--
- 16:12 WE ARE EXCAVATING AND
- 16:14 TAKING OFF LATER STRUCTURE...
- 16:16 ARAB, BYZANTINE STRUCTURES
- 16:18 THAT WERE BUILT AND WHAT WAS
- 16:20 ALREADY SILTED UP HARBOR BASIN.
- 16:22 BUT YOU CAN SEE QUITE NICELY
- 16:25 WHAT ARE EXPOSING SLOWING IS
- 16:27 THE LINE OF THE EASTERN MOST
- 16:31 QUAY OF THE INNER BASIN.
- 16:34 Tom: OVER ON THAT HILL
- 16:36 WE SEE SOME REMAINS OF SOME
- 16:39 WHAT APPEARS TO BE HOUSES.
- 16:41 CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT THAT IS?
- 16:44 Avner: THE AREA TO THE NORTH,
- 16:46 ALONG THE SHORE TO THE NORTH
- 16:48 OF THE HARBOR AND EVENTUALLY
- 16:50 WHAT BECAME THE NORTHWESTERN
- 16:52 SECTOR OF CAESAREA,
- 16:54 WAS THE JEWISH SUBURB WHERE
- 16:56 THE JEWISH PEOPLE LIVED HERE,
- 16:58 ACTUALLY LIVED HERE,
- 16:59 BEFORE HEROD FOUNDED CAESAREA.
- 17:02 THERE WAS A SMALL TOWN
- 17:04 HERE THAT WAS CALLED
- 17:05 "STRATON'S TOWER"
- 17:07 WHERE THE JEWS LIVED,
- 17:09 AND VERY PROBABLY WHERE
- 17:11 PETER AND PAUL CAME TO CAESAREA;
- 17:14 PAUL, ON HIS WAY TO ROME,
- 17:16 AND THEN PETER, IN A WAY
- 17:18 TO ADVOCATE CHRISTIANITY TO...
- 17:20 THEY SETTLE ALONG THEIR PEOPLE,
- 17:23 NAMELY THE JEWS,
- 17:24 BECAUSE AT THAT EARLY STAGE
- 17:26 OF SPREADING THE GOSPEL,
- 17:28 CHRISTIANITY WAS PREACHED ONLY
- 17:30 FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
- 17:32 AND HERE IT WAS ACTUALLY VERY...
- 17:35 ON THIS VERY SITE,
- 17:36 AND PROBABLY AT THAT VERY AREA,
- 17:38 WAS THE FIRST EXCEPTION WHEN
- 17:42 THE FIRST NON-JEW...THE FIRST
- 17:45 GENTILE WAS BEING BAPTIZED,
- 17:46 THE CENTURION CORNELIUS.
- 17:50 Zola: ACTS 10 TELLS THE STORY
- 17:51 OF CORNELIUS.
- 17:52 VERSE 1 SAYS:
- 18:01 ♪ ♪
- 18:04 AFTER AN ENCOUNTER WITH AN
- 18:05 ANGEL IN VERSES 30-32, HE SENDS
- 18:08 FOR PETER WHO WAS RESIDING
- 18:09 IN JOPPA SOUTH OF CAESAREA.
- 18:13 PETER JOURNEYS TO CAESAREA
- 18:15 TO HEAR CORNELIUS TELL
- 18:16 OF HIS MIRACULOUS ENCOUNTER
- 18:17 WITH THE HEAVENLY BEING.
- 18:33 IT WAS HERE IN CAESAREA
- 18:35 THAT CORNELIUS BECAME
- 18:37 THE FIRST GENTILE BELIEVER
- 18:39 IN JESUS OF THE CHURCH AGE.
- 18:42 JUST SOUTH OF THE HARBOR
- 18:43 ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE RECENTLY
- 18:45 UNEARTHED THIS LARGE ARENA
- 18:46 OR HIPPODROME.
- 18:48 IT MEASURES 300 YARDS IN LENGTH
- 18:50 BY 80 YARDS IN WIDTH AND WAS
- 18:52 ONE OF THE LARGEST GATHERING
- 18:54 PLACES FOR PUBLIC EVENTS,
- 18:55 SUCH AS CHARIOT RACES
- 18:57 AND ATHLETIC COMPETITIONS.
- 18:59 A "BEMA" OR "JUDGMENT SEAT" WAS
- 19:01 FOUND AT ONE END OF THE ARENA.
- 19:03 IN ACTS 25,
- 19:04 THE ROMAN GOVERNOR FELIX...
- 19:13 Avner: THERE, A PUBLIC HEARING
- 19:14 WOULD TAKE PLACE, WHEN THE JEWS
- 19:17 COMPLAINED AGAINST THE GENTILES.
- 19:19 PROBABLY, IF PETER WAS--
- 19:23 A TRIAL, AND IT WAS
- 19:25 A PUBLIC HEARING, IT WOULD BE
- 19:27 IN FRONT OF THIS BEMA.
- 19:28 Tom: WELL, WE KNOW THAT
- 19:29 THE APOSTLE PAUL WAS TRIED
- 19:31 BEFORE THE ROMAN GOVERNOR.
- 19:33 IS IT POSSIBLE THAT IT MIGHT
- 19:34 HAVE BEEN AT THE BEMA?
- 19:36 Avner: YES, PAUL MIGHT'VE
- 19:37 BEEN TRIED EITHER THERE
- 19:39 OR IN THE COURTHOUSE.
- 19:41 AND AS FOR THE COURTHOUSE,
- 19:43 IF IT WASN'T IN THE GOVERNOR'S
- 19:44 PALACE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CLOSER
- 19:47 BY NOT FAR FROM THE HIPPODROME.
- 19:50 WE FOUND, WE EXPOSED
- 19:51 A MUNICIPALITY CENTER IN THE--
- 19:53 Tom: A MUNICIPAL BUILDING--
- 19:54 Avner: IT'S
- 19:55 A JURISDICTIONAL BUILDING,
- 19:56 MORE THAN A MUNICIPAL ONE, WHERE
- 19:58 AT LEAST THE CIVIL COURT SAT.
- 20:00 I DON'T KNOW IF
- 20:02 THE CRIMINAL COURT WAS THERE.
- 20:03 AND THERE WE FOUND
- 20:05 THE VARIOUS INSCRIPTIONS
- 20:08 AND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS ATTESTING
- 20:11 THAT THIS WAS THE LEGAL ARCHIVE
- 20:15 OF THE CITY...WAS PROBABLY
- 20:17 OF THE OLD PROVINCE.
- 20:18 Tom: SO TARIFFS
- 20:19 MIGHT HAVE BEEN PAID THERE,
- 20:20 SHIPS COMING AND GOING.
- 20:22 Avner: TARIFFS, DUES, YES.
- 20:23 Tom: PEOPLE COMING
- 20:24 AND LIVING IN THE CITY.
- 20:25 Avner: FINES WOULD BE PAID THERE
- 20:27 AND PROBABLY PEOPLE WERE TRIED
- 20:28 FOR FINES THERE AND BECAUSE
- 20:30 WE FOUND BELOW THIS COURTHOUSE,
- 20:35 SOME UNDERGROUND ROADS,
- 20:36 PROBABLY SOME PRISONER WORK
- 20:37 BEING KEPT THERE
- 20:39 BEFORE BEING TRIED
- 20:40 OR AFTER BEING TRIED.
- 20:41 IF PAUL HAD BEEN TRIED THERE,
- 20:43 AND WE KNOW FROM THE SCRIPTURE
- 20:45 THAT HE WAS KEPT IN PRISON;
- 20:46 IT MIGHT BE
- 20:48 THIS IS ONE OF THE CANDIDATES
- 20:50 THAT CANNOT BE RULED OUT.
- 20:52 Tom: YOU MENTIONED, AVNER,
- 20:53 ABOUT THE ROMAN TEMPLE
- 20:54 THAT WAS BUILT HERE IN CAESAREA
- 20:56 NOT FAR FROM HERE.
- 20:57 WOULD YOU TAKE ME OVER THERE
- 20:59 AND SHOW US WHERE IT'S LOCATED?
- 21:00 Avner: YES, IT'S OVER HERE.
- 21:01 LET'S--COME, I'LL SHOW YOU.
- 21:03 ♪ ♪
- 21:05 Zola: IT MAY COME AS A SURPRISE
- 21:06 TO LEARN THAT HEROD THE GREAT
- 21:07 WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR BUILDING
- 21:08 ANOTHER TEMPLE BESIDES THE
- 21:10 MAGNIFICENT ONE IN JERUSALEM.
- 21:12 THE ONE IN CAESAREA,
- 21:13 AS WE'LL SEE,
- 21:14 WAS BUILT FOR CAESAR AUGUSTUS.
- 21:16 ♪ ♪
- 21:24 Avner: WHAT WE SEE HERE
- 21:26 IS THE NORTHWESTERN CORNER
- 21:30 OF A VERY MASSIVE PEDIMENT
- 21:32 ON WHICH THE TEMPLE
- 21:35 HEROD BUILT FOR AUGUSTUS IN ROME
- 21:38 WAS LOCATED,
- 21:40 AND IT GOES 30-ODD METERS
- 21:43 THAT DIRECTION TOWARD THE SOUTH
- 21:46 AND ABOUT...
- 21:47 THIS SIDE WAS OVER 54 METERS
- 21:50 WHICH ARE 50 BY 100 CUBITS,
- 21:55 ROYAL CUBITS WHICH ARE THE EXACT
- 21:58 SAME MEASURES AS THE TEMPLE
- 22:00 HEROD BUILT FOR THE LORD
- 22:03 IN JERUSALEM.
- 22:04 Tom: SO HEROD NOT ONLY BUILT
- 22:06 THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM,
- 22:08 WHICH WE'RE VERY FAMILIAR WITH,
- 22:09 BUT HE ALSO BUILT A ROMAN TEMPLE
- 22:11 HERE IN CAESAREA.
- 22:13 Avner: YEAH, BECAUSE HEROD
- 22:16 PLAYED KIND OF THE BIGGEST GAME,
- 22:18 BEING A PIOUS JEWISH KING
- 22:21 FOR HIS PEOPLE,
- 22:22 AND A VERY OBEDIENT ROMAN CLIENT
- 22:29 FOR HIS MASTERS,
- 22:31 THE IMPERIAL MASTERS IN ROME.
- 22:33 Tom: AND WHO WAS THIS TEMPLE
- 22:35 DEDICATED TO?
- 22:36 Avner: TO TWO DEITIES...
- 22:39 THE GODDESS ROME OR ROMA
- 22:41 AND THE DEIFIED AUGUSTUS WHICH,
- 22:44 AT THAT TIME, WAS SUGGESTED
- 22:48 TO BE EVENTUALLY A GOD,
- 22:51 WOULD BE WORSHIPED AS GOD.
- 22:54 Tom: NOW, ABOUT THE DIMENSIONS
- 22:55 OF THIS TEMPLE;
- 22:57 SOME HAVE SUGGESTED IT'S SIMILAR
- 22:59 TO THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM.
- 23:02 IS THAT CORRECT?
- 23:03 Avner: YES, YES.
- 23:04 I JUST MENTIONED
- 23:05 THE DIMENSIONS ARE THE SAME.
- 23:07 PROBABLY THE ARCHITECTURAL ORDER
- 23:09 WAS DIFFERENT.
- 23:10 IN JERUSALEM, IT WAS
- 23:11 SEMITIC ARCHITECTURAL ORDER
- 23:13 OR ORIENTAL ARCHITECTURAL ORDER.
- 23:14 HERE, IT WAS HELLENISTIC
- 23:16 OR ROMAN HELLENISTIC ORDER,
- 23:18 CLASSICAL ORDER OF,
- 23:22 I MEAN, ARCHITECTURAL SHAPE,
- 23:24 WITH ARCHITRAVE,
- 23:25 YOU KNOW, CORINTHIAN CAPITALS,
- 23:27 AND WHAT HAVE YOU.
- 23:28 Tom: DID IT LOOK SOMETHING LIKE
- 23:29 THE PARTHENON IN ATHENS?
- 23:32 Avner: A BIT SMALLER IN SIZE
- 23:35 BUT NOT UNLIKE IT.
- 23:38 THE GENERAL SHAPE.
- 23:40 THE INTERESTING THING IS
- 23:41 THAT WE, ACTUALLY,
- 23:43 WHERE WE ARE SITTING NOW
- 23:44 WE CAN CALL IT THE TEMPLE MOUNT,
- 23:46 EXACTLY AS THE NAME
- 23:47 OF THE MOUNT MORIAH IN JERUSALEM
- 23:51 BECAUSE ON TOP
- 23:52 OF THIS STRUCTURE,
- 23:54 PROBABLY THE FIRST OR NOT
- 23:56 THE FIRST RELIGIOUS SHRINE,
- 24:00 CENTRAL SHRINE OF CAESAREA,
- 24:01 THE CHRISTIANS BUILT
- 24:03 AN OCTAGONAL--YOU CAN SEE
- 24:04 THE DIAGONAL WALL HERE
- 24:06 WHICH PART OF OCTAGON,
- 24:08 OCTAGONAL BUILDING
- 24:09 THAT HAS THE VERY SAME SHAPE
- 24:12 AND SIZE OF THE OCTAGON
- 24:14 OF THE DOME OF THE ROCK ON TOP
- 24:16 OF THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM
- 24:18 AT THE TEMPLE MOUNT.
- 24:19 ON TOP OF THAT,
- 24:21 THE MUSLIMS BUILT--YOU'LL SEE
- 24:23 THIS PAVED COURTYARD HERE--
- 24:24 THIS WAS THE GREAT MOSQUE
- 24:26 OF THE MUSLIMS.
- 24:27 AT THE VERY END OF IT
- 24:29 THERE IS A...
- 24:31 HARDLY CAN DEPICT THE APSE
- 24:33 OF THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
- 24:36 WHEN THE CRUSADERS
- 24:37 TOOK THE CITY.
- 24:39 THEY PURIFIED AND RETURNED
- 24:41 THE MOSQUE INTO A CHURCH AND
- 24:42 EVENTUALLY THE LAST STRUCTURE
- 24:44 IS THIS... YOU'LL SEE THE
- 24:47 THREE APSES OF HUGE CATHEDRAL.
- 24:51 THIS WAS THE 13th CENTURY
- 24:53 CHRISTIAN CATHEDRAL
- 24:55 OF THE CRUSADERS--
- 24:56 NAMED AFTER ST. PAUL,
- 24:57 BY THE WAY--AND THIS WAS
- 24:59 THE LAST RELIGIOUS SHRINE
- 25:01 ON THE VERY SAME SPOT.
- 25:03 Tom: SO THERE WERE
- 25:04 SUCCESSIVE SHRINES
- 25:05 WITH EACH OCCUPATION HERE.
- 25:07 THE ROMAN, THE BYZANTINE,
- 25:09 THE MUSLIM AND THE CRUSADERS,
- 25:12 ALL USING THIS SITE
- 25:14 AS A PLACE OF THE SHRINE.
- 25:16 Avner: USUALLY IT'S
- 25:17 A TRADITION OF THE SACREDNESS
- 25:19 OF THE SPECIAL, SINGLE SPOT
- 25:20 RETAINED EVEN IF THERE IS
- 25:22 A CHANGE OF POPULATION
- 25:24 AND TURN OF RELIGION.
- 25:25 ♪ ♪
- 25:44 ♪ ♪
- 26:01 Myles: IT'S SO ENCOURAGING
- 26:02 TO OUR FAITH, TO YOUR FAITH,
- 26:04 TO SEE THAT THE BIBLE
- 26:05 IS BEING VERIFIED
- 26:06 BY SCIENCE DEFINING
- 26:08 THE HOUSE OF DAVID STONE
- 26:09 IN TEL DAN JUST REFUTES ALL THE
- 26:11 MISHEGOSS , THE CRAZINESS, THAT
- 26:14 THERE WAS NEVER A KING DAVID.
- 26:16 AND THEN THE PONTIUS PILOT
- 26:17 STONE, THE PLAQUE
- 26:18 THAT SAYS HE WAS THERE.
- 26:19 HE WAS THE PROCURATOR OF ROME
- 26:21 IN CAESAREA.
- 26:22 IT'S PHENOMENAL; THERE WAS
- 26:24 ACTUALLY A BEMA SEAT THERE.
- 26:25 THERE WAS A PRISON
- 26:26 WHERE PAUL WAS KEPT;
- 26:27 ALL REAL PLACES
- 26:28 SPOKEN OF IN THE BIBLE,
- 26:30 VERIFIED BY ARCHEOLOGY.
- 26:33 Katharine: YEAH,
- 26:34 BROUGHT TO YOU LIVE
- 26:36 IN YOUR OWN LIVING ROOM
- 26:38 BECAUSE OF YOUR GIFT OF FUNDS
- 26:40 WE GET TO BRING YOU
- 26:41 THESE MESSAGES.
- 26:42 WE GET TO SHOW YOU THE PLACES
- 26:44 THAT JESUS WALKED,
- 26:45 HIS DISCIPLES WALKED AND SO
- 26:46 WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
- 26:48 WE THANK YOU FOR GIVING US THE
- 26:49 OPPORTUNITY OF TELLING THE WORLD
- 26:52 THAT THE GOSPEL IS ALIVE.
- 26:55 THE WORD OF GOD IS REAL AND IT'S
- 26:57 A SOURCE THAT WE CAN RELY UPON.
- 27:00 Myles: THAT'S RIGHT, YOU KNOW,
- 27:01 EVEN THE VERY WORD ITSELF,
- 27:03 THE LANGUAGE HAS BEEN RESTORED
- 27:04 IN THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS.
- 27:06 THE HEBREW LANGUAGE,
- 27:07 THE MODERN VERSION HAS BEEN
- 27:08 RESTORED AND WE HAVE A RESOURCE
- 27:11 FOR YOU TODAY THAT REALLY WILL
- 27:12 HELP YOU TO READ THE BIBLE,
- 27:14 KNOWING SOMETHING
- 27:15 OF THE HEBREW LANGUAGE.
- 27:16 THIS IS
- 27:17 ZOLA'S INTRODUCTION TO HEBREW
- 27:18 AND JOHN PARSONS,
- 27:20 OUR HEBREW TEACHER, AND ZOLA
- 27:21 DID A GREAT WORK PUTTING
- 27:22 THIS TOGETHER SO THAT WE COULD
- 27:24 REALLY UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE
- 27:26 AS WE READ IT AND YOU CAN LEARN
- 27:27 THE WAY THE LANGUAGE WORKS.
- 27:28 IT'S SO POETIC;
- 27:29 IT'S SO FULL OF MEANING.
- 27:31 I'VE BEEN STUDYING IT
- 27:32 MY WHOLE LIFE AND I'M STILL
- 27:33 LEARNING THE LANGUAGE;
- 27:34 IT NEVER GETS OLD,
- 27:36 IT NEVER ENDS.
- 27:37 THERE JUST ALWAYS MORE TO LEARN.
- 27:38 Katharine: IT'S
- 27:39 A VERY DEEP WELL.
- 27:40 Myles: IT IS A DEEP WELL,
- 27:41 THAT'S TRUE.
- 27:43 WELL, UNTIL WE SEE YOU AGAIN,
- 27:45 WE WANT TO AGAIN
- 27:46 ENCOURAGE YOU, PLEASE...
- 27:48 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
- 27:50 Katharine: PRAY FOR THE PEACE
- 27:51 OF JERUSALEM.
- 27:54 Male Singer: ♪ LORD GOD, CREATOR OF HEAVEN ♪
- 27:59 ♪ LORD GOD, WE BRING FORTH YOUR PRAISES ♪
- 28:07 ♪ THE EARTH STANDS A TRIBUTE TO GLORY ♪
- 28:15 ♪ STONES TELL YOUR WONDERFUL STORY. ♪♪
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