
“Cities of the Past”
Zippori was a thriving cultural center in Galilee that probably influenced Jesus as a boy growing up in Nazareth. Ekron was one of five prominent Old Testament cities of the Philistines.
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Caption transcript for The Stones Cry Out (2012): “Cities of the Past” (7/12)
- 00:13 (♪ "The Stones Cry Out" ♪)
- 00:23 Male Singer: ♪ IF NO ONE STANDS TO SPEAK, ♪
- 00:30 ♪ IF NO ONE PRAYS, ♪
- 00:34 ♪ THESE VERY STONES CRY OUT ♪
- 00:41 ♪ "I AM." ♪♪
- 00:47 Myles: SHALOM AND WELCOME
- 00:48 TO ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
- 00:49 I'M MYLES WEISS.
- 00:50 Katharine: AND I'M
- 00:51 KATHARINE WEISS.
- 00:52 Myles: AND WE ARE THRILLED TODAY
- 00:53 TO CONTINUE OUR SERIES
- 00:54 "THE STONES CRY OUT."
- 00:55 THIS IS AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL LOOK
- 00:57 AT THE BIBLE.
- 00:58 WE TOOK THAT TITLE FROM THE
- 01:00 SCRIPTURE IN LUKE 19:40 WHERE
- 01:02 JESUS IS COMING INTO JERUSALEM,
- 01:04 THE DISCIPLES
- 01:05 ARE YELLING, "HOSANNA!"
- 01:06 AND THE PHARISEES SAY,
- 01:07 "STOP THEM!"
- 01:08 AND HE SAID,
- 01:09 "YOU KNOW, IF THEY DIDN'T,
- 01:10 THE VERY STONES WOULD CRY OUT."
- 01:12 IT'S A SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLE
- 01:13 FOR US ABOUT THE HONOR
- 01:15 THAT WE HAVE IN WORSHIPPING
- 01:16 THE KING OF KINGS.
- 01:17 BUT TODAY, IN OUR DAY, THE VERY
- 01:19 ROCKS IN ISRAEL ARE CRYING OUT.
- 01:21 THEY'RE DISCOVERING, EVERY DAY,
- 01:24 ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROOF
- 01:26 THAT THE BIBLE IS REAL
- 01:27 AND THAT THE JEWS HAVE BEEN
- 01:28 IN THE LAND FOR A LONG TIME.
- 01:30 ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE GOING
- 01:31 TO SEE IN THIS PROGRAM
- 01:32 IS THE REALITY
- 01:33 OF JESUS' BACKGROUND,
- 01:35 THAT HE LIVED IN NAZARETH,
- 01:37 NEAR SEPPHORIS,
- 01:38 WHICH WAS A GREEK CITY
- 01:39 NAMED AFTER ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
- 01:41 AND IN THAT CULTURE,
- 01:42 HE LEARNED SOME OF THE WORDS
- 01:44 AND SOME OF THE PHRASES
- 01:46 THAT HE LATER WOULD USE
- 01:47 IN HIS PARABLES
- 01:48 AND USE IN HIS TEACHINGS.
- 01:49 SO IT'S A FASCINATING LOOK
- 01:50 AT THE WAY THE HE WAS VERSED
- 01:52 IN THE JEWISH MINDSET
- 01:54 AND THE GREEK MINDSET.
- 01:55 Katharine: WONDERFUL...
- 01:56 IT'S SO RICH.
- 01:57 IT'S SO EXCITING
- 01:58 TO BRING YOU THESE STORIES
- 01:59 AND THESE DOCUMENTARIES
- 02:01 OF WHAT GOD IS DOING.
- 02:03 WE'RE DOCUMENTING THAT GOD
- 02:04 IS ALIVE TODAY, THROUGH HIS WORD
- 02:06 AND THROUGH THE VERY SCRIPTURE,
- 02:08 AND THE VERY STONES THAT ARE
- 02:09 CRYING OUT; SO THANK YOU SO MUCH
- 02:11 FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT
- 02:12 OF THESE MESSAGES.
- 02:14 AND WE LOVE TO BRING THEM TO YOU
- 02:15 AND I KNOW
- 02:16 YOU LOVE TO HEAR THEM.
- 02:18 Myles: YEAH,
- 02:19 IT'S A VERY RICH SERIES.
- 02:20 WE'RE GLAD TO BE BRINGING IT
- 02:21 TO YOU.
- 02:22 SO NOW LET'S GO TO TOM McCALL
- 02:23 WITH MITCH PILCER IN ISRAEL.
- 02:28 Tom: SEPPHORIS,
- 02:29 ZIPPORI IN HEBREW,
- 02:30 IS LOCATED IN THE CENTER
- 02:32 OF THE LOWER GALILEE, SOME
- 02:33 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF NAZARETH.
- 02:36 AS SEEN FROM NAZARETH,
- 02:38 AN ANCIENT STRUCTURE ACTS AS
- 02:40 A GRAVESTONE MARKING
- 02:41 THE REMAINS
- 02:42 OF THIS ONCE-GREAT CITY.
- 02:46 A MAGNIFICENT METROPOLIS OF
- 02:47 THE GRECO-ROMAN TRADITION,
- 02:50 THIS PRESTIGIOUS GOVERNMENTAL
- 02:51 CENTER WAS ALSO A HUB
- 02:53 OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY.
- 02:55 IT HAD A THRIVING
- 02:56 AGRICULTURAL TRADE,
- 02:57 BOASTED EXQUISITE MOSAICS
- 03:01 AND HAD AN IMPRESSIVE THEATRE.
- 03:05 MITCH, CAN YOU DESCRIBE FOR US
- 03:07 WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW?
- 03:09 Mitch: WELL, WE'RE ABOUT
- 03:10 A KILOMETER EAST OF THE SITE
- 03:11 OF THE ANCIENT CITY OF ZIPPORI,
- 03:13 WHICH WE CAN SEE
- 03:14 ON THE FAR HILLSIDE THERE.
- 03:16 AND OVER THERE
- 03:17 AND INTO OVER THERE AND
- 03:18 ABOUT 3 KILOMETERS TO THE EAST,
- 03:19 YOU CAN SEE
- 03:20 THE MODERN CITY OF NAZARETH
- 03:22 RISING ON THE HILL.
- 03:24 Tom: WELL, THAT WAS WHERE JESUS
- 03:25 WAS RAISED, IN NAZARETH.
- 03:27 WHAT ASSOCIATIONS WOULD HE HAVE
- 03:28 HAD WITH ZIPPORI, OR I GUESS
- 03:31 IT'S ALSO KNOWN AS SEPPHORIS?
- 03:33 Mitch: WHEN JESUS WAS GROWING UP
- 03:34 OVER THERE IN NAZARETH, IT WAS
- 03:36 A REALLY SMALL TOWN, NO MORE
- 03:38 THAN A FEW HUNDRED PEOPLE.
- 03:39 BUT ZIPPORI, AT THAT TIME,
- 03:41 WAS GOING THROUGH
- 03:42 ITS GREATEST PERIOD OF BUILDING.
- 03:45 IT BECAME EVENTUALLY A CITY
- 03:46 OF TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.
- 03:49 JESUS, HIMSELF, WE CAN ONLY
- 03:50 SPECULATE, BUT WHEN WE TALK
- 03:52 ABOUT THE FATHER OF JESUS,
- 03:53 JOSEPH, BEING A CARPENTER,
- 03:55 "CARPENTER" IS POSSIBLY A SLIGHT
- 03:57 MISTRANSLATION OF THE GREEK WORD
- 04:00 "TEKNOS," OKAY?
- 04:02 A TEKNOS CAN REALLY MEAN
- 04:03 ANYTHING AND MOST LIKELY
- 04:04 MEANT MAYBE "A BUILDING WORKER."
- 04:06 Tom: HE WAS IN CONSTRUCTION WORK
- 04:07 OF SOME KIND.
- 04:08 Mitch: HE WAS IN CONSTRUCTION
- 04:09 WORK AND IT'S VERY LIKELY THAT
- 04:10 EVERY MORNING IF THERE WAS WORK
- 04:11 IN CONSTRUCTION IN THE BIG CITY
- 04:13 OF ZIPPORI, ALL THE MEN OF
- 04:15 NAZARETH AND THEIR CHILDREN WHO
- 04:17 WERE ABLE TO WORK, WOULD LOAD UP
- 04:18 THEIR DONKEYS WITH THEIR TOOLS
- 04:19 AND THEIR LUNCH,
- 04:20 AND TAKE THE HOUR RIDE
- 04:21 TO THE WEST AND REACH ZIPPORI,
- 04:23 WHERE THEY WOULD WORK,
- 04:24 IN ORDER TO BUILD
- 04:26 THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CITY.
- 04:27 Tom: THERE WAS A BUILDING BOOM
- 04:28 GOING ON, AS IT WERE,
- 04:29 UNDER HEROD ANTIPAS DURING MANY
- 04:32 OF THE EARLY YEARS OF JESUS.
- 04:34 NOW, IN FRONT OF US,
- 04:36 WE HAVE THESE LARGE HOLES.
- 04:38 DO THEY HAVE SOME SIGNIFICANCE?
- 04:40 Mitch: THIS IS SOMETHING THAT,
- 04:41 THERE IS NOTHING LIKE IT
- 04:43 ANYWHERE ELSE IN ISRAEL.
- 04:44 IT IS AN UNDERGROUND
- 04:45 WATER RESERVOIR,
- 04:46 OVER 250 METERS LONG,
- 04:49 CAPABLE OF HOLDING OVER
- 04:50 4,000 CUBIC METERS OF WATER.
- 04:52 THE ANCIENT RESIDENTS OF
- 04:53 ZIPPORI, THEY BUILT AQUEDUCTS
- 04:55 TO CARRY WATER FROM SPRINGS
- 04:57 NEAR NAZARETH WHERE IT FILLED UP
- 04:59 THIS RESERVOIR HERE
- 05:00 AND IT GUARANTEED THEM
- 05:01 A PERMANENT SUPPLY OF WATER,
- 05:03 WHICH WAS SOMETHING
- 05:04 THAT WAS NECESSARY IN A
- 05:05 SOPHISTICATED CITY LIKE ZIPPORI,
- 05:06 WITH ITS BATH HOUSES,
- 05:08 ITS PUBLIC FOUNTAINS
- 05:09 AND ITS GREENERY.
- 05:12 Zola: JOSEPHUS,
- 05:13 THE ANCIENT JEWISH HISTORIAN,
- 05:15 REFERRED TO SEPPHORIS
- 05:17 AS THE ORNAMENT OF THE GALILEE.
- 05:19 FEW PLACES IN ISRAEL
- 05:20 CAN TRIUMPH SUCH MASTERY
- 05:22 OF THE MOSAIC FLOOR.
- 05:24 NUMEROUS MOSAICS
- 05:25 DATING FROM THE TIME OF CHRIST
- 05:26 HAVE BEEN UNEARTHED HERE.
- 05:32 Zola: A GROUP OF ISRAELI
- 05:33 CHILDREN APPLY THEIR SKILLS
- 05:34 TO CREATING MINI MOSAICS.
- 05:36 THE CHILDREN FIRST SKETCH OUT
- 05:37 THEIR DESIGN IN THE MOIST
- 05:38 PLASTER MIXTURE, THEN PLACE
- 05:40 THE SMALL COLORFUL STONES
- 05:42 INTO THE LAYOUT.
- 05:48 WHILE THE ANCIENT MOSAICS
- 05:50 REPRESENT THE GRECO-ROMAN
- 05:51 INFLUENCE HERE,
- 05:53 IT IS IN THE RUINS
- 05:54 OF A CROWDED RESIDENTIAL AREA
- 05:56 THAT THE STONES ATTEST
- 05:57 TO A THRIVING JEWISH CULTURE.
- 06:01 Mitch: WHAT WE'RE WALKING
- 06:02 ON HERE NOW IS PROBABLY
- 06:04 THE MOST ANCIENT STREET
- 06:05 THAT'S BEEN DISCOVERED
- 06:06 IN ZIPPORI TO THIS DAY.
- 06:07 Tom: MITCH, DO YOU SUPPOSE THAT
- 06:09 JOSEPH AND MARY AND JESUS MIGHT
- 06:10 HAVE WALKED ON THIS VERY STREET
- 06:12 IN ZIPPORI?
- 06:13 Mitch: WELL, IF THEY
- 06:14 VISITED SOME OF THE POORER
- 06:15 RESIDENTIAL SECTIONS,
- 06:16 I WOULD IMAGINE.
- 06:17 AS YOU CAN SEE, THIS ISN'T
- 06:18 EXACTLY A WIDE BOULEVARD
- 06:19 OVER HERE.
- 06:20 THE HOUSES ON ONE SIDE ARE VERY
- 06:22 CLOSE QUARTERS FACING THE HOUSES
- 06:24 ON THE OTHER SIDE.
- 06:25 AND INSIDE OF THE ENTIRE
- 06:26 EXCAVATIONS HERE, YOU CAN SEE
- 06:28 THE REMAINS OF ALL THE STONES.
- 06:31 Tom: YEAH, THERE ARE SO MANY
- 06:32 STONES ALL AROUND HERE
- 06:34 THAT HAVE BEEN UNCOVERED.
- 06:35 WHAT ARE THESE, MITCH?
- 06:36 Mitch: WELL, THEY'RE THE BOTTOM,
- 06:37 THE VERY BOTTOM FOUNDATIONS
- 06:39 OF THE HOUSES WHICH WERE
- 06:40 MOST LIKELY TO HAVE BEEN
- 06:41 MAYBE 2 OR 3 STORIES HIGH
- 06:43 AND VERY CLOSE TO EACH OTHER.
- 06:45 THERE ARE OVER 80 HOUSES
- 06:46 JUST IN THIS SMALL SECTION
- 06:47 THAT WE'VE DUG UP OVER HERE.
- 06:50 Tom: THAT'S A PRETTY LARGE
- 06:51 POPULATION THAT MIGHT HAVE LIVED
- 06:52 IN AND AROUND THIS AREA HERE.
- 06:53 Mitch: EACH HOUSE, EVEN THOUGH
- 06:54 IT WASN'T VERY BIG,
- 06:56 THEY PROBABLY HAD AT LEAST
- 06:57 A DOZEN PEOPLE LIVING IN IT,
- 06:58 INCLUDING ON THE SECOND STORIES,
- 07:00 SLEEPING ON THE ROOFS.
- 07:01 SO, IF YOU LOOK AT 80 HOUSES,
- 07:03 YOU'RE SEEING OVER 1,000 PEOPLE
- 07:04 WHO MIGHT HAVE LIVED RIGHT
- 07:05 IN THIS SECTION HERE.
- 07:07 Tom: LET'S TAKE A WALK OVER HERE
- 07:08 AND SEE SOME OF THE DETAILS
- 07:10 OF THESE HOUSES.
- 07:15 Mitch: FOR INSTANCE,
- 07:16 THE FIRST THING THAT
- 07:17 WE PASS OVER HERE, AS WE ENTER
- 07:18 INTO A COURTYARD SEPARATING
- 07:19 SEVERAL OF THE HOUSES...
- 07:21 OBVIOUSLY THIS IS A WELL.
- 07:23 Tom: WHAT'S THE HISTORY
- 07:24 OF THIS WELL?
- 07:25 Mitch: WELL, THE HISTORY
- 07:26 IS INTERESTING, AND JUST
- 07:27 IN THE RESPECT THAT WHEN WE WERE
- 07:29 EXCAVATING THIS, LAST SUMMER,
- 07:32 WE'VE ACTUALLY MANAGED TO LOWER
- 07:33 SOMEBODY DOWN TO THE BOTTOM
- 07:34 OF IT, AND HE WAS DIGGING
- 07:36 IN WHAT WAS THE MUD, WHERE
- 07:37 MANY OF THE WOMEN WHO LIVED
- 07:39 AROUND HERE PROBABLY DROPPED
- 07:40 THEIR EARTHENWARE VESSELS
- 07:42 OVER 2,000 YEARS AGO.
- 07:44 AND THEY DROPPED INTO THE WATER
- 07:45 AND THEY WEREN'T BROKEN.
- 07:46 WHEN WE PULLED THEM OUT,
- 07:47 THEY WERE COMPLETE.
- 07:49 WE PULLED OUT OVER A DOZEN
- 07:50 VESSELS, LIKE THIS,
- 07:51 THAT LOOK MAYBE NO DIFFERENT
- 07:52 THAN THE DAY THEY WERE
- 07:53 DROPPED HERE, 2,000 YEARS AGO.
- 07:55 Zola: SEPPHORIS
- 07:56 WAS WELL KNOWN AS A CENTER
- 07:57 OF JEWISH RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY.
- 07:59 IN THE 2nd CENTURY,
- 08:00 THE SANHEDRIN,
- 08:01 THE HIGHEST JEWISH COURT,
- 08:03 ADJUDICATED HERE.
- 08:05 AND THE MISHNA, A COLLECTION
- 08:06 OF JEWISH ORAL LAWS
- 08:07 WAS CODIFIED HERE
- 08:08 AROUND 200 A.D.
- 08:11 THE ANCIENT COMMUNITY'S REMAINS
- 08:12 REVEAL ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE
- 08:14 OF THAT JEWISH HERITAGE.
- 08:15 Mitch: WHAT LOOKS LIKE A BATHTUB
- 08:17 IS, IN FACT, AN ANCIENT
- 08:18 RITUAL JEWISH BATH...A MIKVAH.
- 08:21 Tom: THAT WOULD INDICATE
- 08:22 THAT THERE WERE JEWISH PEOPLE
- 08:23 THAT LIVED HERE.
- 08:24 Mitch: PRIESTS WHO WORKED
- 08:25 IN THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM
- 08:26 BUT LIVED HERE IN ZIPPORI.
- 08:28 Tom: SO, THE PRIESTS
- 08:29 DIDN'T JUST LIVE IN JERUSALEM,
- 08:30 THEY LIVED IN OUTLYING CITIES,
- 08:32 LIKE ZIPPORI, ALSO?
- 08:33 Mitch: IT'S WRITTEN IN
- 08:34 THE SOURCES, IN THE MISHNA, THAT
- 08:35 ONE OF THE PRIESTLY FAMILIES,
- 08:37 THE HODIAH FAMILY,
- 08:39 THEY LIVED HERE IN ZIPPORI
- 08:40 AND WHAT WE SEE HERE
- 08:41 IS THE EVIDENCE.
- 08:42 THERE'S ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
- 08:43 CONNECTING THEM,
- 08:44 BECAUSE NOBODY ELSE WOULD HAVE
- 08:45 A USE OF OVER 40 MIKVAHS IN
- 08:48 THIS SMALL RESIDENTIAL QUARTER.
- 08:49 OKAY?
- 08:50 AND, IN FACT,
- 08:51 YOU CAN SEE THERE'S A WALL
- 08:52 SEPARATING THE TWO HOUSES.
- 08:54 WE HAVE ONE MIKVAH HERE AND
- 08:55 WE HAVE ONE MIKVAH RIGHT HERE,
- 08:56 IN THE NEIGHBORING HOUSE.
- 08:57 Tom: I THINK I'D LIKE
- 08:58 TO STEP DOWN HERE AND SEE WHAT
- 09:00 IT'S LIKE TO BE IN A MIKVAH.
- 09:02 Mitch: WELL, IF YOU'D BE
- 09:03 GOING DOWN INTO THIS MIKVAH
- 09:04 A FEW THOUSAND YEARS AGO, YOU'D
- 09:05 ALREADY BE MOSTLY UNDER WATER,
- 09:06 BECAUSE THE LEVEL OF THE WATER
- 09:08 WENT ALL THE WAY UP TO THE TOP.
- 09:09 Tom: IT WOULD BE UP TO MY CHEST,
- 09:10 JUST ABOUT?
- 09:11 Mitch: UH-HUH AND THE PLASTER
- 09:12 YOU ARE SEEING HERE IS
- 09:13 THE ORIGINAL PLASTER THAT
- 09:14 REMAINS FROM 2,000 YEARS AGO.
- 09:15 Tom: AND THE PRIEST WOULD
- 09:16 GO BELOW THE WATERS AND COME UP.
- 09:18 Mitch: HE WOULD GO
- 09:19 BELOW THE WATER.
- 09:20 HE WOULD HAVE TO COMPLETELY
- 09:21 IMMERSE HIMSELF THREE TIMES, AND
- 09:22 THAT WAY HE WOULD BE PURE AGAIN
- 09:23 IN ORDER TO CONDUCT SERVICES.
- 09:26 Zola: TOM AND MITCH MOVE ON
- 09:27 TO THE PINNACLE OF FINE ARTS
- 09:28 IN SEPPHORIS...THE REMAINS OF
- 09:30 ITS ONCE-MAGNIFICENT THEATRE.
- 09:36 Mitch: WE'RE NOW FOLLOWING
- 09:37 THE PATH OF THOUSANDS
- 09:39 OF ANCIENT RESIDENTS OF ZIPPORI
- 09:41 FOR OVER 250 YEARS, AS WE GO
- 09:43 THROUGH THE MAIN ENTRANCE
- 09:45 OF THE THEATRE OF ZIPPORI.
- 09:46 Tom: MY THERE'S A MARVELOUS VIEW
- 09:48 OF THE VALLEY DOWN BELOW.
- 09:49 Mitch: WELL, UNFORTUNATELY,
- 09:50 FOR THE ANCIENT RESIDENTS
- 09:52 OF ZIPPORI, THE VIEW WAS BLOCKED
- 09:53 FOR THEM BY THE WALL OF THE BACK
- 09:56 OF THE THEATRE, THAT WE SEE
- 09:57 IN FRONT OF US OVER HERE,
- 09:59 AND THEY WERE ONLY ABLE
- 10:00 TO SEE THE BACK OF THE STAGE.
- 10:01 Tom: HOW MANY PEOPLE
- 10:02 COULD SIT IN THE THEATRE?
- 10:04 Mitch: THE CAPACITY CROWD HERE
- 10:05 WAS ABOUT 4,500 PEOPLE,
- 10:08 WHICH IS QUITE SOMETHING WHEN
- 10:09 YOU CONSIDER THAT ZIPPORI ITSELF
- 10:10 ONLY HAD ABOUT 30,000 RESIDENTS
- 10:12 AT THE TIME THAT IT WAS BUILT.
- 10:14 Tom: AND WOULD THEY JUST SIT
- 10:15 WHERE WE CAN SEE THE STEPS,
- 10:17 OR WAS IT LARGER THAN THAT?
- 10:19 Mitch: WELL, THE STEPS
- 10:20 YOU'RE ONLY LOOKING AT HERE
- 10:21 ARE THE LOWER MEZZANINE.
- 10:22 OKAY?
- 10:23 IN FACT, RIGHT WHERE
- 10:24 I'M STANDING HERE AND ABOVE ME,
- 10:25 WOULD BE A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL
- 10:26 OF THE THEATRE, INCLUDING
- 10:28 STONE AND WOODEN SEATS.
- 10:30 Tom: AND HOW OLD
- 10:31 IS THIS THEATRE?
- 10:32 WHEN WAS IT BUILT?
- 10:33 Mitch: THERE'S A LOT
- 10:34 OF SPECULATION THAT, IN FACT,
- 10:35 THERE WAS A MUCH OLDER CULTURE
- 10:37 OF THEATRE HERE IN ZIPPORI.
- 10:40 Tom: EVEN AT THE TIME OF JESUS,
- 10:42 WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN 60 OR SO
- 10:44 YEARS BEFORE THE BUILDING HERE.
- 10:47 Mitch: WE TRY TO WONDER WHY THEY
- 10:48 WOULD BUILD SUCH A GRAND THEATRE
- 10:50 IN A PLACE, UNLESS THERE WAS
- 10:51 A BIG DEMAND FOR THE THEATRE.
- 10:52 OKAY?
- 10:53 IT MUST HAVE MEANT THAT
- 10:54 THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOME
- 10:55 KIND OF SMALLER STRUCTURE THAT
- 10:56 ACCOMMODATED THE THEATRE AND,
- 10:58 IN FACT, EVEN FROM WHAT WE KNOW
- 11:00 FROM JESUS HIMSELF,
- 11:01 WE CAN ASSUME
- 11:02 THERE WAS A THEATRE IN ZIPPORI.
- 11:04 Tom: WHAT ARE SOME OF THE THINGS
- 11:05 THAT THE GOSPELS BRING OUT
- 11:06 THAT MIGHT SUGGEST
- 11:07 THAT JESUS HAD BEEN EXPOSED
- 11:08 TO THIS KIND OF CULTURE?
- 11:10 Mitch: OKAY, FOR ONE, HE USES
- 11:11 LOTS OF GREEK WORDS, OKAY;
- 11:13 GREEK WORDS WHICH HE WOULD HAVE
- 11:14 NO WAY TO PICK THEM UP
- 11:16 IN A LITTLE TOWN OF NAZARETH.
- 11:17 HE WOULD HAVE TO COME TO A CITY
- 11:18 WHERE THERE WAS A SIZABLE
- 11:20 GREEK POPULATION
- 11:21 AND HE EVEN USES WORDS THAT
- 11:23 ARE CONNECTED TO THE THEATRE,
- 11:24 LIKE HYPOCRITE.
- 11:25 HYPOCRITE WAS A TERM
- 11:26 THAT MEANT ACTOR, MOSTLY,
- 11:28 AND SOME OTHER MEANINGS.
- 11:29 ALSO, WE CAN TAKE INTO ACCOUNT
- 11:31 WHEN WE SEE EVEN LIKE
- 11:32 HIS STAGING, THE WAY THAT HE
- 11:33 SET UP THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
- 11:35 OKAY?
- 11:36 IT WAS DONE IN THE WHOLE STYLE
- 11:37 OF THE THEATRE.
- 11:39 Zola: MITCH'S REFERENCE
- 11:40 TO STAGING INFERS THAT
- 11:42 JUST AS AN ACTOR WOULD
- 11:43 DELIVER HIS LINES
- 11:44 FROM THIS STAGE TO THE AUDIENCE
- 11:45 ABOVE, JESUS, TAKING A PAGE
- 11:48 FROM THE SEPPHORIS THEATRE,
- 11:49 MOST LIKELY DELIVERED
- 11:51 HIS SERMON ON THE MOUNT
- 11:52 FROM BELOW THE HILLSIDE
- 11:54 AT THE MOUNT OF BEATITUDES.
- 11:56 PREVIOUS PROGRAMS
- 11:57 HAVE DEMONSTRATED HOW THE SOUND
- 11:58 RESONATES EFFORTLESSLY
- 12:00 UP THE HILLSIDE.
- 12:02 ( Speaking Hebrew )
- 12:06 >> BLESSED ARE THE MEEK FOR
- 12:08 THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH.
- 12:10 ( Speaking Hebrew )
- 12:16 >> BLESSED ARE THEY
- 12:17 WHICH DO HUNGER
- 12:18 AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS
- 12:20 FOR THEY SHALL BE FILLED.
- 12:22 Zola: FROM THIS EXAMPLE,
- 12:23 "THE SERMON BELOW THE MOUNT"
- 12:25 MIGHT HAVE BEEN
- 12:26 A MORE APPROPRIATE TITLE FOR
- 12:27 CHRIST'S MAGNIFICENT TREATISE
- 12:29 ON GODLY LIVING.
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- 13:05 ♪ ♪
- 13:13 ♪ ♪
- 13:39 Myles: WE WOULD LOVE TO HOST YOU
- 13:40 IN ISRAEL, KATHARINE AND I.
- 13:42 IT'S OUR PLEASURE
- 13:43 TO BRING YOU TO ISRAEL.
- 13:44 WE'VE BEEN THERE OVER 20 TIMES
- 13:45 AND IT NEVER GETS OLD.
- 13:46 TRACIE, OUR TRAVEL MANAGER,
- 13:47 IS WITH US.
- 13:48 TRACIE, WHAT'S GOING ON NOW
- 13:49 WITH OUR TOURS?
- 13:50 Tracie: IT'S GREAT TO SEE YOU,
- 13:51 MYLES.
- 13:52 ONE THING I LOVE TALKING ABOUT,
- 13:53 I KNOW ESPECIALLY WITH YOU
- 13:54 AND KATHARINE BEING PASTORS
- 13:55 25 YEARS, IS WE HAVE
- 13:57 A SPECIAL OFFER FOR GROUPS,
- 13:58 OFTENTIMES PASTORS,
- 14:00 AND I TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT.
- 14:01 BUT, PASTORS, IF YOU CAN GET
- 14:02 10 PAYING PASSENGERS TO COME ON
- 14:04 OUR TOUR, YOU COME TOTALLY FREE.
- 14:07 A LOT OF TIMES WE WANT YOU TO
- 14:08 GET 20 PAYING PASSENGERS SO THEN
- 14:10 YOU CAN BRING YOUR SPOUSE.
- 14:11 AND SO WHAT THAT DOES, MYLES,
- 14:14 IS THEY CAN COME ON THE TOUR AND
- 14:15 YOU KNOW HOW HARD PASTORS WORK.
- 14:17 I'VE WORKED WITH PASTORS FOR
- 14:18 MANY YEARS AT JOHN MAXWELL'S
- 14:20 MINISTRY AND THEY JUST...
- 14:21 TIRELESS...
- 14:22 PASTORS, YOU WORK TIRELESSLY.
- 14:23 COME ON OUR TOUR
- 14:24 AND LET US DO THE WORK.
- 14:26 FIRST OF ALL,
- 14:27 LET US DO THE LOGISTICS.
- 14:28 I WILL HANDLE EVERYTHING
- 14:29 FOR YOUR GROUP.
- 14:30 AND THEN, MYLES AND
- 14:31 KATHARINE, THEY ARE GOING
- 14:32 TO OPEN THE WORD DEVOTIONALLY.
- 14:34 THEY CAN DO AS MUCH
- 14:35 OR AS LITTLE AS THEY WANT.
- 14:36 Myles: EXACTLY.
- 14:37 Tracie: I KNOW WE HAVE TWO
- 14:38 PASTORS ON OUR UPCOMING TOUR
- 14:39 AND THEY'RE GOING TO BAPTIZE IN
- 14:40 THE JORDAN RIVER BUT THAT'S IT.
- 14:41 OTHERWISE, THEY'RE GOING TO
- 14:42 LEAVE THE TEACHING
- 14:43 TO OUR MESSIANIC JEWISH GUIDE.
- 14:44 MOST TOURS DON'T HAVE THAT.
- 14:46 WE ARE ALWAYS GUARANTEED
- 14:47 A MESSIANIC JEWISH GUIDE
- 14:48 ON OUR TOUR.
- 14:49 YOU AND KATHARINE ARE THERE
- 14:50 TO WORD DEVOTIONALLY AND IT'S
- 14:52 JUST--IT'S A JOY, AND SO
- 14:53 I WANT TO INVITE YOU TO DO THAT,
- 14:54 PASTORS; GIVE ME A CALL.
- 14:56 Myles: THANK YOU, TRACIE.
- 14:57 IT'S REALLY--IT'S OUR PLEASURE
- 14:58 TO WORK WITH PASTORS
- 14:59 AS A TEAM EFFORT.
- 15:00 AND, LIKE TRACIE SAYS,
- 15:02 YOU CAN DO AS LITTLE OR AS MUCH
- 15:04 AS YOU WANT TO ON OUR TOURS.
- 15:05 WE'LL HANDLE THE HEAVY LIFTING,
- 15:06 BUT WE'D LOVE TO HAVE YOU THERE
- 15:07 TO OPEN THE WORD WHEN YOU
- 15:08 WANT TO AND TO WORK WITH US
- 15:10 IN CONCERT.
- 15:12 ONE OF THE WAYS THAT OUR VIEWERS
- 15:14 CAN REALLY GET UP TO SPEED ON
- 15:16 THE JEWISH ROOTS OF THE FAITH
- 15:17 IS WITH OUR INSTITUTE
- 15:18 OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES.
- 15:21 WHEN YOU'RE COMING TO THE LAND,
- 15:22 WHEN YOU'RE WATCHING
- 15:23 THESE PROGRAMS, YOU REALLY WANT
- 15:24 TO GO DEEPER IN THE WORD.
- 15:25 THIS IS A BIBLE COLLEGE LEVEL
- 15:26 COURSE.
- 15:27 IT'S TAUGHT BY DR. JEFF SEIF
- 15:29 AND ZOLA LEVITT
- 15:30 AND IT REALLY WILL BRING YOU
- 15:31 INTO AN UNDERSTANDING
- 15:32 OF THE WORD WITH
- 15:33 THE HEBRAIC MINDSET
- 15:35 THAT YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE
- 15:36 BEEN TAUGHT IN SEMINARY,
- 15:37 YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN TAUGHT
- 15:38 IN YOUR CHURCH.
- 15:39 THIS WILL DEEPEN YOUR ROOTS,
- 15:40 I GUARANTEE IT.
- 15:41 YOU CAN SEE
- 15:42 ON THE COVER OF THIS,
- 15:43 IT SAYS "OHR EMET," THE LIGHT
- 15:45 AND TRUTH OF THE WORD, IN HEBREW
- 15:46 AND IT REALLY WILL DO THAT
- 15:47 FOR YOU.
- 15:49 IN FACT, LET'S HEAR A TESTIMONY
- 15:50 FROM SOME OF OUR STUDENTS
- 15:51 THAT HAVE TAKEN THIS COURSE...
- 15:52 RIGHT NOW.
- 15:54 I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE ANYONE
- 15:56 WHO TAKES THEIR RELATIONSHIP
- 15:58 WITH THE LORD SERIOUS...
- 16:00 YOU KNOW, WHEN HE TALKS
- 16:01 ABOUT YOU BEING LEAST
- 16:02 IN THE KINGDOM
- 16:03 OR GREAT IN THE KINGDOM,
- 16:04 STUDY TO SHOW YOURSELF
- 16:05 APPROVED...
- 16:06 GET THE COURSE...
- 16:08 DO ALL 12 LESSONS
- 16:10 AND TAKE IT SERIOUSLY.
- 16:12 LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU WENT
- 16:13 TO COLLEGE TO GET YOUR DEGREE.
- 16:15 THIS IS NO DIFFERENT.
- 16:16 AND THIS IS A BETTER DEGREE.
- 16:19 ONE THAT'S NOT ON PAPER,
- 16:20 ONE THAT'S WRITTEN ON
- 16:21 THE TABLETS OF YOUR HEART.
- 16:23 WELL I MEAN IF YOU'RE GOING TO
- 16:24 UNDERSTAND THE WHOLE MESSAGE
- 16:27 OF THE NEW TESTAMENT,
- 16:28 AS WELL AS THE OLD TESTAMENT,
- 16:29 YOU'VE GOT TO CONNECT IT
- 16:32 WITH ITS ORIGINAL CONTEXT,
- 16:35 WHERE IT CAME FROM,
- 16:36 AND THE INSTITUTE
- 16:37 SHOWS YOU THAT
- 16:38 IN A VERY DETAILED WAY
- 16:41 THAT CAN BE BENEFICIAL
- 16:42 TO BOTH BEGINNER
- 16:44 AND ONE WHO'S SEASONED
- 16:45 IN THEOLOGY.
- 16:47 YOU JUST REALLY LEARN THE BIBLE
- 16:49 AND CHRISTIANITY
- 16:50 AND WHERE WE CAME FROM
- 16:51 IN HEBREW ROOTS.
- 16:52 AND SO IT'S TAUGHT
- 16:53 FROM A MESSIANIC PERSPECTIVE.
- 16:54 YOU'RE GOING TO GET
- 16:55 A LOT OF HEBREW.
- 16:56 YOU'RE GOING TO GET A LOT
- 16:57 OF JEWISH TERMS AND IT'S ALL
- 16:58 GOING TO BE REALLY GREAT.
- 16:59 MOST OF THE CHURCHES
- 17:00 I'VE BEEN TO
- 17:01 HAVE DONE A FAIRLY GOOD JOB,
- 17:04 I THINK, IN EXPLAINING
- 17:06 THE NEW TESTAMENT TO ME.
- 17:07 THEY--EVERYONE'S VERY CONCERNED
- 17:09 ABOUT THE NEW TESTAMENT
- 17:11 AND I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY.
- 17:13 IT'S THE NEW TESTAMENT
- 17:14 THAT GOT ME SAVED.
- 17:15 BUT THE OLD TESTAMENT...
- 17:17 ZOLA USED TO SAY--
- 17:19 I REMEMBER WATCHING HIM
- 17:20 WHEN HE WAS ALIVE--
- 17:21 HE USED TO SAY...
- 17:22 "THE OLD TESTAMENT IS THE GARDEN
- 17:25 AND THE NEW TESTAMENT
- 17:26 IS THE FLOWERS."
- 17:28 SO YOU HAVE TO DIG IN THE GARDEN
- 17:29 TO UNDERSTAND WHY THE FLOWERS
- 17:30 CAME FORTH.
- 17:34 Myles: THOSE TESTIMONIES
- 17:35 ARE SO ENCOURAGING.
- 17:36 I THINK YOU CAN REALLY SENSE
- 17:38 THAT TO LEARN THE OLD TESTAMENT
- 17:40 AND THE NEW TESTAMENT TOGETHER
- 17:41 IS UNLIKE ANY OTHER
- 17:42 INDIVIDUAL TEACHING
- 17:43 YOU'LL GET IN A LOCAL CHURCH.
- 17:45 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU SIGN UP
- 17:46 FOR THE INSTITUTE
- 17:47 OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES
- 17:49 YOU CAN TAKE ONE CD OR THREE.
- 17:51 YOU CAN TAKE ALL 12 COURSES.
- 17:52 YOU CAN DO IT AT ANY PACE
- 17:54 THAT WORKS FOR YOU
- 17:55 AND YOU REALLY COME THROUGH IT
- 17:56 WITH THE SENSE OF UNDERSTANDING
- 17:58 THE ENTIRE BIBLE
- 17:59 AND REALLY KNOWING
- 18:00 THE CONNECTION
- 18:01 BETWEEN THE OLD TESTAMENT
- 18:02 AND THE NEW IN A WAY
- 18:03 THAT YOU NEVER HAVE BEFORE.
- 18:04 IT'S VERY ENCOURAGING
- 18:05 AND VERY STRONG TEACHING.
- 18:08 YOU KNOW, I WANT TO ENCOURAGE
- 18:09 YOU, ALSO, DURING THIS SEASON,
- 18:11 TO HELP US TO CONTINUE
- 18:12 TO BRING YOU THESE RESOURCES,
- 18:14 TO BRING YOU THESE PROGRAMS,
- 18:15 THIS HIGH-QUALITY
- 18:16 ON-LOCATION TEACHING,
- 18:18 THE DRAMAS FROM ISRAEL;
- 18:19 ALL OF THE THINGS
- 18:20 THAT WE TRY TO BRING YOU...
- 18:21 THE UP-TO-THE-MINUTE NEWS.
- 18:22 WE REALLY NEED YOUR PARTNERSHIP
- 18:23 DURING THIS SEASON.
- 18:24 WE NEED YOUR HELP.
- 18:25 SO PLEASE CONTINUE
- 18:26 TO SUPPORT US.
- 18:27 WE WANT TO NOT ONLY
- 18:28 CONTINUE WHAT WE'RE DOING,
- 18:29 WE WANT TO INCREASE
- 18:30 WHAT WE'RE DOING
- 18:31 IN THE DAYS AHEAD.
- 18:33 AND NOW, LET'S GO TO TOM McCALL
- 18:34 WITH AN EXPERT
- 18:35 ON THE PHILISTINES.
- 18:39 Prof. Seymour Gitin: IT'S
- 18:40 A FASCINATING STORY,
- 18:41 BECAUSE AS WE EXCAVATE
- 18:42 LAYER BY LAYER BY LAYER,
- 18:44 WE SEE, AFTER 100 OR 200 YEARS,
- 18:47 LESS OF THE ETHNIC MARKERS
- 18:50 THAT WOULD INDICATE
- 18:51 AN AEGEAN ORIGIN.
- 18:52 SO, BY THE YEAR,
- 18:53 LET'S SAY 1,000 BCE,
- 18:56 WHEN WE KNOW
- 18:57 FROM THE BIBLICAL STORY
- 18:58 AND FROM OTHER SOURCES,
- 18:59 THERE WAS A GREAT BUILD-UP
- 19:01 OF POWER INLAND.
- 19:03 WE CALL THAT
- 19:04 THE UNITED MONARCHY.
- 19:05 WE TALK ABOUT THE PERIOD OF SAUL
- 19:08 AND DAVID AND SOLOMON.
- 19:10 THE PHILISTINES LOST
- 19:11 THEIR GEOPOLITICAL
- 19:13 AND ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE
- 19:14 AND WE SEE THAT RECORDED
- 19:16 IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD.
- 19:18 FOR INSTANCE, AT EKRON,
- 19:19 THIS HUGE SITE,
- 19:20 ONE OF THE LARGEST SITES
- 19:22 IN THE BIBLICAL PERIOD,
- 19:24 SOMEWHERE ABOUT 1,000 BCE,
- 19:26 MUCH OF THE CITY IS DESTROYED
- 19:28 AND WHAT POPULATION IS LEFT
- 19:30 RECEDES TO A SMALL 10-ACRE AREA.
- 19:33 THE CITY HAD BEEN AT LEAST
- 19:34 50 ACRES IN SIZE BEFORE THAT.
- 19:36 AND FOR ABOUT 250 YEARS,
- 19:39 THE CITY REMAINED QUITE SMALL
- 19:41 AND UNIMPORTANT.
- 19:43 Zola: THE BOOK OF JUDGES
- 19:44 STATES;
- 19:56 ADDITIONALLY,
- 19:57 I SAMUEL DECLARES;
- 20:07 ALTHOUGH UNCERTAIN AS TO
- 20:08 WHICH PASSAGE DESCRIBES
- 20:09 THE DESTRUCTION SEEN
- 20:10 IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS
- 20:12 OF EKRON,
- 20:13 THE BIBLE PLAINLY ACCOUNTS FOR
- 20:14 THE INTERMITTENT ISRAELITE
- 20:16 DOMINION OVER THE PHILISTINES.
- 20:19 THE BIBLE ALSO MENTIONS
- 20:20 A SUBSEQUENT INVASION OF JUDAH
- 20:22 AND ISRAEL BY A FORCE
- 20:23 FROM THE EAST.
- 20:25 THE BOOK OF II KINGS ASSERTS;
- 20:33 THIS OCCURRED
- 20:34 IN THE 8th CENTURY BC.
- 20:36 SURPRISINGLY, ARCHAEOLOGY SHOWS
- 20:38 THE DOMINATION OF JUDAH
- 20:40 WAS EKRON'S DELIGHT.
- 20:43 Seymour: AND THE PHILISTINE
- 20:44 STATES, WHICH WERE
- 20:45 SO PRODUCTIVE, THEY GAVE
- 20:46 A CERTAIN LEEWAY.
- 20:48 THEY GAVE THEM A CERTAIN
- 20:49 SENSE OF INDEPENDENCE
- 20:50 AND THEY MADE THEM
- 20:51 VASSAL STATES, WHICH MEANS
- 20:52 THEY MORE OR LESS CONTROLLED
- 20:54 THEIR OWN TERRITORY.
- 20:57 NOW, EKRON THEY CHOSE
- 20:58 AS THE CENTER FOR
- 21:00 THE LARGEST OLIVE OIL
- 21:01 PRODUCTION ANYWHERE INDICATED
- 21:04 OR FOUND TO DATE
- 21:05 IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST.
- 21:06 Tom: OLIVE OIL PRODUCTION.
- 21:07 Seymour: THAT'S RIGHT...
- 21:08 IN THE 7th CENTURY CITY.
- 21:10 THIS WAS A CITY THAT WAS
- 21:12 SUDDENLY BUILT UP
- 21:14 IN THE ASSYRIAN PERIOD
- 21:15 AND EKRON WENT FROM A SMALL,
- 21:18 UNIMPORTANT CITY
- 21:19 IN THIS MEDIAN PERIOD
- 21:21 THAT I TALKED ABOUT BEFORE,
- 21:22 SUDDENLY EXPANDED
- 21:23 TO ABOUT 85 ACRES.
- 21:25 WE HAVE THUS FAR, IN EXCAVATING
- 21:28 ABOUT ONLY 4% OF THE SITE
- 21:30 AND OF COURSE SURVEYING
- 21:31 ALL OF THE TOP REMAINS,
- 21:33 FOUND 115 OLIVE OIL
- 21:36 INSTALLATIONS.
- 21:38 Zola: IT IS BELIEVED
- 21:39 THE PHILISTINES PRODUCED
- 21:40 SOME 290,000 GALLONS
- 21:42 OF OLIVE OIL A YEAR,
- 21:43 MOSTLY FOR EXPORT.
- 21:45 HOWEVER, LIKE THE OIL BEING
- 21:47 PRESSED FROM THE OLIVES,
- 21:48 THE PHILISTINE CULTURAL LIFE
- 21:50 WAS BEING SQUEEZED OUT
- 21:52 AS THE AEGEAN IMMIGRANTS
- 21:53 ASSIMILATED THE TRADITIONS
- 21:54 OF THOSE AROUND THEM.
- 21:56 SEYMOUR AND HIS TEAM UNCOVERED
- 21:58 ARTIFACTS WHICH COMMUNICATE
- 21:59 THIS INFLUENCE.
- 22:01 THIS FOUR-HORNED INCENSE ALTAR
- 22:03 WAS ONE OF THEM.
- 22:04 Seymour: NOW, I'M SURE
- 22:05 YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT
- 22:07 A FOUR-HORNED INCENSE ALTAR,
- 22:09 WHICH IS TYPICAL OF ANCIENT
- 22:10 ISRAELITE RELIGION THAT WE KNOW
- 22:12 ABOUT FROM THE BIBLE
- 22:13 AND WE KNOW ABOUT FROM
- 22:15 ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS
- 22:16 AT ISRAELITE SITES,
- 22:17 WHAT THIS IS DOING AT EKRON.
- 22:20 IT'S NOT FOUND AT ANY OTHER
- 22:21 PHILISTINE CITY IN THE PERIOD.
- 22:24 OUR THEORY IS THAT
- 22:25 THE PHILISTINES SURVIVED
- 22:26 SO LONG,
- 22:27 FROM ABOUT 1200 TO 600 BCE,
- 22:30 THAT'S ABOUT 600 YEARS,
- 22:32 BECAUSE THEY WERE VERY FLEXIBLE.
- 22:34 WHENEVER A NATION CONFRONTED
- 22:36 THEM OR CONQUERED THEM,
- 22:37 THEY ADAPTED SOMETHING
- 22:39 OF THAT CULTURE
- 22:40 AND THEY WERE FLEXIBLE ENOUGH
- 22:41 TO SURVIVE.
- 22:43 BY THE TIME WE COME TO
- 22:45 THE GREAT GROWTH PERIOD,
- 22:46 THE ZENITH OF EKRON
- 22:48 IN THE 7th CENTURY,
- 22:49 IT'S VERY HARD TO FIND
- 22:51 ANYTHING LEFT OVER
- 22:53 FROM THEIR ANCESTORS
- 22:55 THAT HAVE AN AEGEAN MOTIF,
- 22:58 OR AN AEGEAN THEME ABOUT THEM.
- 23:00 Zola: EGYPTIAN CULTURE WAS ALSO
- 23:02 REPRESENTED IN EKRON'S RUINS.
- 23:04 THIS MAGNIFICENT GOLDEN COBRA,
- 23:06 CALLED A "URAEUS",
- 23:09 ONCE ADORNED THE CROWN
- 23:10 OF AN EGYPTIAN PHARAOH.
- 23:11 ALSO UNEARTHED WAS WHAT
- 23:13 SEYMOUR BELIEVED TO BE
- 23:14 THEIR MOST IMPORTANT FIND,
- 23:16 A STONE INSCRIPTION
- 23:17 FROM EKRON'S TEMPLE COMPLEX.
- 23:19 Seymour: AND WHAT IT SAYS,
- 23:20 VERY BRIEFLY, IS THAT THIS IS
- 23:23 A "BET", A HOUSE OR A TEMPLE,
- 23:25 PERHAPS A SHRINE, BUILT,
- 23:28 "BINAH", BY ACHISH
- 23:30 WHOM WE IDENTIFY WITH IKAUSU
- 23:32 OF THE NEO-ASSYRIAN TEXT
- 23:34 WHO WAS THE SON OF PADI,
- 23:37 WHO IS THE SON OF SO AND SO,
- 23:38 AND SO AND SO, AND SO AND SO,
- 23:40 ALL OF THESE WONDERFUL NAMES,
- 23:42 AND THEN WE COME ACROSS
- 23:43 THE WORD "SAR" WHICH IS THE WORD
- 23:47 FOR KING, OR RULER OF EKRON.
- 23:53 THIS TEMPLE WAS BUILT
- 23:54 TO A GODDESS, HIS GODDESS,
- 23:57 THE GODDESS OF ACHISH OR IKAUSU
- 24:00 AND MAY THERE BE BLESSING
- 24:01 AND LONG LIFE, ETC.
- 24:03 NOW, WHY IS THIS INSCRIPTION
- 24:04 SO IMPORTANT?
- 24:06 ACTUALLY, IT'S THE FIRST TIME
- 24:08 AN INSCRIPTION HAS BEEN FOUND
- 24:10 IN PLACE "IN SITU,"
- 24:12 ON AN EXCAVATION,
- 24:13 IN WHICH THE DATE
- 24:15 IS NOT IN QUESTION.
- 24:16 THIS WAS FOUND IN
- 24:17 THE NEO-BABYLONIAN DESTRUCTION
- 24:19 OF 603 BCE.
- 24:21 THE DESTRUCTION CAUSED
- 24:22 BY THE KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
- 24:24 SO, WE HAVE AN INSCRIPTION
- 24:25 WHICH IS LIKE A SIGN POST.
- 24:27 IT SAYS AFTER 13 YEARS
- 24:28 OF EXCAVATION, ABSOLUTELY,
- 24:31 YOU WERE EXCAVATING EKRON.
- 24:33 Tom: SEYMOUR, WHAT HAPPENED
- 24:34 TO THE PHILISTINES
- 24:35 THAT HAD THIS CIVILIZATION?
- 24:37 Seymour: IN THE 7th CENTURY
- 24:38 WHEN THEY HAD THIS HUGE
- 24:39 INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX,
- 24:41 THIS GREAT CITY,
- 24:42 WHEN THEY REACHED THE ZENITH
- 24:43 OF ITS GROWTH,
- 24:45 ALL OF THESE FACTORS
- 24:46 OF OTHER COUNTRIES IMPACTED
- 24:48 SO HEAVILY THAT BY THE TIME
- 24:49 THE BABYLONIANS DESTROYED
- 24:51 THE CITY AND PHYSICALLY
- 24:52 REMOVED THE INHABITANTS
- 24:55 AND TOOK THEM EASTWARD
- 24:57 INTO BABYLON,
- 24:58 THAT THEY NO LONGER
- 24:59 HAD ANY CORE CULTURE LEFT
- 25:01 TO MAINTAIN THEMSELVES IN EXILE.
- 25:04 Tom: SO, THEY MORE OR LESS,
- 25:05 DISAPPEARED FROM THE FACE
- 25:07 OF HISTORY.
- 25:08 Seymour: WELL, WE DON'T HAVE
- 25:09 ANY EVIDENCE, ARCHAEOLOGICALLY
- 25:10 OR IN TERMS OF TEXT,
- 25:11 THAT IS SIGNIFICANT
- 25:12 THAT WOULD INDICATE
- 25:13 THAT THEY REALLY CONTINUE.
- 25:15 IT'S, MORE OR LESS, A PEOPLE
- 25:16 THAT DISAPPEARED LIKE
- 25:17 PERHAPS THE ANCIENT AMMONITES,
- 25:20 OR THE MOABITES,
- 25:21 OR THE EDOMITES,
- 25:23 LOST IN THE PAGES OF HISTORY.
- 25:34 (♪ Flute ♪)
- 25:56 Myles: I HOPE YOU'RE CATCHING
- 25:57 WHAT WE JUST SAW.
- 25:58 I MEAN, THAT IS SO INCREDIBLE
- 26:00 TO REALIZE THAT ALL THIS NOISE
- 26:01 THAT'S BEING MADE
- 26:02 ABOUT THE PHILISTINES
- 26:03 AND THE ARABIC PEOPLE
- 26:05 BEING DESCENDED
- 26:06 FROM THE PHILISTINES,
- 26:07 IT'S JUST MADE UP.
- 26:08 THE REALITY IS THAT
- 26:09 THE PHILISTINES
- 26:10 WERE FROM GREECE.
- 26:11 THEY WERE AN AEGEAN PEOPLE
- 26:12 THAT CAME HERE
- 26:13 AND THAT WERE WIPED OUT,
- 26:14 AND THERE'S NEVER REALLY
- 26:15 BEEN A CONNECTION
- 26:16 IN THE WAY THAT IT'S
- 26:17 BEING SAID POLITICALLY TODAY.
- 26:19 Katharine: ARAFAT USED
- 26:20 HIS OWN PEOPLE AS A PAWN.
- 26:21 Myles: IT'S REALLY SAD
- 26:22 BUT IT'S TRUE THAT THERE'S
- 26:24 BEEN THIS MISINFORMATION.
- 26:25 WE REALLY NEED TO KNOW
- 26:26 THE TRUTH.
- 26:27 WE REALLY NEED TO HEAR
- 26:28 THESE KINDS OF MESSAGES.
- 26:29 THAT'S WHY IT'S SO VALUABLE
- 26:30 THAT YOU'RE HELPING US
- 26:31 TO BRING THESE PROGRAMS,
- 26:33 ESPECIALLY IN THE DAY
- 26:34 IN WHICH WE ARE LIVING.
- 26:35 THERE'S SUCH DISINFORMATION
- 26:36 AND SUCH DEMONIZATION OF ISRAEL
- 26:38 AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
- 26:39 WE NEED REALITY
- 26:41 TO COME THROUGH THE MEDIA,
- 26:42 AND WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY
- 26:44 TO DO THIS WITH YOUR SUPPORT.
- 26:46 Katharine: AND, ALSO,
- 26:47 BY THIS RESOURCE THAT
- 26:49 WE OFFER YOU...
- 26:50 IT IS A BIBLE COURSE
- 26:52 AND IT IS "THE INSTITUTE
- 26:54 OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES'
- 26:57 AND IT IS AN IN-DEPTH STUDY
- 26:58 AND WHERE YOU CAN GET STARTED.
- 27:00 ZOLA AND JEFF BOTH TEACH ON THIS
- 27:01 AND I'VE LEARNED A LOT
- 27:03 FROM DIGGING INTO IT MYSELF
- 27:04 AND I KNOW YOU WILL TOO.
- 27:05 MYLES, YOU SAID A LOT;
- 27:07 THAT ISRAEL IS GOD'S TIMEPIECE.
- 27:10 AND IT WILL HELP US
- 27:11 TO UNDERSTAND THE SEASONS
- 27:12 THAT WE'RE IN.
- 27:13 AND IT WILL HELP US ALSO
- 27:14 TO UNDERSTAND WHAT GOD SAYS
- 27:17 ABOUT THE END-TIMES
- 27:18 AND HOW WE'RE CONNECTED WITH IT.
- 27:19 Myles: IT REALLY IS.
- 27:20 AND THIS IS SUCH
- 27:21 AN IN-DEPTH COURSE.
- 27:22 YOU CAN GET THIS A LITTLE BIT
- 27:23 AT A TIME OR
- 27:24 DO THE WHOLE COURSE.
- 27:25 YOU KNOW, I GRADUATED
- 27:26 FROM BIBLE COLLEGE
- 27:27 AND I HAVE A GRADUATE DEGREE
- 27:28 AND IT STILL IS
- 27:29 IMPRESSIVE TO ME.
- 27:31 THIS IS AN OLD TESTAMENT SURVEY,
- 27:32 NEW TESTAMENT SURVEY,
- 27:33 AND REALLY IS A DEEP STUDY
- 27:35 IN THE JEWISH ROOTS
- 27:37 OF YOUR FAITH
- 27:38 AND WE NEED THAT IN THESE DAYS
- 27:39 IN WHICH WE'RE LIVING.
- 27:41 AND SO...UNTIL WE SEE YOU AGAIN
- 27:43 WE ALWAYS WANT TO REMIND YOU,
- 27:45 SHAL'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
- 27:47 Katharine: PRAY FOR THE PEACE
- 27:48 OF JERUSALEM.
- 27:52 ♪ LORD GOD, CREATOR OF HEAVEN, ♪
- 27:59 ♪ LORD GOD, WE BRING FORTH YOUR PRAISES ♪
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