Dr. Kenneth Hanson
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Biblical Archaeology Audio Podcast with Jerusalem Jones AKA Dr. Kenneth Hanson.The Land of Israel is not just the “Holy Land.” It’s an archaeological mine field, full of contentious debates and controversies that touch the core of faith and identity, across religious and cultural divides. The Bible itself is at stake, along with the events it describes, from Abraham the patriarch, to Moses, to King David, to the days of the Roman empire and beyond. How much is what we might call “history,” and what does the spade of the archaeologist reveal about the timeless characters who occupy the pages of H...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Hansen makes biblical archaeology vivid while keeping rival interpretations and the limits of physical evidence clearly in view.
Dr. Ken Hansen treats biblical archaeology as an argument conducted through ruins, inscriptions, scrolls and competing reconstructions of the past.
A lost goat and a broken jar lead you into Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship with theatrical flair.
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Masada becomes a fortress, a mystery, and a place where evidence keeps testing legend.
Masada is framed as both ruin and record: the western shore of the Dead Sea, the wilderness of Judea, Herod's building program, the revolt against Rome, the mikva'ot, the synagogue, and the scroll fragments are all drawn into one archaeological case. The strongest thread is Dr.
Herod's legacy is traced in stone, coin, and ruin, with enough momentum to keep the history moving.
This episode treats Herod as more than a name in history and instead frames him through the stonework of power: border fortresses, the Temple Mount compound, the Western Wall, and the Great Revolt all sit inside one connected story. Dr.
A careful, dramatic account of the Dead Sea Scrolls that treats evidence and controversy as inseparable.
The episode turns a desert goat, a broken jar, and a chain of scholarship into a clear account of evidence, dispute, and historical stakes. Dr.
A restrained, argument-focused look at Qumran that treats the ruins as disputed evidence and leaves the larger question open.
Qumran is presented as a place whose meaning is still argued over, not neatly fixed. Dr. Ken Hansen traces Father Roland de Vaux's six-year excavation under Jordanian supervision and then turns to the long dispute over whether the ruins were a monastery, a villa, a fortress, or…
Vatican news with institutional memory.
Islamic argument in the public square.
Survivor stories after religious exile.
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Bethlehem of Galilee offers a closer birthplace candidate, supported by first-century stone vessels and utensils.
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This episode narrates the 1947 discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls by a Bedouin boy in the Judean wilderness, tracing their journey through antiquities dealers, scholars like E.L.
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