AR151 Archaeology in Action: Jesus and Archaeology
Overview
Join distinguished professor Dr. Craig A. Evans on a journey to some of the most significant New Testament archaeological sites. Filmed on-site in Israel’s Galilee region, Dead Sea region, and Jerusalem, this course will give you insight into first-century socioeconomic life and will help you grasp the historical and biblical context of Jesus’ ministry. As the course takes you through cities and other locations around the Sea of Galilee, you’ll learn where Jesus and his disciples walked and lived, including Capernaum, the headquarters of Jesus’ Galilean ministry. Discover how the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls reveal how deeply rooted in the Old Testament the early Christian movement was, and hear how these texts have been preserved for future generations. Explore burial practices and evidence of crucifixion in the first century in Jerusalem.
Top Highlights
“The theory was very simple: that perhaps the Sea of Galilee was in fact larger in antiquity.” (source)
“Excavations at other sites—some only a block or so away—have given us indications that the people of Nazareth were not poor. And so we should, I think, get out of our minds this sentimental, popular view that people in Galilee and villages like Nazareth grew up in a grinding poverty, place-bound, rustic isolation, and that sort of thing. There’s actual archaeological evidence of a measure of affluence.” (source)
“What this text, 4Q521, shows is that Jesus Himself had messianic expectation. He knew perfectly well what He was doing. He was doing the tasks of the Messiah.” (source)
“The other thing it shows to us—and I think this is of great value too—is it refutes the idea that Christians regarding Jesus as the Son of God, Son of the most high, great, and so on, ruling forever, is some kind of an appropriation from Graeco-Roman ideas about their emperors, their kings, or whatever.” (source)
“He goes on to say that there’s this figure coming, who, in the midst of strife, wars, nations fighting nations, someone will come. He will be called ‘Son of God,’ ‘son of the Most High.’ He will be great and He will rule forever.” (source)
- Title: AR151 Archaeology in Action: Jesus and Archaeology
- Author: Craig A. Evans
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2017
- Logos Release Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Bible › Antiquities; Education › Bible--Antiquities; Education › Excavations (Archaeology)--Israel; Education › Israel--Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology) › Israel; Israel › Antiquities
- Resource ID: LLS:AR151EVANS
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2019-06-20T22:14:31Z
Craig A. Evans earned his PhD in biblical studies at Claremont Graduate University and received his decretum habilitationis from Budapest. He is Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament; Acadia Divinity College Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada; John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins (Houston Theological Seminary); a New Testament scholar; and a prolific author and popular teacher/speaker.
Evans is well-known for his work on the Gospels, the Historical Jesus, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the archaeology of the New Testament. His passion for archaeology has him frequently participating in Middle East digs and leading Holy Land tours. He has regularly appeared in television and radio interviews, such as the History Channel, BBC, and Dateline NBC, served as a consultant on the National Geographic Society's Gospel of Judas project and for The Bible television miniseries, and is featured in documentaries like Fragments of Truth and the Archaeology and Jesus series.
He's written hundreds of articles and reviews and published more than 70 books, including Jesus and His Contemporaries, Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies, Mark in the Word Biblical Commentary, Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels, God Speaks, and Jesus and the Remains of His Days: Studies in Jesus and Archaeology. He coauthored Jesus, the Final Days with N. T. Wright.