Videos and Lectures

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Excavations at Kiriath-Jearim and the Ark of the Covenant (2020)

Movie in Hebrew – Click Here
Movie in French – Click Here

The Shmunis Family Conversations in The Archaeology and History of Ancient Israel
Interviews with Matthew J. Adams (2020-2021)

– Episode One: Bible and Archaeology, The View from the Center
– Episode Two: The Bronze Age, The Land Before Israel
– Episode Three: The Crisis Years, The End of the Late Bronze Age
– Episode Four: The Rise of Ancient Israel in the Highlands
– Episode Five: The First Israel
– Episode Six: The Conquest of Canaan
– Episode Seven: The Early Philistines
– Episode Eight: The Philistines in the Bible
– Episode Nine: A United Monarchy?
– Episode Ten: King Saul
– Episode Eleven: The Earliest David
– Episode Twelve: The Later Layers of the David Story
– Episode Thirteen: Solomon, King of Globalization
– Episode Fourteen: Writing in Ancient Israel
– Episode Fifteen: Jerusalem in Biblical Times
– Episode Sixteen: The Northern Kingdom, the First 50 Years
– Episode Seventeen: The Omrides
– Episode Eighteen: Israel in the Days of Jeroboam II
– Episode Nineteen: The Patriarchs: The Jacob Cycle
– Episode Twenty: The Many Layers in the Exodus Tradition
– Episode Twenty-one: Heroic Stories in the Book of Judges
– Episode Twenty-two: Kiriath-Jearim and the Ark Narrative
– Episode Twenty –three: Late Monarchic Judah
– Episode Twenty-four: The Deuteronomistic History and Archaeology
– Episode Twenty-five: Persian and Early Hellenistic Jerusalem
– Episode Twenty-six: Late Biblical Historiography: Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles

Bible and Archaeology Discussions
with Finkelstein & Römer (2020)

Episode 1 – Khirbet Qeiyafa
Episode 2 – The Lost Ark
Episode 3 – King Solomon & Megiddo
Episode 4 – Armageddon & Megiddo

A Journey to Early Israel (Hebrew)
Interviews with Alex Tseitlin (2019-2021)

פרק 1 – מה היה כאן לפנינו
פרק 2- המשבר הגדול
פרק 3- כיבוש הארץ
פרק 4- ראשית ישראל
פרק 5- שופטים
פרק 6- שילה
פרק 7- ממלכת הזוהר
פרק 7א- תגובת הנגד
פרק 8- שאול
פרק 9 – דוד
פרק 10 – שלמה
פרק 11 – ירושלים
פרק 12 – מסע שישק
פרק 13 – הפלישתים
פרק 14- הפלישתים במקרא
פרק 15- כושר הכתיבה: חלק א
פרק 16- כושר הכתיבה: חלק ב
פרק 17- מדבריות הדרום
פרק 18 – ממלכת ישראל : 50 השנים הראשונות

The Movie:
The Bible Unearthed (2005)

Part 1 – Patriarchs and Exodus
Part 2- Kings and The Book

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Interview at Beit Avichai about Exodus (Hebrew, 2021)

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Interview at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Hebrew, 2020)

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Interviews at Metodista University in San Paolo (English)

Click here to play the Interviews from 2015
Click here to play the Interview from 2109

Lectures at Theologische Fakultät der Universität Zürich
(Hebrew, 2018)

– Hasmonean Realities behind Ezra, Nehemiah and Chronicles? The Archeological Perspective (Link)
– Archaeology and the Exact and Life Sciences: The Negev Highlands as a Case Study (Link)
– Comments on Iron Age Megiddo with Implications for the History of the Northern Kingdom (Link)

Interview for the European Association, (2018)

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Interviews at SBL Bible Odysey (2017)

Part 1 – Archaeology and Dating
Part 2 – Ancient Climate
Part 3 – Innovation in Archaeology
Part 4 – Israelite Origins

An Interview in Tel Aviv University
(Hebrew, 2012)

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Part 2: (Click here)

Interviews on Matters of Archaeology and History of Ancient Israel (2008)

Part 1 – Jerusalem in the Bronze Age
part 3 – The late 9th century BC
Part 4 – Archaeological Dating
Part 5 – Period of Great Prosperity
Part 6 – Aspects of messianism
Part 7 – Decline of Jerusalem in the Persian Period