Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion you should be able to:

• Discuss the tasks of archaeology and relate them to interdisciplinary interaction with other physical and social sciences

• Present a picture of Galilean culture in the first half of the first century AD

• Describe the architectural typology of Jewish synagogues that prevailed for several centuries both before and in the Common Era

• Address the question of the literacy of Jesus and His disciples

• Describe traditional Jewish burial practices and relate them to descriptions of Jesus’ burial and resurrection in the Gospels

• Offer archaeological evidence that refutes popular theories that Jesus survived the crucifixion, did not rise from the dead, and was married and fathered children

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: The Tasks of Archaeology

• Recovery of Material Culture

• Studying Archaeology with The Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land

• Related Disciplines

• Contribution of Science

• Spectrometrical Analysis: An Example of Science Aiding Archaeology

• Other Enhancements and Analyses

• Important Excavation Sites

• Preview of Remaining Course Topics

Unit 2: Jesus and the Synagogues

• Jesus Visited the Synagogues

• Searching for Synagogue References in the New Testament

• But Were There Synagogues?

• The Capernaum Synagogue

• Have We Found Peter’s House?

• Gamla

• The Herodium

• Jericho

• Studying Jericho with Image Searching and the Bible Facts Report

• Jerusalem

• Magdala

• Masada

• Modi’in and Qiryat Sefer

• Nazareth and Sepphoris

• Researching the Theory that Jesus Was a Jewish Cynic

Unit 3: Books and Artifacts

• Book Culture and Literacy

• The Suffering Servant and Jesus

• Researching New Testament Quotes or Allusions to Isaiah

• The Qumran Scroll and the Leningrad Codex

• The Aramaic Targums

Unit 4: Pilate and Caiaphas

• The Caiaphas Ossuary

• Other High Priests and Miriam

• Finding and Exporting Images of Ossuaries

• Pontius Pilate

• Finding Pilate in the Writings of Josephus and Philo

• Procurator or Prefect?

Unit 5: Jewish Tombs and Burial Traditions

• The Importance of the Archaeology of Burial

• Jewish Burial Practices: Burial and Funeral

• Jewish Burial Practices: Ossilegium

• The Soul Departs Three Days after Death

• Resources for Studying Ancient Cultural Backgrounds

Unit 6: Jesus’ Death and Burial Compared with Jewish Burial Traditions

• Why Such Large Crowds Followed Jesus

• Whitewashed Tombs

• Let the Dead Bury Their Own Dead

• Researching Matthew 8:22 with the Passage Guide

• Lazarus

• Jesus is Anointed with Perfume

• Two Sites Are Claimed to Be Jesus’ Burial Place

• Studying Joseph of Arimathea with Bible Facts

• Jewish Piety Required Burial

• Did Pilate Permit the Burial of Jesus?

• Burial Restrictions for Executed Criminals

• The Death and Burial of Jesus

• The Talpiot Tomb Prompts Speculation

• Solving the Mystery of the Gable

• More Conclusions Concerning the Talpiot Tomb

Conclusion

• Summing Up the Course

Details

• Title: NT307 Archaeology and the New Testament

• Instructor: Craig A. Evans

• Publisher: Lexham Press

• Publication Date: 2015

• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education

• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources

• Courses: 1

• Video Hours: 5