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Join Amanda Hope Haley--Harvard-trained biblical archaeologist, whimsical storyteller, and sunscreen advocate--as she explores the archaeology of Israel and Egypt and learns how ancient objects and history impact our understandings of Scripture and each other.

The Red-Haired Archaeologist Amanda Hope Haley

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    • 4.8 • 24 Ratings

Join Amanda Hope Haley--Harvard-trained biblical archaeologist, whimsical storyteller, and sunscreen advocate--as she explores the archaeology of Israel and Egypt and learns how ancient objects and history impact our understandings of Scripture and each other.

    The Persian Reversal

    The Persian Reversal

    During this episode of the Red-Haired Archaeologist® Podcast, learn about the Neo-Babylonians’ defeat by the Persian Empire and how that changed all exiles’ lives; understand the differences between the terms “Hebrew,” “Israelite,” and “Jew”; and consider why Chronicles is critical to the re-development of Jerusalem in the 6th and 5th centuries.



    Episode links:

    Tablet from the Marushu Archive, Penn Museum: https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/372377

    “cylinder,” British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1880-0617-1941

    “Cyrus Cylinder,” Livius: https://www.livius.org/sources/content/cyrus-cylinder/

    Jackson Landers, “How a German Archaeologist Rediscovered in Iran the Tomb of Cyrus,” Smithsonian Magazine (16 Feb 2016): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-german-archaeologist-rediscovered-tomb-cyrus-180958142/

    “Bisotun,” UNESCO World Heritage Convention, https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1222/

    “naos; door,” British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA37496

    Living in Exile Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3JAfqQvQ8U3kk6rKpnGAGz?si=69d5d722ab4845e4



    Red-Haired Archaeologist® links:

    https://redhairedarchaeologist.com/free

    https://www.facebook.com/AmandaHopeHaley/

    https://www.instagram.com/redhairedarchaeologist/

    https://amandahopehaley.square.site/



    Learn more about my fabulous video editor, Tanya Yaremkiv, by visiting her website at ⁠https://tanyaremkiv.com⁠ and listening to her podcast, Through the Bible podcast with Tanya Yaremkiv. You can also follow her on Facebook and Instagram @tanyaremkiv.

    • 35 min
    Zedekiah and Nebuchadnezzar

    Zedekiah and Nebuchadnezzar

    During this episode of the Red-Haired Archaeologist® Podcast, learn how both Egypt and the Southern Kingdom fell to Nebuchadnezzar of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, what ancient documents help us to better understand the biblical narrative of ancient Israel’s fall, and where some traditions locate the Ark of the Covenant today.



    Episode links:

    “Why the brick lions that protected the streets of Babylon feel alive” The Met Museum, https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/videos/2013/10/babylonian-striding-lions-art-explained

    Tower of Babel Stele: https://www.schoyencollection.com/history-collection-introduction/babylonian-history-collection/tower-babel-stele-ms-2063

    The Mesopotamian Chronicles: https://www.livius.org/sources/about/mesopotamian-chronicles/

    The Lachish Letters at the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIB996

    Paul Raffaele, “Keepers of the Lost Ark? Christians in Ethiopia have long claimed to have the ark of the covenant” Smithsonian Magazine (December 2007): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/keepers-of-the-lost-ark-179998820/

    Amanda Hope Haley, “When Did We Lose the Ark?” https://redhairedarchaeologist.com/when-did-we-lose-the-ark-2/



    Red-Haired Archaeologist® links:

    https://redhairedarchaeologist.com/free

    https://www.facebook.com/AmandaHopeHaley/

    https://www.instagram.com/redhairedarchaeologist/

    https://amandahopehaley.square.site/



    Learn more about my fabulous video editor, Tanya Yaremkiv, by visiting her website at ⁠https://tanyaremkiv.com⁠ and listening to her podcast, Through the Bible podcast with Tanya Yaremkiv. You can also follow her on Facebook and Instagram @tanyaremkiv.

    • 32 min
    S4E11 trailer

    S4E11 trailer

    The Red-Haired Archaeologist® Podcast will return with the final 2 episodes of season 4 in January. Until then, connect with her and other listeners on the RHA social media pages at https://www.facebook.com/AmandaHopeHaley/ and https://www.instagram.com/redhairedarchaeologist/

    • 4 min
    Righteous Josiah

    Righteous Josiah

    During this episode of the Red-Haired Archaeologist® Podcast, learn about Josiah's religious reforms and military interactions. Consider what the "book of the law" looked like and contained, how the Neo-Assyrian Empire lost ground to the growing Neo-Babylonians, why Egypt flipped from friend to foe, and where the first (and last?) battle in recorded history was fought.



    Episode links:

    The Dead Sea Scrolls: https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-archive

    Ketef Hinnoam scroll: Jeremy D. Smoak, “Words Unseen,” Biblical Archaeology Review 44, no. 1 (2018): 52–59, 70; https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/article/words-unseen/

    “ABC 2 (early Years of Nabopolassar),” Livius.org, https://www.livius.org/sources/content/mesopotamian-chronicles-content/abc-2-early-years-of-nabopolassar/

    D. J. Wiseman, Chroicles of the Chaldean Kings (626-556 B.C.) in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1956), https://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20337.pdf

    “tablet, asset number 157679001,” British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1896-0409-152

    Tel Megiddo: https://en.parks.org.il/reserve-park/tel-megiddo-armageddon-national-park/



    Red-Haired Archaeologist® links:

    https://redhairedarchaeologist.com/free

    https://www.facebook.com/AmandaHopeHaley/

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    https://amandahopehaley.square.site/



    Learn more about my fabulous video editor, Tanya Yaremkiv, by visiting her website at ⁠https://tanyaremkiv.com⁠ and listening to her podcast, Through the Bible podcast with Tanya Yaremkiv. You can also follow her on Facebook and Instagram @tanyaremkiv.

    • 27 min
    The Troubles with Manasseh

    The Troubles with Manasseh

    During this episode of the Red-Haired Archaeologist® Podcast, learn about Hezekiah’s successor and son, Manasseh. Consider why a wicked man was allowed to be the longest-reigning monarch in ancient Israel, when and where the stories of his life were recorded, and how sibling rivalry may have been the beginning of the end of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.



    Episode links:

    Victory Stele of Esarhaddon: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/victory-stele-of-king-esarhaddon-unknown/VQEu-T-wE5Tf7w?hl=en

    Tel Lachish: https://www.parks.org.il/trip/lacish/

    Stone stele of Ashurbanipal (British Museum): https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1881-0324-367

    Stone stele of Shamash-shum-ukin (British Museum): https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1880-0617-3



    Red-Haired Archaeologist® links:

    https://redhairedarchaeologist.com/free

    https://www.facebook.com/AmandaHopeHaley/

    https://www.instagram.com/redhairedarchaeologist/

    https://amandahopehaley.square.site/



    Learn more about my fabulous video editor, Tanya Yaremkiv, by visiting her website at ⁠https://tanyaremkiv.com⁠ and listening to her podcast, Through the Bible podcast with Tanya Yaremkiv. You can also follow her on Facebook and Instagram @tanyaremkiv.

    • 18 min
    Hezekiah's Legacy

    Hezekiah's Legacy

    During this episode of the Red-Haired Archaeologist® Podcast, learn about one of the Southern Kingdom’s most righteous kings, Hezekiah. Understand what he did to restore right-worship of Israel’s God to his nation, why the mighty Neo-Assyrians didn’t conquer Jerusalem, and how his final actions foreshadowed Jerusalem’s future fall to the Neo-Babylonians.



    Episode links:

    Tel Beer Sheva National Park: https://en.parks.org.il/reserve-park/tel-beer-sheva-national-park/

    Tel Arad National Park: https://en.parks.org.il/reserve-park/tel-arad-national-park/

    “An Important Archaeological Discovery: A Gate-Shrine Dating to the First Temple Period was Exposed In Excavations of the Israel Antiquities Authority in the Tel Lachish National Park,” Israel Antiquities Authority: https://www.antiquities.org.il/article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4221

    Maarten van Heemskerck, “Jonah complaining under the gourd,” print by Philips Galle (1566): https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1937-0915-265

    Take a virtual tour of Sennacherib’s “Palace without Rival” at https://lachish.org/nineveh/, and then view the wall reliefs on the display at the British Museum at https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/galleries/assyria-nineveh

    Asset number 354010001: Gypsum wall panel relief: Sennacherib watches the capture of Lachish. He sits on a throne and watches as prisoners are brought before him and executed. A tent is behind him; there is a chariot in the foreground and bodyguards stationed around. The king's face has been deliberately damaged, perhaps at the fall of Nineveh in 612BC. The relief bears an inscription written in cuneiform script. © The Trustees of the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1856-0909-14_7

    “Hezekiah’s Tunnel Reexamined,” Bible History Daily (31 August 2023): https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/jerusalem/hezekiahs-tunnel-reexamined/

    “Timeline,” City of David: https://timeline.cityofdavid.org.il/period/iron-age-ii-first-temple-period/#term-39



    Red-Haired Archaeologist® links:

    https://redhairedarchaeologist.com/free

    https://www.facebook.com/AmandaHopeHaley/

    https://www.instagram.com/redhairedarchaeologist/

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    Learn more about my fabulous video editor, Tanya Yaremkiv, by visiting her website at ⁠https://tanyaremkiv.com⁠ and listening to her podcast, Through the Bible podcast with Tanya Yaremkiv. You can also follow her on Facebook and Instagram @tanyaremkiv

    • 26 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
24 Ratings

24 Ratings

brittersmc ,

Great and interesting listen

I found this podcast a few weeks ago and I love it! Biblical history is an interest of mine, and I appreciate the way history and archaeological info is shared in an easy to understand and fun format.

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