With a history stretching back over 3,000 years, the Holy Land (in and around modern-day Israel) is a sacred land for three major faiths and the setting for defining events in religious history. It is filled with physical evidence of these events that has only been revealed during the last 200 years. With the information uncovered at various sites, archaeologists have shed new light on our understanding of this area’s history, in some cases, clarifying what we already knew; in other cases, radically reshaping our views. Delivered by archaeologist and award-winning Professor Jodi Magness of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who has spent her career excavating at sites in and around Israel, these video lectures give you an insider’s look at how archaeology helps us encounter firsthand life during this formative period of human civilization. And it’s a chance to get up close and personal with long-buried objects that will take you deep beneath the pages of the Bible. This series is divided into 3 sections of 12 30-minute lectures each, in chronological order. We’ll begin with the first section, showing 3 lectures per week for 4 weeks, and then decide whether to continue or take a break!