"It's the first squeeze, which was probably the real top quality. I assume when the temple existed not far away, that went as a dedication to the temple—thank you, God, for giving me the abundance of what I have now."Â
"This is not mythology. The coins that we excavated today—we're talking about coins of Herod the Great, Pontius Pilate, Thestos, Felix, Agrippa the First, Agrippa the Second. The Bible talks about these people. We've got the image right here."
Some form of catastrophe 3,700 years ago brought this to a sudden end, wiping out all of the estimated 40,000 to 65,000 people who inhabited the area at the time.
"The excessive skepticism of many liberal theologians stems not from a careful evaluation of the available data, but from an enormous predisposition against the supernatural."