Did Archaeology Confirm Luke-Acts? The House of Annas, James, and the Early Church
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This episode explores the significance of a first-century ossuary and its implications for understanding the early church and its political context.
Send us Fan Mail What does a first-century ossuary reveal about Jesus, the apostles, James, and the political world of the early church? In this episode of Modern Mind, Ancient Book, we explore the ossuary of Yehoḥanah—granddaughter of Theophilus the high priest—and what this remarkable artifact reveals about the priestly dynasty of Annas, Caiaphas, and the Jerusalem power structure surrounding the rise of Christianity. Using archaeology, Josephus, Luke-Acts, and Second Temple history, we e...
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