Digging for Truth Podcast

About Digging for Truth Podcast

A journey of truth discovery, featuring archaeology and biblical research. Hosted by Henry B. Smith Jr. Henry Smith is the Administrative Director of the archaeological dig at Shiloh, Israel. Previously Smith has served at the Khirbet el-Maqatir Excavations, and has volunteered at the Hazor Excavations. Smith has an MAR, emphasizing apologetics and Biblical languages, and is a PhD student in Old Testament Biblical studies.

Publisher

Associates for Biblical Research

Category

history · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Sept 2022

Latest episode

23 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 69 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   23 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   67 Digging in a Sacred Bone Deposit (Guest: Jordan McClinton)

   What happens to the bones after animals have been offered as a sacrifice? Do you just put them with the regular trash? or some place special, because they had been an offering? Archaeologist Jordan McClinton is the area supervisor for the favissa, or sacred deposit, of the dig site at Shiloh, which was the capital of Israel for over 300 years, and was where the tabernacle and sacrificial system was located. He joins Henry to talk about some of the discoveries that ABR has made in this deposit since they have been digging there. Digging Up Sacred Trash (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy8LyUeCjns) - Digging for Truth TV DigShiloh.org (http://digshiloh.org) - Sign up to dig at Shiloh

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   21 Mar 2026

   66 The Easter Story is History (Guests: Bryan Windle & Tommy Chamberlin)

   Archaeologists Bryan Windle and Tommy Chamberlin join Henry to discuss the archaeology and historical sources that are related to the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus in the first century AD. New Research on the Anatomy of Crucifixion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlw0Ghqejp8) - Digging for Truth TV Which is the Right Tomb of Jesus? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRlfKjlB1_Q) - Digging for Truth TV

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   16 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   65 Josephus and Jesus (Guest: Dr. Thomas Schmidt)

   The first century historian Josephus writes a paragraph about Jesus known as the Testimonium Flavianum. New Testament scholar, Dr. Thomas Schmidt, has researched this particular passage, and also researched the life of Josephus, and joins Henry to talk all about it and his new book "Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ" JosepusAndJesus.com (https://josephusandjesus.com/) Dr. Schmidt on Digging for Truth TV (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE9C7eU-kuw) TCSchmidt.com (https://tcschmidt.com/)

Inside a recent episode

67 Digging in a Sacred Bone Deposit (Guest: Jordan McClinton)

Published 23 Apr 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] That's kind of the distinction that we refer to it on the site. But it is a sacrificial bone deposit or what we might call a favisa. This is kind of the word or the phrase that this area is referred to. And so we've been excavating there since 2022, or our team has. And we've uncovered a lot of very interesting things. And this is, again, this is what the area that I have been focused on for my dissertation. So my entire research thesis is the description and the analysis of this project. bone Favisa. So that's kind of, I guess, high level what the area that I've been working in. And so really, the questions are, what is it? […]

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