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    Beyond Indiana Jones: Getting at the Facts (Artifacts) Buried in the Bible Story. Vol. 2, Book 1
    Beyond Indiana Jones: Getting at the Facts (Artifacts) Buried in the Bible Story. Vol. 2, Book 1
    Beyond Indiana Jones: Getting at the Facts (Artifacts) Buried in the Bible Story. Vol. 2, Book 1
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    Beyond Indiana Jones: Getting at the Facts (Artifacts) Buried in the Bible Story. Vol. 2, Book 1

    By Neal Bierling

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    in the movie raiders of the lost ark, indiana jones went to tanis, egypt, a city located in the biblical goshen, looking to find there the ark of the covenant. This volume begins by showing how tanis and its history fit the biblical story. the tanis story has remained largely untold because the archeological discoveries there in 1939 came to light as hitler was beginning his march across europe.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNeal Bierling
    Release dateAug 28, 2013
    ISBN9780989214841
    Beyond Indiana Jones: Getting at the Facts (Artifacts) Buried in the Bible Story. Vol. 2, Book 1
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    Neal Bierling

    Archaeological Biography:Neal Bierling, a Dutch immigrant to the USA and a Calvin College graduate, began his archaeological dig adventures back in 1972 at Tel Gezer in Israel at the invitation of Bill Dever. The director of the dig was Joe Seger. Neal joined Gezer's supervisory staff under Sy Gitin in 1973 and received graduate credit through Jerusalem’s Hebrew Union College. Neal followed up his fieldwork with graduate school at the University of Michigan (M.A. in Near Eastern Studies [Archaeology]). He received additional academic credit from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1981, Neal was an assistant to Field Archaeologist Adam Zertal in the Gate with the Letters Room at Tel Lachish, a site directed by Tel Aviv University's David Ussishkin. Neal then joined Tel Miqne-Ekron's field staff for its initial summer season in 1984 and rose to an Associate Field Archaeologist position by 1996. He worked with the co-directors Sy Gitin and Trude Dothan. Due to his work at Ekron, Neal was able to publish the excavation's Volume VII, the report of finds in Field X (Eisenbrauns). It was during the 1996 season that a lengthy inscription was uncovered, which confirmed that Tel Miqne-Ekron was the Old Testament (Late Bronze and Iron Age) Philistine site of Ekron. After Ekron, Neal began working at Petra, Jordan (Patricia Bikai, Director), which is Jordan's most intriguing and exotic site. Petra had been home to Edom (named after the biblical Esau), followed in turn by the Nabataeans. The biblical figure (Saint) Paul may have visited (and preached at) Petra. In the late 1980s, ‘Indiana Jones’ visited Petra. Artifacts from Neal’s involvement with the Petra Blue Chapel Project were included for a nine-month exhibit at New York’s Museum of Natural History (to July ’04) after which the Petra Exhibit traveled to Cincinnati (in Sept ’04). Neal was able to get the Petra Exhibit to his current hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan (in April ’05). The exhibit went to two locations in Canada in 2006. The exhibit was entitled Petra: Lost City of Stone. Calvin College hired Neal to be their director of student educational programming and consultant for the Petra Exhibit.The Roman fortress at Yotvata, Israel was the archaeological project Neal joined (Jodi Magness, Gwyn Davies, and Uzi Avner were Co-directors) in 2003 and 2004. It was a new excavation in the Arabah south of the Dead Sea and just north of Eilat. Neal was an archaeologist there as well as photographer. Yotvata is in the Arava, south of the Dead Sea and north of Eilat and in view from high locations in Petra. It appears that Yotvata has a Nabataean history but deeper excavating will be required to recover this period.Neal joined up with the Tel Zeitah Excavations directed by Ron Tappy as a staff archaeologist for 2007. It is an ancient site located between Lachish and Tel es Safi (Gath) at a crossroads linking Egypt and Philistia with the Judean hills and Jerusalem. In 2008 and 2009, Neal was a staff archaeologist for Oded Borowski at Tel Halif near Lahav, Israel. At both sites, Neal was also the tour guide for the students taking them throughout Israel. Neal joined the Idalion Excavation, directed by Pam Gaber, Lycoming College, on Cyprus in 2011 as a staff archaeologist and photographer and returned there in 2012 in the same capacities.Thanks to his archaeological background and that Neal is an educator, he was able to help coordinate (and co-write) an Old and New Testament Bible curriculum (3 volumes, 1989, 2nd ed. 1998) for Christian Schools International (CSI) in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Also for CSI and the Bible curriculum, Neal, and his son, Joel produced a video series (3 videos, 1997) and a CD-ROM series (4 CDs, 2000) on archaeology and the Bible incorporating many of their pictures. Neal's earlier volume on the Philistines was entitled Giving Goliath His Due, 1992. His latest volume on the Philistines and the Bible was published late summer 2002. Neal worked with ABC affiliate TV 13 and the Grand Rapids (MI) Van Andel Museum Center on the Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit, which opened to the public on February 16, 2003. Neal and Joel produced a CD-ROM on Middle Eastern Archaeology (with a focus on Qumran and the scrolls) for the exhibit and their photography of Qumran was displayed as part of the exhibit. Neal signed on as a lecturer for Grand Rapids Van Andel Museum Center’s 2006 exhibit: Treasures of Ancient Egypt, the Quest for Immortality. Some of Neal and Joel’s photography was also part of the exhibit.Neal and Joel in 1995 formed a company PhoenixDataSystems.com dedicated to Middle Eastern Archaeology and e-Media Publishing. They have traveled throughout the Middle East via foot, 4-wheeled-drive vehicles, camels, helicopters, and a hot-air balloon, in order to photograph archaeological sites. A recent publication project for Neal and Joel includes Explore Petra: Lost City of Stone, a PanoReality Virtual Tour (2006 DVD), which was used at the Petra: Lost City of Stone Exhibit in Cincinnati, Grand Rapids, at the Canada venues, and now in Jordan for the Petra National Trust. Neal and Joel produced a Virtual Tour of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls for the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA), 2012. Since 1985 and through July 2009, Neal has guided numerous tourists and archaeological students to tour Middle Eastern countries. In the summer of 2012, Neal and Professor (emeritus) Bill Dever traveled to archaeological sites in Israel and Jordan visiting with dig directors. Neal photographed and took video of the visits.Neal’s most current publication is Beyond Indiana Jones: Getting at the Facts (Artifacts) Buried in the Bible Story. Volume One was published in March 2013 in a Kindle format. Volume Two, the current volume, came out in July 2013. The plan is to publish these two volumes out in paperback before working on Volume Three and following for Kindle.

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      Beyond Indiana Jones - Neal Bierling

      Inside a tomb at Tanis, Indy’s destination in Raiders of the Lost Ark

      There, Indy made a comment I hate snakes.

      Beyond Indiana Jones, Volume Two

      Book 1

      Getting at the Facts (Artifacts) Buried in the Bible Story

      Indiana Jones at Tanis (Egypt)

      Copyright @ 2013 by Neal Bierling

      All rights reserved

      Published by Kornelis Publishing, Neal Bierling, and Phoenix Data Systems

      Smashwords Edition

      Cover Photo by Joel Bierling @ 2013

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without written permission from Neal Bierling, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages for review purposes.

      ISBN: 978-0-9892148-4-1

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      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Archaeologist and Photographer Neal Bierling on the job at Petra

      overlooking the Khazneh.

      Table of Contents [Volume two, Books 1 - 10]

      Preface

      Acknowledgements

      Tanis, Well Known to Many in Ancient Israel and Later to Indiana Jones

      My Descent into Hades at Hierapolis, Sacred City

      Petra: What Did Indiana Jones Actually See?

      Malta: An Island Made Famous by a Shipwreck and a Slithery Snake.

      Palmyra, Syria: A City of Palms and Known to Solomon?

      Antioch: The Followers of Jesus Were First Called Christians Here

      In Addition, the Holy Grail Was Here

      Stones of Jerusalem: The City of David and His Successors, Part One.

      Byblos (Lebanon): The Ancient Pharaohs, David, and Solomon Valued It.

      Troy, Hector’s City known to Achilles, Alexander, Augustus (and Brad Pitt)

      Qumran, Part I, The Setting: How Jews Survived at the Site, and a Summary of What Was Found There.

      Conclusion

      Bibliography

      Author’s archaeological biography

      Preface

      Beyond Indiana Jones:

      What Does Indy Have to Do With Tanis (Egypt)?

      Indiana Jones—Hollywood films about this swashbuckling if hypothetical archaeologist are well known in many homes. The first three of the Indiana Jones movies are now several years old, yet they are still referred to in public gatherings and used by me as I continue

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