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By Amanda Hope Haley
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The podcast currently has 48 episodes available.
Amanda is hard at work perfecting her next book, which will release on Tuesday, September 23, 2025, from Revell (a division of Baker Publishing Group). Season 5 of the Red-Haired Archaeologist® Podcast will release in early 2025, but in the meantime, you can continue to connect with her through social media, the RHA® website, and her monthly email, the First Friday Freebie!
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Website: https://redhairedarchaeologist.com/
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Learn more about my fabulous video editor, Tanya Yaremkiv, by visiting her website at https://tanyaremkiv.com and listening to her podcast, Through the Bible podcast with Tanya Yaremkiv. You can also follow her on Facebook and Instagram @tanyaremkiv.
During this episode of the Red-Haired Archaeologist® Podcast, learn about the Neo-Babylonians’ defeat by the Persian Empire and how that changed all exiles’ lives; understand the differences between the terms “Hebrew,” “Israelite,” and “Jew”; and consider why Chronicles is critical to the re-development of Jerusalem in the 6th and 5th centuries.
Episode links:
Tablet from the Marushu Archive, Penn Museum: https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/372377
“cylinder,” British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1880-0617-1941
“Cyrus Cylinder,” Livius: https://www.livius.org/sources/content/cyrus-cylinder/
Jackson Landers, “How a German Archaeologist Rediscovered in Iran the Tomb of Cyrus,” Smithsonian Magazine (16 Feb 2016): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-german-archaeologist-rediscovered-tomb-cyrus-180958142/
“Bisotun,” UNESCO World Heritage Convention, https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1222/
“naos; door,” British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA37496
Living in Exile Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3JAfqQvQ8U3kk6rKpnGAGz?si=69d5d722ab4845e4
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Learn more about my fabulous video editor, Tanya Yaremkiv, by visiting her website at https://tanyaremkiv.com and listening to her podcast, Through the Bible podcast with Tanya Yaremkiv. You can also follow her on Facebook and Instagram @tanyaremkiv.
During this episode of the Red-Haired Archaeologist® Podcast, learn how both Egypt and the Southern Kingdom fell to Nebuchadnezzar of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, what ancient documents help us to better understand the biblical narrative of ancient Israel’s fall, and where some traditions locate the Ark of the Covenant today.
Episode links:
“Why the brick lions that protected the streets of Babylon feel alive” The Met Museum, https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/videos/2013/10/babylonian-striding-lions-art-explained
Tower of Babel Stele: https://www.schoyencollection.com/history-collection-introduction/babylonian-history-collection/tower-babel-stele-ms-2063
The Mesopotamian Chronicles: https://www.livius.org/sources/about/mesopotamian-chronicles/
The Lachish Letters at the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIB996
Paul Raffaele, “Keepers of the Lost Ark? Christians in Ethiopia have long claimed to have the ark of the covenant” Smithsonian Magazine (December 2007): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/keepers-of-the-lost-ark-179998820/
Amanda Hope Haley, “When Did We Lose the Ark?” https://redhairedarchaeologist.com/when-did-we-lose-the-ark-2/
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Learn more about my fabulous video editor, Tanya Yaremkiv, by visiting her website at https://tanyaremkiv.com and listening to her podcast, Through the Bible podcast with Tanya Yaremkiv. You can also follow her on Facebook and Instagram @tanyaremkiv.
During this episode of the Red-Haired Archaeologist® Podcast, learn about Josiah's religious reforms and military interactions. Consider what the "book of the law" looked like and contained, how the Neo-Assyrian Empire lost ground to the growing Neo-Babylonians, why Egypt flipped from friend to foe, and where the first (and last?) battle in recorded history was fought.
Episode links:
The Dead Sea Scrolls: https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-archive
Ketef Hinnoam scroll: Jeremy D. Smoak, “Words Unseen,” Biblical Archaeology Review 44, no. 1 (2018): 52–59, 70; https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/article/words-unseen/
“ABC 2 (early Years of Nabopolassar),” Livius.org, https://www.livius.org/sources/content/mesopotamian-chronicles-content/abc-2-early-years-of-nabopolassar/
D. J. Wiseman, Chroicles of the Chaldean Kings (626-556 B.C.) in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1956), https://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20337.pdf
“tablet, asset number 157679001,” British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1896-0409-152
Tel Megiddo: https://en.parks.org.il/reserve-park/tel-megiddo-armageddon-national-park/
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Learn more about my fabulous video editor, Tanya Yaremkiv, by visiting her website at https://tanyaremkiv.com and listening to her podcast, Through the Bible podcast with Tanya Yaremkiv. You can also follow her on Facebook and Instagram @tanyaremkiv.
During this episode of the Red-Haired Archaeologist® Podcast, learn about Hezekiah’s successor and son, Manasseh. Consider why a wicked man was allowed to be the longest-reigning monarch in ancient Israel, when and where the stories of his life were recorded, and how sibling rivalry may have been the beginning of the end of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
Episode links:
Victory Stele of Esarhaddon: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/victory-stele-of-king-esarhaddon-unknown/VQEu-T-wE5Tf7w?hl=en
Tel Lachish: https://www.parks.org.il/trip/lacish/
Stone stele of Ashurbanipal (British Museum): https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1881-0324-367
Stone stele of Shamash-shum-ukin (British Museum): https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1880-0617-3
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Learn more about my fabulous video editor, Tanya Yaremkiv, by visiting her website at https://tanyaremkiv.com and listening to her podcast, Through the Bible podcast with Tanya Yaremkiv. You can also follow her on Facebook and Instagram @tanyaremkiv.
During this episode of the Red-Haired Archaeologist® Podcast, learn about one of the Southern Kingdom’s most righteous kings, Hezekiah. Understand what he did to restore right-worship of Israel’s God to his nation, why the mighty Neo-Assyrians didn’t conquer Jerusalem, and how his final actions foreshadowed Jerusalem’s future fall to the Neo-Babylonians.
Episode links:
Tel Beer Sheva National Park: https://en.parks.org.il/reserve-park/tel-beer-sheva-national-park/
Tel Arad National Park: https://en.parks.org.il/reserve-park/tel-arad-national-park/
“An Important Archaeological Discovery: A Gate-Shrine Dating to the First Temple Period was Exposed In Excavations of the Israel Antiquities Authority in the Tel Lachish National Park,” Israel Antiquities Authority: https://www.antiquities.org.il/article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4221
Maarten van Heemskerck, “Jonah complaining under the gourd,” print by Philips Galle (1566): https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1937-0915-265
Take a virtual tour of Sennacherib’s “Palace without Rival” at https://lachish.org/nineveh/, and then view the wall reliefs on the display at the British Museum at https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/galleries/assyria-nineveh
Asset number 354010001: Gypsum wall panel relief: Sennacherib watches the capture of Lachish. He sits on a throne and watches as prisoners are brought before him and executed. A tent is behind him; there is a chariot in the foreground and bodyguards stationed around. The king's face has been deliberately damaged, perhaps at the fall of Nineveh in 612BC. The relief bears an inscription written in cuneiform script. © The Trustees of the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1856-0909-14_7
“Hezekiah’s Tunnel Reexamined,” Bible History Daily (31 August 2023): https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/jerusalem/hezekiahs-tunnel-reexamined/
“Timeline,” City of David: https://timeline.cityofdavid.org.il/period/iron-age-ii-first-temple-period/#term-39
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Learn more about my fabulous video editor, Tanya Yaremkiv, by visiting her website at https://tanyaremkiv.com and listening to her podcast, Through the Bible podcast with Tanya Yaremkiv. You can also follow her on Facebook and Instagram @tanyaremkiv
During this episode of the Red-Haired Archaeologist® Podcast, learn about the collapse of the Northern Kingdom to the Neo-Assyrians. Understand why the conquerors are “neo,” where the “lost tribes of Israel” went, and how the Samaritans’ culture developed.
Episode links:
“House of David“ inscribed on a victory stele, (now at the Israel Museum): https://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/371407-0
Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1848-1104-1
“Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat),” UNESCO World Heritage Convention, https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1130/
Timeline of Nimrud Excavations: http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/nimrud/index.html
Marcia Biggs, “Reduced to rubble by ISIS, archaeologists see a new day for ancient city of Nimrud,” PBS News Hour (12 April 2017): https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/reduced-rubble-isis-archaeologists-see-new-day-ancient-city-nimrud
Relief of Tiglath-Pileser III from Nimrud’s Central Palace (now at the British Museum): https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1856-0909-61
“Sargon II - The Ashur Charter," from the Library of Ashurbanipal (now at the British Museum): https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_K-1349
Red-Haired Archaeologist® links:
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https://www.facebook.com/AmandaHopeHaley/
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Learn more about my fabulous video editor, Tanya Yaremkiv, by visiting her website at https://tanyaremkiv.com and listening to her podcast, Through the Bible podcast with Tanya Yaremkiv. You can also follow her on Facebook and Instagram @tanyaremkiv
During this episode of the Red-Haired Archaeologist® Podcast, learn about the Northern Kingdom’s most infamous king and queen: Ahab and Jezebel. Find out where Samaria’s capital city was built, how Phoenician religion and trade affected the nation, and why we think of Jezebel as a seductress instead of a powerful politician.
Episode links:
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Elijah meeting Ahab and Jezebel in Naboth's vineyard," New York Public Library Digital Collections: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e4-5d8f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Jude Flurry, “Samaria Ivories — Proof of the Bible?” Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology: https://armstronginstitute.org/394-samaria-ivories-proof-of-the-bible
John Byam Liston Shaw (1872–1919), “Jezebel,” https://russellcotes.com/collection-piece/jezebel/
The Sidon Excavation: http://www.sidonexcavation.com/sidon-the-city/
“Furniture inlay: Woman at the Window,” IAA 1933-2578, Israel Museum: https://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/365182-0
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Learn more about my fabulous video editor, Tanya Yaremkiv, by visiting her website at https://tanyaremkiv.com and listening to her podcast, Through the Bible podcast with Tanya Yaremkiv. You can also follow her on Facebook and Instagram @tanyaremkiv.
During this episode of the Red-Haired Archaeologist® Podcast, learn what caused the ancient United Kingdom of Israel to split into the North and the South, why religion impacted that action, where the Northern tribes attempted to worship God, and how Israel’s dead were buried.
Episode links:
“Two Riddles of the Queen of Sheba,” tapestry from Strasbourg, Germany (ca. 1490-1500), Metropolitan Museum of Art, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/465954
J. Gordon Edwards, dir., The Queen of Sheba (1921; Hollywood, CA, Fox Film Corp.), https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/499794/the-queen-of-sheba/#synopsis
Dalia Karpel, “The Little Match Girl,” Haaretz (31 May 2006): https://www.haaretz.com/2006-05-31/ty-article/the-little-match-girl/0000017f-e994-d62c-a1ff-fdff89f50000
Tel Maresha https://en.parks.org.il/reserve-park/bet-guvrin-national-park/
Matti Friedman, “Oded Golan is not guilty of forgery. So is the ‘James ossuary’ for real?” Times of Israel (14 March 2012): https://www.timesofisrael.com/oded-golan-is-not-guilty-of-forgery-so-is-the-james-ossuary-for-real/
Tel Dan https://en.parks.org.il/reserve-park/tel-dan-nature-reserve/
Philippe Bohstrom, “Israelites in Biblical Dan Worshipped Idols – and Yahweh Too, Archaeologists Discover,” Haaretz (31 October 2018): https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2018-10-31/ty-article-magazine/.premium/israelites-in-biblical-dan-worshipped-idols-and-yahweh-too/0000017f-db76-db5a-a57f-db7ebdd20000
Red-Haired Archaeologist® links:
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Learn more about my fabulous video editor, Tanya Yaremkiv, by visiting her website at https://tanyaremkiv.com and listening to her podcast, Through the Bible podcast with Tanya Yaremkiv. You can also follow her on Facebook and Instagram @tanyaremkiv.
The podcast currently has 48 episodes available.