Holy Land Revealed

By: Jodi Magness, The Great Courses

Narrated by: Jodi Magness

As the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity, the Holy Land (the area in and around modern-day Israel) is one of the most important regions in the world and the setting for defining events in religious history.

Comb through this evidence for yourself with The Holy Land Revealed, which will add new dimensions to your understanding of this dynamic place. Delivered by archaeologist and award-winning Professor Jodi Magness of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, these 36 lectures give you an insider’s look at how archaeology helps us relive this period of civilization. And it’s a chance to get up close and personal with long-buried objects that will take you deep beneath the pages of the Bible.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Really fantastic.

I had pretty low expectations and was very pleasantly surprised. This is fascinating history and research without obvious religious or non-religious bias. She moves quickly and is very, VERY knowledgeable. I will look up more things to listen to authored by her.

Excellent Presentation

Very informative the Professor is an excellent teacher and I enjoyed the course thoroughly congratulations !

Understanding the Hoy Land through Archeoogy

I chose this Great Course as preparation for my first trip to the Holy Land. I couldn't have found a better resource. Dr. Magness is a world-class scholar who manages to tell the story in an engaging, often humorous and very accessible way for the average person. She manages to make archeology highly interesting, too. Can't say enough positive about this course.

Wonderful lecture series

Loved the presentation. I listened to the lectures before and after visiting Israel. Dr. Magness’ descriptions and explanations are vivid and fascinating !

if you want to learn about Biblical history,

this is the book for you. easy to understand and remarkable information. I enjoyed it.

excelente historia, bien contada, contrapone ideas

excelente historia, bien contada, contrapone ideas
he aprendido mucho de la historia que recorre
muy recomendable
felicitaciones

Great Lectures

I recently visited Jerusalem for the first time and these lectures are filling in a lot of information I wish I had during my trip. Will be very valuable for my next visit. Definitely recommend this audiobook for anybody remotely interested in the history of the Holy Land. Especially if you want to figure out fact from fiction.

A good history of the Holy Land

It was an overall view of the history of this part of the world that is important to 2 religious movements. it has left its imprint of Western Civilizations for the past 2000+ years.

Great, but Bayes could help

This was great, and Magness is a really good explainer. She seems to have detailed knowledge about so many different areas regarding ancient Palestine. Although this is just the audio version of this, I've visited and studied most of the sites mentioned, and I was able to follow along well and it added a lot to my understanding of the Holy Land. A few times I went chasing down something on YouTube.

My one criticism is that she's not a Bayesian, meaning that she often suggests that a thing is a certain way because that's the best evidence that we have. With Bayes Theorem, it's not necessary to make conclusions, we can talk about likelihood. A few times Magness made the 'drunk looking for keys under the street lamp because that's where the light is' fallacy. We don't have to uncritically accept the 'earliest' report of an event simply because it's the earliest. Homer is the earliest report that Achilles visited the underworld. So what.

But that didn't detract too much from this. I'd love to go digging with her one day...

Fascinating and unbiased

Fantastic overview of the subject. Varied and engaging all the way through, including the overview of the archeologists' process at sites on the final section.