Zedekiah and Nebuchadnezzar

The Red-Haired Archaeologist

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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