Scott Stripling

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David Scott Stripling (born August 3, 1962) is an American archeologist, professor, public speaker, Director of Excavations for the Associates for Biblical Research, and Provost of the Bible Seminary in Katy, (Houston) Texas. He also directs TBS’s Archeological Institute.

Early Life and Family

Stripling was born in Dallas, Texas the son of Ron Stripling and Margaret Lamb. Stripling graduated from Port Isabel High School in 1980 and married Janet Zappe in 1982. They have four children and three grandchildren.

He began his career in ministry at the age of 18 as Director of the Port Isabel Youth Ministry. He and his wife spent one year in their early twenties serving as missionaries in Guadalajara, Mexico. He later served as Youth Pastor, Associate Pastor, and Senior Pastor in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. n

Stripling earned a Bachelor of Science in English from the University of Texas, Pan American (UTPA) in 1984 and a Master of Arts in English from UTPA in 1988. He earned a Master of Arts in Biblical Literature from the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary in 1994. He completed a D.Min at Vision International University in 2006 and is currently writing his Ph.D. dissertation at Veritas International University on the Late Second Temple period remains at Khirbet el-Maqatir.

Career

From 1984 to 1987, Stripling taught English at James Pace High School in Brownsville, Texas while he was completing his first master’s degree. From 1987 to 1989, he taught English and coached football and basketball at Port Isabel High School.

He later helped open several Christian Schools in south Texas and was principal of Cornerstone Christian Academy and Covenant Christian Academy. He served as Senior Pastor at Church of the Good Shepard and Cornerstone Christian Church and as Associate Pastor of Christian Fellowship Church in McAllen, Texas for nearly 20 years. He went on to teach Biblical History and Archeology at a number of colleges and universities across Texas including International Bible College, Belhaven University, Houston Baptist University, and The Bible Seminary. Stripling has guest lectured at dozens of colleges and universities across the world including Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel), University of Northwestern - St. Paul, Harding University, Houston Baptist University, and Lee University.

Archeological Excavations

Stripling began volunteering in archeological excavations in the early 2000’s which ultimately led to directing several of his own excavations. He served as a Supervisor of the Temple Mount Sifting Project (Israel), Field Supervisor at Tall el-Hamman (Jordan), Director of Excavations at Khirbet el-Maqatir (Israel) from 2014 to 2017, and Tel Shiloh (Israel) from 2017 to the present. The first three seasons at Shiloh were the largest excavations in Israel, averaging 140 registered volunteers each season.

Khirbet el-Maqatir

Building on the work that Bryant Wood started at Khirbet el-Maqatir, Stripling linked the site to Ai of Joshua 7-8 and Ephraim of John 11:54.

Tel Shiloh

At Shiloh, the location of Israel’s first capitol, where the Tabernacle and Ark of the Covenant rested for over three centuries, Stripling excavated ceramic pomegranates, a possible horned altar, and storage rooms from the Tabernacle period. The pomegranate was a motif in the tabernacle and later in the Jewish temples in Jerusalem. Christianity Today named the ceramic pomegranate excavated at Shiloh one of the top ten finds in Israel for 2018.

Books, Publications, Presentations & Media

Stripling is the author of The Trowel and the Truth, Second Edition (2017) and Somebody Call 9:11 – Living in Covenant in Times of Crisis (2016). Khirbet el-Maqatir, Volume II is forthcoming in 2020 as well as a chapter on the early date of the Israelite exodus from Egypt in Zondervan’s Five Views of the Exodus.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Stripling's findings and research have been published in the following peer-reviewed journals:

• Scott Stripling. “A Ceramic Pomegranate from Shiloh.” Judea and Samaria Research Studies 28 no. 1. (2019): 37-56. Co-authored with David Ben-Shlomo and Tim Lopez.
• Stripling, S.et al., 2017. “A Scarab of Psametik I from Kh. el-Maqatir,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 149, no. 3, (2017) 186-200.
• Hizmi, Hananya, and Reut Livyatan-ben-Arie. “The Excavations at the Northern Platform of Tel Shiloh the 2012-2013 Seasons [Translated from Hebrew].” Edited by D. Scott Stripling and David E. Graves. Translated by Hillel Richman. Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin 62 (2017): 35–52.
• Stripling, Scott. “Kh. el-Maqatir: A Fortified Settlement of the Late Second Temple Period on the Benjamin Plateau”Pages 61-91 in In the Highland’s Depth: Ephraim Range and Binyamin Research Studies Volume 7. Edited by Aharon Tavger and Zohar Amar. Jerusalem: Old City Press, 2017. Co-authored with Brian Peterson.
• Byers, Gary A., Bryant G. Wood, D. Scott Stripling. “Renewed Excavations at Khirbet el-Maqatir: Highlights of the 2009–2011 Seasons.” Judea and Samaria Research Studies 26 no. 2. (2016): 69-109.
• Stripling, Scott. “Re-Examination of the Location for the Ancient City of Livias.” Levant 43, no. 2 (2011): 178–200.Co-authored with David E. Graves.
• Forthcoming – Two Aramaic Incantation Bowls from the University of Pikeville. Co-authored with Craig Evans.

Other Published Articles

Striping's archeological research has been published in the following journals:

• Stripling, S. and Lattimer, S. 2018 “Go Now to Shiloh.” Popular Archaeology 29 Winter.
• Stripling, Scott.“Identification of Tall El-Hammam on the Madaba Map.” Bible and Spade 20, no. 2 (2007): 35–45. Co-authored with David E. Graves.
• Stripling, Scott. “Locating Tall el-Hammam on the Madaba Map.” Biblical Research Bulletin (BRB) 7.6 (2007): 1-11. Co-authored with David E. Graves.
• Stripling, Scott. “Maqatir Monastery Money.” Bible and Spade20.2 (Spring 2012): 35-40.
• Stripling, Scott.“Those Indefatigable Byzantines.” Bible and Spade26.4 (Fall 2013): 31-34.Co-authored with Gary A. Byers.
• Stripling, Scott.“Have we walked in the footsteps of Jesus? Exciting new possibilities at Khirbet el-Maqatir.” Bible and Spade, 27.4 (Fall 2014).
• Stripling, Scott.“A proposed new location for Ai of Joshua 7-8 and Ephraim of John 11:53-54.” Bibleinterp. February 26, 2015. http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/2015/02/str398025.shtml
• Stripling, Scott. “The Israelite Tabernacle at Shiloh.” Bible and Spade29.3 (Fall 2016): 88-95.
• Stripling, Scott. “Domestic Architecture at Khirbet el-Maqatir.” Bible and Spade30.1 (Winter 2017): 25-28.
• Stripling, Scott. “The Problem of Ai: Solved After Nearly Forty Years of Excavation in the West Bank of Israel.” Bible and Spade31.2 (Winter 2018): 40-45.  Co-authored with Mark Hassler.
• Stripling, Scott. “Psametik I Scarab Excavated at Khirbet el-Maqatir.” Artifax32, no. 2 (2017): 19.
• Stripling, Scott. “Khirbet el-Maqatir: A Biblical Site on the Benjamin-Ephraim Border.” Bible and Spade30.2 (Spring 2017): 32-37.
• Stripling, Scott. “Rooted Locally – Connected Globally.” The Sentinel. Summer 2017: 16-17.
• Stripling, Scott. “Khirbet el-Maqatir: A Biblical Site on the Benjamin–Ephraim Border.” Qadmoniot (December 2015): 78-84.

Media

Stripling is a regular guest on Digging for Truth and has been a guest on the Christian Broadcasting Network and Trinity Broadcasting Network. The New York Times, Fox News, and the Times of Israel have featured his work, as have hundreds of other media outlets including the following:

• Featured in Mobile Ed: AR101 Archaeology in Action: Biblical Archaeology in the Fieldproduced by FaithLife/Logos Bible Software. 2015.
• Featured in Expedition Unknown Ark of the Covenant (Season 3, episode 12). 2017.
• Contributed to the Patterns of Evidence documentary (2019).
• Featured in Appian Media’s Searching for a King series (2019).
• Featured in Bible Passages documentary "Go Now to Shiloh" (2019).

External Links

Associates for Biblical Research

The Bible Seminary

Scott Stripling's own site

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