On Sunday, the Trumpet’s executive editor, Stephen Flurry, taped a nine-minute segment for the John Batchelor Show, which aired later that night on wabc-am 770 in New York and wmal-am 630 in Washington, d.c. According to the program schedule, Mr. Flurry was on at 9:05 est. The segment is currently available on Batchelor’s website as a podcast.

Mr. Batchelor was interested in the Trumpet’s coverage of Dr. Eilat Mazar’s archaeological excavations at the City of David in Jerusalem. Last year, the Trumpet was first to report on Dr. Mazar’s discovery of Nehemiah’s wall.

Soon after we broke that story, in January 2008, Mazar accidentally discovered an opening to a tunnel dating to the 10th century b.c. while excavating around the top half of the famous Stepped Stone Structure, also known as Area G.

“The tunnel’s characteristics, date and location testify with high probability that the water tunnel is the one called tsinnor in the story of the King David’s conquest of Jerusalem,” said Mazar, who is working on behalf of the Shalem Center and the Ir David Foundation and under the academic auspice of the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Herbert W. Armstrong College (hwac) has provided support and student volunteers to Mazar’s excavations since 2006.

During the radio interview, Mr. Batchelor asked about how hwac first became involved in Dr. Mazar’s work. After she completed her first phase of work, Mr. Flurry responded, “I contacted [Dr. Mazar] in Jerusalem and said we were really excited about her work and that we had a small school here in Oklahoma that had some students who might be able to assist her as volunteers.” He explained how Mr. Armstrong had had a special relationship with the work of Mazar’s grandfather, Dr. Benjamin Mazar, during the 1960s and 1970s.

Mr. Batchelor also asked about the day-to-day operations out at the dig site and how experience has impacted hwac students. Mr. Flurry said the students were “very dedicated to their studies,” and that the experience has helped to “broaden their appreciation for the Scriptures and history.”

To read more about theTrumpet.com’s coverage of the Jerusalem excavations, go here, here and here.