Dr. David Elton Graves

David Graves (Ph.D., University of Aberdeen, Scotland) a native Canadian, has been involved in teaching the Bible and archaeology for more than thirty-five years and retired Assistant Professor with Liberty University, Rawlings School of Divinity, Lynchburg VA. He has taught archaeology at Oxford University, England; provided tours of the Ashmolean and British Museums; traveled extensively in the Middle East; been involved in Mount Ararat research; and consulted for National Geographic productions. He has been involved in archaeological excavations at Qumran, Temple Mount and Shiloh, Israel, as well as the Tall el-Hammam excavation project in Jordan. In Jan 2017 he was part of the team who excavated the Dead Sea Scroll cave 53 near Qumran, Israel and discovered evidence that this cave once contained Dead Sea Scroll. The cave is now identified as Q12. For many years David has been a field supervisor at Tall el-Hammam (Sodom in the Middle Bronze period and Livias in the Roman/Byzantine period), Jordan (2005-2019). He is also a member of the Near East Archaeological Society (NEAS). He has authored a number of books published through his company, Electronic Christian Media (ECM). In addition he has authored a number of journal articles on the Bible and archaeology most available through academia.edu.

Interests include: Biblical research, Roman archaeology, travel, Painting in dry brush water colors, Ancient Near Eastern history, Noah ark research, martyrdom, Smyrna, Revelation, seven letters of Asia Minor