A Podcast of Biblical Proportions
A Podcast of Biblical Proportions dives into ancient Hebrew history and ancient Hebrew stories. Our time machine is the texts ancient Hebrew scribes wrote, including stories, historical accounts, songs, poems, prophecies, laws, rules, and regulations. Most of these texts can be found in the Hebrew Bible, aka the Old Testament or the Tanakh. This English-speaking podcast brings a new perspective to reading the Hebrew Bible — that of the person who wrote it, immersing ourselves in their world and perspective. We started with Genesis chapter 1, and have been proceeding in the order in which the texts appear in the Bible. Join Hebrew-speaking writer and editor Gil Kidron on a journey of biblical proportions into the lives of ordinary people living through extraordinary circumstances. Since Judaism and Christianity came out of their writings, they ended up laying the groundwork for so much of human culture.
Episodes
In this summary episode, let's review the layers of Leviticus, who wrote them, and when
Check out these cool pages on the podcast's website:
- Home Page
- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
- Ancient maps: easy to follow maps to see which empire ruled what and when
Click here to see Exodus divided into "sources" according to the Documentary Hypothesis
The podcast is written, edited a...
Yom Kippur is the Hebrew Day of Atonement, and it was originally established so the Hebrew people could open a new leaf. Instead, the holy day unleashed chaos among the Hebrews.
Click here to read about Dr. Yonatan Adler's research about Yom Kippur beginning in 140 BCE
Click here to find the link for our experimental Discord group
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When the Rabbis emerged on the historical scene, during Roman times, Judaism was born. Garry Stevens from the History in the Bible podcast joins Gil to discuss
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- Home Page
- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
- Ancient maps: easy to follow maps to see which empire ruled what and when
Click here to see Exodus divided into "sources" according&n...
In 140 BCE, the Maccabees reformed the Hebrew calendar and wrote the Leviticus rules in chapters 19 and 25, so they could transfer wealth from the rich back to the people.
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- Home Page
- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
- Ancient maps: easy to follow maps to see which empire ruled what and when
Click here to see Exodus divided into "sources"...
As we get into the second part of our Leviticus season, we get to two Leviticus stories written in 140 BCE about how the original priests were violently toppled and replaced by Levites.
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- Home Page
- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
- Ancient maps: easy to follow maps to see which empire ruled what and when
Click here to see Exodus divided...
In 458 BCE, a group of foreign billionaires initiated a coup in Judea in order to exempt themselves from paying taxes. They succeeded thanks to the first edition of the Torah.
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- Home Page
- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
- Ancient maps: easy to follow maps to see which empire ruled what and when
Click here to see Exodus divided into "sour...
Garry Stevens of the History in the Bible podcast joins Gil to talk about the origins of Passover and Easter, and how the former became the latter.
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- Home Page
- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
- Ancient maps: easy to follow maps to see which empire ruled what and when
Click here to see Exodus divided into "sources" according to the ...
Who erased the two holiest celebrations in the Hebrew calendar, the Year of Jubilee and the Festival of Weeks, to disconnect them from 537 BCE?
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- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
- Ancient maps: easy to follow maps to see which empire ruled what and when
Click here to see Exodus divided into "sources" according to the Docu...
Leviticus chapters 8 and 9 are play-by-play accounts of the greatest Hebrew ceremony of all time - summoning Yahweh back to his homeland 50 years after he had left it.
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- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
- Ancient maps: easy to follow maps to see which empire ruled what and when
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In our second episode about Leviticus, we go over the second and third rules of the Hebrew returnees of 538 BCE, which are about how much money everyone owes the wealthiest Hebrews
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- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
- Ancient maps: easy to follow maps to see which empire ruled what and when
Click here to see Exodus divided into ...
The oldest text in Leviticus, chapter 26, has a Seven Plagues story we did not know about. That chapter has the first rule of the Hebrew returnees in 538 BCE, with a warning: if you break it, Yahweh will bring Seven Plagues on the Hebrew returnees.
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- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
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In this introductory episode, we go over the FOUR layers of Leviticus, written between 538 BCE and 140 BCE, when the final version was published.
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- Home Page
- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
- Ancient maps: easy to follow maps to see which empire ruled what and when
Click here to see Exodus divided into "sources" according to the Do...
In the first installment of a new series to add an academic perspective to the podcast, I present my "538 BCE changed the world" hypothesis to our new resident academic, evolutionary biologist, Dr. Rutger Vos.
Click here to listen to our first episode about the Persian Axial Age hypothesis.
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- Home Page
- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
- Ancien...
In the second half of my conversation with Dr. Gad Barnea from the University of Haifa, he rejects the idea that the Exodus stories about leaving Egypt are merely tales about leaving Babylonia, and he presents his own hypothesis.
Dr. Barnea is a Faculty Member at the University of Haifa, Department of Jewish History and Thought, he is a Research Fellow at the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, and for Project B...
For decades, scholars believed that ancient Hebrew letters from 419 BCE proved the continuity of Passover, but a new study shows that, if anything, Passover has Persian Zoroastrian origins. Dr. Gad Barnea from the University of Haifa joins Gil and Garry Stevens from the History in the Bible podcast to discuss his research into the so called Passover Lettersso-called.
Dr. Barnea is a Faculty Member at the University of Haifa, Departm...
A new study into the so-called "Passover Letters" reveals the depth of Persian-Zoroastrian influences. I spoke to Bernie Maopolski from the Fan of History podcast to discuss
Read the article about this research by Dr. Gad Barnea here
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- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
- Ancient maps: easy to follow maps to see which empire ruled what...
2 Kings, chapter 23, is one of the most fascinating chapters in the Bible and contains more layers than would seem at first sight. Rabbi Adam Chalom joins Gil to discuss.
Rabbi Chalom is Dean of North America at the International Institute of Secular Humanistic Judaism and Rabbi of his congregation Kol Hadash in Deerfield, Illinois
For secular Jewish holiday celebrations go to Chagim.org.il
Rabbi Chalom co-edited the book Contempora...
Now that we finished going over the book of Exodus, it's time to go over the most famous Exodus theory, offered by the famed scholar Richard Elliot Friedman in a very popular book. In this episode, Gil debunks his whole theory.
Watch Friedman's talk about the Exodus at a convention (note: it's actually not from his YouTube channel)
Watch Friedman's class about Exodus
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In this summary episode of our work on the book of Exodus, we go over again all the important things we found in Exodus and how we found them
Check out these cool pages on the podcast's website:
- Home Page
- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
- Ancient maps: easy to follow maps to see which empire ruled what and when
Click here to see Exodus divided into "sources" according to the Docume...
In our final Exodus episode, we tackle the final 15 chapters of the book, which contain mountains of priestly lists. If you thought lists are boring, then wait till we go over them in context.
Click here to watch a short clip for how you change הכהן (The Priest) to בן נון (Son of Nun) without erasing a single letter, plus two other such examples/
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