A Podcast of Biblical Proportions
The stories, songs, and laws of the Hebrew Bible have shaped our world, and people wrote them. Regular people, like you and me. Once we understand that the biblical authors were just people, we can learn a lot of new things about these texts. Join Hebrew-speaking writer and editor Gil Kidron on a journey of biblical proportions, going over the biblical books in order, and leaving no stone unturned
Episodes
Athenian democracy, in many ways, inspired the Maccabean-style democracy established in 140 BCE. Bernie Maopolski from the Fan of History podcast joins Gil to discuss.
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The Boule: Random Guys and the Birth of Bureaucracy
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- Who wrote the Bible: Tim...
The ancient Hebrews played and listened to music, and they wrote about it in the Bible. Dr. Jonathan Friedmann is an expert on the topic and he joins Gil to discuss their musical culture.
Read more about the topic from Dr. Friedman:
Academia.edu articles about Ancient Hebrew music
Music in the Ancient Near East
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In our third installment comparing the Hebrew and ancient Greek versions of the Bible, Garry Stevens of the History in the Bible podcast joins Gil to talk about the two versions of King David's origin story. Which is the better of the two?
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- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
- Ancient maps: easy to follow maps to see which empire rul...
In our second installment comparing the Hebrew version of the Bible with the ancient Greek one, Garry Stevens of the History in the Bible podcast joins Gil to talk about an obscure but fun book
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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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There are many differences between the Hebrew and Ancient Greek versions of the book of Jeremiah. Can we explain them? Yes, we can. Garry Stevens from the History in the Bible podcast joins Gil for this new series
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- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
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In this episode, we're looking back and gleaning new insights from our season about the fourth biblical book
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- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
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Click here to see Exodus divided into "sources" according to the Documentary Hypothesis
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When read in context, the Maccabean texts in the book of Numbers reveal the processes that led to the fall of the Hebrew state. Our chapters for today are Numbers 1, 3, 4, 8, 15, 18, 19, 20, 25, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, and 35.
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- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
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In our fourth episode of the season of Numbers, we go over the Balaam Tales, which are a funny fable about Jeremiah, who worked for the Babylonians to doom the Hebrews
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We continue our journey through the book of Numbers, and after the Hebrew returnees from Babylonia split into groups, the priests use the Ark of the Covenant to regain political power
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The stories about the challenges of the returnees from Egypt are about the real challenges of the returnees from Babylonia. Our Numbers chapters for today are 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, and 20.
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The oldest stories of Numbers were about the crises of leadership in the Babylonian captivity, told from two distinct perspectives: One from a populist perspective, and the other from an elitist perspective. The combined stories appear as one in Numbers, chapter 11.
Shemaya's populist story (verses in ch 11):
11 So Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you la...
In this introductory episode to the fourth biblical book, we will overview its many different layers, written between the 590 BCE and the 80s BCE.
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- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
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New AI research into the Documentary Hypothesis and the authorship of the books of Samuel reinforces our theories. Dr. Rutger Vos from the University of Leiden joins Gil to discuss. Read about this research here
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- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
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Petros Koutoupis joins Gil to talk about biblical authors. Check out his two substacks: Digging Up the Past and Digging Out the Bible
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- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
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Garry Stevens from the History in the Bible podcast and Bernie Maopolski from the Fan of History podcast join Gil to talk about miraculous births in myth
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Anke Bosma, PhD, joins Gil to share her perspective on what is working and what is not working in academia today, particularly in the humanities.
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- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
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Dr. Rutger Vos is our Resident Academic, academizing our investigation into who wrote the Baby Moses story and why. How would this be viewed by academia?
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After having learned the origins of the Hebrew festival of Shavuot/Weeks, Garry Stevens of the History in the Bible podcast joins Gil to compare our findings with what we know about the Christian version of this holiday. The results are stunning.
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- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
- Ancient maps: easy to follow maps to see which emp...
In this summary episode, let's review the layers of Leviticus, who wrote them, and when
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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 Documentary Hypothesis
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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
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