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 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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- 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 D...
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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- Home Page
- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
- Ancient maps: easy to follow maps to see which empire ruled what and when
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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- 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 Hy...
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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- 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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Anke Bosmat, 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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- 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 D...
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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- 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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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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- 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
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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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- 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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- 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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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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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
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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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- Home Page
- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
- Ancient maps: easy to follow maps to see which e...
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.
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 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.
Check out these cool pages on the podcast's website:
- Home Page
- Who wrote the Bible: Timeline and authors
- Ancien...
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