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Episode 43
Before we go back to the narrative of Exodus, we still have one great mystery to uncover about the stories we went over so far: how did the Baby Mose…
4 years ago
Clash of Civilizations: Hebrews vs Hellenists
When the Hebrew Maccabees clash with the Hellenistic Seleucides, they don't realize that they hail from cultures that have been evolving separately f…
4 years ago
42 - The Maccabean Coincidence
Episode 42
Gil takes on the evidence that shows that the Maccabees added their own stories to Exodus. Join the tribe!
Read Exodus according to the different sour…
4 years ago
41 - Schrödinger's Moses
Episode 41
The first time we meet grown-up Moses face to face, he bashes someone's face in. This weird opening to this episode's story, Exodus chapter 2, verses…
4 years, 1 month ago
Collab: Retelling the Bible
In this special collaboration with Scott McAndless, a presbyterian minister and podcaster on Retelling the Bible, Scott dramatized the feud between J…
4 years, 1 month ago
Collab: Biblical Timeline vs Historical Timeline (part 2)
This episode covers all the drama and writing that took place between the destruction of Jerusalem (586 BCE) and the destruction of Jerusalem (70 CE)…
4 years, 1 month ago
Collab: Biblical Timeline vs Historical Timeline (part 1)
Disentangling the biblical timeline from the historical timeline is very helpful in understanding the context under which the different texts were wr…
4 years, 1 month ago
40 - Baby Moses, the Rapper and the Nehelamite
Episode 40
The baby Moses story might be incredibly famous today, but it has somehow disappeared and reappeared in the time of the writing and compiling of the …
4 years, 2 months ago
39 - The Evil Loser Egyptian King
Episode 39
The first chapter of Exodus contains three different stories written by three different people who lived at different times. Two of them were editors…
4 years, 3 months ago
38 - What is Exodus
Episode 38
What is most important for us to understand Exodus? This is a collection of stories about a crisis of leadership, a crisis of faith, and the harsh li…
4 years, 3 months ago