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Back to SearchCollab: Shavuot and Pentecost are Almost Identical
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 …
1 year, 2 months ago
89 - The Making of Leviticus
Episode 89
In this summary episode, let's review the layers of Leviticus, who wrote them, and when
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1 year, 2 months ago
88 - The Ten Terrible, Stressful and Spooky Days
Episode 88
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 unleas…
1 year, 2 months ago
Collab: The Rise of the Rabbis
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 …
1 year, 2 months ago
87 - The Hebrew Class War
Episode 87
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 ri…
1 year, 3 months ago
86 - Payback
Episode 86
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 violen…
1 year, 3 months ago
85 - The Hebrew Theocratic Oligarchy
Episode 85
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 f…
1 year, 4 months ago
Collab: Passover vs Easter
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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1 year, 4 months ago
84 - The First Year of Jubilee
Episode 84
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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1 year, 4 months ago
83 - The Return of Yahweh
Episode 83
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 aft…
1 year, 5 months ago