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Genesis Marks the Spot

Raiding the ivory tower of biblical theology without ransacking our faith.

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July 17, 2025

Our Interpretive Toolkit: Framing How We Read Scripture - Episode 136

Venturing deep into the world of biblical interpretation—exploring the methods that shape how we read Scripture, how we understand righteousness, holiness, and obedience, and why John Walton's work continues to spark both adm...
July 11, 2025

Torah and the Two Ways: Wisdom unto Life, Not Legal Death - Episode 135

This episode of Genesis Marks the Spot centers on an example of biblical theology, reframing how we understand law—not as rigid legislation, but as wisdom anchored in covenant relationship. Drawing from The Lost World of the ...
July 4, 2025

Torah on Trial: Rethinking Law in Ancient Israel - Episode 134

This illuminating episode of Genesis Marks the Spot dives deep into the nature of biblical law—just in time for the Fourth of July. What is law, really? Is the Torah a legislative code or a curated teaching tool for ethical f...
June 27, 2025

Carved in Covenant: Bronze Age Sinai and the Making of a People - Episode 133

Walk through the ancient Near Eastern background of biblical covenants to arrive at the archetypal Sinai covenant. Picking up where Episode 132 left off, Carey explores the formal elements of Late Bronze Age treaties and how...
June 20, 2025

Covenants Before Contracts: The Ancient Near Eastern Frame - Episode 132

In this episode of Genesis Marks the Spot , Carey takes listeners beyond prooftexts and into the deep structure of biblical meaning by asking: What kind of thing is a covenant? Drawing from ancient Near Eastern treaty forms, ...
June 13, 2025

Covenant Theology, Baptism, and Biblical Imagery - Episode 131

What connects wine, wrath, baptism, and the flood? This powerful bridge episode toes out into the deep waters of systematic theology that will lead to biblical theology in order to explore how God's covenantal signs—from the ...

Recent Blog Posts

July 18, 2025

Shared Name, Different Frame: 'God' Across Traditions

This post is a special request.  (Okay, to be fair it wasn’t really a request for a blog post, but it was a question someone asked, and to answer it, I need to do so in a formatted way.  So here we go!  This can help with our un…

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July 16, 2025

Understanding the Toolbox: Biblical Interpretation Methods

This blog post is a resource for episode 136 because I know it’s a lot of data and I know your hand is going to cramp while trying to write notes as you're listening, so here you go.  (Promise me you'll still write notes, tho, right???)&n…

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July 13, 2025

Announcing: "On This Rock," a biblical theology community

Biblical Theology. Real Community. No Noise. The Community You’ve Been Looking For, Built Around the Bible and the People You Love If you’ve landed here, you might already feel it—that quiet frustration, that sense that the Churc…

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Carey Griffel

Carey Griffel has a Masters of Biblical Studies with Redemption Seminary and is passionate about teaching about the Bible from a biblical theology perspective with a healthy dose of creative thinking thrown in to the mix.
Carey can be found on Instagram and Facebook. She has her own Facebook discussion group for her podcast and is an administrator and moderator of several other FB groups, such as Reading Genesis 50 Times and Divine Council Worldview, official group of Dr. Michael Heiser.

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