Episodes
Oct. 4, 2024
Redefining Marriage, Part 2: What About the Patriarchy? - Episode 095
Marriage according to the Bible: What was adultery in the Old Testament? Why is it only for women?
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Sept. 27, 2024
Redefining Marriage, Part 1: The Math is Wrong - Episode 094
Marriage according to the Bible. Beginning a survey of passages about marriage and defining marriage in the ancient Near East: what is a concubine and how did marriage "happen"? What's inheritance got to do with it? Why are polygamy and other "unsavory" practices in the Torah?
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Sept. 20, 2024
Ethics of Embodiment - Episode 093
Continuing the conversation about sexuality with a detour into the topic of physical embodiment as seen from Jesus, the gospel, sacrament, and community. Do you see creation as cursed? Are the sacraments "just" symbolic? Two connected questions that with the message of the gospel can help us add…
Sept. 13, 2024
The Genesis of Gender, by Abigail Favale - Episode 092
How do we understand gender identity from a biblical perspective? Focusing on the topic of gender and how it came to be today, I discuss the book the Genesis of Gender by Abigail Favale. She explains the "gender paradigm" and encourages us to see a "Genesis paradigm" in relation to how we see our…
Sept. 6, 2024
Modern Minds and Cosmic Geography - Episode 091
Seeing the cosmos as an interconnected whole does not come naturally to us today. This is a source of many of our struggles with understanding the divine council worldview, the image of God, and the deep meaning of ritual. A discussion on science, its nature and uses, and kicking some ideas aroun…
Aug. 30, 2024
A Divine Council by Any Other Name, with Joshua Sherman - Episode 090
Responding to Doreen Virtue's critique of Dr. Michael Heiser. Definitions, definitions, definitions. Elohim, polytheism, divine....what do they mean? What did Dr. Heiser mean by them? Can a functional view of these terms help clear the waters?
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Aug. 23, 2024
Nephilim: Before and Also Afterward, with TJ Steadman - Episode 089
The giant questions: what is the seed of the serpent, who are the Nephilim, and how is it that the flood didn't wipe them out?
Intersecting with the concepts of the divine council worldview and the identity of the sons of God (are they different from Genesis 6 to Genesis 11/Deuteronomy 32, and…
Aug. 16, 2024
The Highlights of Bible Study, with BT Wallace - Episode 088
Couldn't resist another episode about note-taking, highlighting, and Bible translations!
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Aug. 9, 2024
The Book of Enoch and Garden Eschatology, with Anthony Delgado - Episode 087
Should Christians read the book of Enoch? What use could it have? Can a book not in our canon of Scripture contain the gospel?
A conversation with Anthony Delgado ranging from the exile to the end of time.
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Aug. 2, 2024
Liturgy Through Time: Dead Sea Scrolls, Part 2 - Episode 086
Genesis interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls: the "Words of the Luminaries": (4Q504) and a "Paraphrase of Genesis and Exodus" (4Q422).
The Words of the Luminaries is a set of weekly liturgical prayers and the Paraphrase of Genesis and Exodus is in the genre of "rewritten Bible," perhaps used…
July 26, 2024
Genesis Through Time: Dead Sea Scrolls, Part 1 - Episode 085
The Dead Sea Scrolls were an amazing find for the study of the Bible and understanding the context of Jesus' time. They can also help shed light on the ways that the biblical text is used through time by different communities. This can help us understand this strange time we are in today, where w…
July 19, 2024
Inspiration Theories, with Mike Chu - Episode 084
What is the role of the human in inspiration? Are the Scriptures the "inspired word of God" via dictation or "holy download" to the human writer? Is there room for editing and compiling?
Discussing the dictation view, the verbal plenary view, and the dynamic view of inspiration. Each view h…
July 12, 2024
Two Themes, Two Days, Two Goats; with Caleb Lewis - Episode 083
The Passover and the Day of Atonement both have their fulfillment in Jesus, but how do we see this in Genesis? Tracing the twin themes of the "two goats" and the exodus through the book of Genesis leads us right to the epicenter of Christological typology.
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July 5, 2024
The Genesis of Exodus, with Caleb Lewis - Episode 082
Exodus begins in Genesis 1. Caleb Lewis joins me to discuss the many exoduses of Genesis. I can almost guarantee you'll find something here that you never thought about before that will shed light on the continuity of the Torah and how it points to Jesus and the church.
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June 28, 2024
Mesopotamian Flood Stories - Episode 081
The first and primary parallel flood accounts to Genesis are the flood stories from Mesopotamia. Seeing how close these stories are to the narrative in Genesis will give us plenty to discuss in the future, and this will also help us investigate the question of the "many" flood accounts of the anci…
June 21, 2024
Flood Overview: JEDP to Chiasm, with Troy Yurchak - Episode 080
The more I study the Bible, the more I come back to the same question: Who is God, and what does the Bible tell us about Him? Looking at the flood narrative from the common paradigm and flipping it on its head to include a more expansive view of our relationship to God and what he wants for us. …
June 14, 2024
The Liturgical Chiasm of Genesis 1, with Troy Yurchak - Episode 079
How does the structure of Genesis 1 work as a chiasm, and what does that mean for our view of liturgy--what it is and why we do it? Troy Yurchak joins me for this great discussion that unexpectedly combines literary design with liturgy and discipleship!
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June 7, 2024
Flood Your Bible Study with Good Note-Taking - Episode 078
It's time to discuss two important things: the flood, and note-taking. Broad points about the flood are brought up, and then we do a deep dive into my method of note-taking and why you should do it, too.
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May 31, 2024
Lifting the Curtain of Figurative Language - Episode 077
Is Genesis 1 poetry? A look at biblical poetry and elements of metaphor, ending on the question of what it means to be "blotted out."
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May 24, 2024
The Impossibility of Calculating the Date of Creation - Episode 076
Apologies to Bishop Ussher, but it is impossible to calculate the age of the earth using biblical statistics. I don't care if you are a young earth creationist or an old earth creationist or somewhere in between or nowhere else, but the Bible's genealogies cannot be used in scientific calculations…
May 17, 2024
Never Go in Against a Serpent When Death is on the Line - Episode 075
Death before the fall? It began when Eve decided and they both ate...or did it? It might not be that simple. Plus, in studying, you must have learned that man is mortal, but what about animals? If they weren't immortal, then how could creation have been a paradise? Why do we suddenly get "perm…
May 10, 2024
The Names of God, Part 2: YHWH - Episode 074
BONUS questions this week: is Jesus Yahweh and what is the filioque? Because I had some extra time on my hands after not finishing last week's episode properly, those seemed some fun additions to the conversation. Talking about the divine economy before digging into the pronunciation of the name …
May 3, 2024
A Survey on the Names of God: The Fear of Isaac - Episode 073
A survey on the names, titles, and designations of God in the Old Testament. What do they mean? What do they reveal about the character and nature of God? In particular, why is God called The Fear of Isaac?
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April 26, 2024
Exile: Life During Death - Episode 072
Genesis 3, the Passover, the exile, and Jesus. How do these relate to the wilderness, Babylon, Assyria, and why one always goes "down" to Egypt? Each of us can relate to the theme of exile in some way, and yet the prevalence of this concept might escape us when we read our Bibles. Understanding e…