Scripture Uncovered
237 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 260 ratingsFormer UCLA professor Dr. Bill Creasy has been called a “bible teacher extraordinaire.” For over twenty years, Dr. Creasy was consistently ranked among the top 2% of all UCLA teaching faculty. His podcasts approach the Bible with spiritual warmth, intellectual rigor, sharp wit and engaging humor. Over 100,000 people have attended Dr. Creasy’s live classes throughout southern California, and globally thousands more have followed his teaching through his online classroom at logosbiblestudy.com
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Meet the Women of the Bible - Deborah & Jael
November 05, 2018 11:42 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MB“Meet the Women of the Bible—Deborah and Jael” After the conquest of Canaan in Joshua, we settle the “Promised Land” in Judges. The Israelites are little more than a loose confederation of twelve tribes, however, living separate lives, more or less isolated from one another. But when danger encroaches, the tribes coalesce and a leader emerges to deal with the threat. In this profoundly patriarchal culture, the fourth leader to emerge is a woman, Deborah, assisted by another woman, Jael....
Meet the Women of the Bible - Sarah
October 31, 2018 18:38 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBIf we’re to understand Scripture within its proper historical and cultural context, we must recognize that the world of the Bible is profoundly patriarchal: men control everything, men are the “head”; but women are the “neck,” and they can turn the head any way they want! In a profoundly patriarchal, tribal culture, women wield power and authority using very different strategies than men. In the next few Podcasts, Dr. C. will explore some of the women of the Bible, telling their stories fr...
Meet the Women of the Bible—Eve
October 21, 2018 13:55 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MBIf we’re to understand Scripture within its proper historical and cultural context, we must recognize that the world of the Bible is profoundly patriarchal: men control everything, men are the “head”; but women are the “neck,” and they can turn the head any way they want! In a profoundly patriarchal, tribal culture, women wield power and authority using very different strategies than men. In the next few podcasts, Dr. C. will explore some of the women of the Bible, telling their stories fr...
Prophecy and Prophets
October 16, 2018 18:32 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBIn this week’s podcast, Dr. C. continues cleaning up his Q&A inbox, looking closely at a question about Isaiah the prophet! In answering the question, he investigates how biblical prophecy in general works, and specifically how Isaiah should be read.
Questions & Answers
September 25, 2018 21:49 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBOver the past several podcasts Dr. Creasy has offered a 4-part series on Mary and last week’s discussion on “Who Wrote the Bible,” in which he explored how the canon of Scripture took shape in the early days of the Church. All during that time, your questions have piled up in his in-box. This week, Dr. C. works through some of the more difficult ones!
Who Wrote The Bible?
September 17, 2018 15:57 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBIn this week’s Podcast, Dr. Creasy introduces a new course, one that he has never taught before: The Deuterocanonical Books. Those are the books of Scripture that are in Roman Catholic and Orthodox Bibles, but are not in Jewish or Protestant Bibles. In this Podcast, Dr. C. explores how some books of Scripture became “canonical,” while others did not. This is a great introduction to this new study that you can attend, either in “Live” classes or online as a “Remote Student.”
Mary, Mother of Jesus (Part 4)
September 09, 2018 23:44 - 30 minutes - 28 MBIn Part 4 of Dr. Creasy’s Podcast series on “Mary, the Mother of Jesus,” he explores the role of Mary in Scripture, starting with Jesus’ crucifixion, resurrection and ascension and moves into how the Church has thought about Mary over the many centuries ever since. He closes the Podcast with a very personal note about his own relationship with Mary.
Mary, Mother of Jesus, Part 3
September 02, 2018 18:48 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBIn Part 1 of Dr. Creasy’s Podcast series on “Mary, the Mother of Jesus,” he explored the Annunciation, God’s offer to Mary to become the mother of God’s son, Jesus. Her “yes” demonstrated not only her great faith, but her great courage as well. In Part 2, Dr. C. examined Jesus’ birth in a stable in Bethlehem, an most unlikely place for the son of God to be born! Here in Part 3, Dr. C. will follow Mary’s involvement in Jesus’ public ministry, beginning with his baptism in the Jordan River ...
Mary, Mother of Jesus (Part 2)
August 27, 2018 09:35 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBLast week Dr. Creasy began a 3-part Podcast on Mary, the Mother of Jesus, focusing on the Annunciation. We learned that Mary’s “yes” not only demonstrated great faith, but great courage, as well. With the Annunciation, Mary was the first person to place her faith in Christ, the child she would bear. This week, Dr. Creasy explores Jesus’ birth and his childhood, from Mary’s perspective, giving us insight into Mary as a mother.
Mary, Mother of Jesus (Part 1)
August 20, 2018 08:16 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBLast Wednesday was the Feast of “The Assumption of the Virgin Mary,” a teaching in the Roman Catholic Church that Jesus’ mother, Mary, “having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.” The teaching was defined by Pope Pius XII on November 1, 1950. In this week’s Podcast, Dr. C. explores Mary, her role in Jesus’ life, her role in the Church and her role in our lives today. This Podcast is Part 1 of a 3-part series!
Transfiguration
August 12, 2018 18:34 - 34 minutes - 32 MBThis past Monday we celebrated the Feast of “The Transfiguration of the Lord.” The feast remembers when Jesus took his inner circle of disciples—Peter, James and John—to a high mountain, and there in the presence of Moses and Elijah, Jesus was transfigured—literally metamorphosed—like caterpillar to butterfly, as the voice of God says: “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him” (Mark 9: 7). Dr. C. peers behind the veil of this remarkable story, probing its inner, deeper meaning.
Announcement: Through the Bible in 60 Minutes
August 09, 2018 08:17 - 1 minute - 1.6 MBDr. Creasy announces our first Webinar session, coming September 15!
Dr. Creasy's Birthday!
August 05, 2018 22:15 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBAnother year has rolled by . . . and they seem to be picking up speed, as they do! Yes, this week was Dr. C.’s birthday, which got him to thinking about birth, our walk across the stage of life, and our inevitable exit. What’s it all mean . . . and what awaits us in eternity? Interesting stuff! Also, Dr. C. addresses a slew of questions that you have submitted.
The Fabric Of Scripture
July 29, 2018 22:31 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBAt Mass this Sunday (the 17th Sunday in Ordinary time) the Old Testament reading was the very short story of the prophet Elisha feeding 100 people with five barley loaves and some “grain in the ear” (2 Kings 4: 42-44), and the Gospel reading was the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 with five barley loaves and two fish (John 6: 1-15). The parallels got Dr. C. to thinking . . . And we also have a listener question. Tom in Arizona asks: Did the disciples know that the Messiah (Jesus) was God?
The Blessed Man
July 22, 2018 19:40 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBAfter last week’s episode on “The Big Lie”—that success brings happiness—Dr. Creasy continues thinking about the problem, arriving at a very simple solution . . . thanks to advice from a very old and wise man. Plus, we have an audio question from Frances in New Zealand on the origin of evil. Also, this week we are launching a campaign on Patreon, a wonderful service that allows patrons (that's you!) to support creators (that's us!). Visit www.patreon.com/scripture to find out more. In exc...
The Big Lie
July 16, 2018 10:49 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBIn this week’s episode, Dr. Creasy takes on contemporary American culture and the mantra that “Success brings happiness.” It’s a lie. Wait until you hear what he has to say! He’s on a roll with this one, folks! And Dr. Creasy also answers listeners' questions: “Why do we have four Gospels, rather than one . . . and why do they sometimes contradict one another?” “What do you mean when you say Scripture is ‘inspired’ by God?”
Summer Slam
July 08, 2018 08:50 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBLast week Dr. Creasy finished the Logos Bible Study spring quarter, teaching “St. Paul’s Prison Epistles” (Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Philemon); this week he begins the Logos summer quarter, teaching “The Return from Captivity” (Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther and Job). In this week’s podcast, Dr. C. ruminates on summer, summer in childhood and summer now . . . a curious lead-in to the Israelites returning from the Babylonian captivity! Dr. Creasy also answers a listener question: James...
St. Paul in Arabia?
July 01, 2018 20:30 - 28 minutes - 26 MBThis week Dr. Creasy will finish his teaching his spring quarter live classes on “St. Paul’s Prison Epistles” (Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Philemon). In the great “Christ Hymn” of Colossians 1: 15-20, St. Paul elevates Christ to a position of cosmic significance, one is “the image of the invisible God, and one in whom “all things hold together,” both in heaven and on earth. This is an extraordinarily high “Christology.” Where did St. Paul learn all of this?
Israel with Dr. Bill Creasy
June 24, 2018 22:42 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBThis coming January Dr. Creasy will lead his 59th teaching tour to Israel. Over the years more than 2,000 of his Logos Bible Study students have traveled with him to the Holy Land and throughout the Mediterranean world. For many, Dr. C’s teaching tours are a life-changing experience, bringing the Scriptures alive by adding color, tone and texture to the characters and stories of the Bible. In this week’s podcast, Dr. Creasy talks about his first tour to Israel and how visiting the Holy Lan...
On the Road with Logos, Pt. 5 - Ephesus
June 19, 2018 21:04 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBIn this podcast, we bring you the final episode walking in the footsteps of St. Paul in Greece. Dr. Creasy teaches live from Ephesus! Sign up for our upcoming tour, in the Footsteps of Jesus: Israel Highlights. Visit www.logosbiblestudy.com/israel
On the Road with Logos, Pt. 4 - Back in Corinth
June 10, 2018 16:04 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBIn this week's podcast, we're back in Corinth with Dr. Creasy and his Logos travelers. Don't forget to checkout our new online course on Corinthians in the Logos Online Classroom!
On the Road with Logos, Pt. 3 - St. Paul in Corinth
June 04, 2018 17:37 - 10 minutes - 9.36 MB“St. Paul Arrives in Corinth” Leaving Athens, St. Paul made his way southwest to Corinth, the ultra-modern, cosmopolitan city straddling the isthmus linking the mainland of Greece to the Peloponnesian Peninsula. In 44 B.C. Julius Caesar rebuilt Corinth to be a major hub for maritime trade. Ships would sail from the Saronic Gulf on the eastern side of the isthmus, unload their cargo and passengers at the port of Cenchreae, transport passengers and cargo across the ingenious Diolkos (the prot...
Bonus Episode: Introducing the Psalms
May 28, 2018 13:49 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBIn this bonus episode, we're airing Dr. Creasy's introduction to the Psalms, part of his new release, The Psalms: A Journey through the Poetry of Experience - available now at www.logosbiblestudy.com/psalms
On the Road with Logos, Pt. 2 - Thessaloniki & Athens
May 28, 2018 13:17 - 32 minutes - 30 MBDr. Creasy and his intrepid Logos students arrive in Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece, where St. Paul had little success. St. Paul spent only three Sabbath days there . . . and he was chased out of town. Not to be discouraged, St. Paul, Silas, Timothy and Dr. Luke continue west across Macedonia, about 45 miles to Berea, a much smaller town. Here, the Bereans are much more accepting of St. Paul’s message, although, being more noble than the Thessalonians, they “checked the S...
On the Road with Logos, Pt. 1 - “St. Paul Meets Lydia and her Friends”
May 20, 2018 21:08 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBDr. Creasy just arrived in Greece with his intrepid Logos students, traveling “In the Footsteps of St. Paul.” Their first stop is Philippi, where St. Paul, Silas, Timothy and Luke set foot on the continent of Europe for the first time. In St. Paul’s day, Philippi was a Roman Garrison town, and there were not even ten Jewish men there to form a synagogue, St. Paul’s typical starting place for his missionary work in a new city. So, what to do? Ah, ha! Go down by the Zyagtis River on the Sa...
In the Footsteps of St. Paul
May 13, 2018 17:44 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBDr. Creasy is leaving this week with 38 of his intrepid Logos students on a teaching tour of Greece, walking (and sailing) “in the footsteps of St. Paul.” Teaching tours to the Holy Land and the Mediterranean world are an integral part of the “Logos experience,” for teaching Scripture onsite, where the stories actually occur, adds color, tone and texture to the narratives. When you read the Bible today, you read it in black-and-white—black letters on a white page—but after traveling with Dr...
Introducing Revelation, Part 2
May 06, 2018 16:07 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBThis week, we bring you part two of Dr. Creasy's Introduction to Revelation. We'll be back next week with the regular programme, when Dr. Creasy will discuss our latest Logos teaching tour, In the Footsteps of St. Paul - in Greece! Podcast listeners can get 30% off enrollment in Dr. Creasy's course on Revelation in the Logos Online Classroom. Visit logosbiblestudy.com and enter coupon code "patmos2018" at checkout.
Introducing Revelation
April 29, 2018 16:40 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBThis week, Dr. Creasy is preparing for the upcoming Logos Teaching Tour, "In the Footsteps of St. Paul - in Greece". Fifty Logos students are traveling with Dr. Creasy, and one of the places they will visit is the Island of Patmos, where the Book of Revelation was written. So we're bringing you something different on the podcast this week: Dr. Creasy's introductory lecture from his course on Revelation. The course is available in the Logos Online Classroom, and podcast listeners will get 30...
Reflections on Death
April 22, 2018 21:20 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBAs we moved through Holy Week and Good Friday, Jesus’ impending death and crucifixion loomed large, casting a deep, dark shadow, only to explode into a burst of light on Easter morning. Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection set the pattern for all who follow him. But what will it be like, to walk through the valley of the shadow of death? And what is our final destination? Plus, listener questions: 1) The bible says the Holy Family fled to Egypt after Joseph was warned in a dream. Herod th...
Denial, Guilt and Regret: Thoughts on St. Peter
April 15, 2018 22:41 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBLast week Dr. Creasy explored Judas and his betrayal of Christ. This week he turns the lens on St. Peter. When Jesus and his disciples end the Passover meal, leave the upper room and head toward the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus tells Peter that Satan is about to sift him “like wheat,” but Jesus prays that Peter’s faith not fail. Peter immediately objects, saying, “Lord, I am prepared to go to prison and to die with you” (Luke 22: 33). Yet, we know that in the courtyard of the high priest, ...
Judas, the Betrayer (A Closer Look)
April 08, 2018 16:23 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBOn Good Friday, we read the story of Judas betraying Jesus, of Jesus’ arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane, of his trial and of his crucifixion and death. Judas played a central role in the drama. Historically, Judas has been portrayed as the archetypical betrayer, a loyal follower who sold out his Lord for thirty pieces of silver. In the Divine Comedy, Dante places Judas in the very jaws of Satan in the ninth circle of hell. Yet, Judas was with Jesus for his entire three-year public minist...
Easter Special: Reflections on Jesus’ Resurrection
April 01, 2018 13:15 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBAs Holy Week is the pinnacle of the liturgical year, Easter is the pinnacle of Holy Week. Easter remembers and celebrates Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. The resurrection is the central event of Christianity, for without Jesus’ physical, bodily resurrection, Christianity is a fraud, either a deliberate lie or a naïve delusion. Christianity stands or falls on the literal, physical, bodily resurrection of Christ. So, what evidence do we have that Jesus’ resurrection actually occurred? A...
Welcome to Holy Week!
March 25, 2018 22:45 - 27 minutes - 25.9 MBLent is a time of preparation, a time of stripping away the clutter, chaos and concerns of our daily lives and of focusing on the essentials. During Lent, we “imitate Christ,” who—after his baptism by John in the Jordan River—entered the wilderness for forty days. For Jesus, his wilderness experience was the first step in a process of defining “self,” a period of defining who he is, where he belongs and what he is meant to do. After his wilderness experience, Jesus spends three years tea...
Who Does Jesus Think He Is?
March 18, 2018 17:28 - 31 minutes - 28.1 MBWhen we are born into this world, we begin the pilgrimage of life; when we step out of this world, we complete the journey, arriving at our destination. Like any pilgrimage, our journey of life is a process of self-discovery, of seeking answers to fundamental questions: “Who am I?” “Where do I belong?”, “What am I supposed to do?” Like all of us, Jesus — in the fullness of his humanity — faced the same questions we face. When did Jesus truly know who he was, where he belonged in God’s plan...
Who is Jesus Christ? What does it mean to be in a personal relationship with him?
March 11, 2018 17:08 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBOn today’s episode, Dr. Creasy addresses from a very personal perspective who Jesus is. Looking closely at the Gospel according to John’s “Prologue”, Dr. C. explores the person of Christ and what it means to be in a relationship with him. In the second half of the show Dr. Creasy addresses your Scripture questions sent in after last week’s podcast: How do I ‘light a fire’ under those in the men’s bible study that I lead? What is the connection between the inscription on Jesus’ cross and t...
Did God really create the world in seven days?
March 04, 2018 12:57 - 28 minutes - 25.4 MBIn Episode 1, Dr. Creasy looks at the story of the prophet Elisha and the floating axe head (2 Kings 6: 1-7), a charming tale that gets to the heart of the relationship between a teacher and his or her students. He also answers one of the most often-asked questions: "Did God really create the world in seven days?!"
Scripture Uncovered with Dr. Bill Creasy - Announcement
March 01, 2018 11:43 - 54 seconds - 1.1 MBIn his new podcast, Dr. Bill Creasy engages in a personal, intimate discussion on Scripture. Each week, he looks into key passages and stories in the Bible, allowing his decades of studying and teaching Scripture to bring these stories to life. He also answers listener questions. This is Dr. Creasy as you've never heard him before!