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Can You Fathom the Mystery of God?
Bible Curious - July 30, 2023 08:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 30 (Job 10-13): Last chapter, Job complained that it wasn't fair for God, who is not human, to judge Man, who is. Why have a relationship with God, if it only condemns us to His judgment? 'For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment. There ...
My Flesh is Clothed With Worms
Bible Curious - July 23, 2023 08:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 29 (Job 6-9): In the depths of his grief, Job concluded it was better not to be born than to live a troubled life. Job's friend Eliphaz responded by saying that all people are sinners, deserving of punishment, but that by turning to God, Job can experience redemption. However, Job will ignore...
Renounce God and Die
Bible Curious - July 16, 2023 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 28 (Job 1-5): The Book of Job is an extremely ancient work of uncertain origin. The name Job derives from the Hebrew 'ayab' which means 'hated' or 'persecuted,' and the Book of Job tells the harrowing tale of a man who loses everything: his property, his family, even his health, all with expl...
Blessings of Israel
Bible Curious - July 09, 2023 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 27 (Genesis 47-50): When Israel and his sons settle in Egypt, they must come to grips with their new status as serfs under Joseph and the Egyptian Pharoah. After seventeen years, as Jacob nears his last breath, he summons his twelve sons for a final blessing. Having turned their lives over to...
Jacob's Journey to Egypt
Bible Curious - July 02, 2023 08:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 26 (Genesis 44-46): After Jacob sends his sons again to Egypt to purchase grain for relief during a great famine, Joseph again recognizes them, and struggles to find the right occasion to reveal to them his true identity. Remember that these are the same brothers who for jealousy had bound Jo...
Joseph's Brothers
Bible Curious - June 25, 2023 08:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 25 (Genesis 42-43): Famine now engulfed the ancient world, and destiny demands a reunion between Joseph and his estranged brothers, since all available grain lies under Joseph's supervision. How will Joseph respond to this sudden visit from those who sold him into slavery years ago?
Special Episode: The Centurion Revisited (Matthew 8:5-13)
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - June 20, 2023 02:00 - 27 minutesIn this episode I revisit the text about Jesus' interaction with the centurion to focus more than I did in episode 16 on the "banquet" (NRSV) that Jesus refers to. What is this "banquet" of which Jesus speaks? How does it evolve in the writings of ancient Israel, and what form does it take in th...
Dreams of Pharaoh
Bible Curious - June 18, 2023 08:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 24 (Genesis 39-41): We now embark upon autobiographical material originally written by Joseph son of Israel, who despite living under Yahweh's favor found himself victim to multiple injustices. Confined to an Egyptian prison, Joseph interprets many dreams, leading to a dramatic reversal of fo...
Joseph Sold into Egypt
Bible Curious - June 11, 2023 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 23 (Genesis 36-38): Jacob and his twelve sons finally settle in Canaan, and his second youngest, Joseph, experiences prophetic dreams which mystify him while his brothers have no trouble at all with their interpretation. In fact, Joseph's brothers find the dreams so disturbing that they take ...
He Struggles With God
Bible Curious - June 04, 2023 08:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 22 (Genesis 32-35): Jacob's impending reunion with his estranged brother Esau understandably makes him nervous, because Esau had vowed to murder Jacob upon the death of their father Isaac. Yahweh had promised to bless Jacob even as far back as the womb, but Jacob still wrestles with his faith...
Special Episode: Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict, chapters 9-11 (A Reaction)
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 29, 2023 17:00 - 59 minutesPart 4 of my reaction to Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict by James Crossley and Robert Myles, chapters 9-11, plus a summary of my reaction/review. In this episode: Did Jesus really predict the destruction of the temple? How do scholars understand the resurrection historically? Was the Jesus ...
Twelve Sons and a Daughter
Bible Curious - May 28, 2023 08:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 21 (Genesis 29-31): Alone and destitute, Jacob seeks his fortune among his kindred in Paddan Aram in upper Mesopotamia. Once there, he discovers a different kind of fortune: love. The children begotten of Jacob will have very important names echoing through history.
Jacob and Esau
Bible Curious - May 21, 2023 08:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 20 (Genesis 26-28): Previously, Jacob convinced his brother Esau to sell his birthright for a bowl of red pottage. Esau figured that a divine promise about distant descendants wasn't worth very much, because he would be long dead before it would ever matter. Jacob reasoned differently, perhap...
Special Episode: Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict, chapters 6-8 (A Reaction)
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 20, 2023 18:00 - 57 minutesPart 3 of my reaction to Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict by James Crossley and Robert Myles, chapters 6-8. In these chapters the authors discuss: Was Jesus more like a playful hippy or a serious communist? Was the Jesus movement nonviolent? Was the Jesus movement obsessed with martyrdom? D...
Special Episode: Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict, chapters 4-5 (A Reaction)
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 15, 2023 18:00 - 47 minutesPart 2 of my reaction to Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict by James Crossley and Robert Myles, chapters 4-5. Two Marxist historical Jesus scholars talk about the Jesus movement's mission to the rich and whether the Jesus movement actually performed healings and exorcisms.
Isaac Marries Rebekah
Bible Curious - May 14, 2023 08:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 19 (Genesis 24-25): What follows in this chapter is the marriage of Isaac to a Semite woman named Rebekah. If you listen carefully, you will find the tone strikingly different from previous chapters, with tremendous attention paid to small details in the environment. Moses is now working with...
Special Episode: Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict, chapters 1-3 (A Reaction)
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 10, 2023 05:00 - 49 minutesPart 1 of my reaction to Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict by James Crossley and Robert Myles, chapters 1 - 3 Was the historical Jesus a revolutionary or a millenarian prophet? Is there a difference? Did he create a movement or emerge from one? What was his relationship to John the Baptist?
Abraham's Sacrifice
Bible Curious - May 07, 2023 08:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 18 (Genesis 21-23): After a decades-long wait, Abraham and Sarah were finally prepared for the miracle of their lives, the birth of Isaac. However, it would not be long before Yahweh asks Abraham to sacrifice his only legitimate son. What does this heartrending test reveal about Abraham's God?
Sodom and Gomorrah
Bible Curious - April 30, 2023 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 17 (Genesis 18-20): After meeting with Hagar and then Abraham, the Angel of Yahweh leaves and then returns with two other men of His own kind, and Abraham invites Yahweh and His two companions to stay with him and enjoy a meal together. We then learn about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorr...
Father of Many Nations
Bible Curious - April 23, 2023 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 16 (Genesis 13-17): Abram and Sarai's sojourn in Egypt proved to be fraught with peril, but they left better off than they came, and were quite wealthy when they returned to settle in Canaan. Abram then finds himself drawn into armed conflict against a confederacy of kings from the east, and ...
Noah, Babel and Abram
Bible Curious - April 16, 2023 08:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 15 (Genesis 9-12): After the Great Flood, God promised Noah, "never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done." He established a new covenant with Noah and his descendants, expecting them to reestablish civilization upon principles of justice. However, wayward Mankind quickly f...
The Great Flood
Bible Curious - April 02, 2023 08:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 14 (Genesis 5-8): In composing Genesis, Moses edited together text from multiple written sources. One way to differentiate these sources from each other is to pay careful attention to which words were used to describe God, since not all sources knew of God's personal covenant name "Yahweh". H...
In the Beginning
Bible Curious - March 26, 2023 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 13 (Genesis 1-4): The Book of Genesis is the first of five books credited to the prophet Moses which comprise the Torah, or 'Law' of the Hebrew Bible. Genesis describes the origins of the Israelites from the Creation until their settlement in Egypt, and covers about two thousand years of hist...
King of the Jews
Bible Curious - March 19, 2023 08:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 12 (Matt 27-28): Betrayed by Judas, captured by hostile Jewish authorities, abandoned by his disciples, denied by Simon Peter, Jesus had finally set the scene for his greatest miracle yet: the salvation of all mankind.
The Last Supper
Bible Curious - March 12, 2023 08:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 11 (Matt 25-26): Jesus gathers his disciples at the Mountain of Olives to teach them about the end times, and the Second Coming of Christ. He then brings his destiny swiftly into fulfillment at the Passover supper, an ancient Jewish rite which lay at the very core of Jewish culture.
The Second Coming
Bible Curious - February 26, 2023 08:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 10 (Matt 23-24): While teaching publicly in the Jerusalem Temple, Jesus delivers a series of stern warnings to the keepers of Jewish law: two groups known as "scribes", those who wrote and copied scrolls, and "Pharisees", a sect of Jewish teachers who emerged as a result of the Babylonian exi...
The Triumphal Entry
Bible Curious - February 19, 2023 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 9 (Matt 21-22): Jesus and his disciples approach the holy city of Jerusalem during the final days of Jesus' ministry on earth, and we can see the excitement of his followers reach a fever pitch. Jesus spends a day overturning tables in the Temple, healing the sick, and confounding Jewish auth...
Special Episode: Blessing the Children and Encounter with the Rich Man Revisited, Matthew 19:13-30
Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - February 15, 2023 20:00 - 18 minutesSome new research and connections in these two passages that occur together in Matthew 19:13-30.
A Mother's Request
Bible Curious - February 12, 2023 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 8 (Matt 18-20): Jesus shifts the focus of his ministry to preparation for his climactic return to Jerusalem which would happen in the near future. As Jesus challenges his disciples to live as citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven, the mother of two of his apostles approaches with a bold request.
Son of the Living God
Bible Curious - February 05, 2023 08:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDAY 7 (Matt 14-17): Jesus' fame escalates to where he cannot find any time alone. The Pharisees continue to criticize the lowly status of Jesus and his followers, and Jesus takes three of his most trusted disciples up a mountain, where He reveals startling truths.
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