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Episode 17: An Honor Healing, Matthew 8:14-17

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - June 27, 2020 18:00 - 17 minutes
The third detailed healing: Jesus crosses the gender divide and continues his campaign of healing.

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Episode 16: The Centurion, Matthew 8:5-13

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - June 22, 2020 17:00 - 17 minutes
In this episode, I make a mistake in the recording. See if you can catch it...you don't have to be a Bible Scholar, you just need to be paying attention.  I only caught it after it was all done; there is no way to fix it, and I don't have the time or energy to go back and correct it, so let's m...


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Episode 14: Solidarity Among the People, Matthew 7

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - June 06, 2020 21:00 - 22 minutes
This podcast takes a journey through the Gospel of Matthew, unpacking its story of Jesus as a peasant leader of a nonviolent movement for a new society that he calls “The Kingdom of Heaven.” Each episode explores literary, cultural and historical context, passage by passage.

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Episode 13: The Lord's Revolutionary Prayer, Matthew 6:9-15

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 30, 2020 21:00 - 18 minutes
Jesus provides a prayer for his movement rooted in peasant realities of hunger, debt, and the threat of legal prosecution as well as the ancient story of the Exodus liberation.

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21 - The Calling of Abraham

Bible Curious - May 30, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Yahweh's calling of Abraham is a pivotal moment in the narrative of Genesis. Modern people know Abraham best for the harrowing account where God asks him to sacrifice his own son Isaac as a burnt offering, and Abraham actually obeys, only to be stopped by an angel at the last moment and told to s...

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The Calling of Abraham

Bible Curious - May 30, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
EPISODE 21 (Guest: Christine G) - Yahweh's calling of Abraham is a pivotal moment in the narrative of Genesis. Modern people know Abraham best for the harrowing account where God asks him to sacrifice his own son Isaac as a burnt offering, and Abraham actually obeys, only to be stopped by an ange...

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Episode 12: The Peasant Economy of Mutual Aid versus The Empire's Economy of Patrongage

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 24, 2020 18:00 - 25 minutes
Jesus lifts up the mutual aid economy of the peasants and tears down the patronage system of the empire.



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20 - Dong and Johnson (pt 2)

Bible Curious - May 17, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In this episode, Nathan, Dong and I finish the conversation we started previously. We talk about the moral implications of being human. Are we indeed beings of free will, or are we simply biological machines, acting upon impulses buried too deep in our subconscious for us to ever fully understand...

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Dong and Johnson (pt 2)

Bible Curious - May 17, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
EPISODE 20 (Guests: Nate J, Dong Y) - In this episode, Nathan, Dong and I finish the conversation we started previously. We talk about the moral implications of being human. Are we indeed beings of free will, or are we simply biological machines, acting upon impulses buried too deep in our subcon...

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Episode 11: Oaths and Nonviolent Resistance, Matthew 5:33-48

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 16, 2020 17:00 - 20 minutes
What's the big deal about taking Oaths? Also, women in Nigeria in 2002 used a tactic that Matthew's Jesus prescribes.

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Episode 10: Reconciliation and Curtailing Male Sexual Abuse of Women Matthew 5:17-32

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 09, 2020 16:00 - 27 minutes
Jesus attempts to build a strong movement, urging solidarity between peasants and curtailing male sexual abuse of and power over women.

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Episode 10: Reconciliation and "Me Too," Matthew 5:17-32

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 09, 2020 16:00 - 27 minutes
Jesus attempts to build a strong movement, urging solidarity between peasants and curtailing male sexual abuse of and power over women.

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19 - Dong and Johnson (pt 1)

Bible Curious - May 04, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Before diving back into Genesis and the story of Abraham the Patriarch, I want to share a recent conversation I had with a Christian Chinese American named Dong, introduced to me by my good friend Nathan Johnson, whom I have known since my college years at UCLA. Dong grew up with an as an athiest...

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Dong and Johnson (pt 1)

Bible Curious - May 04, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
EPISODE 19 (Guests: Nate J, Dong Y) - Before diving back into Genesis and the story of Abraham the Patriarch, I want to share a recent conversation I had with a Christian Chinese American named Dong, introduced to me by my good friend Nathan Johnson, whom I have known since my college years at UC...

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Episode 9 The Beatitudes, Matthew 5:1-16

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 01, 2020 14:00 - 23 minutes
Jesus begins laying out his new law or teaching for the new Society. This new teaching inverts the male honor code of the first century Mediterranean World.

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Episode 9: The Beatitudes, Matthew 5:1-16

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - May 01, 2020 14:00 - 23 minutes
Jesus begins laying out his new law or teaching for the new Society. This new teaching inverts the male honor code of the first century Mediterranean World.

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Short Note on Where We are Going

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - April 29, 2020 22:00 - 7 minutes
This is just a short note to explain where I'm going with this series.

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Episode 8b: Jesus Begins an International Campaign of Healing, Matthew 4:23-25

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - April 20, 2020 22:00 - 11 minutes
Jesus' campaign of healing provides an alternative to more conventional military campaigns (parody?) and signals the dawning of a new society.

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Episode 8b: Jesus Begins an International Campaign of Healing

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - April 20, 2020 22:00 - 11 minutes
Jesus' campaign of healing provides an alternative to more conventional military campaigns (parody?) and signals the dawning of a new society. Support the show (https://paypal.me/ParodySubversion?locale.x=en_US)

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Special Coronavirus Easter Episode

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - April 12, 2020 05:00 - 17 minutes
In this episode, to address our current situation, I take a break from Matthew and hop over to the Gospel of Luke to look at the Parable of the Dishonest Manager - A strange parable for strange times. I am indebted to Ched Myers for opening up the secrets of this parable for me. You can find his...

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Episode 8 A: The Calling of the First Disciples, Matthew 4:12-22

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - March 31, 2020 17:00 - 21 minutes
Jesus takes up John's work of leading a movement for The New Society (Kingdom of Heaven). Matthew's imagery reminds the reader of the setting of this story in the Roman Empire. Jesus liberates his disciples from bondage to the empire, setting them free to join the movement.

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Episode 7: The Temptations, Matthew 4:1-11

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - March 24, 2020 14:00 - 23 minutes
In this episode, we follow Jesus through his "vision quest," as he retraces his people's journey in the wilderness through a time of testing/temptation. Jesus has to prove what sort of Messiah or "Son of God" he will be. Please leave comments at the Facebook page (click on the Facebook icon at ...

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Episode 6: John the Baptizer, Matthew 3:1-17

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - March 20, 2020 16:00 - 21 minutes
If this series has not been controversial already, it gets even more controversial in this episode. I make the claim that Jesus joins a liberation movement already in progress to get his start as "Messiah." Also I will assert that temples in the ancient world were government institutions that se...

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Episode 5: The Flight into Egypt, Matthew 2:13-18

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - March 17, 2020 23:00 - 19 minutes
In this episode, Jesus and his family become refugees. Fleeing their home country, which is under the brutal occupation of a foreign empire, they take refuge in Egypt, which, according to their national history, was both the place of their people's slavery and also a refuge for those escaping th...

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Episode 4: The Magi, Matthew 2:1-12

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - March 15, 2020 02:00 - 18 minutes
The story of the Magi evokes sentimental, feel good memories of Christmas for many of us, but this story, for its original audience, signaled hopes of liberation from a brutal occupation.

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Episode 3: Matthew As Parody

Bible Study: Parody and Subversion in Matthew's Gospel - March 09, 2020 14:00 - 23 minutes
This episode is the only one that will not look at one particular text (all the other episodes will continue progressively through Matthew), but rather at the book as a whole. I make the argument in this episode that the whole Gospel of Matthew parodies a genre in the ancient world to get across...

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