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Celebrating 300 Episodes (Podcast)
Read more: Celebrating 300 Episodes (Podcast)In this episode, we’re celebrating our 300th episode, which means that this episode is full of listener comments and questions, our responses to those questions, several examples of bloopers over the past two years, new music for the next 100 episodes, some exciting announcements and updates from the team, and the names of the winners…
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Wine & Beer in the Talmud with Professor Jordan Rosenblum (Podcast)
Read more: Wine & Beer in the Talmud with Professor Jordan Rosenblum (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Professor Jordan Rosenblum, who is the Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Director of the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, and he’s also the author of Rabbinic Drinking: What Beverages Teach Us About Rabbinic Literature (published by the University of California Press). In…
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Wine & the Mishnah with Rabbi Drew Kaplan (Podcast)
Read more: Wine & the Mishnah with Rabbi Drew Kaplan (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Rabbi Drew Kaplan, who is Campus Rabbi for Cincinnati Hillel, hosts The Jewish Drinking Show podcast (over 175 episodes and counting), and publishes a weekly newsletter and Torah portion sheet on drinking that covers the Tanakh, Rabbinic Literature, Jewish history, Jewish practice, and more. In our conversation we talk…
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Drunkenness in the Old Testament with Dr. Rebekah Welton (Podcast)
Read more: Drunkenness in the Old Testament with Dr. Rebekah Welton (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Dr. Rebekah Welton, who is Lecturer in Hebrew Bible at the University of Exeter and the author of ‘He Is A Glutton and a Drunkard’: Deviant Consumption in the Hebrew Bible (Published by Brill). In our discussion we talk about broader conceptions in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible of feasting,…
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Crafting Expository Sermons in Post-Christian Communities with Dr. Mark Glanville (Podcast)
Read more: Crafting Expository Sermons in Post-Christian Communities with Dr. Mark Glanville (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Dr. Mark Glanville, who is an Old Testament scholar and jazz pianist, the Director of The Center of Mission and Leadership at St. Andrews Hall at the University of British Columbia, the host of the podcast, Blue Note Theology, and the author of Preaching in a New Key: Crafting…
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Trauma & The Hebrew Bible with Dr. Alexiana Fry (Podcast)
Read more: Trauma & The Hebrew Bible with Dr. Alexiana Fry (Podcast)CW: sexual assault, forced migration, intimate partner violence. Dr. Alexiana Fry is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen and the author of Trauma Talks in the Hebrew Bible. In this episode, we talk about how she began working on this topic as well as several different texts that have or could be read…
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Christ the Center with Dr. Tomas Bokedal (Podcast)
Read more: Christ the Center with Dr. Tomas Bokedal (Podcast)In this episode we are joined by Dr. Tomas Bokedal, who is Lecturer in New Testament at University of Aberdeen (Scotland) and Associate Professor in New Testament at NLA University College (Bergen, Norway), and the author of the book that we discuss in this episode, Christ the Center: How the Rule of Faith, the Nomina…
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Teaching the Old Testament to Children with Dr. Kaz Hayashi and Shelley Henning (Podcast)
Read more: Teaching the Old Testament to Children with Dr. Kaz Hayashi and Shelley Henning (Podcast)In this episode we talk about why it’s important to teach the Old Testament to children with Dr. Kaz Hayashi, who is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Bethel Seminary (St. Paul, MN) and Shelley Henning, who is the Co-founder and CEO of GrowFamily, which provides family resources for parents and church leaders, the Children’s…
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Does Apologetics Help Us Read The Old Testament? With Brent Strawn (Podcast)
Read more: Does Apologetics Help Us Read The Old Testament? With Brent Strawn (Podcast)Continuing our conversation on Apologetics we want to take the next two episodes to ask whether apologetics helps us read Scripture. This week we want to ask that question in relation to the Old Testament specifically. We are joined by Dr. Brent Strawn, Professor of Old Testament at Duke Divinity School and Professor of Law…
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The Reality of Spiritual Warfare
Read more: The Reality of Spiritual WarfareIn the Old Testament the activity of evil spirits is described a few times, and most of the times the biblical author makes sure to highlight their subordination to God. Though spirits are subordinates of God, they also exercise their influence with humans. I want to draw your attention to a few texts, both Biblical…