E100 Week 8:The Fall of Israel
“The fall of Israel” is a theological (not historical) title. This five covers almost the whole history of the Israelite kingdoms from David to the destruction of Jerusalem. The Deuteronomistic History...
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E100-40: 2 Kings 25:1 – 25:30: The holy city falls
Detail from Sennacherib’s Lachish frieze showing prisoners being impaled Today’s is a grim reading. But such brutality was not unusual in the Ancient Near East. The Assyrians, for example, when they...
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2 Kings 10: a really nasty text as a test for the 5 step process
I once made a silly offer: “Give me a random Old Testament passage, and I’ll show you how the 5 step process works!” So they offered me 2 Kings 10, the lovely story of the seventy heads offered to Jehu...
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Humour in the Bible: Book 12: 2 Kings 1: Mission interrupted.
Elijah the Tishbite was a "lord of hair" (photo by JD Hancock) Since Google suggests the first chapter of 2 Kings is humorous I’ll measure it against the criteria. It meets most (but not all) which i...
View ArticleWhy do you read? Or: Was God married?
This is the video version of a post whose original audio only version is here. It was stimulated by an article in The Daily Mail (a UK tabloid newspaper) “Why the BBC’s new face of religion believes...
View ArticleAre you an idolater? (Not – Was God married? Part Two)
As a matter of fact Yahweh was married, yet the Bible cannot tolerate people who speak of God as male or masculine. This podcast seeks to explore this apparent contradiction as a first follow up to...
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