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Should I Eat With You?

Today marks the final installment of the conversation between Pinchas Shir and I about food and the Bible. We move into a full Greco-Roman context with questions regar...

Feasting at God's Table

Food shapes culture and identity, so what did it mean for the Israelites to gather and feast at God's table? This week professor Pinchas Shir and I discuss food and th...

Food and Culture

Professor Pinchas Shir joins me to talk about food and the Bible. What was the Israelite diet like? How does food shape cultural identity? Where do we go to look at fo...

Sadducees, Pharisees, and the Death of Jesus

If the Sadducees typically had an anti-messianic view while the Pharisees had a messianic view, is it possible to say the Sadducees in particular are responsible for t...

Messianic Ideas in the Hebrew Bible

When did ideas about the Messiah begin, and are messianic ideas the same through the whole Hebrew Bible? In today's episode, Professor Israel Knohl walks us through th...

Prayer, Magic, and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Dr. Tupá Guerra joins us for Part 2 of our exclusive peek into her course "Good and Evil in Qumran." What can these ancient documents tell us about how people in the S...

An Historian Meets the Dead Sea Scrolls

Dr. Tupá Guerra is the Professor of Ancient Studies at Israel Bible Center. She is an historian who specializes in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and she joins us to talk about...

Battles, Weapons, and Restoration

This is part 2 of our conversation on a unique Dead Sea Scroll called The War Scroll. Today we sit with Dr. Yeshaha Gruber, Dr. Tupa Gerra, and Dr. Nicholas Schaser to...

The War Scroll

Our faculty gathers to talk about the Dead Sea Scrolls and the very fascinating and unique War Scroll. This week we cover what is in the scroll, who might have authore...

The Flood, Noah, and the Dead Sea Scrolls

What role does the Flood narrative play in the book of Genesis? Are there similar flood narratives in ancient Near Eastern texts? How did Second Temple Jews write abou...

Kabbalah and New Testament Texts

Last week we tried to define the undefinable. This week we continue to explore Dr. Gruber's course Kabbalah and the Bible, Part 1. How does Paul use mystical language?...

Do Kabbalah and Bible Go Together?

This week Dr. Yeshaya Gruber joins us to talk about his course Kabbalah and the Bible, Part 1. What does the word Kabbalah mean? What is Jewish mysticism? Then we try ...

A New Creation in Exodus and John

In part 2 of our conversation, Dr. Nicholas Schaser draws our attention to the many Creation themes and images in the book of Exodus. What do Moses and Jesus have in c...

Creation in Exodus

Creation themes presented in Genesis 1-3 echo throughout scripture. This week, Dr. Nicholas Schaser joins us to talk about how creation words, ideas, and images are fo...

The Significance of the Jerusalem Council

Acts 15 tells us of a crucial moment in the early Jewish church when the leaders had to figure out how to allow gentiles into their community. Professor Pinchas Shir w...

The Synagogue and the Spread of Early Christianity

Today we talk to Professor Pinchas Shir about his course Stories of the Jewish Church, Part 3. We briefly discuss Acts 11 and the ways we see the early church grow. We...

A New Wind Blows for the Early Jewish Church

This week I am joined by Professor Pinchas Shir who talks about his newly released course: Stories of the Jewish Church, Part 3. In this episode we talk about Acts 10 ...

Moses, Isaiah, and the Spirit of God

In this week's segment of a Round Table Talk, Dr. Gruber and Dr. Levison talk about the Spirit of God in Isaiah 63. This passage is a lament with strong connections to...

Does the Bible Talk about Monotheism?

The Israelites were supposed to love one God only, but is that "monotheism"? If so, where does the idea of a Divine Council come from? To untangle some of these issues...

Spirit Encounters in the Bible

What does it mean to be spirit possessed and what did ancient people think about encounters with the spiritual world? Dr. Reed Carlson joined Dr. Yeshaya Gruber for a ...

The Creation Narrative in the Septuagint

Welcome back to the Israel Bible Podcast. We will start this season with a Round Table Talk between Dr. Yeshaya Gruber and Dr. Robert Hiebert who is the editor and tra...

The Jewish Gospel of Luke

Dr. Brian Robinson is a guest lecturer at Israel Bible Center. He just released a new course called the Jewish Gospel of Luke. Following last week's episode that gave ...

From Republic to Empire: Rome as a backdrop for Luke's gospel

Dr. Brian Robinson is a guest lecturer at Israel Bible Center. He just released a new course called the Jewish Gospel of Luke. It is a great course, and today we give ...

Creation: From the Earth Looking Up

This is a podcast sneak peak at Dr. Nicholas Schaser's new IBC course called Israelite Creation in Context. This week is all about Genesis 2 and the earthiness of the ...

In the beginning...

Sneak Peak! Dr. Nicholas Schaser has a new course about to be released called Israelite Creation in Context. This week we get to dive into the assumed context of Genes...

The Tricky Little Phrase: Works of the Law

There is a small Greek phrase that has had a massive impact on western civilization - "erga nomou," which is often translated as "works of the law." Dr. Mark Nanos joi...

Paul Within Judaism

Dr. Mark Nanos is a respected Jewish historian specializing in Saul of Tarsus...or the Apostle Paul. He has written extensively about how to understand "Judaism" in Se...

What do you know about Demons?

If you are asking me...well, not much. But we have an expert panel who recently had a discussion about Demons in the Hebrew Bible. Their conversation has not yet been...

What do you know about Angels?

If you are asking me...well, not much. But we have an expert panel who recently had a discussion about Angels and Demons in the Hebrew Bible. Their conversation has no...

The Spirit in the Hebrew Bible

What is "ruah" in the Hebrew Bible? The word is translated as "spirit" and sometimes as "wind." This week's episode is a tiny sliver of the Roundtable Talk conversatio...

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