Dragons in Genesis Podcast
1) Special Announcement
The Hebrew Bible is now complete, so what's next?
2) 099_Daniel
In the mid second century BCE, the people of Judea did the impossible… the ended centuries of foreign rule by expelling the Seleucids and reviving the divine Judean kingship. To celebrate their victor...Show More
3) 098_Lamentations
In the aftermath of the fall of Jerusalem the population was lost, bereft of king and temple. Their prosperity and security had been taken from them and family members had been carted away to a distan...Show More
4) 097_Zechariah
Perhaps no other single book of the Hebrew Bible is as important to the New Testament authors as Zechariah. From it we find the idea of a suffering servant figure, a Davidic savior, one who is pierced...Show More
5) 096_Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, & Malachai
Could Yahweh be a dying-and-rising god? Does Malachi speak to the worship of Asherah in the Jerusalem Temple? Was Yahweh originally an angel who served his father, El Elyon? All these questions and mo...Show More
6) 095_Micah Nahum and Jonah
From giants and witches, to sun gods and talking animals, the Bible is littered with strange mythology. Curious stories concerning mystical beings can be found in every book, but one of the strangest ...Show More
7) 094_Amos and Obadiah
Throughout the New Testament we’re treated to countless examples of literary influence from the older texts, including the Book of Enoch and the works of Homer. But most striking are perhaps the numer...Show More
8) 093_Hosea and Joel
As the returning exiles begin settling in Judah and our timeline moves nearer the Intertestamental Period, the literature looks both forward and backward in time, to themes of a coming day of judgment...Show More
9) 092_Ezekiel 3 (Yahweh in Marduk's Temple)
The influence from neighboring cultures in Second Temple Judaism cannot be overstated, but that influence shows up in some surprising places and comes from some surprising sources. Perhaps none more a...Show More
10) 091_Ezekiel 2 (Yahweh vs the Dragons)
An enemy of Judah is an enemy of Yahweh, and what better way to describe his enemies than in terms of his most ancient of foes, the great sea dragon? But this section of Ezekiel isn’t just populated w...Show More