A Podcast of Biblical Proportions

Episodios

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  Collab: The Torah in the Last 2,000 Years 26.07.2026 53m

  How did Jews view the Torah in the last 2,000 years? Dr. Jonathan Friedman comes on to enlighten us
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  110 - The Seven Layers of Moses 19.07.2026 49m

  Moses is the great hero of the Torah, the Pentateuch, but he is a combination of several characters sewn together
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  109 - The Maccabean Levite Torah 05.07.2026 54m

  In 140 BCE, the Maccabees and Levites broke apart the priestly narrative and drowned it out in their own
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  108 - The Authors of the First Torah 21.06.2026 1h 4m

  In this first Torah summary, we're looking back at the writers who wrote between 600 BCE and 450 BCE
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  Collab: From Chronicles to 2 Maccabees 14.06.2026 40m

  What do the books of Chronicles and 2 Maccabees have in common? Much more than you think
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  Collab: From Deuteronomy to the Apocalypse 07.06.2026 42m

  How the broken promises of Deuteronomy led to the rise in apocalyptic literature
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  107 - The Deuteronomy Effect 31.05.2026 37m

  Let's review Deuteronomy one more time, but as a promise given in 140 BCE
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  106 - Replacing Deuteronomy 17.05.2026 1h 1m

  After going over Deuteronomy, we compare it to its arch nemesis, the Temple Scroll
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  105 - The Death of Moses 03.05.2026 1h 19m

  In the final chapters of Deuteronomy, we build up to Moses' death, a fine send-off for the Hebrew hero
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  104 - The New Era Begins Today 19.04.2026 1h 29m

  The most beautiful Deuteronomy speeches were delivered on the inaugural Rosh Hashanah, 140 BCE
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  103 - The Most Important Day of His Life 29.03.2026 1h 31m

  The Jerusalem Temple inaugural Yom Kippur ceremony, as it happened, play by play
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  102 - Total Reset 15.03.2026 1h 16m

  On the first day after Hebrew independence under the Maccabees, there was a total reset of every aspect of Hebrew society
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  101 - The Hero and His Successor 01.03.2026 1h 28m

  The opening speeches of Deuteronomy recount suspiciously Maccabean chapters
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  100 - Saving the Jerusalem Temple 15.02.2026 1h 24m

  The Maccabees had no choice but to take over the Jerusalem Temple from the priests
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  99 - The Priestly Jerusalem Temple 01.02.2026 1h 16m

  How did the priests run the show in their temple, and how did the Maccabees change everything
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  98 - What is Deuteronomy 18.01.2026 43m

  The fifth biblical book is the book of the revolution
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  97 - Debunking Scholarlship on Deuteronomy 03.01.2026 59m

  We open the season of Deuteronomy by explaining why academics are dead wrong about it
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  SPECIAL: Our AI-Bible Academic Research! 14.12.2025 50m

  Can we use LLMs to find who wrote the Bible? We're gonna try
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  Collab: Athenian Democracy vs Maccabean Democracy 07.12.2025 44m

  Athenian democracy, in many ways, inspired the Maccabean-style democracy established in 140 BCE
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  Collab: Ancient Hebrew Music 30.11.2025 45m

  The ancient Hebrews played and listened to music, and they wrote about it in the Bible. Dr. Jonathan Friedmann comes to tell us more