History in the Bible
Summary: A layman's guide to a 150 years of research into the history presented in the Bible. I explore the religion of ancient Israel, and the development of Christianity through to the death of Paul. I discuss every single book in every Bible (there are more than you think!) Lightly garnished with a dash of drollery, a soupcon of scrutiny, and not one ounce of objectivity. Not one ounce! Episodes are released every third Sunday.
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- Artist: Garry Stevens
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Traditionalist scholars believe that modern archaeological discoveries confirm the Bible's account of David and Solomon. Modernist archaeologists believe the exact opposite. Who has the evidence on their side?
Steve Guerra of the History of the Papacy podcast and I introduce our new series on the apocalypse.
Solomon, it is said, wrote books of Wisdom, Psalms, Odes, and a Testament.
Solomon spends big time on his Temple and Palace. Solomon dies on the verge of a major rebellion led by his own slave-master, Jeroboam.
David's son Solomon is the first Hebrew king we can assign reliable dates to. Or maybe not.
My special guest is Dan Libenson of the Judaism Unbound podcast. We talk about Israeli author Yochi Brandes' novel The Secret Book of Kings, set in the period of Saul, David, Solomon, and then the divided monarchy.
The psalms are replete with references to God as but one member of the pantheon of the ancient Canaanite religion, a god fighting the ancient sea monsters of the Canaanites: Rehab, Leviathan, and Behemoth.
Bathsheba, mother to Solomon, conducts a palace coup to put her son on the throne, allied with the prophet Nathan, the priest Zadok, and David's mercenary praetorian guard.
The final portion of David's story is told in the court narrative or succession history. Who will follow David as king?
God forges his fourth and final contract with humanity, promising David and David's city of Jerusalem eternal divine protection. Scholars call this the Royal Zion theology.
With the support of the Philistines, David turns his bandit gang into a disciplined mercenary force.
Samuel manufactures reasons to condemn King Saul, and supplant him with David.
King Saul becomes king of the Israelites, in four different ways. Samuel moves from being the last judge to the first prophet.
The priest Eli, guardian of the Ark, sees his sacred charge captured by the Philistines. Now arises Samuel to lift the Isrealites from their moral depravity
I set the stage upon which the Hebrew united kingdom of Saul, David, and Solomon was created.
