The Biblonian: Recent Episodes
Michael Light
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1 Esdras is an interesting compilation of accounts of Solomon's Temple and its inauguration and the Second Temple. It entirely skips over the Babylonian exile in order to show the similarities between the two and it exalts Zerubabel as an even greater leader than the Scriptures.
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If 1 Maccabees is the historical account of the Hasmonean Dynasty and the most important even "between the Testaments", 2 Maccabees is an even more epic retelling of the same story! However, at the center of 2 Maccabees is a much more apocalyptic (and angelic) emphasis, the hope for the resurrection of the dead based on the restoration of the Temple, and an evolved atonement theology!
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Without even a doubt, 1 Maccabees is the most important apocryphon and possibly even the most important Second-Temple text! It tells the story of the Maccabean Revolt and how the Hasmonean Dynasty frist began. Most importantly, Judah Maccabee was the mold for what Jews in the times of Jesus expected the Messiah to be like.
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While the book called Daniel is already canonical, there are additions found in its Greek translation (the Septuagint/LXX). Why where these passages added? What do they mean? In this third episode of a sub-series, I go over the tale of Bel and the Dragon and Daniel's detective work (Habakkuk has a cameo!).
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While the book called Daniel is already canonical, there are additions found in its Greek translation (the Septuagint/LXX). Why where these passages added? What do they mean? In this second episode of a sub-series, I go over the tale of Susanna and Daniel's detective work.
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While the book called Daniel is already canonical, there are additions found in its Greek translation (the Septuagint/LXX). Why where these passages added? What do they mean? In this episode, I introduce Septuagintal Daniel and speak on the first of the three major additions often titled The Prayer of Azariah and the Three Jews.
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The Letter/Epistle of Jeremiah (sometimes chapter 6 of 1 Baruch) is an exilic apocryphon (that's actually a pseudepigraphon). It's a polemic against idolatry and the need for Jews in the diaspora to not turn to the idols of the other nations despite temptation. In this episode, we overview the Epistle of Jeremiah and its connections to the canonical Hebrew Scriptures.
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The Book of Baruch is a brief but extremely important apocryphon (that's actually a pseudepigraphon). It's all about the importance of exile and the only way out of it. If Israel is still in exile, how can they be freed? What good can they do while in exile? How is God good in exile? In this episode, we explore all that and more!
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The Wisdom of Solomon (also known as Wisdom) is often times associated with the apocrypha, but really it is a pseudepigraphon: a writing that imagines that it is an earlier character from the biblical canon. In this case, it is Solomon! The Wisdom of Solomon not only has a profound outlook on the relationship between God and Wisdom but also the wicked and the just. It heavily influenced John and Paul and it can influence us too when we understand how it makes sense of how God worked with Israel in the Torah and today. In this episode, we explore all that and more!
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The Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirah (also known as Sirach) is an apocryphon especially popular with the rabbis and the early church (which gave it another name common today: Ecclesiasticus). Sirah speaks to the wisdom that comes from meditating on the Torah and Prophets - He saw the wisdom from those scriptures just as applicable to him and his people in his days (when the Scriptures were considered ancient as well) just as much as it was before. What were his insights into the Scriptures? What is his wisdom? In this episode, we explore all that and more!All my notes on the Apocrypha - interesting theology, biblical references, and book overviews - are all available on my website:thebiblonian.comFollow me on:Threads: www.threads.net/@4qmmichaelInstagram: www.instagram.com/4qmmichaelYoutube:www.youtube.com/@thebiblonian--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thebiblonian/support
While the book called Esther is already canonical, there are additions found in its Greek translation (the Septuagint/LXX). Why where these passages added? What do they mean? In this episode, I introduce Septuagintal Esther and how it builds on the canonical Hebrew Esther.
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The apocryphon called Judith is an allegory telling the story of a seducing Israel that represents the Messianic-figure Judas Maccabee. What weird interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures does this allegory imply? What's its significance? In this episode, I introduce Judith and how it interprets the Hebrew Scriptures.
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The apocryphon called Tobit is an entertaining exilic romantic comedy. But how is this odd story connected at all to the Hebrew Scriptures? What's its significance? In this episode, I introduce Tobit and how it interprets the Hebrew Scriptures and its importance for the Apostles.
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Ever wondered about those extra books found in Catholic Bibles that Protestants and Jews don't have? What do they have to do with the rest of the Bible? Are they good? Bad? What did Jesus and the Apostles think about them? How do they relate to the Old Testament? What even are they about? In this episode, I introduce what the apocrypha are and the need to know what they are so we can better understand both Testaments!
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This episode is the second of many on the new series: Searching the Scriptures. Searching the Scriptures is a series where I will be going through content that I taught to some students at my church on the development of the Bible and hermeneutics (how we read the Bible). While the class is about the Bible as a whole, it is more focused on the Hebrew Bible (/Old Testament/TaNaKh); in this series, we will go through the following: Harmful Hermeneutics The Composition of the Bible The History of the Bible The Literature of the Bible The Cosmos of the Bible Searching the Scriptures TodayThe World of the Hebrew Bible is one entirely different from our own. First of all, it was flat. However, the Hebrew Bible was also focused on the significance of the world much more than they were the science of it. They focused on metaphysics and not physics. Not only was their cultural world different, but the way in which they actually saw the world was different. In this episode, I explain how we can make sense of that when we know that it's round. You can find the packet that goes along with this week's episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13zUmKYigHjFjM2DdrBvTo62LHFT8tE1py4jnvnRFoTA/edit?usp=sharing.If you're at all curious about what real biblical work looks like, feel free to check some out on my website:thebiblonian.comFollow me on:Threads: www.threads.net/@4qmmichaelInstagram: www.instagram.com/4qmmichaelYoutube: www.youtube.com/@thebiblonian--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thebiblonian/support
This episode is the second of many on the new series: Searching the Scriptures. Searching the Scriptures is a series where I will be going through content that I taught to some students at my church on the development of the Bible and hermeneutics (how we read the Bible). While the class is about the Bible as a whole, it is more focused on the Hebrew Bible (/Old Testament/TaNaKh); in this series, we will go through the following: Harmful Hermeneutics The Composition of the Bible The History of the Bible The Literature of the Bible The Cosmos of the Bible Searching the Scriptures TodayThe Hebrew Bible is full of all different types of genres - With each genre comes a different technique for reading the text. The authors of the Hebrew Bible used different literary genres to be able to express different angles to the over-arching biblical narrative. Instead of just giving us rules to follow, God has given us words of beauty and sophistication through His prophets and we can better understand what they have to say when know how they speak. You can find the packet that goes along with this week's episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vDfSDdF0KvSnRndyQBRvPr6maq_CNvRvoY7sAsVOqr0/edit?usp=sharing.If you're at all curious about what real biblical work looks like, feel free to check some out on my website:thebiblonian.comFollow me on:Threads: www.threads.net/@4qmmichaelInstagram: www.instagram.com/4qmmichaelYoutube: www.youtube.com/@thebiblonian--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thebiblonian/support
This episode is the second of many on the new series: Searching the Scriptures. Searching the Scriptures is a series where I will be going through content that I taught to some students at my church on the development of the Bible and hermeneutics (how we read the Bible). While the class is about the Bible as a whole, it is more focused on the Hebrew Bible (/Old Testament/TaNaKh); in this series, we will go through the following: Harmful Hermeneutics The Composition of the Bible The History of the Bible The Literature of the Bible The Cosmos of the Bible Searching the Scriptures TodayThe Hebrew Bible is not trying to reproduce in literature what it would be like to review all of its stories as if they were video camera footage. The authors of the Hebrew Bible, in fact, had little concern for the strict literalism that many Christians today hold to because of their misunderstanding of what type of history the Bible is telling. Historically, Christians and Jews have held to a view of biblical history much different from our own. This episode speaks to what that history actually is and how we can better understand it. You can find the packet that goes along with this week's episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bHLTaL11wkOrinCoAxxNHlLV0uyBqhgI6HE11SrHtSg/edit?usp=sharing.If you're at all curious about what real biblical work looks like, feel free to check some out on my website:thebiblonian.comFollow me on:Threads: www.threads.net/@4qmmichaelInstagram:www.instagram.com/4qmmichaelYoutube:www.youtube.com/@thebiblonian--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thebiblonian/support
This episode is the second of many on the new series: Searching the Scriptures. Searching the Scriptures is a series where I will be going through content that I taught to some students at my church on the development of the Bible and hermeneutics (how we read the Bible). While the class is about the Bible as a whole, it is more focused on the Hebrew Bible (/Old Testament/TaNaKh); in this series, we will go through the following:
- Harmful Hermeneutics
- The Composition of the Bible
- The History of the Bible
- The Literature of the Bible
- The Cosmos of the Bible
- Searching the Scriptures Today
With the first episode explaining many of the most common misconceptions of the Hebrew Bible and what it is not, this episode explores the Hebrew Bible and how we even got it. The truth is, the Bible was not a fairytale made up by some rich, well-off group of cultists, or a compilation of propaganda for different ethnocentric empires, and it wasn't written by maniacs who went into a trance when some spirit took control of them to force them to write on paper what we have today. This episode will also touch on the controversy of canon: what the Pseudepigrapha and Deuterocanon are and whether or not they're divine. You can find the packet that goes along with this week's episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12uMBOuW0oNeKlKcr2KxFpRgAAZCXgudzfcQTA8CR2pM/edit?usp=sharing.
If you're at all curious about what real biblical work looks like, feel free to check some out on my website:
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This episode is the first of many on the new series: Searching the Scriptures. Searching the Scriptures is a series where I will be going through content that I taught to some students at my church on the development of the Bible and hermeneutics (how we read the Bible). While the class is about the Bible as a whole, it is more focused on the Hebrew Bible (/Old Testament/TaNaKh); in this series, we will go through the following:
- Harmful Hermeneutics
- The Composition of the Bible
- The History of the Bible
- The Literature of the Bible
- The Cosmos of the Bible
- Searching the Scriptures Today
This episode not only opens up the series but conquers the first and most important issue: harmful hermeneutics. Before I got started on what the Bible actually is, I wanted to explain what the Bible wasn't - So that's what this episode is all about. In this podcast, I'll discuss some of the most common models that people read the Bible with (many times they don't even do so consciously) and the problems (and good intuitions) with all of them. You can find the packet that goes along with this week's episode here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RXJLYEHG3mzk2ekjwrx679w4MLP5RHBE2QuEcV4KVAw/edit?usp=sharing.
If you're at all curious about what real biblical work looks like, feel free to check some out on my website:
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Haven't posted in a while - I'm not abandoning the podcast, I'm working on making it even better! Filler episode coming soon and more consistent higher quality content a little bit later!
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This episode is the fourth and final of many on the Biblical (Un-Comfortable) Gospel that most contemporary Christians completely overlook because of their own unbiblical presuppositions. When hearing the word "Hell", many Evangelicals today get images of some dark, fiery, subterranean torture chamber under red demons with pointy-horns and angled wings whipping people around. If the Bible doesn't actually talk about Hell in this way, then what does the biblical Hell actually look like? This episode focuses on what Hell really is according to the Bible, its relationship with Sin, and their importance in light of the gospel.
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This episode is the third of many on the Biblical (Un-Comfortable) Gospel that most contemporary Christians completely overlook because of their own unbiblical presuppositions. When hearing the word "Heaven", many Evangelicals today get images of naked-baby-angels flying around disembodied spirits up in the clouds playing music on harps. If the Bible doesn't actually talk about Heaven in this way, then what does the biblical Heaven actually look like? This episode focuses on what Heaven really is according to the Bible, its relationship with Earth, and why its the center of the storyline of the Bible.
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This episode is the second of many on the Biblical (Un-Comfortable) Gospel that most contemporary Christians completely overlook because of their own unbiblical presuppositions. According to many Christians' loose definition of the term "biblical", Anihlationism, Universalism, Judaism, and even Isalm can be justified. If the Bible doesn't actually justify any of those, then what does it even mean for something to be biblical??? This episode focuses on what the term "biblical" even means and dismantles the many presuppositions that many Christians have about what the term "biblical" means.
Biblical References List:
-For the motif of the Waters of Death & Destruction: Genesis 1:2-31; 6-9; Exodus 14; Joshua 3; Matthew 3-4:11.
-For the motif of the Woman at the Well: Genesis 2:4-25, 24, 29:1-30; Exodus 2:15-21; Samuel 9:3-14; John 4:4-30.
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a note on the audio quality: for those who couldn't quite tell, this episode lacks quality audio. This is due to the fact that I have been testing different mics, editing, downloading, and uploading methods.
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This episode is the first of many on the Biblical Gospel that most contemporary Christians completely overlook because of the unbiblical presuppositions. This episode focuses not so much on what the Gospel is according to the Bible, but what it isn't. In this episode of the Biblonian, I analyze Ray Comfort's Gospel and explain why it is unbiblical (I guess you could say that the Gospel became un-Comfort-able).
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In this episode of the Biblonian, I tell the story of my trail of theology; that is, my life before I came to study theology, how I came to study theology and what I studied today. I thought that this episode would provide a lot of good background as to where I come from theologically speaking and establish some credibility that might help others to understand why I believe what I believe today and the research that guided me to get to where I am today.
If you're at all curious about what kind of work I have done throughout my trail of theology, feel free to check out on my website:
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Hey everybody! I'm Michael Light and this is my podcast: the Biblonian. I'm a layman who is crazy about the Hebrew Bible and Second-Temple Jewish theology. On this podcast, I'm exploring all of the Hebrew Bible and how it is all completed in the life, death, and resurrection of my Messiah Jesus.
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