Body and Blood: The Mysterious Origins of the Eucharist
The Eucharist is such a common part of Christian worship that it's easy to overlook how strange it is — drinking wine that represents Jesus's blood, eating bread that represents His flesh. The ritual ...
24 Kesä 202457min
A Crash Course in Biblical History with Dan McClellan
Join Helen and Dave as they attempt the impossible — to cover the entirety of biblical history in one fact-packed episode! To help us, we recruited Dan McClellan from the Data Over Dogma podcast to wa...
17 Kesä 20241h 3min
The History of Prayer from Ancient Judaism to Early Christianity
The "Song of Miriam" is one of the oldest verses in the Hebrew Bible and it's a prayer. What was the nature and role of prayer in ancient Israelite religion? And how can we trace the evolution of pray...
10 Kesä 202458min
Food: What Did They Eat in Ancient Israel?
Finally, Helen and Dave turn to the most important topic of any time period — food! What the heck did regular folks in the Levant eat back in the 12th and 11th centuries BCE? The Hebrew Bible is a lou...
3 Kesä 202454min
A Face-Melting Look at the Ark of the Covenant
If Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark is accurate, peering inside the fabled Ark of the Covenant will result in mild to severe face-melting and occasional head exploding. In the Hebrew Bibl...
27 Touko 202435min
The Case for Q, the 'Lost Gospel'
One of the longest-running debates among biblical scholars is over the existence of a hypothetical "lost gospel" called Q. If you compare the synoptic gospels — Mark, Matthew and Luke — there are simi...
20 Touko 202453min
Samson: Hero or Psychopath?
Of all the problematic heroes in the Hebrew Bible, Samson takes first prize. Samson is hailed as a hero of the Israelites — a "Nazirite" consecrated to God with superhuman strength — but he's also a m...
13 Touko 202442min
Gnosticism and the Nag Hammadi Library Explained
In 1945, dozens of previously unknown Christian texts were discovered near the Egyptian desert town of Nag Hammadi. Some texts were closely tied to the New Testament, like the Gospel of Thomas, but ot...
6 Touko 202450min
