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A Podcast of Biblical Proportions dives into ancient Hebrew history. Our time machine is the countless texts the ancient Hebrews wrote, including stories, historical accounts, songs, poems, prophecies, laws, rules, and regulations. Most of these texts can be found in the Hebrew Bible, aka the Old Testament or the Tanakh. This English-speaking podcast brings a new perspective to reading the Hebrew Bible — that of the person who wrote it, immersing ourselves in his world and perspective. We started with Genesis chapter 1, and have been proceeding in the order in which the texts appear in the Bible. Join Hebrew-speaking writer and editor Gil Kidron on a journey of biblical proportions into the lives of ordinary people living through extraordinary circumstances. Since Judaism and Christianity came out of their writings, the ended up laying the groundwork for so much of human culture.
In our final Exodus episode, we tackle the final 15 chapters of the book, which contain mountains of priestly lists. If you thought lists are boring, then wait till we go over them in context.
Click here to watch a short clip for how you change הכהן (The Priest) to בן נון (Son of Nun) without erasing a single letter, plus two other such examples/
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The Exodus code of civil and economic laws was a radical overhaul of Hebrew society meant to turn it from elitist to populist. When? In 140 BCE.
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The Ten Commandments were written at a particular place and time to change Hebrew society from a statue-worshiping elitist priestly society to a monotheistic populistic one.
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The two priestly Mount Sinai stories star two very different Moses(es), and these differences tell the epic tale of the fall and comeback of the priestly class.
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After getting to Mount Sinai, Moses and the Hebrew VIPs get to *see* their God. What does he look like? And why is he standing on sapphire?
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What meaning can we derive from the Bible if we look at it as written by people? Rabbi Adam Chalom, Dean of North America at the International Institute of Secular Humanistic Judaism and Rabbi of his congregation in Kol Hadash in Illinois, joins Gil to discuss.
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The story of the Golden Calf and Stone Tablets is one of the most famous stories ever written, and when we read it in context we can appreciate it to its fullest
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The Manna from Heaven story is not an account of the Hebrews eating magical bread in the desert, but a story about the destruction of Jerusalem (587 BCE) and the subsequent exile to Babylonia.
Manna from Heaven, Exodus 16:
2 The whole congregation of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the Wilderness.
3 The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt when we sat by the pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
6 So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, "In the evening, you shall know that it was Yahweh who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
7 and in the morning you shall see the glory of Yahweh, because he has heard your complaining against Him. For what are we? Your complaining is not against us but against Yahweh."
10 And as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the Israelites, they looked toward the Wilderness, and the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud.
11 Yahweh spoke to Moses,
12 "I have heard the complaining of the Israelites; say to them, 'At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall have your fill of bread; then you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.'"
13 In the evening, quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning, there was a layer of dew around the camp.
14 When the layer of dew lifted, there on the surface of the desert was a fine flaky substance, as fine as frost on the ground.
15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, "What is it?"
16 This is what Yahweh has commanded: Gather as much of it as each of you needs, an omer per person according to the number of persons, all providing for those in their own tents."
17 The Israelites did so.
19 And Moses said to them, "Let no one leave any of it over until morning."
20 But they did not listen to Moses; some left part of it until morning, and it became wormy and rotten. And Moses was angry with them.
21 Morning by morning they gathered it, as much as each needed, but when the sun grew hot, it melted.
22 On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much food, two omers apiece. When all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses,
23 he said to them, "This is what Yahweh has commanded: Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest a holy Sabbath to Yahweh; bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil, and all that is left over put aside to be kept until morning."
24 So they put it aside until morning, just as Moses commanded them, and it did not rot, and there were no maggots in it.
25 Moses said, "Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh; today you will not find it in the field.
27 On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.
28 Yahweh said to Moses, "How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and instructions?
29 See! Yahweh has given you ... on the sixth day... food for two days; each of you stay where you are; do not leave your place on the seventh day."
31 The Israelites called it Manna; it was like white coriander seed, and the taste of it was like wafers with honey.
32 Moses said, "This is what Yahweh has commanded: Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations in order that they may see the food with which I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt."
33 And Moses said to Aaron, "Take a container (צנצנת), and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations."
34 Just as Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the covenant, for safekeeping.
35 An omer is a tenth of an ephah.
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The regular episodes are coming back starting next week, and n the ensuing weeks we will finish up the book of Exodus!
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Gil discusses interesting theories with Bernie Maopolski from the Fan of History podcast and Garry Stevens from the History in the Bible podcast.
Listen here to Bernie's conversation with a linguistic archeologist about the Carthaginian words in Germanic theory .
Check out here Garry's Cartogram of the Roman Urban Population
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Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
New episodes every Monday.
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Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.
