Episode Thirty-Nine // Conversation with Dr Merrill Greene

Y’all, I had pretty much no idea what I was walking into when I signed up to chat with the newly doctored Merrill Greene, but I AM SO GLAD I DID.This conversation was wide-ranging, but everywhere we roved, I was the better for it. Not only do we get into some of the nitty-gritty on his Dead Sea Scrolls research, we also tie some observations into Christian practice & experience, with some pastoral implications for how we might want to “be” in the world today.I hope you’ll find this conversation enlightening, and as always, would love to hear any thoughts or questions you might have.Merrill’s “The Weirdness Of God” book is available here, and his dissertation (which is the main thing we talked about) is available here. Oh, and as promised, here is an open-source (i.e. “potentially problematic”) link as a starting place on the idea of Merkabah Mysticism. Get full access to Marc Jolicoeur (aka Jolly Thoughts) at marcjolicoeur.substack.com/subscribe