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The Bible as Literature — 935 episodes
You Are Not the Subject
Look Upon My Son
Light upon Light
Carried by Night
The Bundle of the Living
The Declining Day
What Did You Go Out to See?
The Khalīfa, the Slave, and the Adversary
The the Cure Waits for the Kingdom
Isaiah in the Streets
The Hidden Pillar
God is Not Mocked
Seen, and Sent
Reconciling Insufficiency
A Word Against the Witnesses
The Sound of God
God Sees All
By God's Command
Crowd of Thorns
One is the Only Number
Unsettled Settlement
Despair and Light
Lift Up Your Gates
Incense and Ash
The Desert Knows His Name
The Staff Rebellion
The Mirror is Not Your Friend
Lex Maligna, Lego Inferna
Presence of Absence
Join the Rebellion
I Am Not a Greek
The Liberation of the Land
Internalized Racism
The Arrogance of Job
Sing to the Lord a New Song
Glory to the Most High
Forget, Lest You Forget
It's Literature
It's Personal
May God Cover Us
God is the Light
God Is Not Shy
And of My Descendants?
They Built Themselves High Places
To the Text
Do You See?
I’m Your Lily
God Has Spoken
God is Sufficient
A Greek Tragedy Takes Flesh—and Still Dwells Among Us
Alexander's Seed
A Stranger and a Sojourner in the Land
The Only Vote That Counts
Sola Syntaxis and the Honorable Man
Canon Disrupted
Thorny Trees Are Not for Normie Trees
You Already Know the Answer
Father of Peace?
Why is There Violence in Deuteronomy?
The Battle is Literary
A Sign and a Proof
An Offer You Can’t Refuse
It Exists to Resist
The Hand That Gives
You Have Been Found
Announcing: The Slow Bible Study
The Aleph is Not the Alpha
The Prophetic Command
Observe the Faithful Swoon
The Only One Who Loves
Power Referential
We Are the Evil
Necessity, the Mother of Obligation
One of These Things
Needy Teachers
If You Love Me
Extrospection
Excursus: Freedom in Christ
How Could Architecture be Christian?
Paul Warned Us
Origen Was a Monster
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Resist
Stop Preaching Your Gods
You Become What You Accept
Against Consensus
The Bible is Making Fun of You
A Maskil
Lie to Yourself, Please
Facts Not Narratives
In Time and Out of Time
Scripture is its Own Interpreter
Poor Josiah
Uncle Saleḥ
The Anti-Kingly Stance
I Reject Your Gods
Practical Examples
Respect
The Hebrew Names
We, the Dummies
Give the Land a Break
I Have No Value
He Blesses and He Curses
Your Knowledge is a Sin
You Shall Not Rule
In One of the Days
Ask the Native Americans
Narcissism
Take it Back Home or Leave it Outside
The Jubilee Year
What Was Lost Has Been Found
Listen to the Torah
It All Belongs to God
Meetings Proclaimed by God
Let’s Talk About the Amalekites
Justice in the Marketplace
Choose a Side!
Common Sense
Wait for the Lord
You May Not Apply Two Rules
It Is Neither “Complex” nor “Sensitive”
Adam Has No Clothes
We Are All Elohim’s Human Animals
The Blood is the Nephesh
In Memory of Fr. Daniel Simon
Yom Kippur
MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN
The Cancellation of the Priests
‘abd allah
Last Words
The Function Little Crow
What is Being Offered
The Staff of Levi
The Ecclesia is Moving
To Muzzle, Dominate, and Overhelm
Let the People Hear It
The Semitic Triliteral
A Portion for the Priest
Keep Your Hands Off
The Meaning of Terms
God Does Not Speak English
Music and War
Abjad Languages
Do Not Pray
Jesus Says, "No!"
Right in the Eyes of the Lord
The Most High is Your Dwelling
Love Those Shiny Buttons
The Colonial Plague
Statutes of Your Fathers
Bread and Stone
The Utterances of God
In the Wilderness
Even AI Cannot Depict This
Epilogue: You Are Not Elohim
The Ultimate Covenant
The Toledot of Elohim
The Five Fingers
Glorify the Canaanites so That You May Live Long in the Land
People Do Not Change
Arise, O God, Judge the Earth
A Process of Judgment
No Security Blankets
I Gave Them Statutes That Were Not Good
Heritage is Not Ancestral
Set Free From You
Understanding Irrelevance
For I Am Compassionate
A Mental Vacancy
First and Foremost
I Believe in One God
You May Not Sin Toward the Ox or the Ass
Cowardice
God is the Only Melech
Sin is Crouching at the Door
Fear the Judge
King, Priest, and Oppression
The Disrespect of God
Son of Man, Son of David
Into Nothingness
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Steadfast Love
The Ties That Corrupt
Ten Statements
Judgment As Hope
Unto the Age
Bow or Walk Away
The Sinai Covenant
Ruling Your Illusions
You Have it in the Text
Compassion is Personal
Hearing the Story
Lysanias
Imagine Moving With Tents
Even Jesus Had to Wait
Manna and Quail
Grace and Obedience
From Oasis to Oasis
Ransomed from Captivity
The Pasture of Your Holiness
God's New Deal
One Text and the Beginning of Wisdom
Stand Your Ground
The Hand of God
Simon or Simeon
A Sign is Not a Miracle
Opener of the Womb
Consecrate to Me
Your Thirst
To Raise the Face
The Age of Wisdom
No Issues Please
The Lord’s Passover
Mashallah
Signs of the Spoil
The Fallacy of Identity
The Green
Dividing the Flock
Sleight of Hand
Anti-History, Anti-Romulus
The Ten Plagues
Grudge Match
Let My People Go
Which Spirit?
Listen, Don’t Read
Tender Mercies
Speak My Word
Amnesty and Accountability
God From God
Be Neighborly
God Speaks Biblical Hebrew
The Command of God
Romulus Was a Thug and a Criminal
You Should Not Enjoy Scripture
Quiet, Zacharias is Speaking
Dabar, Voice, Staff
It Was Zacharias
The Wilderness
Fierce Loyalty
The Domain of God
Just Burp, Again
Immerse Yourself
Neighbors and Relatives
Midian
Don’t Be Lame
Just Burp
It’s Just News
Either/Or
Mercy and Fear
Like a Woman in Travail
Magnify the Lord
Four Verbs
The Sound of a Greeting
Hear Me Out
The Itinerary of the Spirit
These Are the Names
I Know Jesus and I Know Paul
Against Humanity
Three Things
No One Is Special
Birth Pangs
The Journey of Jacob Israel
Bow to the Chair
The Sheep Are Not a Flock
The Preacher
Ephraim and Manasseh
Anti-History, Anti-Patriarchy
Back to Joseph
Power and Control
About Judah
Nobody Else But You
Person, Persona, Prosopon, Mask
Nothing Good Comes From Us
The Cycle of Joseph, Ad Nauseam
The Jerusalem Above Is Free
The Oasis Is Not Yours
You Are Not Doing Anything
You Are Done With
Fire and Blood
The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness
A Tree, a Garden, and an Oasis
The Kingdom Under the Heavens
The City of False Religion
It’s Ok to Laugh
The Spirit of the Animal
Break it Up
Mark This Verse
Jesus Has Left the Building
Against Bethel
The Liberation of the Gospel
A Mark of Weakness
Cathedrals and Bombs
The Terror and the Glory
A Tower and a Rock, At a Distance
A Small Stone and a Big Pyramid
The Cowardly Centurian
A Stone is a Stone is a Stone
The Return of the Remnant
The Missing Link
Please Don’t Find Yourself
Jacob’s Sons
No Confusion
With the Lord
Sticking it to the Man
Not Your Connections
Thou Shalt Not Speak for Jesus
Against the Temple
A King Like Stalin?
Matstsebah
The Lost Sheep
You’re Making Up Your Own Story
The Rejection of Yahweh
Anti-Civilization
Which Son, Pilate?
The Children of Abraham
Announcing "Tell Me the Story"
You Said It
The Platonic “We”
The Worthless Shepherd
God and Lord God
Give Them Something to Eat
If You Don’t Like It, Shove Off
Empty Tears
In the Arms of a Hittite
Ideological Impurity
It’s That Serious
On the Record
Leave Eden to God
It Might Be a Duck
It’s Not That Simple
Put Away the Sword
Isaac Obeyed
An Offer You Can’t Refuse
Because Abraham Obeyed My Voice
Failed Watchmen
Salama, Aslama, Salam
The Problem With Peter
You Hear the Text
Not As I Will
No! No! You Have to Know!
The Bitter Pill
The More You Know Scripture
Pink Floyd and Mr. Rogers
Another Wife
It’s All About You!
It Can Be Done
You Are Not Ancient
How Many Ships?
Judas Iscariot
Live Long and ṣālēaḥ
A Poverty of Instruction
Debarim
An Ordinary Guy
Abraham and Isaac
There Will Be No Flags in the Kingdom
Let’s Make it Functional
Repeat These Words
Hebron
Flash-forward, Be Afraid
The People of the Land
Wisdom
Non-Owners
Not Our Mercy
The Blessing
The Merchant Class?
It’s a Big Deal
Take It and Work It
Interlocked
In the Fear of God
Abraham’s Obedience
The Jury is Still Out
One of a Kind
Bread and Oil
The Scriptural Premise
Epilogue: Create in Me a Clean Heart
Create in Me a Clean Heart
Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
Not Before the Time
“But,” Not “So”
Scripture Unedited
Grigoreo!
Curse and Destruction
Christ is Risen!
Vexed!
Doulos: It is Vexed!
But of That Day
ṣaddîq and yāḵaḥ
These Words Are Permanent
Progeny and Lies
The Things Which God Destroys
The Roman Household
The Truth is Not Out There
A Human Being is a Human Being
Escape from Jerusalem
Grace is for Free
Fear is the Enemy
The Just Judge
The Bible Interprets Itself
Put in His Place
Inscribed on Your Brain
Broken Hearts
A Whirling Graveyard
The Scriptural Canaan
A Desolate House
Inclusive, Not Exclusive
The Avenger
Circumcision of the Heart
A Light to the Nations
Beer-lahai-roi
False Prophets
Hagar
Blind Guides
This is What Sheep Do
Above the Heavens
Covenant with Abram
Do Not Become Like Us
King of Salem
Humiliation
We Are Not It
Do Not Lead by Example
Shepherd Lingo
Whose Son is He?
In Spite of Abraham
Pecking Order
The Covenant of Circumcision
All Earthly Cares
Chosen But Not Special
Of Course They Say That
An Ominous Joke
They Still Don’t Get It
The Oaks
Jesus Doesn’t Need Friends
The Story of Abram
We Are All Guests
Nahor
Hope in Destruction
He Does Whatever He Pleases
Running Out of Chances
Decoding Genesis 1-11
Talk Is Cheap
Thou Hast Diminished Him
Consigned to Ignorance
It Has to Be Real
An Expiration on Grace
Meaning, Connotation, and Function
True Worship
The Spirit of God
Victory March
Through the Nostrils
A Plan in Motion
ḥorbah, ḥarabah, yabbašah
What Do You Will?
The Sea Animals
To Serve as a Slave
Instruments of God’s Will
Not Mine to Give
The Dry One
The Anti-Imperial Throne
The Day is Defined by God
The Marketplace of Humanity
The Big Deal with Hibdil
The First Will Be Last
Darkness and Waters
No Good Thing
The Heavens and the Earth
Mic Drop
Part of the Whole
Mission Priority
Is That for Real?
Certificate of Divorce?
New Podcast on ESN: The Way
Out of the Rubble
The Sword of Damocles
Reshith
On the Hook
Nothing New Under the Sun
If Your Brother Sins
Asah and Bara
The Boot of Caesar
Ingenious, Indeed
One of These Things Is Not like the Other
Period, Comma?
Turn Like a Child
A New Thesis
The Law of Love
By Their Families
The Will to Teach
The First Three Letters
Son of Man
Seeding Seed
Son of God
The Command of Yahweh Elohim
Accountability for the Cross
Kyrios O Theos
Don’t Pick a Side
Yahweh Elohim
Simon, Bar Jonah
The Moon and the Sun
It’s Time to Take a Stand
Why the Plural?
The Bread of the Gospel
Factual is the Opposite of Real
A Sign From Heaven
Real and Realistic
On the Way
Elohim
Up on the Mountain
The Author’s Intent
If I Were a Rich Man
Bereshit Bara Elohim
Thank You, God of the Universe
There is No “Is”
The Problem of Fundamentalism
The Itinerant Word
Dirty Hands
Nahor
Who’s Afraid of Ghosts?
The Missing Toledot
The Daily Bread
Toledot of Shem
The Coalition of the Blind
To Moisten
This Is John the Baptist and These Are His Enemies
One Language
Merry Christmas
The Children of Eber
Wisdom is My Tribe
These Are the Families
Taught Into the Kingdom
Under the Tent of Shem
It’s Not for Sale
The Noahic Covenant
It’s All About the Wheat
Life Blood
Hidden in Plain Sight
Everything That Swarms
There Are No Good Guys
Upon Ararat
Roots Not Fruits
Out of Control
Ignorance and Blindness
Let Every Breath
Seek and Ye Shall Find
Two by Two
The Seed Does What the Seed Does
Birds, Kings, and Shepherds
A New Tribe
It’s an “Ark” Not an “Ark”
Mitzvah!
Why Do You Call Me Lord?
The Nephilim
Read the Signs
Third Time’s Not a Charm
You Know a Tree by It’s Fruit
Be Patient and Submit
The Ultimate Sin
There is No New Humanity
Binding the Strong Man
Son of Man
Teach and Move
Ha Adam
The Lord of the Sabbath
Ha Adam or Adam?
God Doesn’t Need Our Bread
When Men Begin
The Father
In Spite of Cain
It’s Worse for Us
A New Seed
Ideology is Idolatry
What He Undertakes
More Than a Prophet
Name and Function
Immigration Letter
The Kingdom of the Heavens
The Only Avenger
To These Little Ones
Cain and Abel
Bringer of the Sword
East of the Garden
Fear Wisdom
The Curse
Daniel Anthony del Castillo
How the Gospel Uses Fear
Nahash
Are You Worthy?
The Serpent
Do Not Muzzle the Ox
Man and Woman
The One Who Betrayed Him
Out of the Man
First Things Last
To Serve and To Keep
The Lord of the Harvest
Toward the East
Don’t Address the Critics
Elleh Toledot
Two Blind Men
The Seventh Day
Clean and Unclean
Male and Female
The Bridegroom
Image and Likeness
The Tax Collector
Ish and Isha
The Forgiveness of Sins
Living Breath
On Caesar’s Turf
Eretz and Adamah
Pressure and Order
The Dry Land
Leave the Dead
The Second Day
Peter’s Household
One Day
The Roman Household
Light and Darkness
The Witness of the Leper
Grammatical Functionality
These Words
Biblical Function
Not Everyone Who Says, “Lord, Lord”
The Waters
Beware of False Prophets
Tohu wa-bohu
The Narrow Path
The Title of Scripture
Ask, Seek, and Knock
Toledot
Dogs, Swine, and Pearls
The Triliteral Root
Only One Opinion Counts
The Language of Scripture
Sufficient for the Day
Five Smooth Stones
The Lilies of the Field
Adamah and Eretz
Treasure in Heaven
Possess vs. Inherit
The Lord’s Prayer
Hypertextuality
It’s Not Hyperbole
The Maccabees
False Humility
Saul
Be Perfect
Biqah, Shinar, Babel
Empty Promises
Shemites
Love is Not a Feeling
Moses as Anti-Hero
Every Last Cent
No Better Establishment
Not One Iota
The Purpose of the Greek Epics
Salt of the Earth
Scripture as a Totality
Blessings and Insults
Shamar
Clarity of Purpose
The Chicken or the Egg?
The Fruit of the Spirit
Who is the Adversary of Whom?
Direct My Footsteps
The Maskilim
Nets of Our Own Making
Flip of the Coin
On the Margin
To Be, or Not to Be?
Jesus Does Not Speak
King David
W.W.J.B.?
Eden and the Four Rivers
The Axe is at the Root
Lost in Translation
Subjugation of Identity
Shepherdism
A New Branch
Judges 2:10-23
It's Not a Fortune Cookie
Palásh
The Liberation of Egypt
In Christ Jesus
Rejoice, O Unwedded Bride
Hope As a Mindset
And You, Bethlehem
Raised
The People’s Hero
Aman
Not From Men
Hebel
The Last Generation
Denial of Cultural Superiority
God Will Establish
The Septuagint
Perpetual Decline
The Language of the Biblical God
The Intent of Man's Heart
Biblical Mashal
Solomon the Wise?
The Anti-Homeric Epic
The City of David?
The Imposition of Greek
Breaching the High Wall
Cyrus, His Anointed
Prime Real Estate
Tadmor in the Wilderness
What Kind of Messiah?
The Hellenistic Period
A Time for Shade?
Two Exiles
Who is Wasting Whose Time?
Ur of the Chaldeans
How Many Times Do I Have to Ask?
The Syrian Desert
The Word is in Control
Genesis 1-11
Remedial Prophecy
Saved Under the Regime
The Sword of the Spirit
Biblos Geneseos
Arise, O God, Judge the Earth
The Rise of Scripture
Your Acceptance is Not Required
Do Not Be Amazed
You Foolish Galatians
Into the Darkness
Trust in the Lord
Gilgal Golgatha
The Bringer of the Law
Neither Nor
Stockholm Syndrome
Peter and Judas
How Do You Catch a Cloud?
All Have Turned Aside
Seeing With Your Ears
Table Fellowship
We Are Judas
A Scathing Self-Critique
Opinions Are Cheap
I'll Sleep When I Die
The Time is Now
He Will Teach You What to Say
Hurricanes, Temples and Tyrants
All That She Had
There is Only One God
Commandment Without End
Ideological Entrapment
Unless the Lord Builds the House
Preaching With Authority
Read the Signs
Nothing But Leaves
The Boss of Me
Blind Trust
Wisdom Bears Repeating
True Wisdom is Painful
God is the Possessor
Suffer the Kingdom
What Does the Law Say?
Context, Context, Context!
Selective Hearing
Jesus, Give Us a Word!
It's All About Priorities
Listen to Him
Who is the King of Glory?
Who is Testing Whom?
The Bread of Life
This People Honors Me With Their Lips
She Has Ears to Hear
Do Not Follow Your Heart
Call No Man Unclean
Neither Snow, Nor Rain, Nor Heat, Nor Gloom of Night
The Voice of the Shepherd
It's Your Move, Herod
It's Not About the Teacher
Familiarity Breeds Contempt
Give Her Something to Eat
The First Disciple
Why Are You Bowing?
Why Are You Afraid?
Like a Mustard Seed
#cursed #afflicted #persecuted #amen
It's Not About the Soil
Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit
He Sent Them Out
Bread and Circuses
Jesus Proclaimed the Letter of the Law
Step Forward or Step Aside
Don't Be Fooled by the Crowds
Do Not Be Amazed, Be Obedient
A New Teaching?
Pleased With Himself
A Path in the Wilderness?
Eye of the Needle Jokes
Third Time is Not a Charm
It's Not a Two-way Street
Silence is Not Golden
Let No One Think Me Foolish
The Great Corinthian Brain Hack
A Yo Yo for Your Sake
No Thanks to You
The Bus Keeps Moving
True Equality is Not Fair
The Story of God's Will
Repeat, Repeat, Repeat!
Life is Not Gray
Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It
The Great Divorce
Don't Get Comfortable
Which Life is Life?
From Glory to Glory
Who is Testing Whom?
Wax On Wax Off
The Blessing and the Curse
Whistling to the Flock
Baptism for the Dead
According to the Scriptures
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent
Five Words
A More Excellent Way
Hell Was Created Just for Me
Paul's Kung Fu
A Tribe of One?
First Among Average
Trickle Up Economics
Not So Smart After All
How To Play Both Sides Without Waffling
Not Your Ordinary Life Coach
Égoïsme à deux
The Problem Within
The Art of Biblical Shame
Neither is Anything
Spiritual Authority
A Practical Impracticality
An Appeal to Fellowship
Epilogue: Freeing the Dove
Unearned Suffering: In Memory of John Price
The Sons of Jacob
The Children of Hagar
Only the Dead are Perfect
Broken for the Sake of the Poor
God is My Judge
No Oxygen Allowed
Bless Thine Inheritance
Hear, O Daughter
Waking Ned Devine
Dialogue is the Problem
Their Confusion is at Hand
Grant Victory Against Me
Knock Yourself Out
The Empire Strikes Back
The Tower of Babel
The Problem of the Justified
Until the Lord Comes
Famous for Scrubbing Toilets
Man Cannot Judge
Play the Cards You're Dealt
Judgment As Hope
Stick To It, Don’t Stick It To Yourself
Back From Greece
You Can’t Take It With You
Two Are Better Than One
Turn Turn Turn
The Pursuit of Happiness?
A Generation Goes and a Generation Comes
Because You Have Rejected Knowledge
Choosing the Better Portion
It’s Not Who You Know
What Has Athens To Do With Jerusalem?
Your Feelings Are Immaterial
Be It Known to You O King
The Truth is Your Neighbor
Ignorance is Not Bliss
What is a Spirit?
Spend It Before You Lose It
Fat of the Land
Come and See
Broken Records
The Marketplace
Blood Sacrifice
Boring Texts
Interview with Fr. Timothy Lowe
Wheat, Wine, and Oil
What’s More Important?
Interview with Dr. Mary Youssef
Cloud of Witnesses
Who's Your Daddy?
Playing All Sides
The Apostle Paul's Book Club
Society of Biblical Literature
The Dead Shall Hear the Voice of God and Live
Torah to the Gentiles
I, Paul
Do Not Feed Thyself
Ezekiel 33: Double or Nothing
It's All About the Shepherd
O How the Mighty Have Fallen
Lamentations
Richard Goes to OCF
Whose wife or whose son?
Happily Ever After?
Out of Egypt
Are You Rich?
Live from St. Cloud
Not Before the Time
Stay as You Are
(#29 Republished) Our Daily Bread
(#28 Republished) Jesus Goes to High School
Our Daily Bread
Jesus Goes to High School
Do Not Heal Thyself
Thy Kingdom Come
Countless Teachers?
Jacob's Folly
No Place to Lay Your Head
Interview with Dr. Greg Paulson
Push the Text
You Say You Wanna Teach?
Can These Bones Live?
Interview with Fr. Sergius Halvorsen
Shame on Who?
Who is the King of Glory?
The Wrong Side of the Law
Follow the Storyline
Interview with Fr. Paul Tarazi
The Merciful Father
Harlotry and Loyalty
Destruction of Jerusalem
Suffer Little Children
It's Functional!
Whose Interpretation?
Consumer or Consumed?
Pain of Victory
Written on the Heart
Interview with Dr. Nicolae Roddy
Interview with Fr. William Mills