In this introductory episode to the sixth biblical book, we learn that it was written to provide the Maccabees with a biblical past they could say they were restoring

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Watch the geographical parallels between the conquests of the Maccabees and those of Joshua

A bit of info and pictures of the geography of the Holy Land

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In this final Torah summary, we go over things we missed and recap how we found the biblical authors of the Torah and academia didn't.

Our list of biblical authors and the texts they wrote

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The epics of the Odyssey and the Bible have a lot in common. Rutger Vos joins Gil to discuss the new Christopher Nolan movie

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There are many expressions in Hebrew and English derived from the Bible. Garry Stevens from the History in the Bible podcast joins Gil to compare

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Gil chooses his favorite verses from the first five biblical books: some are beautiful, others are personal and some are funny

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As we are moving on from the Torah portion of the Bible, it's a good opportunity to broaden the scope and discuss the life of the Torah in the last 2,000 years, after it was completed. For that, we have a special guest: Dr. Jonathan Friedmann is a scholar of ancient Hebrew and Jewish music, vice president of Ezzree Institute, associate professor at the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, president of the Western States Jewish History Association, director of the Jewish Museum of the American West, and co-host of the podcast & YouTube interview show, Amusing Jews. He's also the author or editor of over 30 books on music, Jewish history, and popular culture. 

Check out Dr. Friedmann's book Goliath as Gentle Giant

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In this Torah summary episodes, we're reviewing Moses. Moses is the great hero of the Torah, the Pentateuch and one of the most popular and important characters in human history, but his character episodeis a combination of several characters sewn together

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In 140 BCE, the Maccabees and Levites broke apart the priestly narrative and drowned it out in their own to create the Torah we have today

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In this first Torah summary, we're looking back at the writers who lived between 600 BCE and 450 BCE, their lives, circumstances and iconic biblical stories

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After getting to know Maccabean times so well, if we compare the Maccabean book 2 Maccabees with the biblical book Chronicles, we will see that they seem to have been written by the same people. Garry Stevens from the History in the Bible podcast joins Gil to discuss.

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