A Podcast of Biblical Proportions

By Gil KidronReligion & Spirituality Education History Judaism

A Podcast of Biblical Proportions episodes

October 11 114 - Joshua the Kingslayer
The battles of Joshua the military leader are strikingly similar to those of a real-life Hebrew military leader, Judah the Maccabee
Let's become experts on the Maccabees together - listen to 1 Maccabees, chapter 1
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1 hr 12 min
September 27 113 - Joshua the Crosser of the River Jordan
Our first story of the season is the book's oldest and its most iconic. It was written by priests of Persian times who crossed the Jordan River on their way back home from captivity

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1 hr 1 min
September 11 112 - The Geography of the Holy Land
To get ready for the season of Joshua, let's get the lay of the land he is going to conquer. It's basically like a narrow rectangle between the desert and the sea.
Watch the view from Gezer
Watch the view from Hadid
Maps and pictures of the geography of the Holy Land

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44 min
August 30 111 - What is the Book of Joshua
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
Watch the view from Gezer
Watch the view from Hadid
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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37 min
August 23 Closing the Book on the Torah
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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46 min
August 16 The Odyssey vs the Bible: Storytelling and Historytelling
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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43 min
August 09 Collab: Hebrew and English Biblical Expressions
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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36 min
August 02 My Favorite Torah Verses
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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38 min
July 26 Collab: The Torah in the Last 2,000 Years
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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54 min
July 19 110 - The Seven Layers of Moses
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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50 min

About A Podcast of Biblical Proportions

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You can learn a lot about authors from the stories they write. Even biblical authors. Biblical authors were regular people, like you and I, even though their stories, poems and laws have gone on to…