A Podcast of Biblical Proportions

By Gil Kidron

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 sh... more

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June 14, 2026 Collab: From Chronicles to 2 Maccabees
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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41min
June 07, 2026 Collab: From Deuteronomy to the Apocalypse
Now that we've gone over all of Deuteronomy, Garry Stevens from the History in the Bible joins Gil to discuss how the broken promises of Deuteronomy led to the rise in apocalyptic literature
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43min
May 31, 2026 107 - The Deuteronomy Effect
In our final Deuteronomy summary episode, we're looking back at it as a divine promise given in 140 BCE. What happened when the promise was broken?
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38min
May 17, 2026 106 - Replacing Deuteronomy
After going over Deuteronomy and in our first season summary episode, we compare Deuteronomy to its arch nemesis, the Temple Scroll
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1h 2min
May 03, 2026 105 - The Death of Moses
In the final chapters of Deuteronomy, we build up to the death of Moses, which crowns his successor, predicts the future, blesses the people and dies. He gets an emotional eulogy, a fine send-off for the Hebrew hero
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1h 20min
April 19, 2026104 - The New Era Begins Today
On the inaugural Rosh Hashanah, 140 BCE, the Maccabean leader Shimon Thassi delivered the most beautiful speeches of Deuteronomy
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1h 30min
March 29, 2026 103 - The Most Important Day of His Life
Attend the Jerusalem Temple inaugural Yom Kippur ceremony, presided by the new High Priest Shimon Thassi
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1h 32min
March 15, 2026 102 - Total Reset
On the first day after Hebrew independence under the Maccabees, there was a total reset of every aspect of Hebrew society
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1h 17min
March 01, 2026 101 - The Hero and His Successor
The opening speeches of Deuteronomy recount suspiciously Maccabean chapters. Could this Moses be based on a real life "bigger than life" Hebrew hero?
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1h 29min
February 15, 2026 100 - Saving the Jerusalem Temple
The Maccabees had no choice but to take over the Jerusalem Temple from the priests, centralize worship there and destroy all other shrines in the land
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1h 25min

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