All Things Wild and Wonderful Podcast

This week we begin the book of Proverbs, tackling the first 10 chapters.

Episode 7 is here, bringing us to the end of the book of Exodus!

In this episode, we're looking at Exodus 11-22.

As promised, here is the second half of episode 5, in which I devote some time to the Psalms. There’s a lot going on in this section, including the great Psalm Jesus himself cited from the cross, Psalm 22 (Vulgate 21).

As mentioned in the episode, I did an exhibit on this Psalm for the Visual Commentary on Scripture. If you’d like to dig more into the theology of the Psalm and my claim that it should be viewed not as a cry of dereliction, but as a cry of faith, check it out here: https://thevcs.org/great-cry.

As always, feel free to comment here or in the Facebook group to keep the conversation going!

Returning after a bit of a hiatus, we finish off Mark and get into Exodus. We cover a lot of ground here, including some humorous moments (at least to me) and the grossness of the plagues.

This week we’re looking at Genesis 18-36, which takes us through some major events in the lives of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We’ll also be looking at the numbering of the Psalms, which differs in the Vulgate from contemporary editions.

Here we go! This week we kick off the reading of the Vulgate with the first 17 chapters of Genesis. Host Junius Johnson talks about some of the grammar you’ll find in these chapters, some vocabulary issues, and makes some observations about Jerome’s spin on some familiar stories.

In Episode 1, Dr. Junius Johnson introduces the Vulgate translation of the Bible: who made it, when was it made, why was it made, when was it adopted, etc.

* You can download the reading plan as a pdf here.

* The music in the introduction is Auf, schmetternde Töne der muntern Trompeten (“Awake, Blaring Sounds of Lively Trumpets!”) (BWV 207a) by Johann Sebastian Bach. The piece was probably premiered in 1735. This recording is made by Brass of an arrangement for brass quintet by Hubert Meixner.

* The image for this episode is the beginning of the Gospel of Mark from the Codex Amiatinus Vulgate, held in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (available here).