This Bible Bard podcast episode is BB-126 The Bible as Text. The Bible explicitly comments on itself as historically written eyewitness-based accounts of events that were archived, transmitted, and preserved for future generations. Of course, critics claim that is not the case. In this podcast episode I want to look at what the Bible says about itself and briefly note the contradictions of critics.

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The Bible Bard podcast episode is BB-125_Two Boy Kings. In the text of the Hebrew Bible, we have only two boys who became kings when they were children (under 9 years of age). The Bible explored this trope way before either classical Greece or Imperial China. The Bible often links characters in pairs—Cain and Abel, Jacob and Esau, David and Jonathan, Elijah and Elisha, Mary and Martha, and many others. These pairings are not usually explained with direct moral lessons. Instead, meaning emerges through comparison and you can use literary methodologies to determine what is going on.

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Bible Bard podcast episode BB-124_A Proverb and Riddle about Wealth. In Psalm 49, this writer presents three radical ideas that challenge both ancient and modern religious assumptions. These ideas directly oppose what human beings have believed in nearly every culture.

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Bible Bard podcast episode BB-123_The Metaphor of the Cup. As listeners to this podcast know, we are interested in reading the Bible as literature because that method delivers us from ideology. We want to know directly what the literature of the Bible says for ourselves. We find when reading that the text is full of figurative language. In today’s episode we look at another metaphor, the metaphor of the cup.

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Bible Bard podcast episode BB-122_God’s Foolishness and Weakness discusses the use of irony and paradox in the biblical text, looking at the idea presented that God is foolish and God is weak.

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Bible Bard podcast episode BB-121 More on Mercy and Judgment adds to and clarifies the content of BB-118 Mercy Triumphs over Judgment.

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Bible Bard podcast episode BB-120 Four Insults Directed at Jesus Christ looks at what his enemies said to him while he was pinned to the cross and apparently defeated. I analyze this text using literary methods to discover who is speaking and how what they say relates to various episodes during the life of Jesus.

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Bible Bard podcast episode BB-119 Prediction and Prophecy, concerns biblical prophecy and prediction in the Bible and in the secular world. In this episode we compare Modern symbolism to Biblical symbolism and try to understand the difference in how Biblical prephecy relates to history.

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In Bible Bard episode BB-118 Mercy Triumphs over Judgment we look at a single verse from the book of James that places these two concepts together in the writer's admonition.

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In Bible Bard episode BB-117 What Motivates God we are looking at Psalm 31 that provides three (3) reasons that God acts in the world. These reasons are distinguished from other religions whose gods act out of different motivations. Using inductive methodology, we explore other texts in the literature that support and clarify the three motivations of Ps 31.

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Follow along reading Psalms 31.