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The creators of BibleProject have in-depth conversations about the Bible and theology. A companion podcast to BibleProject videos found at bibleproject.com

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12.04.2023

The Revelation, the last scroll in the Bible, is an apocalyptic vision about the reordering of the entire cosmos. And like the conclusion of any good story, it brings together all the themes in the Bible, including the theme of ...

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12.04.2023 The Dragon of Revelation – Chaos Dragon E18 The Revelation, the last scroll in the Bible, is an apocalyptic vision about the reordering of the entire cosmos. And like the conclusion of any good story, it brings together all the themes in the Bible, including the theme of ...
11.27.2023 The Dragon in Paul's Letters – Chaos Dragon E17 The biblical theme of the dragon is a way to think of a personal foe, the Satan, and an impersonal force—the relentless power that exerts itself over humanity and all of creation. In this episode, Tim and Jon look at ...
11.20.2023 The Only Way to Slay the Dragon – Chaos Dragon E16 The theme of the chaos dragon runs all through the story of the Bible—along with the biblical authors’ expectation of a coming king who will one day slay the dragon for good. That dragon-slaying king is Jesus, but the way ...
11.13.2023 A Human With Power Over the Dragon – Chaos Dragon E15 As we’ve traced the theme of the chaos dragon in the Bible, we’ve come to expect what the biblical authors expect: a dragon-slaying king to come. When the gospel authors introduce us to Jesus, they’re quick to show that Jesus ...
11.06.2023 Daniel and the Four Monsters – Chaos Dragon E14 Daniel 7 describes an incredible, apocalyptic dream had by the prophet Daniel where he sees four chaos monsters oppressing the people of God. Just like the other dragon stories we've encountered in the Bible, Yahweh shows up in Daniel's vision ...
10.30.2023 Does the Dragon Sometimes Win? – Chaos Dragon E13 In the story of the Bible, the dragon is a recurring symbol of chaos, death, and destruction. The good news is, Yahweh is the dragon slayer, and he gives humans power over the dragon too. But in the Bible—and in ...
10.23.2023 The Dragon Slayer in the Psalms – Chaos Dragon E12 While the chaos dragon is not God’s rival--it’s the rival of creation--it is God’s enemy. The Psalms sometimes portray creation as the ordered result of Yahweh’s battle with the dragon, to bring order out of chaos. In this episode, Tim ...
10.16.2023 What Does it Mean to be Evil? – Chaos Dragon Q+R 1 Did God create disorder and chaos? What does it actually mean to be evil? And how do you tell your kids that in the Bible dragons are actually the “bad guys”? In this episode, Tim and Jon respond to your ...
10.09.2023 Was the World Ever Perfect? – Chaos Dragon E11 The theme of the chaos dragon raises some challenging questions. For instance, if God created a perfect world and humans messed it up, why did the dragon and the chaos waters exist at the beginning of the universe? Why would ...
10.02.2023 Jonah and the…Chaos Dragon? – Chaos Dragon E10 The story of Jonah employs all the major motifs of the theme of the chaos dragon: chaotic waters, a servant of God who rebels against him, and a great sea monster. But the story doesn't call it a sea monster—the ...
09.25.2023 The Dragon-Like Behavior of Three Nations – Chaos Dragon E9 When Israel chooses to act like the chaos monster instead of living like the people of God, God brings judgment on them. How? He sends other bigger monsters after them, namely, Babylon and Egypt. In this episode, Tim and Jon ...
09.18.2023 Isaiah and the Dragon – Chaos Dragon E8 What happens when the entire nation of Israel consistently aligns themselves with the dragon? They themselves become a chaos monster Yahweh has to deal with. In this episode, Tim and Jon explore the scroll of Isaiah and the prophet’s indictment ...
09.11.2023 David and Goliath the Dragon – Chaos Dragon E7 So often the symbol of the chaos monster shows up embodied by a human bent on oppressing other people. Goliath, one of the Bible’s most well-known bad guys, is depicted as having scaly armor like a snake and defying not ...
09.04.2023 Women Who Slayed Dragons – Chaos Dragon E6 In today’s episode, we once again encounter a theme that’s becoming all too familiar: humans becoming chaos monsters. Jabin, king of Canaan, and Sisera, the commander of his army, are depicted as serpents in Judges 4, and the humans who ...
08.30.2023 Is the Church a City? – The City Q+R 2 Was Cain’s city a good thing initially? If Israel was just as bad as Sodom and Gomorrah, why didn’t God destroy it too? And how will God redeem the city in the new creation? In this episode, Tim and Jon ...
08.28.2023 Power Over the Dragon in Exodus – Chaos Dragon E5 God created humans to bear his image, but sometimes we choose our own destruction and start to look a lot more like chaos monsters instead. In this episode, Tim and Jon discuss a human who the prophets frequently called a ...
08.21.2023 The Creature Crouching at the Door – Chaos Dragon E4 Genesis 3 is probably the most famous serpent-featuring story in the Bible—the moment we get to see humans and the nahash interact for the first time. Because the serpent lures the humans into choosing their own demise, it’s also the ...
08.14.2023 Ferocious Dragons and Rogue Stars – Chaos Dragon E3 Dragons show up on page one of the Bible, named among the beings that feature in the seven-day creation narrative in Genesis 1. God creates dragons to inhabit the chaos waters, and we meet one early on that tries (and ...
08.07.2023 The First Worldwide Meme – Chaos Dragon E2 When we read the word “myth,” often what comes to mind is a fictional story. However, a myth is a way of exploring universal concerns of human existence, using symbols for things we may or may not have words to ...
07.31.2023 Dragons in the Bible – Chaos Dragon E1 Nahash, tanin, leviathan––the Bible is full of strange words describing a creature many modern readers can’t quite categorize. All these words are ways of referring to a monster of the deep, a dragon. In this episode, Tim and Jon kick ...
07.24.2023 How Did Abraham Know About the City of God? – The City Q+R How could Abraham have anticipated a coming City of God, like the author of Hebrews said? What’s the connection between the shame of Adam and Eve and that of their son Cain? Was Genesis first an oral tradition, and how ...
07.17.2023 The Heavenly City – The City E13 In the Bible, cities have a bad reputation as centers of immorality and unrighteous living. First-century followers of Jesus continued to live in cities, but they lived by an other-worldly ethic set by Jesus. Their way of living was so ...
07.10.2023 Jesus, the New Jerusalem – The City E12 As the story of the Bible unfolds, the expectation for a city of God—a new Jerusalem where Heaven and Earth will be fully united—continues to grow. Yet the gospel authors seem to think this new Jerusalem is most fully realized ...
07.03.2023 Whose Idea Was the “City of God”? – The City E11 Cities appear to be inherently bad in the story of the Bible. So when Jesus calls his followers a city on a hill, what does he mean? And why is the vision of the new creation a city instead of ...
06.26.2023 Jesus’ Disciples Are a City – The City E10 The city of Jerusalem, established by David to be the home of God, is a glimpse of what a divine city could look like, but even Jerusalem becomes corrupt. Is there any kind of city we can actually put our ...
06.19.2023 Jerusalem: A Tale of Two Cities – The City E9 Israel was meant to be a picture of the heavenly city of God, but over time, it began to look more like Babylon, Nineveh, and Sodom and Gomorrah. In the scroll of Isaiah, the prophet announces Yahweh’s coming judgment on ...
06.14.2023 The Anointed Question and Response When Jesus tells Nicodemus people must be born again of water and Spirit, is that connected to the anointing theme? Is Jesus’ anointing in the Jordan supposed to remind us of the flood story? Does an antichrist have to first ...
06.12.2023 City of God or City of Cain? – The City E8 When we first read about Jerusalem in the Bible, it appears to be a golden city—founded by David, a center of victory, prosperity, and unity. But it doesn’t take long for the cracks to begin to show, and Jerusalem becomes ...
06.05.2023 The Bible's Most Famous City – The City E7 Jerusalem is the Bible’s image of what a city of God should be. But from the earliest moments of its founding, it's clear that even this city has problems. What will it take for a city to truly become like ...
05.29.2023 Can a City Be Good? – The City E6 At last, there’s a positive example of a city in the Bible, the capital city of Egypt under the rule of Joseph. In this episode, join Tim and Jon as they explore how a city—usually a perpetrator of death and ...
05.22.2023 Sodom and Gomorrah – The City E5 If Babylon is the worst city in the Bible, then Sodom and Gomorrah are a close second. The injustice and oppression in Sodom and Gomorrah are so pronounced that God sends a flood of justice to completely wipe out these ...
05.15.2023 The Biggest, Baddest City in the Bible – The City E4 You may have heard that Babylon was the biggest, baddest city in the Bible, but where did that reputation come from? Who founded the city, and what made it so detestable to God? In this episode, join Tim and Jon ...
05.08.2023 A Symptom of Human Violence – The City E3 As the story of the Bible unfolds, humanity grows more and more violent. Cain is more violent than his parents, and his descendants are more violent than him. In this episode, Tim and Jon discuss Lemek, Cain’s far more murderous ...
05.01.2023 Why Cain Builds a City – The City E2 In the story of the Bible, cities are a bad thing. They’re a symptom of humanity’s violence and attempts to protect themselves instead of trusting God. In fact, in the second chapter of Genesis, God “builds” something for humanity’s protection. ...
04.24.2023 The Surprise of the City – The City E1 The theme of the city in the Bible is a surprising one. When cities are introduced in the story, they’re depicted as “bad”—a human response to increasing violence and the need for self-protection—and gardens are depicted as humanity’s ideal setting. ...
04.17.2023 Jesus’ Anointing Ceremony – Anointed E6 “Jesus the anointed one” is the literal translation of the Greek title “Christ,” frequently applied to Jesus. In this podcast episode, Tim and Jon discuss both this title and Jesus’ baptism, which the gospel writers depict as his anointing ceremony. ...
04.12.2023 Firstborn Question and Response Do the biblical authors consider women the second-born siblings of men? Were Joshua and Caleb rivals? Why is Korah, the disgraced rebel, honored in the Psalms? In this episode, Tim and Jon dive into your questions from the firstborn series. ...
04.10.2023 The Anointed King in Psalms – Anointed E5 David’s life gives us two parallel portrayals of what it means to be God’s anointed one: one is victorious—God’s anointed is the giant feller and the snake crusher. The other one is a suffering servant, waiting patiently in the wilderness ...
04.03.2023 Isaiah’s Anointed One – Anointed E4 David was Israel’s greatest king, but even he failed to live as God’s anointed one. When Isaiah prophesied about the ultimate anointed one to come, he said that not only would this deliverer come from the line of David, but ...
03.27.2023 Saul the Anti-Anointed – Anointed E3 Israel’s first anointed king, Saul, consistently makes choices that put him in conflict with God and the responsibilities God has entrusted to him. This turns Saul into the first anti-anointed one—or put another way, the first antichrist. In this episode, ...
03.20.2023 What’s So Special About Oil? – Anointed E2 What’s so special about oil? Why does the Bible specify that oil—not water or wine—must be used to anoint a person or place? In this episode, Tim and Jon continue discussing the biblical theme of anointing, exploring why God designates ...
03.13.2023 "Christ" Is Not a Name – Anointed E1 The title most often applied to Jesus is “the anointed one”—that’s what the Greek word “christ” means! But what is the practice of anointing? What does it signify, and who gets anointed? The practice of anointing people with oil is ...
03.06.2023 The Firstborn of Creation – Firstborn E10 In our final episode of the Firstborn series, we look at the New Testament’s description of Jesus as the firstborn of creation. Join Tim and Jon as they explore some of Paul’s letters, the book of Hebrews, and the Revelation, ...
02.27.2023 How Will Jesus Use His Power? – Firstborn E9 Under levitical law, touching anyone unclean would make you unclean too. But when Jesus touches people who are unclean, they get healed and become clean instead––it’s like his holiness is contagious. In this episode, Tim and Jon talk about the ...
02.20.2023 God's Firstborn Son – Firstborn E8 The authors of the gospel accounts in the Bible—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—regularly refer to Jesus as the Son of God, a title that’s connected to the theme of the firstborn. In this episode, Tim and Jon explore what it ...
02.13.2023 David, the Latecomer King – Firstborn E7 In the scroll of Samuel, Israel demands a king in place of the judges that have been ruling over them. It sounds like a simple enough request, but Yahweh calls it idolatrous. Why? In this episode, Tim and Jon discuss ...
02.07.2023 What Is God’s Name? – Re-Release in Honor of Michael Heiser This episode is a special re-release of an interview we did in 2018 with Dr. Michael Heiser. Mike has been a significant influence to Tim’s own scholarship and, by extension, much of BibleProject’s content, as well as to thousands of ...
02.06.2023 Hannah’s Poem and Power Reversals – Firstborn E6 Hannah was an oppressed woman, scorned by her husband’s rival wife because of her barrenness. But the way she prayed and trusted Yahweh through this hardship became a remarkable example of how God works through the lowly to subvert human ...
01.30.2023 The Plague of the Firstborn – Firstborn E5 How does the plague of the firstborn from Exodus fit into the biblical theme of the firstborn? And what does it mean when Yahweh calls Israel his firstborn son? In this episode, Tim and Jon explore the theme of the ...
01.23.2023 Power Grabs and Patriarchs – Firstborn E4 Early in the story of the Bible, God chooses the family of Abraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac’s son Jacob as his chosen representatives to bless other peoples. But these families are full of the same rivalry, envy, and division ...

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The Dragon of Revelation – Chaos Dragon E18

The Dragon in Paul's Letters – Chaos Dragon E17

The Only Way to Slay the Dragon – Chaos Dragon E16

A Human With Power Over the Dragon – Chaos Dragon E15

Daniel and the Four Monsters – Chaos Dragon E14

Does the Dragon Sometimes Win? – Chaos Dragon E13

The Dragon Slayer in the Psalms – Chaos Dragon E12

What Does it Mean to be Evil? – Chaos Dragon Q+R 1

Was the World Ever Perfect? – Chaos Dragon E11

Jonah and the…Chaos Dragon? – Chaos Dragon E10

The Dragon-Like Behavior of Three Nations – Chaos Dragon E9

Isaiah and the Dragon – Chaos Dragon E8

David and Goliath the Dragon – Chaos Dragon E7

Women Who Slayed Dragons – Chaos Dragon E6

Is the Church a City? – The City Q+R 2

Power Over the Dragon in Exodus – Chaos Dragon E5

The Creature Crouching at the Door – Chaos Dragon E4

Ferocious Dragons and Rogue Stars – Chaos Dragon E3

The First Worldwide Meme – Chaos Dragon E2

Dragons in the Bible – Chaos Dragon E1

How Did Abraham Know About the City of God? – The City Q+R

The Heavenly City – The City E13

Jesus, the New Jerusalem – The City E12

Whose Idea Was the “City of God”? – The City E11

Jesus’ Disciples Are a City – The City E10

Jerusalem: A Tale of Two Cities – The City E9

The Anointed Question and Response

City of God or City of Cain? – The City E8

The Bible's Most Famous City – The City E7

Can a City Be Good? – The City E6

Sodom and Gomorrah – The City E5

The Biggest, Baddest City in the Bible – The City E4

A Symptom of Human Violence – The City E3

Why Cain Builds a City – The City E2

The Surprise of the City – The City E1

Jesus’ Anointing Ceremony – Anointed E6

Firstborn Question and Response

The Anointed King in Psalms – Anointed E5

Isaiah’s Anointed One – Anointed E4

Saul the Anti-Anointed – Anointed E3

What’s So Special About Oil? – Anointed E2

"Christ" Is Not a Name – Anointed E1

The Firstborn of Creation – Firstborn E10

How Will Jesus Use His Power? – Firstborn E9

God's Firstborn Son – Firstborn E8

David, the Latecomer King – Firstborn E7

What Is God’s Name? – Re-Release in Honor of Michael Heiser

Hannah’s Poem and Power Reversals – Firstborn E6

The Plague of the Firstborn – Firstborn E5

Power Grabs and Patriarchs – Firstborn E4

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