It Means What It Means

On this episode, Jared talks about his experience at the 2023 American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature combined annual meeting. He attended presentations by the following scholars: David A Burnett, Jeremy Williams, Jason Staples, Ryan C Chester, and Hindy Najman. Click here to find out where you can follow and support the podcast.

On this episode, Jared talks with Alexiana Fry about her book Trauma Talks in the Hebrew Bible: Speech Act Theory and Trauma Hermeneutics. Alexiana references or recommends Precarious Life, Esther Brownsmith, Appalling Bodies, Rape Culture in the House of David, Feminist Trauma, Texts after Terror, Good Book, Does Scripture Speak for Itself?, Living a Feminist Life, Abusing Religion, Babel, Atalanta, Lilith, The Book of Eve, God’s Monsters, Donna Tartt, Pachinko, and make sure to check out Jenny Matheny’s OnScript interview. Click here to find out where you can follow and support the podcast.

In this episode Jared Talks to Chris Tilling about the book Beyond Old and New Perspectives on Paul: Reflections on the Work of Douglas Campbell.  Books mentioned in the podcast: Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul;  Commentary on Galatians; The Letter to the Romans: Paul Among the Ecologists; The Letter to the Romans (New International Commentary on the New Testament); The New Interpreter’s Bible Commentary Volume IX: Acts, Introduction to Epistolary Literature, Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, Galatians; and Paul for Everyone: Romans, Part One. Chris recommended that listeners check out OnScript and Apocalypse Here. Click here to find out where you can follow the podcast.

On this special Halloween episode, Jared talks with Heather Macumber about here book Recovering the Monstrous in Revelation, which is part of the series Horror and Scripture. Heather recommends Apocalypse against Empire, The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition, Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation, “The Haunting of Jesus: Reading Mark through the Gothic Mode”, The Mountain in the Sea, Hamnet, The Sparrow, and The Count of Monte Cristo. Click here to find out where you can follow the podcast. Happy Halloween, everyone!

In this Episode Jared talks to Jodi Magness about her article “Toilets and Toilet Humor in the Story of Eglon’s Murder by Ehud” from the March 2023 issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature. Professor Magness also recommended her book The Archaeology of the Holy Land: From the Destruction of Solomon’s Temple to the Muslim Conquest; the work of archaeologist Eric H Cline;  and Great Courses by her, Bart Ehrman, and Joseph Lam. Listeners can learn more about Professor Magness at her website.

In this episode Jared talks to Stanley Hauerwas about his essay “A Story-Formed Community: Notes on Watership Down” from The Hauerwas Reader. Professor Hauerwas also recommended Richard B. Hayes' work on the Old Testament in the New Testament, his commentary on Matthew for the Brazos Commentary Series, Alasdair MacIntyre's philosophy, and Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir. The book that Jared would recommend from this conversation is Samuel Wells' Improvisation: The Drama of Christian Ethics. Please reach out on Facebook and Twitter. Please consider supporting the podcast on Pateon if you're able.

Jared talks with Rabbi Michael E Harvey about his 3 March 2023 Twitter thread discussing the authorship and meaning of Genesis 1. Rabbi Harvey is the Author of Let's Talk: A Rabbi Speaks to Christians.

Sophia RC Johnson is a PhD Candidate in Hebrew Bible at Cambridge University. We begin by discussing the thesis of her article in the December 2022 issue of The Journal of Biblical Literature. I follow her lead and my curiosity from there.

Her recommendation for listeners is Yonatan Adler's The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal (https://tinyurl.com/yjr7j8dw).

This episode also serves as an introduction to the origin and philosophy of this podcast.