A very troubled man stumbles into a valley filled with bones and has a very disturbing but ultimately hopeful vision.
Based on <a href='https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel%2037%3A1-14&version=NRSVUE'>Ezekiel 37:1-14</a>. and on <a href='https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2025%3A1-6&version=NRSVUE'>2 Kings 25:1-6</a>.
Show notes have been posted at <a href='https://retellingthebible.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/9-9-the-man-who-prophesied-to-bones/'>retellingthebible.wordpress.com</a>.

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A very troubled man stumbles into a valley filled with bones and has a very disturbing but ultimately hopeful vision. Based on Ezekiel 37:1-14. and on 2 Kings 25:1-6. Show notes have been posted at retellingthebible.wordpress.com. Media in this Episode The following music was used for this media project: "AhDah" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "The Escalation" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Support Retelling the Bible If you would like to support the work that I do creating these stories, go to patreon.com/retellingthebible and choose a level of support! Contact me on Social Media! Bluesky Facebook Reddit

A very troubled man stumbles into a valley filled with bones and has a very disturbing but ultimately hopeful vision.
Based on <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel%2037%3A1-14&amp;version=NRSVUE" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ezekiel 37:1-14</a>. and on <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2025%3A1-6&amp;version=NRSVUE" rel="noopener noreferrer">2 Kings 25:1-6</a>.
Show notes have been posted at <a href="https://retellingthebible.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/9-9-the-man-who-prophesied-to-bones/" rel="noopener noreferrer">retellingthebible.wordpress.com</a>.

Media in this Episode
 
The following music was used for this media project:
 
"AhDah" Kevin MacLeod (<a href="http://incompetech.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">incompetech.com</a>) 
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License 
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>
 
"The Escalation" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 
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9.9 The Man Who Prophesied to Bones

Mary and Joseph are traveling toward their goal in Bethlehem when they come into a region -- the region between Galilee and Samaria -- that highlights the volatile political times in which they are living. This episode will help you to understand the historical circumstances in which the Gospel of Luke describes the birth of Jesus taking place.

Mary and Joseph are traveling toward their goal in Bethlehem when they come into a region -- the region between Galilee and Samaria -- that highlights the volatile political times in which they are living. This episode will help you to understand the historical circumstances in which the Gospel of Luke describes the birth of Jesus taking place.

Mary and Joseph are traveling toward their goal in Bethlehem when they come into a region -- the region between Galilee and Samaria -- that highlights the&nbsp;volatile political times in which they are living. This episode will help you to understand the historical circumstances in which the Gospel of Luke describes the birth of Jesus taking place.

1.2 The Region between Samaria and Galilee

This is the first episode in the new "Retelling the Bible" Podcast.
We will spend the first season retelling the story of the birth of Jesus as it is told in the Gospel of Luke, focussing specifically on the journey that Luke says that Mary and Joseph took from Nazareth to Bethlehem. This story raises all kinds of historical questions and makes me wonder how its author really meant for people to understand it. I suspect that we have largely missed many of the points that Luke was trying to make.
We start out in this episode by looking at the ways in which the story has traditionally been understood and seeing some of the problems with that traditional understanding.

This is the first episode in the new "Retelling the Bible" Podcast. We will spend the first season retelling the story of the birth of Jesus as it is told in the Gospel of Luke, focussing specifically on the journey that Luke says that Mary and Joseph took from Nazareth to Bethlehem. This story raises all kinds of historical questions and makes me wonder how its author really meant for people to understand it. I suspect that we have largely missed many of the points that Luke was trying to make. We start out in this episode by looking at the ways in which the story has traditionally been understood and seeing some of the problems with that traditional understanding.

Episode 1: The Journey as it is usually seen

This is the first episode in the new "Retelling the Bible" Podcast.

We will spend the first season retelling the story of the birth of Jesus as it is told in the Gospel of Luke, focussing specifically on the journey that Luke says that Mary and Joseph took from Nazareth to Bethlehem. This story raises all kinds of historical questions and makes me wonder how its author really meant for people to understand it. I suspect that we have largely missed many of the points that Luke was trying to make.

We start out in this episode by looking at the ways in which the story has traditionally been understood and seeing some of the problems with that traditional understanding.

I created this podcast – to attempt to retell some of my favourite Bible stories in a way that might help us to hear them as their first listeners would have done so. Such a retelling may not help us to know exactly what happened, but I hope it might help us to delve into those truths that they were trying to communicate.

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