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This time, I'm elated to bring on Dr. Eckart Frahm, who is the John M. Musser Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University, and whose wonderful book, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire, is a must-read for fans of the show (click the affiliate link). We talk about the management of empire under the idiosyncratic king Ashurbanipal, whose handling (or mishandling) of Assyria will set the stage for its downfall, and the long afterlife as a cultural figure that Ashurbanipal would have in the Greek tradition, where he was known as the corrupt king Sardanapalus.

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It's child sacrifice time again at the Bible Lore Podcast! Yay! This time I talk about the real mlk sacrifice sites discovered throughout the Mediterranean, the real Manasseh, and the way both biblical authors and modern apologists attempt to deflect and obfuscate the connection between proper Yahweh worship and child sacrifice.

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Bibliography:

Francesca Stavrakopoulou - ‘King Manasseh and Child Sacrifice’;  

Heath Dewrell - ‘Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel’; 

Coogan & Smith - ‘Stories from Ancient Canaan’; 

Coogan & Metzger - ‘The Oxford Companion to the Bible’; 

Shelby Brown - ‘Late Carthaginian Child Sacrifice’; 

Christian Frevel - ‘History of Ancient Israel’;  

Hallo & Younger - ‘The Context of Scripture, vol. 1-3’; 

Charles Krahmalkov - ‘Phoenician-Punic Dictionary’; 

Robert Alter - ‘The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary’;  

Berlin, Brettler, et al - ‘The Jewish Study Bible’;  

Other Bible quotations taken from the NRSVue and NJPS with adaptations

https://www.thetorah.com/article/giving-your-firstborn-son-to-god

https://www.thetorah.com/article/how-exodus-revises-the-laws-of-hammurabi

https://www.thetorah.com/article/isaac-before-he-was-abrahams-son

https://x.com/timothybarnett/status/822992422888239104

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I am absolutely honored to welcome Bob Cargill to the show to talk about all things Melchizedek, as well as the use and abuse of archaeology to attempt to legitimize claims from Israeli settlers in the modern Palestinian West Bank.

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https://classics.uiowa.edu/people/robert-cargill

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We're BACK to watching the Bible on the screen, as I'm joined by Brigham Young Money podcast's Jordan, aka @slclunk, to dive into an evangelical/Mormon foray into prestige TV Jesus. This time it's Angel Studios' pilot for The Chosen: if the streaming era has been marked by bloat, The Chosen is conservative Christianity's answer to this boring trend. Watch as all the minutiae of the gospels are extended ad nauseam with needless and tedious backstories, long establishing shots, and heavy abuse of speedramping.

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This time, I'm talking about one of the most taboo and horrifying topics in the Bible: child sacrifice. This first of two episodes on the subject covers some of the biblical laws and rhetoric and folktales about child sacrifice, while the next will go over the practice in archaeology and history. Today I answer a few questions: was Isaac actually killed in his famous binding? Did Yahweh give a law commanding the sacrifice of the first born? And what does Ishtar's descent into the underworld have to do with the tragic tale of Jephthah's daughter?

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Bibliography:

Francesca Stavrakopoulou - ‘King Manasseh and Child Sacrifice’;  

Heath Dewrell - ‘Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel’; 

Coogan & Smith - ‘Stories from Ancient Canaan’; 

Coogan & Metzger - ‘The Oxford Companion to the Bible’; 

Christian Frevel - ‘History of Ancient Israel’;  

Hallo & Younger - ‘The Context of Scripture, vol. 1-3’; 

Robert Alter - ‘The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary’;  

Berlin, Brettler, et al - ‘The Jewish Study Bible’;  

Other Bible quotations taken from the NRSVue and NJPS with adaptations

https://www.thetorah.com/article/giving-your-firstborn-son-to-god

https://www.thetorah.com/article/how-exodus-revises-the-laws-of-hammurabi

https://www.thetorah.com/article/isaac-before-he-was-abrahams-son

This week's episode, we spend a lot of time with Assyrian king Esarhaddon, whose hellbent insistence on ensuring his own son's succession was not a repeat of his own disastrous rise to the throne that he promulgated a treaty text to the far corners of the Assyrian empire, a text that would be reworked to be a treaty between Yahweh and his people in Judah. All of this and so much more on this week's episode! Support the show on Patreon and get hours of bonus content and early access to episodes:

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Bibliography:  

Stavrakopoulou - ‘King Manasseh and Child Sacrifice’; 

Hayes - ‘Hidden Riches’; 

Younger - ‘The Context of Scripture, Vol. 4’; 

Van de Mieroop - ‘A History of the Ancient Near East’; 

Liverani - ‘Israel’s History and the History of Israel’; 

Frahm - ‘Assyria’; 

Podany - ‘Weavers, Scribes, and Kings’; 

Alter - ‘The Hebrew Bible’; 

Frevel - ‘History of Ancient Israel’; 

Berlin & Brettler - ‘The Jewish Study Bible, 2nd Ed.’; 

Radner, Moeller, and Potts - ‘The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East, Vol. IV’

Neujahr - ‘Predicting the Past in the Ancient Near East’; 

Adams and Goff - ‘The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature’; 

https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/solar-eclipse-substitute-king ;

This is part 2 of the story of the prophet Isaiah, the Judahite King Hezekiah, and the Assyrian Emperor Sennacherib. We explore prophetic oracles, a tortured cultural pizza metaphor, divine snakes, and more on purity and sacrifice from scholar Eve Feinstein.

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Bibliography:

Eve Levavi Feinstein - ‘Sexual Pollution in the Hebrew Bible’; 

Berlin, Brettler, et al - ‘The Jewish Study Bible (Second Edition)’; 

Daniel McClellan - ‘YHWH’s Divine Images: A Cognitive Approach’; 

Barton & Stavrakopoulou - ‘Religious Diversity in Ancient Israel and Judah’; 

Francesca Stavrakopoulou - ‘God: An Anatomy’; 

Eckart Frahmn - ‘Assyria’; 

Marc van de Mieroop - ‘A History of the Ancient Near East’; 

Finkelstein and Silberman - ‘The Bible Unearthed’; 

Robert Alter - ‘The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary’; 

Mario Liverani - ‘Israel’s History and the History of Israel’; 

Van der Toorn, Becking, van der Hoorst, et al - ‘Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible’; 

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/jerusalem/hezekiahs-tunnel-reexamined/

https://thestateoftheology.com/data-explorer/2022/7?AGE=30&MF=14®ION=30&DENSITY=62&EDUCATION=62&INCOME=254&MARITAL=126ÐNICITY=62&RELTRAD=62&EVB=2&ATTENDANCE=254

https://www.thetorah.com/article/hezekiahs-reform-the-archeological-evidence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e2kuETGoOM&list=PLpQ8NT-8yU1qbtN4sHO8I-r4fJI27Adlg

This is part 1 of the life and times of the prophet Isaiah, Judahite King Hezekiah, and Assyrian King Sennacherib. A lot of political history in this one, folks. Featuring an interview with Dr. Eve Levavi Feinstein, who provides important context on the concept of purity in the Hebrew Bible.

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Bibliography:

Eve Levavi Feinstein - ‘Sexual Pollution in the Hebrew Bible’; 

Berlin, Brettler, et al - ‘The Jewish Study Bible (Second Edition)’; 

Daniel McClellan - ‘YHWH’s Divine Images: A Cognitive Approach’; 

Barton & Stavrakopoulou - ‘Religious Diversity in Ancient Israel and Judah’; 

Francesca Stavrakopoulou - ‘God: An Anatomy’; 

Eckart Frahmn - ‘Assyria’; 

Marc van de Mieroop - ‘A History of the Ancient Near East’; 

Finkelstein and Silberman - ‘The Bible Unearthed’; 

Robert Alter - ‘The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary’; 

Mario Liverani - ‘Israel’s History and the History of Israel’; 

Van der Toorn, Becking, van der Hoorst, et al - ‘Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible’; 

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/jerusalem/hezekiahs-tunnel-reexamined/

https://thestateoftheology.com/data-explorer/2022/7?AGE=30&MF=14®ION=30&DENSITY=62&EDUCATION=62&INCOME=254&MARITAL=126ÐNICITY=62&RELTRAD=62&EVB=2&ATTENDANCE=254

https://www.thetorah.com/article/hezekiahs-reform-the-archeological-evidence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e2kuETGoOM&list=PLpQ8NT-8yU1qbtN4sHO8I-r4fJI27Adlg

Welcome to the Rapture, which doesn't seem too bad, all things considered.

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This time on the Bible Lore Podcast, we bring our kingdom of Samaria to an end. Along the way I talk about an important baby whose mother saves him from certain death by secreting him away in a basket on a river: Sargon. And scholar Seth Sanders returns to the show to talk about the prophetic critique, Israelization, and much more.

Outro music: Mustafa - Gaza is Calling

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Bibliography:

Christopher Hayes - ‘Hidden Riches’;  

Irving Finkel - 'The Ark Before Noah';

Thomas L. Thompson - ‘The Mythic Past’;  

Christian Frevel - ‘History of Ancient Israel’;  

Marc van de Mieroop - ‘A History of the Ancient Near East’;  

Eckart Frahm - ‘Assyria’;  

Mario Liverani - ‘Israel’s History and the History of Israel’;  

Robert Alter - ‘The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary’;  

Berlin, Brettler, et al - ‘The Jewish Study Bible’;  

Other Bible quotations taken from the NRSVue with adaptations