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In this episode, Tony, James, and Caleb continue discussing name changes in the Bible, but this time with a focus on throne names. They look first at how kings in the ancient world often changed their name when they became king, before then focusing on Old Testament kings and the significance of their throne names.

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Please note: This episode contains a mention of birth trauma within the biblical narrative

In this episode, Tony, James, and Caleb discuss name changes in the patriarchal narratives. They look at how common it was for names to be changed in the ancient world, as well as the significance of the name changes within the biblical narrative. 

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In this episode, Tony sits down with James and Caleb again to look at the names of the foreign kings mentioned in Genesis 14 and to see how they fit in with what we know of those places from extra-biblical sources. 

At 10:44 Caleb says Southeastern Iran but he meant Southwestern Iran.
At 19:06 Tony meant Genesis 9 but he meant Genesis 11.

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Content warning: please note this episode contains a brief mention of rape within the biblical narrative, as well as a comment about birth trauma in the Ancient World. 

In this episode, Tony Watkins continues working through the biblical narrative of Jacob's sons being born, with Caleb Howard and James Bejon. They discuss what the sons' names mean and how they relate to their birth context. In the previous episode, they covered the first four sons, and in this episode, they cover the next seven sons.

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In this episode, Tony Watkins digs into the names of Jacob’s sons with Caleb Howard and James Bejon, who are both working on the Tyndale House Old Testament project. Starting at Genesis 29 they work through the biblical narrative of the sons being born and discuss the meaning of their names. In this episode, they cover the first four sons, and in the following episode they will cover the next seven names.


Please note: 
At 10:59 James mentions Genesis 31:43, he meant to say Genesis 30:43.
At 24:59 James says Joseph but he meant to say Jacob.

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Episode 2 of our podcast series on Ancient Names.

In this episode, Tony, George, and Caleb discuss naming practices from the Bible and the ancient world and compare them with practices today.

Please note: at 17:34 Tony Watkins says 'one of Aaron's children is Eliezer'. This is incorrect, Aaron has a son called Eleazar, and Moses has a son named Eliezer (see Exodus 18:1-4). 

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This new series takes a deep dive into names in the Bible with the help of members of our Old Testament team. 

In this first episode, Tony Watkins speaks to Dr Caleb Howard and Dr George Heath-Whyte, both members of our Old Testament team.  They explain what the decade-long project on Old Testament names is seeking to do at Tyndale House, and they also give a taste of some of the ways we can have a deeper understanding of a passage, by learning more about the meaning of the names mentioned in it. 

Subsequent episodes in the series will be released every week.

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In this interview Tony Watkins, Fellow for Public Engagement at Tyndale House, interviews Barry Danylak, Executive Director of SEE Global, about his new book, Paul and Secular Singleness in 1 Corinthians 7.  Barry shares about the research he has done looking at extra-biblical sources from around the time Paul wrote to the Corinthians. He describes what family structures would have been like, based on ancient census data, and explains how this is relevant to us today as we approach the challenging passage of 1 Corinthians 7.

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In this episode Dr Andrew Ollerton is joined by James Bejon to talk about lists, names and genealogies in the Old Testament. Andrew and James take a look at Judges chapters 10 and 12 to talk about messy families, the significance of Biblical names, and to ask: How do we make sense of the Old Testament, particularly in the more unexciting moments?

James Bejon is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. Following careers in both music and financial maths, James has now moved into Biblical research. He is currently writing a thesis on the semantic content of Biblical names and their parallels outside of the Bible. James has a particular interest in the canonical study of Scripture - in the fact that the Bible is an organic and highly interconnected text which finds its fulfilment in the person and work of Jesus.

This episode is a re-release from the Trusting the Bible podcast which was a collaboration between Tyndale House, Cambridge @Tyndale_House and the Bible Society @biblesociety in 2022.

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In this episode Dr Andrew Ollerton is joined by the Revd Dr Helen Paynter to look at horror and violence in the Old Testament. Helen walks us through one of the Old Testament’s “Texts of Terror”—the notorious 19th chapter of the book of Judges and explores how we can bring humility and empathy to the way we read the Bible. 

Content note: Please note this episode contains extended discussion about sexual violence in the Old Testament narrative.

Reading list: 

• God of Violence Yesterday, God of Love Today?  by Helen Paynter (The Bible Reading Fellowship, 2019)
• The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest: Covenant, Retribution, and the Fate of the Canaanites by John H. Walton and J. Harvey Walton (IVP US , 2017)
• Did God Really Command Genocide? Coming to Terms with the Justice of God by Paul Copan and Matt Flannagan (Baker Books, 2014)
• Bloody, Brutal, and Barbaric? Wrestling with Troubling War Texts by William J. Webb and Gordon K. Oeste (IVP US, 2019)
• Telling Terror in Judges 19: Rape and Reparation for the Levite’s wife by Helen Paynter (Routledge, 2020)

The Revd Dr Helen Paynter is a Baptist Minister and the Director of Bristol Baptist College’s Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence. Helen has a Masters in Missional Church Leadership, another Masters in Biblical Studies, and a PhD in Old Testament. Her main research interests are in the narrative portions of the Hebrew Bible. 

This episode is a re-release from the Trusting the Bible podcast which was a collaboration between Tyndale House, Cambridge @Tyndale_House and the Bible Society @biblesociety in 2022.

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