The Bible as Literature

By The Ephesus School

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semay
 Mar 17, 2023
This podcast changed entirely how I read, heard, and regurgitate Scripture. I love everything about the presentations. May God bless Fr. Paul, Fr. Marc, and Dr. Benton! Highly recommended


 Jan 12, 2022

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Each week, Dr. Richard Benton, Fr. Marc Boulos and guests discuss the content of the Bible as literature. On Tuesdays, Fr. Paul Tarazi presents an in-depth analysis of the biblical text in the original languages.

Episode Date
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Resist
Apr 23, 2024
Stop Preaching Your Gods
Apr 16, 2024
You Become What You Accept
Apr 02, 2024
Against Consensus
Mar 26, 2024
The Bible is Making Fun of You
Mar 19, 2024
A Maskil
Mar 12, 2024
Lie to Yourself, Please
Mar 05, 2024
Facts Not Narratives
Feb 27, 2024
In Time and Out of Time
Feb 20, 2024
Scripture is its Own Interpreter
Feb 15, 2024
Poor Josiah
Feb 13, 2024
Uncle Saleḥ
Feb 08, 2024
The Anti-Kingly Stance
Feb 06, 2024
I Reject Your Gods
Feb 01, 2024
Practical Examples
Jan 30, 2024
Respect
Jan 25, 2024
The Hebrew Names
Jan 23, 2024
We, the Dummies
Jan 18, 2024
Give the Land a Break
Jan 16, 2024
I Have No Value
Jan 11, 2024
He Blesses and He Curses
Jan 09, 2024
Your Knowledge is a Sin
Jan 04, 2024
You Shall Not Rule
Jan 02, 2024
In One of the Days
Dec 28, 2023
Ask the Native Americans
Dec 26, 2023
Narcissism
Dec 21, 2023
Take it Back Home or Leave it Outside
Dec 19, 2023
The Jubilee Year
Dec 12, 2023
What Was Lost Has Been Found
Dec 07, 2023
Listen to the Torah
Dec 05, 2023
It All Belongs to God
Nov 30, 2023
Meetings Proclaimed by God
Nov 28, 2023
Let’s Talk About the Amalekites
Nov 23, 2023
Justice in the Marketplace
Nov 21, 2023
Choose a Side!
Nov 16, 2023
Common Sense
Nov 14, 2023
Wait for the Lord
Nov 09, 2023
You May Not Apply Two Rules
Nov 07, 2023
It Is Neither “Complex” nor “Sensitive”
Nov 02, 2023
Adam Has No Clothes
Oct 31, 2023
We Are All Elohim’s Human Animals
Oct 26, 2023
The Blood is the Nephesh
Oct 24, 2023
In Memory of Fr. Daniel Simon
Oct 19, 2023
Yom Kippur
Oct 17, 2023
MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN
Oct 12, 2023
The Cancellation of the Priests
Oct 10, 2023
‘abd allah
Oct 05, 2023
Last Words
Oct 03, 2023
The Function Little Crow
Sep 28, 2023
What is Being Offered
Sep 26, 2023
The Staff of Levi
Sep 21, 2023
The Ecclesia is Moving
Sep 19, 2023
To Muzzle, Dominate, and Overhelm
Sep 14, 2023
Let the People Hear It
Sep 12, 2023
The Semitic Triliteral
Sep 07, 2023
A Portion for the Priest
Sep 05, 2023
Keep Your Hands Off
Aug 31, 2023
The Meaning of Terms
Aug 29, 2023
God Does Not Speak English
Aug 24, 2023
Music and War
Aug 22, 2023
Abjad Languages
Aug 17, 2023
Do Not Pray
Aug 15, 2023
Jesus Says, "No!"
Aug 10, 2023
Right in the Eyes of the Lord
Aug 08, 2023
The Most High is Your Dwelling
Aug 03, 2023
Love Those Shiny Buttons
Aug 01, 2023
The Colonial Plague
Jul 27, 2023
Statutes of Your Fathers
Jul 25, 2023
Bread and Stone
Jul 20, 2023
The Utterances of God
Jul 18, 2023
In the Wilderness
Jul 13, 2023
Even AI Cannot Depict This
Jul 11, 2023
Epilogue: You Are Not Elohim
Jul 06, 2023
The Ultimate Covenant
Jul 04, 2023
The Toledot of Elohim
Jun 29, 2023
The Five Fingers
Jun 27, 2023
Glorify the Canaanites so That You May Live Long in the Land
Jun 22, 2023
People Do Not Change
Jun 20, 2023
Arise, O God, Judge the Earth
Jun 15, 2023
A Process of Judgment
Jun 13, 2023
No Security Blankets
Jun 08, 2023
I Gave Them Statutes That Were Not Good
Jun 06, 2023
Heritage is Not Ancestral
Jun 01, 2023
Set Free From You
May 30, 2023
Understanding Irrelevance
May 25, 2023
For I Am Compassionate
May 23, 2023
A Mental Vacancy
May 18, 2023
First and Foremost
May 16, 2023
I Believe in One God
May 11, 2023
You May Not Sin Toward the Ox or the Ass
May 09, 2023
Cowardice
May 04, 2023
God is the Only Melech
May 02, 2023
Sin is Crouching at the Door
Apr 27, 2023
Fear the Judge
Apr 25, 2023
King, Priest, and Oppression
Apr 20, 2023
The Disrespect of God
Apr 18, 2023
Son of Man, Son of David
Apr 13, 2023
Into Nothingness
Apr 11, 2023
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Apr 06, 2023
Steadfast Love
Apr 04, 2023
The Ties That Corrupt
Mar 30, 2023
Ten Statements
Mar 28, 2023
Judgment As Hope
Mar 23, 2023
Unto the Age
Mar 21, 2023
Bow or Walk Away
Mar 16, 2023
The Sinai Covenant
Mar 14, 2023
Ruling Your Illusions
Mar 09, 2023
You Have it in the Text
Mar 07, 2023
Compassion is Personal
Mar 02, 2023
Hearing the Story
Feb 28, 2023
Lysanias
Feb 23, 2023
Imagine Moving With Tents
Feb 21, 2023
Even Jesus Had to Wait
Feb 16, 2023
Manna and Quail
Feb 14, 2023
Grace and Obedience
Feb 09, 2023
From Oasis to Oasis
Feb 07, 2023
Ransomed from Captivity
Feb 02, 2023
The Pasture of Your Holiness
Jan 31, 2023
God's New Deal
Jan 26, 2023
One Text and the Beginning of Wisdom
Jan 24, 2023
Stand Your Ground
Jan 19, 2023
The Hand of God
Jan 17, 2023
Simon or Simeon
Jan 12, 2023
A Sign is Not a Miracle
Jan 10, 2023
Opener of the Womb
Jan 05, 2023
Consecrate to Me
Jan 03, 2023
Your Thirst
Dec 29, 2022
To Raise the Face
Dec 27, 2022
The Age of Wisdom
Dec 20, 2022
No Issues Please
Dec 15, 2022
The Lord’s Passover
Dec 13, 2022
Mashallah
Dec 08, 2022
Signs of the Spoil
Dec 06, 2022
The Fallacy of Identity
Dec 01, 2022
The Green
Nov 29, 2022
Dividing the Flock
Nov 24, 2022
Sleight of Hand
Nov 22, 2022
Anti-History, Anti-Romulus
Nov 17, 2022
The Ten Plagues
Nov 15, 2022
Grudge Match
Nov 10, 2022
Let My People Go
Nov 08, 2022
Which Spirit?
Nov 03, 2022
Listen, Don’t Read
Nov 01, 2022
Tender Mercies
Oct 27, 2022
Speak My Word
Oct 25, 2022
Amnesty and Accountability
Oct 20, 2022
God From God
Oct 18, 2022
Be Neighborly
Oct 13, 2022
God Speaks Biblical Hebrew
Oct 11, 2022
The Command of God
Oct 04, 2022
Romulus Was a Thug and a Criminal
Sep 29, 2022
You Should Not Enjoy Scripture
Sep 28, 2022
Quiet, Zacharias is Speaking
Sep 22, 2022
Dabar, Voice, Staff
Sep 20, 2022
It Was Zacharias
Sep 15, 2022
The Wilderness
Sep 14, 2022
Fierce Loyalty
Sep 08, 2022
The Domain of God
Sep 06, 2022
Just Burp, Again
Sep 01, 2022
Immerse Yourself
Aug 30, 2022
Neighbors and Relatives
Aug 25, 2022
Midian
Aug 23, 2022
Don’t Be Lame
Aug 18, 2022
Just Burp
Aug 16, 2022
It’s Just News
Aug 11, 2022
Either/Or
Aug 09, 2022
Mercy and Fear
Aug 04, 2022
Like a Woman in Travail
Aug 02, 2022
Magnify the Lord
Jul 28, 2022
Four Verbs
Jul 26, 2022
The Sound of a Greeting
Jul 21, 2022
Hear Me Out
Jul 19, 2022
The Itinerary of the Spirit
Jul 14, 2022
These Are the Names
Jul 12, 2022
I Know Jesus and I Know Paul
Jul 07, 2022
Against Humanity
Jul 05, 2022
Three Things
Jun 30, 2022
No One Is Special
Jun 28, 2022
Birth Pangs
Jun 23, 2022
The Journey of Jacob Israel
Jun 21, 2022
Bow to the Chair
Jun 16, 2022
The Sheep Are Not a Flock
Jun 14, 2022
The Preacher
Jun 09, 2022
Ephraim and Manasseh
Jun 07, 2022
Anti-History, Anti-Patriarchy
Jun 02, 2022
Back to Joseph
May 31, 2022
Power and Control
May 26, 2022
About Judah
May 24, 2022
Nobody Else But You
May 19, 2022
Person, Persona, Prosopon, Mask
May 17, 2022
Nothing Good Comes From Us
May 12, 2022
The Cycle of Joseph, Ad Nauseam
May 10, 2022
The Jerusalem Above Is Free
May 05, 2022
The Oasis Is Not Yours
May 03, 2022
You Are Not Doing Anything
Apr 28, 2022
You Are Done With
Apr 26, 2022
Fire and Blood
Apr 19, 2022
The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness
Apr 14, 2022
A Tree, a Garden, and an Oasis
Apr 12, 2022
The Kingdom Under the Heavens
Apr 07, 2022
The City of False Religion
Apr 05, 2022
It’s Ok to Laugh
Mar 31, 2022
The Spirit of the Animal
Mar 29, 2022
Break it Up
Mar 24, 2022
Mark This Verse
Mar 22, 2022
Jesus Has Left the Building
Mar 17, 2022
Against Bethel
Mar 15, 2022
The Liberation of the Gospel
Mar 10, 2022
A Mark of Weakness
Mar 08, 2022
Cathedrals and Bombs
Mar 03, 2022
The Terror and the Glory
Mar 02, 2022
A Tower and a Rock, At a Distance
Feb 24, 2022
A Small Stone and a Big Pyramid
Feb 22, 2022
The Cowardly Centurian
Feb 17, 2022
A Stone is a Stone is a Stone
Feb 15, 2022
The Return of the Remnant
Feb 10, 2022
The Missing Link
Feb 08, 2022
Please Don’t Find Yourself
Feb 03, 2022
Jacob’s Sons
Feb 01, 2022
No Confusion
Jan 27, 2022
With the Lord
Jan 25, 2022
Sticking it to the Man
Jan 20, 2022
Not Your Connections
Jan 18, 2022
Thou Shalt Not Speak for Jesus
Jan 13, 2022
Against the Temple
Jan 11, 2022
A King Like Stalin?
Jan 06, 2022
Matstsebah
Jan 04, 2022
The Lost Sheep
Dec 30, 2021
You’re Making Up Your Own Story
Dec 28, 2021
The Rejection of Yahweh
Dec 23, 2021
Anti-Civilization
Dec 21, 2021
Which Son, Pilate?
Dec 16, 2021
The Children of Abraham
Dec 14, 2021
Announcing "Tell Me the Story"
Dec 12, 2021
You Said It
Dec 09, 2021
The Platonic “We”
Dec 07, 2021
The Worthless Shepherd
Dec 02, 2021
God and Lord God
Nov 30, 2021
Give Them Something to Eat
Nov 25, 2021
If You Don’t Like It, Shove Off
Nov 23, 2021
Empty Tears
Nov 18, 2021
In the Arms of a Hittite
Nov 16, 2021
Ideological Impurity
Nov 11, 2021
It’s That Serious
Nov 09, 2021
On the Record
Nov 04, 2021
Leave Eden to God
Nov 02, 2021
It Might Be a Duck
Oct 28, 2021
It’s Not That Simple
Oct 26, 2021
Put Away the Sword
Oct 21, 2021
Isaac Obeyed
Oct 19, 2021
An Offer You Can’t Refuse
Oct 14, 2021
Because Abraham Obeyed My Voice
Oct 12, 2021
Failed Watchmen
Oct 07, 2021
Salama, Aslama, Salam
Oct 05, 2021
The Problem With Peter
Sep 30, 2021
You Hear the Text
Sep 28, 2021
Not As I Will
Sep 23, 2021
No! No! You Have to Know!
Sep 21, 2021
The Bitter Pill
Sep 16, 2021
The More You Know Scripture
Sep 14, 2021
Pink Floyd and Mr. Rogers
Sep 09, 2021
Another Wife
Sep 07, 2021
It’s All About You!
Sep 02, 2021
It Can Be Done
Aug 31, 2021
You Are Not Ancient
Aug 26, 2021
How Many Ships?
Aug 24, 2021
Judas Iscariot
Aug 19, 2021
Live Long and ṣālēaḥ
Aug 17, 2021
A Poverty of Instruction
Aug 12, 2021
Debarim
Aug 10, 2021
An Ordinary Guy
Aug 05, 2021
Abraham and Isaac
Aug 03, 2021
There Will Be No Flags in the Kingdom
Jul 29, 2021
Let’s Make it Functional
Jul 28, 2021
Repeat These Words
Jul 22, 2021
Hebron
Jul 20, 2021
Flash-forward, Be Afraid
Jul 15, 2021
The People of the Land
Jul 13, 2021
Wisdom
Jul 08, 2021
Non-Owners
Jul 06, 2021
Not Our Mercy
Jul 01, 2021
The Blessing
Jun 29, 2021
The Merchant Class?
Jun 24, 2021
It’s a Big Deal
Jun 22, 2021
Take It and Work It
Jun 17, 2021
Interlocked
Jun 15, 2021
In the Fear of God
Jun 10, 2021
Abraham’s Obedience
Jun 08, 2021
The Jury is Still Out
Jun 03, 2021
One of a Kind
Jun 01, 2021
Bread and Oil
May 27, 2021
The Scriptural Premise
May 25, 2021
Epilogue: Create in Me a Clean Heart
May 25, 2021
Create in Me a Clean Heart
May 23, 2021
Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
May 20, 2021
Not Before the Time
May 18, 2021
“But,” Not “So”
May 13, 2021
Scripture Unedited
May 11, 2021
Grigoreo!
May 06, 2021
Curse and Destruction
May 04, 2021
Christ is Risen!
May 01, 2021
Vexed!
May 01, 2021
Doulos: It is Vexed!
May 01, 2021
But of That Day
Apr 29, 2021
ṣaddîq and yāḵaḥ
Apr 27, 2021
These Words Are Permanent
Apr 22, 2021
Progeny and Lies
Apr 20, 2021
The Things Which God Destroys
Apr 15, 2021
The Roman Household
Apr 13, 2021
The Truth is Not Out There
Apr 08, 2021
A Human Being is a Human Being
Apr 06, 2021
Escape from Jerusalem
Apr 02, 2021
Grace is for Free
Mar 30, 2021
Fear is the Enemy
Mar 25, 2021
The Just Judge
Mar 23, 2021
The Bible Interprets Itself
Mar 18, 2021
Put in His Place
Mar 16, 2021
Inscribed on Your Brain
Mar 11, 2021
Broken Hearts
Mar 09, 2021
A Whirling Graveyard
Mar 04, 2021
The Scriptural Canaan
Mar 02, 2021
A Desolate House
Feb 25, 2021
Inclusive, Not Exclusive
Feb 23, 2021
The Avenger
Feb 18, 2021
Circumcision of the Heart
Feb 16, 2021
A Light to the Nations
Feb 11, 2021
Beer-lahai-roi
Feb 09, 2021
False Prophets
Feb 04, 2021
Hagar
Feb 02, 2021
Blind Guides
Jan 28, 2021
This is What Sheep Do
Jan 26, 2021
Above the Heavens
Jan 21, 2021
Covenant with Abram
Jan 19, 2021
Do Not Become Like Us
Jan 14, 2021
King of Salem
Jan 12, 2021
Humiliation
Jan 07, 2021
We Are Not It
Jan 05, 2021
Do Not Lead by Example
Dec 31, 2020
Shepherd Lingo
Dec 29, 2020
Whose Son is He?
Dec 24, 2020
In Spite of Abraham
Dec 22, 2020
Pecking Order
Dec 17, 2020
The Covenant of Circumcision
Dec 15, 2020
All Earthly Cares
Dec 10, 2020
Chosen But Not Special
Dec 08, 2020
Of Course They Say That
Dec 03, 2020
An Ominous Joke
Dec 01, 2020
They Still Don’t Get It
Nov 26, 2020
The Oaks
Nov 24, 2020
Jesus Doesn’t Need Friends
Nov 19, 2020
The Story of Abram
Nov 17, 2020
We Are All Guests
Nov 12, 2020
Nahor
Nov 10, 2020
Hope in Destruction
Nov 05, 2020
He Does Whatever He Pleases
Nov 03, 2020
Running Out of Chances
Oct 29, 2020
Decoding Genesis 1-11
Oct 27, 2020
Talk Is Cheap
Oct 22, 2020
Thou Hast Diminished Him
Oct 20, 2020
Consigned to Ignorance
Oct 15, 2020
It Has to Be Real
Oct 13, 2020
An Expiration on Grace
Oct 08, 2020
Meaning, Connotation, and Function
Oct 06, 2020
True Worship
Oct 01, 2020
The Spirit of God
Sep 29, 2020
Victory March
Sep 24, 2020
Through the Nostrils
Sep 22, 2020
A Plan in Motion
Sep 17, 2020
ḥorbah, ḥarabah, yabbašah
Sep 15, 2020
What Do You Will?
Sep 10, 2020
The Sea Animals
Sep 08, 2020
To Serve as a Slave
Sep 03, 2020
Instruments of God’s Will
Sep 01, 2020
Not Mine to Give
Aug 27, 2020
The Dry One
Aug 25, 2020
The Anti-Imperial Throne
Aug 20, 2020
The Day is Defined by God
Aug 18, 2020
The Marketplace of Humanity
Aug 13, 2020
The Big Deal with Hibdil
Aug 11, 2020
The First Will Be Last
Aug 06, 2020
Darkness and Waters
Aug 04, 2020
No Good Thing
Jul 30, 2020
The Heavens and the Earth
Jul 28, 2020
Mic Drop
Jul 23, 2020
Part of the Whole
Jul 21, 2020
Mission Priority
Jul 16, 2020
Is That for Real?
Jul 14, 2020
Certificate of Divorce?
Jul 09, 2020
New Podcast on ESN: The Way
Jul 08, 2020
Out of the Rubble
Jul 07, 2020
The Sword of Damocles
Jul 02, 2020
Reshith
Jun 30, 2020
On the Hook
Jun 25, 2020
Nothing New Under the Sun
Jun 23, 2020
If Your Brother Sins
Jun 18, 2020
Asah and Bara
Jun 16, 2020
The Boot of Caesar
Jun 11, 2020
Ingenious, Indeed
Jun 09, 2020
One of These Things Is Not like the Other
Jun 04, 2020
Period, Comma?
Jun 02, 2020
Turn Like a Child
May 28, 2020
A New Thesis
May 26, 2020
The Law of Love
May 21, 2020
By Their Families
May 19, 2020
The Will to Teach
May 14, 2020
The First Three Letters
May 12, 2020
Son of Man
May 07, 2020
Seeding Seed
May 05, 2020
Son of God
Apr 30, 2020
The Command of Yahweh Elohim
Apr 28, 2020
Accountability for the Cross
Apr 23, 2020
Kyrios O Theos
Apr 21, 2020
Don’t Pick a Side
Apr 16, 2020
Yahweh Elohim
Apr 14, 2020
Simon, Bar Jonah
Apr 09, 2020
The Moon and the Sun
Apr 07, 2020
It’s Time to Take a Stand
Apr 02, 2020
Why the Plural?
Mar 31, 2020
The Bread of the Gospel
Mar 26, 2020
Factual is the Opposite of Real
Mar 24, 2020
A Sign From Heaven
Mar 19, 2020
Real and Realistic
Mar 17, 2020
On the Way
Mar 12, 2020
Elohim
Mar 10, 2020
Up on the Mountain
Mar 05, 2020
The Author’s Intent
Mar 03, 2020
If I Were a Rich Man
Feb 27, 2020
Bereshit Bara Elohim
Feb 25, 2020
Thank You, God of the Universe
Feb 20, 2020
There is No “Is”
Feb 18, 2020
The Problem of Fundamentalism
Feb 13, 2020
The Itinerant Word
Feb 11, 2020
Dirty Hands
Feb 06, 2020
Nahor
Feb 04, 2020
Who’s Afraid of Ghosts?
Jan 30, 2020
The Missing Toledot
Jan 28, 2020
The Daily Bread
Jan 23, 2020
Toledot of Shem
Jan 21, 2020
The Coalition of the Blind
Jan 16, 2020
To Moisten
Jan 14, 2020
This Is John the Baptist and These Are His Enemies
Jan 09, 2020
One Language
Jan 07, 2020
Merry Christmas
Dec 26, 2019
The Children of Eber
Dec 24, 2019
Wisdom is My Tribe
Dec 19, 2019
These Are the Families
Dec 17, 2019
Taught Into the Kingdom
Dec 12, 2019
Under the Tent of Shem
Dec 10, 2019
It’s Not for Sale
Dec 05, 2019
The Noahic Covenant
Dec 03, 2019
It’s All About the Wheat
Nov 28, 2019
Life Blood
Nov 26, 2019
Hidden in Plain Sight
Nov 21, 2019
Everything That Swarms
Nov 19, 2019
There Are No Good Guys
Nov 14, 2019
Upon Ararat
Nov 12, 2019
Roots Not Fruits
Nov 07, 2019
Out of Control
Nov 05, 2019
Ignorance and Blindness
Oct 31, 2019
Let Every Breath
Oct 29, 2019
Seek and Ye Shall Find
Oct 24, 2019
Two by Two
Oct 22, 2019
The Seed Does What the Seed Does
Oct 17, 2019
Birds, Kings, and Shepherds
Oct 15, 2019
A New Tribe
Oct 10, 2019
It’s an “Ark” Not an “Ark”
Oct 08, 2019
Mitzvah!
Oct 03, 2019
Why Do You Call Me Lord?
Oct 02, 2019
The Nephilim
Oct 01, 2019
Read the Signs
Sep 26, 2019
Third Time’s Not a Charm
Sep 24, 2019
You Know a Tree by It’s Fruit
Sep 19, 2019
Be Patient and Submit
Sep 17, 2019
The Ultimate Sin
Sep 12, 2019
There is No New Humanity
Sep 10, 2019
Binding the Strong Man
Sep 05, 2019
Son of Man
Sep 03, 2019
Teach and Move
Aug 29, 2019
Ha Adam
Aug 27, 2019
The Lord of the Sabbath
Aug 22, 2019
Ha Adam or Adam?
Aug 20, 2019
God Doesn’t Need Our Bread
Aug 15, 2019
When Men Begin
Aug 13, 2019
The Father
Aug 08, 2019
In Spite of Cain
Aug 06, 2019
It’s Worse for Us
Aug 01, 2019
A New Seed
Jul 30, 2019
Ideology is Idolatry
Jul 25, 2019
What He Undertakes
Jul 23, 2019
More Than a Prophet
Jul 18, 2019
Name and Function
Jul 16, 2019
Immigration Letter
Jul 13, 2019
The Kingdom of the Heavens
Jul 11, 2019
The Only Avenger
Jul 09, 2019
To These Little Ones
Jul 04, 2019
Cain and Abel
Jul 02, 2019
Bringer of the Sword
Jun 27, 2019
East of the Garden
Jun 25, 2019
Fear Wisdom
Jun 20, 2019
The Curse
Jun 18, 2019
Daniel Anthony del Castillo
Jun 15, 2019
How the Gospel Uses Fear
Jun 13, 2019
Nahash
Jun 11, 2019
Are You Worthy?
Jun 06, 2019
The Serpent
Jun 04, 2019
Do Not Muzzle the Ox
May 30, 2019
Man and Woman
May 28, 2019
The One Who Betrayed Him
May 23, 2019
Out of the Man
May 21, 2019
First Things Last
May 16, 2019
To Serve and To Keep
May 14, 2019
The Lord of the Harvest
May 09, 2019
Toward the East
May 07, 2019
Don’t Address the Critics
May 02, 2019
Elleh Toledot
Apr 30, 2019
Two Blind Men
Apr 25, 2019
The Seventh Day
Apr 23, 2019
Clean and Unclean
Apr 18, 2019
Male and Female
Apr 16, 2019
The Bridegroom
Apr 11, 2019
Image and Likeness
Apr 09, 2019
The Tax Collector
Apr 04, 2019
Ish and Isha
Apr 02, 2019
The Forgiveness of Sins
Mar 28, 2019
Living Breath
Mar 26, 2019
On Caesar’s Turf
Mar 21, 2019
Eretz and Adamah
Mar 19, 2019
Pressure and Order
Mar 14, 2019
The Dry Land
Mar 12, 2019
Leave the Dead
Mar 07, 2019
The Second Day
Mar 05, 2019
Peter’s Household
Feb 28, 2019
One Day
Feb 26, 2019
The Roman Household
Feb 21, 2019
Light and Darkness
Feb 19, 2019
The Witness of the Leper
Feb 14, 2019
Grammatical Functionality
Feb 12, 2019
These Words
Feb 07, 2019
Biblical Function
Feb 05, 2019
Not Everyone Who Says, “Lord, Lord”
Jan 31, 2019
The Waters
Jan 29, 2019
Beware of False Prophets
Jan 24, 2019
Tohu wa-bohu
Jan 22, 2019
The Narrow Path
Jan 17, 2019
The Title of Scripture
Jan 15, 2019
Ask, Seek, and Knock
Jan 10, 2019
Toledot
Jan 08, 2019
Dogs, Swine, and Pearls
Jan 03, 2019
The Triliteral Root
Jan 01, 2019
Only One Opinion Counts
Dec 27, 2018
The Language of Scripture
Dec 25, 2018
Sufficient for the Day
Dec 20, 2018
Five Smooth Stones
Dec 18, 2018
The Lilies of the Field
Dec 13, 2018
Adamah and Eretz
Dec 11, 2018
Treasure in Heaven
Dec 06, 2018
Possess vs. Inherit
Dec 04, 2018
The Lord’s Prayer
Nov 29, 2018
Hypertextuality
Nov 27, 2018
It’s Not Hyperbole
Nov 22, 2018
The Maccabees
Nov 20, 2018
False Humility
Nov 15, 2018
Saul
Nov 13, 2018
Be Perfect
Nov 08, 2018
Biqah, Shinar, Babel
Nov 06, 2018
Empty Promises
Nov 01, 2018
Shemites
Oct 30, 2018
Love is Not a Feeling
Oct 25, 2018
Moses as Anti-Hero
Oct 23, 2018
Every Last Cent
Oct 18, 2018
No Better Establishment
Oct 16, 2018
Not One Iota
Oct 11, 2018
The Purpose of the Greek Epics
Oct 09, 2018
Salt of the Earth
Oct 04, 2018
Scripture as a Totality
Oct 02, 2018
Blessings and Insults
Sep 27, 2018
Shamar
Sep 25, 2018
Clarity of Purpose
Sep 20, 2018
The Chicken or the Egg?
Sep 18, 2018
The Fruit of the Spirit
Sep 13, 2018
Who is the Adversary of Whom?
Sep 11, 2018
Direct My Footsteps
Sep 06, 2018
The Maskilim
Sep 04, 2018
Nets of Our Own Making
Aug 30, 2018
Flip of the Coin
Aug 28, 2018
On the Margin
Aug 23, 2018
To Be, or Not to Be?
Aug 21, 2018
Jesus Does Not Speak
Aug 16, 2018
King David
Aug 14, 2018
W.W.J.B.?
Aug 09, 2018
Eden and the Four Rivers
Aug 07, 2018
The Axe is at the Root
Aug 02, 2018
Lost in Translation
Jul 31, 2018
Subjugation of Identity
Jul 26, 2018
Shepherdism
Jul 24, 2018
A New Branch
Jul 19, 2018
Judges 2:10-23
Jul 17, 2018
It's Not a Fortune Cookie
Jul 12, 2018
Palásh
Jul 10, 2018
The Liberation of Egypt
Jul 05, 2018
In Christ Jesus
Jul 03, 2018
Rejoice, O Unwedded Bride
Jun 28, 2018
Hope As a Mindset
Jun 26, 2018
And You, Bethlehem
Jun 21, 2018
Raised
Jun 19, 2018
The People’s Hero
Jun 14, 2018
Aman
Jun 12, 2018
Not From Men
Jun 07, 2018
Hebel
Jun 05, 2018
The Last Generation
May 31, 2018
Denial of Cultural Superiority
May 29, 2018
God Will Establish
May 24, 2018
The Septuagint
May 22, 2018
Perpetual Decline
May 17, 2018
The Language of the Biblical God
May 15, 2018
The Intent of Man's Heart
May 10, 2018
Biblical Mashal
May 08, 2018
Solomon the Wise?
May 03, 2018
The Anti-Homeric Epic
May 01, 2018
The City of David?
Apr 26, 2018
The Imposition of Greek
Apr 24, 2018
Breaching the High Wall
Apr 19, 2018
Cyrus, His Anointed
Apr 17, 2018
Prime Real Estate
Apr 12, 2018
Tadmor in the Wilderness
Apr 10, 2018
What Kind of Messiah?
Apr 05, 2018
The Hellenistic Period
Apr 03, 2018
A Time for Shade?
Mar 29, 2018
Two Exiles
Mar 27, 2018
Who is Wasting Whose Time?
Mar 22, 2018
Ur of the Chaldeans
Mar 20, 2018
How Many Times Do I Have to Ask?
Mar 15, 2018
The Syrian Desert
Mar 13, 2018
The Word is in Control
Mar 08, 2018
Genesis 1-11
Mar 06, 2018
Remedial Prophecy
Mar 01, 2018
Saved Under the Regime
Feb 27, 2018
The Sword of the Spirit
Feb 22, 2018
Biblos Geneseos
Feb 20, 2018
Arise, O God, Judge the Earth
Feb 15, 2018
The Rise of Scripture
Feb 13, 2018
Your Acceptance is Not Required
Feb 08, 2018
Do Not Be Amazed
Feb 01, 2018
You Foolish Galatians
Jan 25, 2018
Into the Darkness
Jan 18, 2018
Trust in the Lord
Jan 11, 2018
Gilgal Golgatha
Jan 04, 2018
The Bringer of the Law
Dec 28, 2017
Neither Nor
Dec 21, 2017
Stockholm Syndrome
Dec 14, 2017
Peter and Judas
Dec 07, 2017
How Do You Catch a Cloud?
Nov 30, 2017
All Have Turned Aside
Nov 23, 2017
Seeing With Your Ears
Nov 16, 2017
Table Fellowship
Nov 09, 2017
We Are Judas
Nov 02, 2017
A Scathing Self-Critique
Oct 26, 2017
Opinions Are Cheap
Oct 19, 2017
I'll Sleep When I Die
Oct 12, 2017
The Time is Now
Oct 05, 2017
He Will Teach You What to Say
Sep 28, 2017
Hurricanes, Temples and Tyrants
Sep 21, 2017
All That She Had
Sep 14, 2017
There is Only One God
Sep 07, 2017
Commandment Without End
Aug 31, 2017
Ideological Entrapment
Aug 24, 2017
Unless the Lord Builds the House
Aug 17, 2017
Preaching With Authority
Aug 10, 2017
Read the Signs
Aug 03, 2017
Nothing But Leaves
Jul 27, 2017
The Boss of Me
Jul 20, 2017
Blind Trust
Jul 13, 2017
Wisdom Bears Repeating
Jul 06, 2017
True Wisdom is Painful
Jun 29, 2017
God is the Possessor
Jun 22, 2017
Suffer the Kingdom
Jun 15, 2017
What Does the Law Say?
Jun 08, 2017
Context, Context, Context!
Jun 01, 2017
Selective Hearing
May 25, 2017
Jesus, Give Us a Word!
May 18, 2017
It's All About Priorities
May 11, 2017
Listen to Him
May 04, 2017
Who is the King of Glory?
Apr 27, 2017
Who is Testing Whom?
Apr 20, 2017
The Bread of Life
Apr 13, 2017
This People Honors Me With Their Lips
Apr 06, 2017
She Has Ears to Hear
Mar 30, 2017
Do Not Follow Your Heart
Mar 23, 2017
Call No Man Unclean
Mar 16, 2017
Neither Snow, Nor Rain, Nor Heat, Nor Gloom of Night
Mar 09, 2017
The Voice of the Shepherd
Mar 02, 2017
It's Your Move, Herod
Feb 23, 2017
It's Not About the Teacher
Feb 16, 2017
Familiarity Breeds Contempt
Feb 09, 2017
Give Her Something to Eat
Feb 02, 2017
The First Disciple
Jan 26, 2017
Why Are You Bowing?
Jan 19, 2017
Why Are You Afraid?
Jan 12, 2017
Like a Mustard Seed
Jan 05, 2017
#cursed #afflicted #persecuted #amen
Dec 29, 2016
It's Not About the Soil
Dec 22, 2016
Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit
Dec 15, 2016
He Sent Them Out
Dec 08, 2016
Bread and Circuses
Dec 01, 2016
Jesus Proclaimed the Letter of the Law
Nov 24, 2016
Step Forward or Step Aside
Nov 17, 2016
Don't Be Fooled by the Crowds
Nov 10, 2016
Do Not Be Amazed, Be Obedient
Nov 03, 2016
A New Teaching?
Oct 27, 2016
Pleased With Himself
Oct 20, 2016
A Path in the Wilderness?
Oct 13, 2016
Eye of the Needle Jokes
Oct 06, 2016
Third Time is Not a Charm
Sep 29, 2016
It's Not a Two-way Street
Sep 22, 2016
Silence is Not Golden
Sep 15, 2016
Let No One Think Me Foolish
Sep 08, 2016
The Great Corinthian Brain Hack
Sep 01, 2016
A Yo Yo for Your Sake
Aug 25, 2016
No Thanks to You
Aug 18, 2016
The Bus Keeps Moving
Aug 11, 2016
True Equality is Not Fair
Aug 03, 2016
The Story of God's Will
Jul 28, 2016
Repeat, Repeat, Repeat!
Jul 21, 2016
Life is Not Gray
Jul 14, 2016
Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It
Jul 07, 2016
The Great Divorce
Jun 30, 2016
Don't Get Comfortable
Jun 23, 2016
Which Life is Life?
Jun 16, 2016
From Glory to Glory
Jun 09, 2016
Who is Testing Whom?
Jun 02, 2016
Wax On Wax Off
May 26, 2016
The Blessing and the Curse
May 19, 2016
Whistling to the Flock
May 12, 2016
Baptism for the Dead
May 05, 2016
According to the Scriptures
Apr 28, 2016
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent
Apr 21, 2016
Five Words
Apr 13, 2016
A More Excellent Way
Apr 07, 2016
Hell Was Created Just for Me
Mar 31, 2016
Paul's Kung Fu
Mar 24, 2016
A Tribe of One?
Mar 17, 2016
First Among Average
Mar 10, 2016
Trickle Up Economics
Mar 03, 2016
Not So Smart After All
Feb 25, 2016
How To Play Both Sides Without Waffling
Feb 18, 2016
Not Your Ordinary Life Coach
Feb 11, 2016
Égoïsme à deux
Feb 04, 2016
The Problem Within
Jan 28, 2016
The Art of Biblical Shame
Jan 21, 2016
Neither is Anything
Jan 14, 2016
Spiritual Authority
Jan 07, 2016
A Practical Impracticality
Dec 31, 2015
An Appeal to Fellowship
Dec 24, 2015
Epilogue: Freeing the Dove
Dec 17, 2015
Unearned Suffering: In Memory of John Price
Dec 10, 2015
The Sons of Jacob
Dec 03, 2015
The Children of Hagar
Nov 26, 2015
Only the Dead are Perfect
Nov 19, 2015
Broken for the Sake of the Poor
Nov 12, 2015
God is My Judge
Nov 05, 2015
No Oxygen Allowed
Oct 29, 2015
Bless Thine Inheritance
Oct 22, 2015
Hear, O Daughter
Oct 15, 2015
Waking Ned Devine
Oct 08, 2015
Dialogue is the Problem
Oct 01, 2015
Their Confusion is at Hand
Sep 24, 2015
Grant Victory Against Me
Sep 17, 2015
Knock Yourself Out
Sep 10, 2015
The Empire Strikes Back
Sep 03, 2015
The Tower of Babel
Aug 27, 2015
The Problem of the Justified
Aug 20, 2015
Until the Lord Comes
Aug 13, 2015
Famous for Scrubbing Toilets
Aug 06, 2015
Man Cannot Judge
Jul 29, 2015
Play the Cards You're Dealt
Jul 23, 2015
Judgment As Hope
Jul 15, 2015
Stick To It, Don’t Stick It To Yourself
Jul 09, 2015
Back From Greece
Jul 02, 2015
You Can’t Take It With You
Jun 25, 2015
Two Are Better Than One
Jun 18, 2015
Turn Turn Turn
Jun 11, 2015
The Pursuit of Happiness?
Jun 04, 2015
A Generation Goes and a Generation Comes
May 28, 2015
Because You Have Rejected Knowledge
May 21, 2015
Choosing the Better Portion
May 14, 2015
It’s Not Who You Know
May 07, 2015
What Has Athens To Do With Jerusalem?
Apr 30, 2015
Your Feelings Are Immaterial
Apr 23, 2015
Be It Known to You O King
Apr 16, 2015
The Truth is Your Neighbor
Apr 09, 2015
Ignorance is Not Bliss
Apr 02, 2015
What is a Spirit?
Mar 26, 2015
Spend It Before You Lose It
Mar 19, 2015
Fat of the Land
Mar 12, 2015
Come and See
Mar 05, 2015
Broken Records
Feb 26, 2015
The Marketplace
Feb 19, 2015
Blood Sacrifice
Feb 12, 2015
Boring Texts
Feb 05, 2015
Interview with Fr. Timothy Lowe
Jan 29, 2015
Wheat, Wine, and Oil
Jan 22, 2015
What’s More Important?
Jan 15, 2015
Interview with Dr. Mary Youssef
Jan 08, 2015
Cloud of Witnesses
Dec 31, 2014
Who's Your Daddy?
Dec 25, 2014
Playing All Sides
Dec 18, 2014
The Apostle Paul's Book Club
Dec 11, 2014
Society of Biblical Literature
Dec 04, 2014
The Dead Shall Hear the Voice of God and Live
Nov 27, 2014
Torah to the Gentiles
Nov 20, 2014
I, Paul
Nov 12, 2014
Do Not Feed Thyself
Nov 06, 2014
Ezekiel 33: Double or Nothing
Oct 30, 2014
It's All About the Shepherd
Oct 23, 2014
O How the Mighty Have Fallen
Oct 16, 2014
Lamentations
Oct 09, 2014
Richard Goes to OCF
Oct 02, 2014
Whose wife or whose son?
Sep 25, 2014
Happily Ever After?
Sep 18, 2014
Out of Egypt
Sep 11, 2014
Are You Rich?
Sep 04, 2014
Live from St. Cloud
Aug 28, 2014
Not Before the Time
Aug 21, 2014
Stay as You Are
Aug 14, 2014
(#29 Republished) Our Daily Bread
Aug 12, 2014
(#28 Republished) Jesus Goes to High School
Aug 12, 2014
Our Daily Bread
Aug 07, 2014
Jesus Goes to High School
Jul 31, 2014
Do Not Heal Thyself
Jul 24, 2014
Thy Kingdom Come
Jul 17, 2014
Countless Teachers?
Jul 10, 2014
Jacob's Folly
Jul 03, 2014
No Place to Lay Your Head
Jun 19, 2014
Interview with Dr. Greg Paulson
Jun 12, 2014
Push the Text
Jun 05, 2014
You Say You Wanna Teach?
May 29, 2014
Can These Bones Live?
May 22, 2014
Interview with Fr. Sergius Halvorsen
May 15, 2014
Shame on Who?
May 08, 2014
Who is the King of Glory?
May 01, 2014
The Wrong Side of the Law
Apr 23, 2014
Follow the Storyline
Apr 17, 2014
Interview with Fr. Paul Tarazi
Apr 10, 2014
The Merciful Father
Apr 03, 2014
Harlotry and Loyalty
Mar 27, 2014
Destruction of Jerusalem
Mar 20, 2014
Suffer Little Children
Mar 13, 2014
It's Functional!
Mar 06, 2014
Whose Interpretation?
Feb 26, 2014
Consumer or Consumed?
Feb 20, 2014
Pain of Victory
Feb 20, 2014
Written on the Heart
Feb 06, 2014
Interview with Dr. Nicolae Roddy
Jan 30, 2014
Interview with Fr. William Mills
Jan 23, 2014