History in the Bible

An Israeli professor claims to have found a significant inscription carved into the side of the water tunnel that King Hezekiah of Judah dug around about the year 710 BCE. His colleagues think he's dreaming. In this episode, I am joined by Bernie Maopolski of the Fan of History podcast as we investigate. You can find his show at https://shows.acast.com/history

I have a another special treat for you, courtesy of the hosts of the Putchcast show. This is a podcast by Oliver Heuthe and James Bennet about riots, rebellions, revolutions, and the intoxication of power. They were kind enough to invite me on to talk about John the Baptist as a revolutionary. This episode is the result. I hope you enjoy the show. You can find Putschcast on any good podcast player. Their show is also available from their website, https://putschcast.com/.

The English language is littered with sayings and expressions from the Bible. You use many of them every day, although you may be unaware that their origins are Biblical. In the first of a miniseries of episodes, Gil Kidron of a Podcast of Biblical Proportions and I will discuss some of these sayings. Gil has the advantage of speaking Hebrew and French as well as English. We are about to discover that his common Hebrew sayings simply do not exist in English, nor many English sayings in Hebrew.

I introduce a new miniseries, about the story of Christian thinking of the end of times. I am joined by my old mate Steve Guerra, of the History of the Papacy podcast. From the time of Jesus, Christianity has looked forward to the end of the world, the end of times, the apocalypse. In this cosmic cataclysm, the sinners will be destroyed, and the righteous will spend eternity living under God's kingly rule. In this first episode of the miniseries, Steve and I present the origins of these ideas.

I return with Gil Kidron of A Podcast of Biblical Proportions. In this Afterlife episode, we explore the connections between the book of Deuteronomy in the Old Testament and the book of Revelation in the New.