Leviticus Q+R • Torah Q+R Ep. 5
Tim and Jon respond to questions from BibleProject Podcast's listeners.
Biblical Hope is Based on a Person
People express hope throughout the Bible, and most often what they hope for is God himself. #shorts #BibleProject #biblevideo #bible
Women Who Slayed Dragons
In today’s episode, we once again encounter a theme that’s becoming all too familiar: humans becoming chaos monsters. Jabin, king of Canaan, and Sisera, the commander of his army, are depicted as serpents in Judges 4, and the humans who overcome these two dragons are two women, Deborah and Jael. Join Tim and Jon as they explore the theme of the dragon in the scroll of Judges.
Was Cain’s City Originally a Good Thing? • The City Q+R 2
Was Cain’s city a good thing initially? If Israel was just as bad as Sodom and Gomorrah, why didn’t God destroy it too? And how will God redeem the city in the new creation? In this episode, Tim and Jon respond to your questions from the second half of The City series. Thank you to our audience for your insightful questions!
What is an “ets”?
In Hebrew "ets" refers to any large tree, bush, or vine. And the most famous ets in the Bible is the tree of life in the book of Genesis. #shorts #BibleProject #biblevideo #bible
How Humans Overcome the Dragon in Exodus
God created humans to bear his image, but sometimes we choose our own destruction and start to look a lot more like chaos monsters instead. In this episode, Tim and Jon discuss a human who the prophets frequently called a sea dragon: the Pharaoh who ruled Egypt and enslaved Israel in the scroll of Exodus. If Pharaoh is the seed of the serpent, who is the seed of the woman in Exodus? Listen in to find out!
In biblical Hebrew, hope is about waiting with expectation.
The Hebrew word "qavah" comes from the word that means to pull a rope tight. When we qavah, we’re waiting with tense expectation. #shorts #BibleProject #biblevideo #bible
What does God tell Cain?
Cain kills his brother out of jealousy, and then he builds the first city in the Bible to protect himself from increasing violence. God warns Cain that sin is a monster that wants to consume him, but he can rule it. #shorts #BibleProject #biblevideo #bible
Exodus 19-40 Q+R • Torah Q+R Ep. 4
Tim and Jon respond to questions from BibleProject Podcast's listeners.
Learn the Most Important Skill in Biblical Interpretation
This session is from the BibleProject Classroom Jonah class taught by Dr. Tim Mackie. The entire class is available for free on the BibleProject app at https://classroom-beta.bibleproject.com/jonah. How can a repeated word help us understand what the biblical authors are saying? Repeated words often: create a theme throughout a chapter link words that are close to each other link words that are distant from each other In this session, we practice finding repeated keywords in different chapters of Jonah and discuss what they mean for the literary design of the book.