Jason Kirk, Emily Kirk, and friends are finding the Bible is so much better and weirder than we were taught as church kids.
Story by story, we're having fun learning history, religion, literature, mythology, and the amazingly weird stuff. All are welcome! Perfect five-star rating on Apple Podcasts!
Contact us at vacationbibleschoolpodcast@gmail.com, if you like! (Sure, it's long! Copy and paste like Matthew did the Gospel of Mark!)
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Jason Kirk, Emily Kirk, and friends are finding the Bible is so much better and weirder than we were taught as church kids.
Story by story, we're having fun learning history, religion, literature, mythology, and the amazingly weird stuff. All are welcome! Perfect five-star rating on Apple Podcasts!
Contact us at vacationbibleschoolpodcast@gmail.com, if you like! (Sure, it's long! Copy and paste like Matthew did the Gospel of Mark!)
DEUUUTERONOMY: Actually super important and mostly really good??
Vacation Bible School Podcast
1 hour 25 minutes 5 seconds
4 years ago
DEUUUTERONOMY: Actually super important and mostly really good??
The final book of the Torah, the one we NEVER talked about in church, actually ... kinda rules at times?
In the story, at the edge of Canaan, Moses reframes everything that's happened to this point, retconning the horrors of Numbers and synthesizing the Bible's competing God ideas into one coherent theology that more or less works for everyone on earth (except the despicable Jebusites).
Upgraded lore, now including IRON GHOST GIANTS (and way less murder).
Talmud rabbis vs. Oprah's collected life advice: who ya got?
You want some more weird penis rules? Say less.
God and Moses perform their finale duet, VeggieTales-style.
There are patriarchal parts that really suck, because this was written ~2,600 years ago by a guy with specific bad ideas, and we'll try to talk context.
But for the most part, this is the most coherent and best-written book of the Bible so far. It's also possibly just about the most historically important book in the entire Bible. Yep!
Thank you to scholar friends Brad Haggard, Mike Altman, and Jason Smith for taking a look at our notes. Any errors are the fault of Jason (host Jason, not Smith Jason) and nobody else.
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Vacation Bible School Podcast
Jason Kirk, Emily Kirk, and friends are finding the Bible is so much better and weirder than we were taught as church kids.
Story by story, we're having fun learning history, religion, literature, mythology, and the amazingly weird stuff. All are welcome! Perfect five-star rating on Apple Podcasts!
Contact us at vacationbibleschoolpodcast@gmail.com, if you like! (Sure, it's long! Copy and paste like Matthew did the Gospel of Mark!)
