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The Bible Geek Podcast 23-018 from 2023-11-21T14:00
If the sodomites did not want to rape the two angels, then why did Lot have to offer up his daughters?What is your opinion of the Testaments of the 12 Patriarchs? Is it possible that Luke couldn'...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 23-017 from 2023-10-09T14:00
God tells the serpent he will slither. The assumption is that he lost his legs. The Bible doesn't say how he got around before. So was it was a winged serpent? What gods from Greek mythology are m...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 23-016 from 2023-10-01T17:57
Are there 2 competing versions of Israel crossing over the /red vSea? Does the Bible teach the Trinity?Are the 12 disciples the houses of the Zodiac? Are Levi and Matthew 2 different people?Might...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 23-015 from 2023-09-12T14:00
Why should we think Bultmann's "Ecclesiastical Redactor" was Polycarp of Smyrna?
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The Bible Geek Podcast 23-014 from 2023-09-06T14:00
Why do so many people describe the serpent from the Garden of Eden as the Devil? When did people begin to differentiate "religion" from "philosophy"?Why did Paul never write a thorough exposition ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 23-013 from 2023-08-10T14:00
Do any scholars understand Jesus to have been a philosopher like Socrates? What do you know about Watchman Nee, Witness Lee, and "The Local Church" movement?Why does Gerd Ludemann consider "he app...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 23-011 from 2023-07-31T23:24
Discussion of more of Paul George's fifty-eight items of evidence that Christianity arose late in the first century and probably as a result of the first Roman Jewish war and the destruction of the...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 23-012 from 2023-07-27T14:00
Discussion of more of Paul George's fifty-eight items of evidence that Christianity arose late in the first century and probably as a result of the first Roman Jewish war and the destruction of the...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 23-010 from 2023-07-16T14:00
Why do the gospels refer simply "Caiaphas" instead of the full name Joseph ben Caiaphas? If we ended up with Paul's Christology then why do Christians get circumcised?Any notions among scholars th...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 23-009 from 2023-06-20T14:00
I Septuagint Daniel was translated in the 3rd century BCE, mustn't the predictions of the Hasmonean revolt of 165 have been actual predictive prophecies? If the expression "fishers of men" as used...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 23-008 from 2023-05-29T14:00
I was reading Isaiah 43 and came across this passage concerning the return of the exiles from Babylon sounds a lot like Exodus with the safe passage through water and being saved from Egypt. What’s...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 23-007 from 2023-04-20T14:00
Where in your own scholarship do you think you insert yourself--your personality, your religious beliefs, your ethics, your political beliefs, your worldview--most? And how do you, as a scholar, tr...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 23-006 from 2023-03-13T14:00
I'm curious whether any of your opinions on Biblical or Christian history going from a more rare or fringe view toward a more mainstream or conservative one? Is it not a False Dichotomy to say tha...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 23-005 from 2023-03-12T14:00
What exactly does Orthodox Christianity understand is happening at the crucifixion regarding the incarnation and death of the Son of God? How can a timeless being die, etc.?Why is the Last Supper/E...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 23-004 from 2023-02-21T14:00
It seems one of the main reasons Christianity was initially attractive was the promise of eternal life. And certainly, going to heaven was always the carrot I saw as a kid a couple thousand years a...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 23-003 from 2023-02-05T14:00
THE EARLY DATING AND AUTHORSHIP OF THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS: If you find that the swoon theory is not a “far fetched” theory, why don’t you promote it more than say mythicism, docetism, etc.?Do you thi...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 23-002 from 2023-02-04T14:00
What would Friedrich Nietzsche think of the comic book character Superman? I would like to know if you think the New Testament outlines a clear path to salvation. If so, what must a man do to be sa...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 23-001 from 2023-01-03T14:00
Why is it that the officially sanctioned oracular devices such as the Ephod (Urim and Thummim) are considered acceptable means to discern truth, while those who practice other techniques might earn...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 22-017 from 2022-12-30T14:00
I know you think that the criterion of embarrassment is not a valid argument for the historicity of Jesus since what is embarrassing for one generation or group of Christians was not the same for a...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 22-016 from 2022-12-16T14:00
Do you think there are any passages in the "Pauline" epistles that look like they might be written by Simon Magus? What do you make of Valentinus’s claim that he was in the apostolic line of “Paul...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 22-015 from 2022-12-10T16:00
Is the passage in Revelation 11:7-12 about the 2 witnesses somehow related to the Passion and Resurrection narratives of the gospels?How do you think we can discern if a text critical method produc...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 22-014 from 2022-12-10T14:00
Bible Geek Holiday Special Dr. Price reads a sermon about the 1947 movie "Miracle on 34th Street" titled "He Really is Santa Claus"
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The Bible Geek Podcast 22-013 from 2022-12-09T14:00
Who are Gog and Magog?It seems like angels have been largely written out of the script for fundamentalists. Is that your experience? Do you think this is a way for fundamentalists to avoid seeming ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 22-012 from 2022-11-20T14:00
Could you explain the story of Oedipus Rex as a religious figure, who had all the "signs and trappings of a deity" (Alan Dundes)I think I heard you say that the OT doesn't prophesy about a Messiah....
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The Bible Geek Podcast 22-011 from 2022-10-15T14:00
Do you know if the term "beyond time and space" began to be used to describe God after Einstein's theories were proven?In the Pistis Sophia, there are references to "five trees," from which five di...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 22-010 from 2022-09-17T14:00
One topic: Universalism/Universal Salvation
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The Bible Geek Podcast 22-009 from 2022-08-30T14:00
Birger Pearson argues for a Jewish pre-Christian origin for Gnosticism, but Bart Ehrman says that view is passé. Why do you agree with Pearson?Did some Gnostics use Son of Man as an important title...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 22-008 from 2022-08-29T14:00
In Geza Vermes's Jesus the Jew he says many scholars reject his understanding of Jesus as a Galilean charismatic sage like Honi or Hanina ben Dosa, as well the contention that “son of man” was not ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 22-007 from 2022-07-19T14:00
Tell us about Bruno Bauer.Do you know whether anyone has made a serious, well researched argument to change the BCE/CE dating scheme to something more centered in the Western/Hellenistic/Enlightenm...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 22-006 from 2022-06-29T14:00
Mark has the crowd hail “the kingdom of our father that is coming,” while Matthew has “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord.” Is it possible that Mark believed Jesus was the Messia...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 22-005 from 2022-04-11T14:00
James D.G. Dunn (Unity and Diversity in the New Testament) says that the Ebionite gospel omitted Matthew’s Nativity story because they were adoptionists, implying that their Christology was seconda...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 22-004 from 2022-03-26T14:00
Can you pontificate a bit on the various schools of thought on dating New Testament literature and the Apostolic Fathers?Is there a translation that you can recommend for a first time Bible reader?...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 22-003 from 2022-03-01T14:00
The crucifixion story in all four gospels had to have been based on Josephus’ story of rescuing a friend from crucifixion. All four gospels were written after the Josephus “rescue”, so there is not...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 22-002 from 2022-02-08T14:00
Why do people continue to set dates for the Rapture when they’ve all fallen through?Perhaps the Bible mentions 2 different arks of the covenant, the wings of the cherubim atop one of them forming a...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 22-001 from 2022-01-11T14:00
Did early Christians associate the trumpets of Rosh Hashanah, the New Year festival, with the Last Trumpet of the Rapture?What do you think about that last seventh chapter of the book: "Jesus for S...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 21-020 from 2021-12-09T14:00
In a Gospel about, and supposedly written by, Nicodemus why would it not state that he assisted with the burial?I was wondering what examples we have of textual reconstructions, created through the...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 21-019 from 2021-12-04T14:00
In which gnostic work can one find the myth of the sacrifice of the primal man of light, whose shattered divine sparks give life to the whole creation?What was the role of women in early Christian ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 21-018 from 2021-11-09T14:00
How does Adoptionism fit into the evolution of historic Christology?My question is about the range of meanings that adelphoi can take. Can it mean ‘brothers in Christ’ which could be understood as ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 21-017 from 2021-10-08T14:00
In Acts 1:13-14 “certain women” are mentioned alongside the disciples. Who were they? Was it intentional that Mark has a stand-in appear inside Jesus’s tomb instead of Jesus himself? Also, that Ma...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 21-016 from 2021-09-25T14:00
Assuming that Luke and Matthew we copying large parts of Mark, and that books were extraordinarily rare, what kind of people were Luke and Matthew? Were they respected scribes? Low level bishops of...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 21-015 from 2021-09-10T14:00
In biblical times, how could one distinguish a Jew from a Samaritan by outward appearance?Where did Paul derive the information we read in 1 Corinthians 11:23-26?What do you think of the recent int...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 21-014 from 2021-08-20T14:00
Do you think that back in the times at the beginnings of Christianity, there was an organization or brotherhood similar to the modern day Masons that ran parallel to Judaism, and later to Christian...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 21-013 from 2021-07-30T14:00
What do you make of Matthew 27:52?I Corinthians 2:8 mentions the “archons,” usually translated as rulers of this world. Are archons necessarily celestial or can they be earthly? Why would a celest...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 21-012 from 2021-07-09T14:00
Tell us about Bruno Bauer.Do you know whether anyone has made a serious, well researched argument to change the BCE/CE dating scheme to something more centered in the Western/Hellenistic/Enlightenm...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 21-011 from 2021-06-28T14:00
I think the Jesus ben Ananias account in Josephus is actually about the Gospel Jesus as an old man. If this Ananias is the high priest of the Gospels, then Joseph Caiaphas was his son in law, and J...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 21-010 from 2021-06-24T14:00
My understanding is that "Paul" means something like "humble" or "small." Is that the idea? That this character goes from being the powerful persecutor Saul to the small and humble little Paul? Or ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 21-009 from 2021-06-23T14:00
Christians often criticize atheists for believing that the universe was created from nothing. How do they square this with their belief that God created the universe ex nihilo?I wondered if you've ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 21-008 from 2021-06-14T14:00
What was that parallel Bible you said you liked so much?Is there any reason to believe that the Q character from Star Trek was named after the Q source from Bible scholarship?How widespread is the ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 21-007 from 2021-05-19T14:00
Do we know why Jesus declares woes upon the “unrepentant” cities of Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum in Matthew 11 and Luke 10?Which is more likely authentic: Luke 6:20 (“you poor”) or Matthew 5:...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 21-006 from 2021-05-06T14:00
Is there a work that gives a good overview of the different models of how Christianity could have started? Genesis and Exodus use the term "Pharaoh" as if it's a proper name, while also referring ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 21-005 from 2021-05-04T14:00
If the "Neapolitan Ice Cream" analogy for the Trinity actually Modalism? How about attempts to analogize the Trinity with Quantum Physics? Mustn’t the Genesis Flood be inspired by an actual world ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 21-004 from 2021-04-16T14:00
Can we surmise that Marcion is a possible candidate for the author of Mark? He was in Rome during the 130s and I understand his name translates to “little Mark”. Why would a Roman author, whoever...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 21-003 from 2021-03-12T15:00
Is there any biblical basis for the insistence of some that only humans go to heaven, not animals?What do you make of the baptism for the dead described in 1 Corinthians 15:29?Why would a Roman aut...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 21-002 from 2021-02-21T14:00
"And heard (this) King Herod openly for his name / authority became manifest. And he said, "Because John the Baptist was risen from the dead and, by this, operates / works this Power ["dynamis"] in...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 21-001 from 2021-01-22T14:00
In Mark 6:15 Herod wonders if Jesus might be John the Baptist raised from the dead. Could it be that this doesn't refer to Jesus as sorcerer but to Jesus (or several people in a movement) manifesti...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-023 from 2020-12-29T14:00
What is the word for "church" in the original Greek, and what did it mean before Christianity?If "Messiah" and "Christ" are terms rather than proper names, might not any group of people following a...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-022 from 2020-12-24T14:00
You asked listeners to suggest a mythical or legendary character who could potentially be historicized by clever apologetics. Here is my humble suggestion: Ned Ludd.I'm interested in any thoughts y...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-021 from 2020-12-04T14:00
Might the Noah story be based on the recently discovered flooding of the originally dry Persian Gulf around 14,000 years ago?Did Simon Magus’ followers who still exist in Eusebius day? Was this a f...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-020 from 2020-11-27T14:00
On your latest podcast you were asked about the parallels between the controversies about Pauline and Shakespearean authorship. Since this is something I actually know about, I’d like to share my a...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-019 from 2020-11-12T14:00
In Acts, the writer mentions the apostles performing "signs and wonders", as well as miracles. If miracles are mentioned separately, it would seem that signs and wonders are something other than he...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-018 from 2020-11-08T14:00
In John 3:14-15, is the writer comparing Jesus to the serpent god?Why does God conceal his real name in the Old Testament?I was wondering what inspired the "Temptation narratives" in the various go...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-017 from 2020-10-28T14:00
What are your thoughts on the interactions between the biblical Paul and the 12? Did they even live at the same time? Why was it important that the first Christians get their message to Rome?Are t...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-016 from 2020-10-02T14:00
Analyzing Worldwide Church of God theology. Does an objective moral standard require God--or vice versa?Morton Smith and the Secret Gospel of Mark Marcion and GalatiansMithraism The Egyptian
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-015 from 2020-09-23T14:00
Ironies of Bible-worship Do we know exactly what caused Judaism to metamorphose from a polytheistic religion into a monotheistic religion? How much of a role might its adoption of Zoroastrian idea...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-014 from 2020-09-21T14:00
A possible Greek pun in the story of the Gerasene Demoniac. Balaam appears twice in Numbers, in chapters 22 and 31. In Chapter 22 he seems to be a good guy who fears God, but in Chapter 31 he mast...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-013 from 2020-09-03T14:00
Is the dating of the gospels well established? How do we know Mark was written in 60-70 AD? Could it be MUCH later? Is the Pauline view that the wicked dead will not be resurrected unto judgment...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-012 from 2020-08-21T14:00
How much weight should we give to such a silence about Jesus' life as being evidence for Paul not thinking of Jesus as a human being that walked the earth? Now, if the silence of a Gospel-like-Je...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-011 from 2020-08-20T14:00
Do you SUPPOSE that "Mark", which lends itself so readily to being a stage play...actually BEGAN as such? Mark is unique in that it never SAYS "angel". And we are never told who this boy is. Could ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-010 from 2020-08-03T14:00
Do the Pseudo-Clementines anticipate Pascal’s Wager? Do you find that in Catholicism the Eucharist and the rosary take on more importance than the Bible?Why do we call the coming return of Jesus t...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-009 from 2020-07-09T14:00
Is 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 an interpolation? Is there a good critical study of Marian apparitions?Is Joseph of Arimathea’s retrieval of Jesus’ body based on Flavius Josephus’ account of rescuing a...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-008 from 2020-06-09T14:00
The story of Balaam in Numbers 22 is puzzling. Verse 6, which says any curse or blessing Balaam may speak will come true, reminds me of Jesus giving a blank check to Peter in Matt. 17. Any connecti...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-007 from 2020-06-02T14:00
The Bible Geek's Emergency Relief Request https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-bible-geekCan you explain more about the haberim and how they may relate to the origins of Christianity? Based on John 2:...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-006 from 2020-05-24T14:00
Possible explanations of visionary experiences via hallucinaens, etc. What evidence nis there for Mark having originated in Antioch or Rome? For Matthew being wriiten in Antioch?Any idea to what e...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-005 from 2020-04-02T14:00
Do you think the “young man” who flees the Garden of Gethsemane in Mark 14:51-52, leaving his sheet in the clutches of Jesus’ enemies might be a symbol for the casting off of the body of flesh and ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-004 from 2020-03-20T14:00
What do you make of the young man in the loin cloth, a.k.a. the Naked Fugitive, present at Jesus' arrest? Where does F.C. Baur claim that Acts uses Simon Magus to stand for Paul?Does Deuteronomy 2...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-003 from 2020-02-29T14:00
Is the Talpiot Tomb in East Jerusalem the Tomb of Jesus Christ and His Family as well as His Parents and close relatives? Why do we not have a binity rather than a trinity? Where did the notion of...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-002 from 2020-01-26T14:00
Could the Sermon on the Mount have been a non or pre-Christian text incorporated by Christians and attributed to Jesus? Aren’t the Passion stories of various savior cults a revived version of the ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 20-001 from 2020-01-10T14:00
Pagan Greek trinities? On his first visit to Jerusalem, Paul "tried to associate with the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple." (Acts 9:26) Fitzmyer's...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-029 from 2019-12-17T14:00
Re: the Bible’s stance on alcohol, what about Jesus' own drinking as in Matt. 11:18-19? Are you familiar with Norman Golb and his book, Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, and if so, what do you think...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-028 from 2019-12-06T14:00
Is there any apologetic for T-totaling other than the idea of setting a good example? What is the Biblical view of suicide? Was early Christian worship based on Jewish worship or influenced by p...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-027 from 2019-11-20T14:00
I noticed that ?????????? (Ierosolyma) was used in Galatians 1:17-18 and 2:1, while in other places Paul seemed to favor ?????????? (Ierousal?m), in particular Galatians 4:25-26; Romans 15:19; 15:2...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-026 from 2019-10-27T14:00
Reading of "The Theology of Preacher". In Mark 16,:2, should we translate "on the first day of the week" or "the first sabbath"?Help identifying [Campbellite] sect?Was Nietzsche'e mad man based on...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-025 from 2019-10-16T14:00
Is there a parallel between how rock groups become “classic” and how Christian writings became canonical? I’d like to hear your considerations on a controversial book I recently came across, "The ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-024 from 2019-09-17T14:00
Does Luke give Jesus an age of “about 30” because that was the age at which a priest could be ordained, and he wanted to set Jesus up as a priest as in Hebrews? Wouldn’t the fruit of the knowledge...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-023 from 2019-09-07T02:00
In Matthew 16:15-16 is Jesus being Socratic, testing whether the disciples have figured out he is the Messiah? If Polycarp wrote 2 Timothy and Titus but not 1 Timothy, who did write 1 Timothy—Iren...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-022 from 2019-08-28T14:00
Producer's Note: There are some audio artifacts in this episode, my apologies. What would have been motivating early church fathers to twist the identity of Simon Magus into a fictional Paul of Ta...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-021 from 2019-08-10T14:00
1 Samuel 5:9, in Jerome’s Latin Vulgate, features a strange half verse following the description of the Philistines of Gath being smitten with hemorrhoids: “And while they were carrying [the Ark of...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-020 from 2019-07-25T14:00
1 Samuel 5:9, in Jerome’s Latin Vulgate, features a strange half verse following the description of the Philistines of Gath being smitten with hemorrhoids: “And while they were carrying [the Ark of...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-019 from 2019-07-21T14:00
I remember once hearing that even though they don’t believe in cremation, Catholics burn what they believe to be the leftover body and blood of Christ on a weekly bases, effectively cremating Jesus...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-018 from 2019-07-01T00:09
Matthew 12:42 has Jesus say, "The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and now on...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-017 from 2019-06-07T14:00
Do we have any good historical data and theoretical conceptions for why and how Christianity appealed so much to and spread so vastly within the Greco-Roman world in the first few centuries ACE?Doe...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-016 from 2019-06-01T14:00
1 Timothy 4:3,4 says, "the inspired word clearly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith... They forbid marriage and command people to abstain from foods that God created to be...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-015 from 2019-05-28T14:00
Do you think the Bible teaches a literal burning hell, or is it more a metaphor like outer darkness? Matthew reads this way in this NIV, "From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-014 from 2019-05-01T14:00
What does the Geek think? Is Canaan the victim of some mixed up sources, a hidden castration story, or some other possibility that I’m missing? We see a historical pattern of vilification of a war...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-013 from 2019-04-14T02:00
Does 1 Corinthians 12:3 mean that no one can come to believe in Christ apart from a special revelation direct from God? Are there Gnostic and/or Calvinist implications? Is it impossible for God to...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-012 from 2019-04-01T14:00
Is it true that "by Hebrew tradition when the day of the month is not specifically stated, it is given to be the first day of that month"? April 6th 32 A.D. is a Sunday, and not even Nisan 14 but...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-011 from 2019-03-17T14:00
What are the biblical limits of divine revelation? If God nis omniscient, and “we have the mind of Christ,” why do we not know everything? Why do some prophecies remain unfulfilled? Why does the Bi...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-010 from 2019-03-11T14:00
In Luke baby Jesus is presented at the Temple 40 days after Jesus's birth.How do apologists handle this contradiction, as compared to the events described in Matthew (the flight to Egypt)? After al...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-009 from 2019-03-05T14:00
Could you outline the work of Thomas J. J. Altizer, his work, the context of his contribution, the significance - and how it has influenced your own thinking and work? How did “Lucifer” turn into ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-008 from 2019-02-17T14:00
What is the oldest textual reference for John the Baptist? Did Mark describe John the Baptist as wearing a camel-hair shirt and eating locusts? Could Mark be a redacted version of the Marcion gosp...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-007 from 2019-02-02T14:00
Is Mark 9:42-50 necessarily talking about a heavenly afterlife?. What on earth does this mean? "Everyone will be salted with fire.”In the feeding of the 5,000 and the 4,000, do the numbers of loa...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-006 from 2019-01-30T20:29
Supposedly, today among western scholars, there's agreement that we know more about the historicity of Jesus than we do about the historicity of Mohamed. What does Dr. Price think about that? Luke...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-005 from 2019-01-26T14:00
Producer's Note: There is a lot of noise and buzz in this episode. I did what I could without distorting the good Doctor's voice too much, but I do apologize for the poor audio quality. Concerning...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-004 from 2019-01-20T14:00
Is there much genuine Higher Criticism being done today? Is SATAN! a kind of mythological Frankenstein monster and if yes what parts was he sown together from?In the first few chapters of the book...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-003 from 2019-01-16T23:30
In a recent (or, recent to me) episode, you said the Reformation was, to some extent, based on how one shouldn't read secret meanings into the Bible. Can you elaborate on this? Can you shed an...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-002 from 2019-01-11T23:45
Did children really play at mourning? Do you happen to know of any references, preferably from the seven authenticated letters of Paul which can be used to support/confirm the consensus dates of 3...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 19-001 from 2019-01-04T14:15
What do you think of Jordan Peterson’s definition of “truth” as any notion that, if believed, increases survival value? Could you enlighten us as to the Book of Enoch and the ubiquitous Watchers? ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-036 from 2018-12-24T14:00
What does the Geek think would happen if we really did find something new (in the recovered Library of Herculaneum) that should objectively count as scripture rather than apocrypha? How would this ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-035 from 2018-12-10T14:00
Could you please provide the definition for "abomination" as used in the Bible? Would you please review the history of the concept of having a personal relationship with Jesus/God?I wonder if you ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-034 from 2018-12-05T14:00
Is there a connection between 1 Timothy 1:7 and Plutarch’s "Bruta Animalia Ratione Uti” (Book 4)? In addition, based on the theory that you have mentioned - that Paul’s struggles against the beasts...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-033 from 2018-11-18T14:00
Might Mark 6:24ff mean that Herodias used John's severed head as a magical oracle device? Could Moses and Joshua have been variant (Canaanite and Egyptian) versions of an older mythic deity, subse...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-032 from 2018-11-02T14:00
Would you care to comment on the pre-Jesus environment, especially the book of Daniel and Enoch? Was Jesus on the cross actually petitioning Elijah to come and rescue him? Or appealing for the su...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-031 from 2018-09-13T14:00
On whether mainstream acceptance of Mythicism would end Christianity. How is Arminianism any less deterministic than Calvinism? If God knows how all future events would come to pass, then how can...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-030 from 2018-09-11T14:00
Some Afghani Muslims believe Ali was a prophet after Muhammad. How can they reconcile this with Muhammad being “the Seal of the Prophets”? Why wasn’t the Acts of John included in the canon? Would ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-029 from 2018-09-03T01:45
Morton Smith mentions the notion that Jesus had magical tattoos from his time in Egypt that empowered him to cast miraculous spells. Where does this idea come from? What is the point of Matthew’s...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-028 from 2018-08-23T14:00
Whether the original Hebrew of Genesis implies the loincloths of Adam and Eve were animal hides—or the physical bodies newly clothing their spiritual bodies. Might Genesis 6:4 have originated as p...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-027 from 2018-08-19T14:00
In Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity, Walter Bauer says: "the catastrophe in Palestine forever erased the demand that gentile Christians of the diaspora should be circumcised and should...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-026 from 2018-08-10T14:00
What about the apologetics argument that the resurrection of Jesus could not have been fabricated because of the fact that gospel writers claim that women were witnesses to the event. As women were...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-025 from 2018-07-18T14:00
When in Mark 5:43 Jesus tells Jairus and his wife not to tell anyone about “this,” something impossible given that they would have to pretend henceforth that she was dead in an empty grave, Mark me...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-024 from 2018-07-10T08:00
It has been claimed that the genealogy in Matthew 1 contains 14+ features of sevens, said to collectively defy probability. From a textual standpoint, how plausible is this? Could the Samar...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-023 from 2018-07-02T08:00
Pastors seem often to give parishioners answers that will satisfy them even if the pastor doesnâ??t really have an opinion. He doesnâ??t want to look bad. How did you deal with this situation? I...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-022 from 2018-06-17T08:00
Nature is horrible, and civilization allows animals such as a cows, pigs, sheep, and humans to live in comfort and safety. Why, then, the persistent mytheme of humans being the defective addition...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-021 from 2018-06-07T08:00
Doesnâ??t the mention in Galatians of Paulâ??s meeting with â??James the Lordâ??s brotherâ?? count against mythicism? Was Thomas Didymus in some sense Jesusâ?? twin? Does the NT refer anywhe...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-020 from 2018-06-05T08:00
Do you think Isreal and Judah were ever a single nation? Any biblical recollections of two major asteroid impacts of 12000 and 13000 years ago? What are your thoughts on humor in the Bible an...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-019 from 2018-06-01T08:00
I was hoping you could spend a few minutes speculating on the future of American Evangelical Christianity following President Trump. Also, would you mind informing us about the differences betw...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-018 from 2018-05-28T08:00
A Christian was saying that Justin Martyr was listing parallels between the Jesus story and earlier pagan stories to somehow woo pagans to the Christian faith. I said no, Justin was responding to c...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-017 from 2018-05-26T08:00
Which of three explanations for the Messianic Secret do you prefer? Dr. Price in your experience, was Robert W. Funk's work with the Jesus Seminar in any way related to his tendency (on display...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-016 from 2018-05-09T08:00
What do you think of Roger Parvusâ??s theories on the identification of â??Ignatiusâ?? with Proteus Peregrinus and the possibility that Theophilus of Antioch had been a follower of Apelles? What...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-015 from 2018-05-08T08:00
Examples of the growth of urban legends as â??oral tradition.â?? Paul both engages in â??boastingâ?? and warns against it. A contradiction? Do you think the city of Nazareth existed before th...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-014 from 2018-05-04T08:00
Why we cook meat: revisited. What does the Bible tell us about singing vs. instrumental music? What do we know from other sources about first-century worship? Â Any thoughts about the proof-t...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-013 from 2018-04-28T08:00
Mustnâ??t God be condemned for crimes against humanity, e.g., the murder of the Egyptian firstborn in Exodus? In the Garden of Eden did animals have the ability to achieve immortality if they ha...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-012 from 2018-04-19T08:00
About Jesus' supposed 'harrowing of Hell' - the time between his death and resurrection when he supposedly traveled to Hades/Hell and freed the poor captive spirits there: why were there any spirit...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-011 from 2018-03-31T08:00
Hereâ??s how Catholics harmonize the liturgical date of Christ's conception with the date of His birth. What should I be looking for in Deuteronomy to show that it was written last and used th...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-010 from 2018-03-20T08:00
The fact that the character of Aaron exists in the Bible is fairly confusing to me. If Moses had a speech impediment why not just heal him instead of roping one more guy into the whole plot? How...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-009 from 2018-03-17T08:00
In your latest Bible Geek podcast, you wondered if there were cobras in the ancient Near East. Sure there were! How does Marcion factor into the Q hypothesis? Â In Job 42 God rewards Job wit...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-008 from 2018-03-12T08:00
Could you speak more to the differences between monolatry and henotheism? Could you explain the clues scholars use to date ancient texts but with modern examples? The Gospel of Philip says, ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-007 from 2018-03-02T07:00
2 Samuel 12:14 says God killed the newborn son of David&Bathsheba to punish Dave for engineering Uriahâ??s death. But Deuteronomy 14:16 declares that no one will be killed for his parentsâ?? sins! ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-006 from 2018-02-28T07:00
Does the NT ever call Jesus â??Godâ??? If not, why are supposed â??Biblicistsâ?? so adamant that you must believe he is? Is Acts 14, 12, where Barnabas is called Zeus and Paul is called Hermes,...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-005 from 2018-02-24T07:00
Producer's Note: This episode cuts off abruptly at around the 39 minute mark due to some technical difficulties, my apologies. Is Bart Ehrman minimizing the piety of pagans as well as the extent...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-004 from 2018-02-08T07:00
A very special episode of the Bible Geek as Dr. Price interviews author and new testament scholar Dr. Bart Ehrman on his new book The Triumph of Christianity. Dr Ehrman is currently the James A. Gr...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-003 from 2018-01-30T07:00
How do we verify any early church claims since the gospels and the epistles along with "Church history" all point towards being propaganda? Why didn't Jesus stone Mary Magdalene?  I know Jesu...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-002 from 2018-01-22T07:00
How strongly did Platonism influence Paulâ??s understanding of the Fall? Which scholars propose a mid to late second century date for the Gospels and Pauline letters? Might Jesus have been a...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 18-001 from 2018-01-07T07:00
Evangelicals and fundamentalists interpret the veil of the temple being torn in half as a symbolic transition from God dwelling in the physical temple built by humans to God dwelling within believe...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-054 from 2017-12-19T07:00
Do you agree that the experience of encountering the transcendent/sacred/numinous/ineffable, or of trying to induce that encounter, is the original or ultimate goal of the religious impulse? If ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-053 from 2017-12-16T07:00
How much of what we think of as Christmas is biblical and how much of it is some kind of syncretism? Someone claimed that the Talmud is a 4th faith/is not a Jewish text. What could this mean? ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-052 from 2017-11-27T07:00
Do we have any concrete sources or proof that Romans chapters 9-11 were not original? What is the point of Matthew 22:1-14, the Wedding Banquet? Isnâ??t â??Itâ??s the Great Pumpkin Charlie B...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-051 from 2017-11-15T07:00
Doesn't it strike you as a bit strange that the person of the Trinity involved in the conception of the human Jesus is not the Father, but the Holy Spirit? Mark 1:14 says "After John was put in...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-050 from 2017-11-07T07:00
You said that some of the early patristic writers believed that John the Baptist was a heretic and even the spiritual mentor of Simon Magus and Dositheus. Might this version imply the canonical gos...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-049 from 2017-10-29T08:00
My question comes from the book of Numbers, chapter 5:11-31. The Test for Adultery. What is going on here? Also, what is this â??spirit of jealousyâ?? that comes upon the man? Why does Catholic...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-048 from 2017-10-25T08:00
Does the first sentence of the Naassene Fragment refer to the creation story in Genesis? You've mentioned that Matthew tends to double the characters and events of Mark. Could this same thing be...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-047 from 2017-10-15T08:00
Besides Jesus historicism and Mythicism, is there a "third way", whereby the Jesus of the gospels is a composite of stories originally told of several historic figures? Several ancient sources...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-046 from 2017-10-04T08:00
The Korean terms for God and Jesus. Why are Korean Christians so inclined to Western Protestant theology, specifically Calvinism? â??How were animal sacrifices and shamans excised from the Ju...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-045 from 2017-10-03T08:00
When Jesus was tempted by Satan on the mountain top, why didn't he simply say "all creation is mine already, I made it, so it's not yours to give me"? Isnâ??t this Manichean? What do you know of...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-044 from 2017-09-28T08:00
Donâ??t ongoing theological developments inadvertently produce contradictions with earlier forms of the beliefs? What exactly was the place of Hercules in Ancient Greek popular devotion? And do...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-043 from 2017-09-18T08:00
The genealogy in the Bible goes from Adam to Jesus in some 6000+ years. Does this force Christians into a young earth stance? Could you comment on what is meant by â??wineâ?? in the Bible? ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-042 from 2017-09-12T08:00
Why do even critical scholars resist the conclusion that the gospel stories are plainly rewrites of OT stories, not traditions of what Jesus said and did?. Â Is there anyway to harmonize the god...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-041 from 2017-08-29T08:00
The best evidence for God's existence is that there IS NO evidence for God's existence. That is to say, if he were to be measured he would no longer be transcendent, infinite, etc. A good, if ironi...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-040 from 2017-08-24T08:00
Can you recommend some good books on the historical John the Baptist or on early understandings of or religions based on him? Is there an approach you'd recommend for someone trying to get a mor...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-039 from 2017-08-20T08:00
How did the idea of demons and demon possession come into Judaism and Christianity? In Mark 14:47 the disciples try to resist Jesusâ?? arrest. Why do the Synoptic Gospels move from "one who sto...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-038 from 2017-08-16T08:00
Opening the Transfiguration episode, Mark and Matthew state that "6 days had passed" before this event while Luke states "8 days" had passed. Why the difference in the days? What, if any, is the...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-037 from 2017-08-15T08:00
How long did Adam&Eve live in Eden before being kicked out? Why do you think the â??personal relationship with Jesusâ?? was an invention of the German Pietists? Did the â??Tzadikâ?? concept i...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-036 from 2017-08-10T08:00
Is it possible that Zechariah 6:9-15 implies a proto-Christian religion existed around the time Zechariah was written?� If even believing Christian scholars accept that two out of the four go...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-035 from 2017-08-09T08:00
Can you recommend an order in which to read your books? Why is the Bible THE fundamental text of Western Civilization and culture, its themes, stories, and values permeating our moral codes, our...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-034 from 2017-08-08T08:00
Why do the descendants of the founders of sectarian groups rarely remain members after a few generations? Revelation 12 seems to place the Fall of Satan in the End Times, but otherwise it is u...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-033 from 2017-08-06T08:00
Do you think the Shroud of Turin is authentic burial cloth of Jesus Christ? What problems are there with the following scenario? Matthew combines Mark with a Q-like source. Luke uses Matthew and...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-032 from 2017-08-06T07:00
Are there any plausible arguments that Paul actually wrote one or more of the four Gospels? Does the NT avoid using the Hebrew name for God, using the more generic â??Godâ?? in order to cater to...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-031 from 2017-08-05T08:00
Could you talk a bit about 1. Logical problems with Christian theology 2. The morality of Christian theology 3. How diverse Christian theology is with its liberal churches (universalism) to its exc...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-030 from 2017-08-04T08:00
How far back does the earliest narrative of a great commission and ascension go? Which account--Mark's, Matthew's, or Acts'--is likely the earliest? Is any of this in anyway likely traceable to...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-029 from 2017-08-03T08:00
With the repeated failure of predictions of a mortal, human â??warrior-king-priest Messiah,â??might early Jewish Christians, perhaps inspired by Danielâ??s Celestial â??Son-of-Man,â?? have scrapped...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-028 from 2017-08-02T08:00
Catholic apologist Peter Kreeft says, "You can't write fiction about Jesus. The figure of the Gospels makes every attempt at imaginative fiction look silly." But donâ??t the gospels read like ficti...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-027 from 2017-08-01T08:00
Amy Jill Levine says that Jews do not think that Jesus Christ was the messiah because he did not usher in the messianic age. What do you think? Regarding Jesus cursing the fig tree: might it be ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-026 from 2017-07-31T08:00
Could you elaborate your understanding of the difference between atheism and agnosticism? Does the Bible tilt more toward predestination or free will? If belief were truly the sole requiremen...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-025 from 2017-07-29T08:00
A new study suggests that the Lebanese are descendants of the ancient Canaanites. How does this affect, if at all, the theory that the ancient Canaanites were just a literary device to illustrate t...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-024 from 2017-07-28T08:00
Should we just understand the Eden story as about kings and subjects and the former wanting to keep their power and position, and the later wanting freedom? How different was Israelite religion ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-023 from 2017-07-19T08:00
Is the first person narration in Nehemiah an actual memoir? Was the Gospel of Mark possibly a satire? When Mosesâ?? spies report that the Canaanites are unconquerable giants, are they just ma...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-022 from 2017-07-17T08:00
Why does Islamic tradition identify the Prophet Idris (the Biblical Enoch) with Hermes Trismegistus? What is the significance of the number 144,000 (Rev 7:4)? Can you give a quick run-down on...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-021 from 2017-07-03T08:00
Do you have a book that goes in detail about the theory that the ancient Israelites were the Canaanites? Is there a possibility that the ancient Israelites were black people? And what are your t...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-020 from 2017-06-20T08:00
If Mark meant us to understand Jesusâ?? baptism as the messianic anointing by Elijah, wouldnâ??t this fend off the â??criterion of embarrassmentâ??? What would have happened if the Marcionite se...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-019 from 2017-05-31T08:00
Could Jesus have fasted for 40 days if he did it the way Copts do today; eating after sundown? Might Markâ??s pericope â??Leaven of the Phariseesâ?? (Mark 8:13-21) be rebuking Jewish Christian r...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-018 from 2017-05-21T08:00
If the gospels are not trustworthy historical accounts of Jesus, what did the early church fathers think they were talking about? Ignatius is said to have been a disciple of the Apostle John; surel...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-017 from 2017-05-16T08:00
How could a copyist, seeing a body of text in the center, and notes in the margins, possibly confuse the two and combine them in his own copy? Would such things not be clearly delineated in ancient...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-016 from 2017-05-15T08:00
Why would God not make himself known by some still-evident means rather that a highly dubious story of a 2000 year old story of events in a far-off land? Please explain again how 1 Timothy 2.12-...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-015 from 2017-05-06T08:00
What do you make of William Klassenâ??s attempt to minimize the connection between the Matthean Judas story and Zechariah? If the Dead Sea Scrolls really do come from the 1st or 2nd century BCE ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-014 from 2017-04-28T08:00
Is the depiction of Jesus in the Catacombs valid archaeological evidence for the historical Jesus? How does the absence of Nazareth in any first century contemporary writings, including Flavius ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-013 from 2017-04-14T08:00
When did the phrase "word of God" come to be associated with the Bible? Whatâ??s the deal with the King James Only movement? The Trees of Knowledge and of life were set aside for the gods. Hu...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-012 from 2017-04-04T08:00
What of the similarity between Jesusâ?? being betrayed at super and Osirisâ?? betrayal at supper? Aren't the gospel writers tipping their hands when they proclaim that Jesus did such and such ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-011 from 2017-03-20T08:00
The racist context and legacy of 2nd Nephi 30:6. In Sun of All Ages William Tyler Olcott suggests that the Canaanite deities were all personifications of the sun - representing the strong fierce...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-010 from 2017-03-19T08:00
The early Christians seemed completely absorbed with the coming of Christ, and weren't interested in taking part in rebellions against the Roman state. How does this compare to the character of Jes...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-009 from 2017-03-18T08:00
Could the early Jewish and Christian religions have originated in Africa? Along the same lines, could the Ten Commandments be a rip off of the Egyptian 42 Negative Confessions? You cannot say i...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-008 from 2017-03-10T07:00
In the beginning of Luke we find that the Greek does not read â??bookâ?? (biblos) but rather â??logon.â?? Does Luke call his gospel a â??logonâ?? because it was, in its original form, a collectio...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-007 from 2017-03-06T07:00
Has anybody done a study of the Luke-Acts theology of the Holy Spirit and baptism? Do you think John the Baptists leaping in the womb by the holy spirit is a indicator that infants should be bap...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-006 from 2017-02-14T07:00
If the epistles precede Mark, and if Mark chose to historicize Jesus, and if Mark based his Jesus character on some individual Cynic sage, would that individual qualify as the historic Jesus? An...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-005 from 2017-02-10T07:00
Is it possible that the â??young menâ?? who grabbed hold of the fleeing â??young manâ?? in Gethemane (in Mark) were the basis of the hypothetical â??12 legions of angelsâ?? in Matthew? What are ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-004 from 2017-01-27T07:00
Doesnâ??t the "Jesus Mythicism" hypothesis posits too high a Christology (Jesus as a dying/rising God) to interpret the Jesus of our oldest sources? Isnâ??t the eating of the Tree of Knowledge o...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-003 from 2017-01-24T07:00
Might Honi the Circle Drawer have been the true founder of Christianity? See: http://www.lost-history.com/honi_the_circle_drawer.php http://www.lost-history.com/dumuzi.php http://www.l...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-002 from 2017-01-16T07:00
Arenâ??t preachers who start talking in the first person as if they were Jesus doing the same thing biblical critics said early Christians did, resulting in the gospel sayings? As someone who ha...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 17-001 from 2017-01-10T07:00
Can you tell me what the arguments against the Q theory are? Christian Lindtner argues that â??The New Testamentâ?? decodes to â??The New Tathagatha.â?? Is there an anachronism / error in...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-031 from 2016-12-18T05:00
Are Yahweh and Allah supposed to be the same deity? Might early Christians have believed Jesus and John the Baptist were both messiahs? Might James the Just and John the Baptist be identified...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-030 from 2016-12-09T07:00
What have you to say about the Jordanian codices? About the disappearance of Deists and the Reign of Terror.
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-029 from 2016-11-22T07:00
Was there an OT prototype for the Zaccheus episode in Luke 19? What is the Griesbach hypothesis? In Bible times, how high up did people assume the firmament was from the earth? In the 1st ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-028 from 2016-11-17T07:00
What does the number 40 signify in biblical symbology? Might Mark originally end at 15:39 with the centurion's exclamation, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"? Why do scholars neglect the...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-027 from 2016-11-07T07:00
What do you think of the arguments in the Eastern Orthodox Bible for the originality of Markâ??s long ending? How synoptic are the synoptic gospels really? Why are the monotheistic religion...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-026 from 2016-10-20T08:00
What are your thoughts on the Parable of the Talents, and could you offer me a more erudite, exegesis, than my Sunday school teacher gave? Are the stories of Saul and Ahijah parallel, and if so ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-025 from 2016-10-19T08:00
If Jesus himself knew about the betrayal, and knew that it was needed for his eventual execution, why isnâ??t Judas eventually seen as a saint or at least a non-disgraced Apostle by Christians? ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-024 from 2016-10-18T08:00
What would be the most probable rendition of the phrase â??end of the worldâ?? in the canonical gospels? How does the â??closure of the ageâ?? relate to Gnosticism? According to Diogenes Laerti...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-023 from 2016-10-17T08:00
Michael Heiser suggests the gospel story of the raising of Jairusâ?? daughter (Luke 8) is intentionally drawn from the story of the death of Jephthahâ??s daughter (Judges 11), but with a happy endi...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-022 from 2016-10-16T08:00
What is the impact on Christianity if the Pauline doctrines were merely the product of a temporal-lobe epilepsy sufferer? What do you think of the suggestion in The Mythology of Eden by Arthur a...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-021 from 2016-10-14T08:00
Have The Christ Myth by Arthur Drews (1910) and Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions by TW Doane (1882) been superceded? Where have all the Deists gone? Do the numerous Moses-Jes...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-020 from 2016-10-10T08:00
I can't recall exactly where I got this inchoate understanding of the history of the Jesus thing; I believe it was from you or Carrier. Basically, this ill-formed understanding is that people belie...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-019 from 2016-10-09T08:00
If God is â??pure actâ?? and does not move from potentiality to actuality, how can God ever act, speak, love, etc.? Why is there so little genuine intellectual curiosity among most religious peo...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-018 from 2016-09-01T18:55
The Bible Geek, Robert M. Price, answers your Biblical bafflements and scriptural searches.
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-017 from 2016-08-11T18:55
Episode 704 of The Bible Geek with Robert M. Price.
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-016 from 2016-08-08T18:55
Would the Birth Narratives of Jesus be evidence for an oral tradition of Jesus? If Calvinists are correct and there is nothing the reprobate can do to be saved and the elect can do to be unsaved...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-015 from 2016-07-24T18:55
What do you think of the theory that, since in Romans 1:3-4 Jesus is said to become Godâ??s son via resurrection, and 1 Cor 15 says Christians will share that resurrection, hence sonship, thus beco...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-014 Part 2 from 2016-06-29T18:56
It seems awfully bold of Moses to step in to thwart Yahweh's punishments upon Israel. Does the author intend to elevate Moses to such a level, almost like an equal to Yahweh? Moses just can't s...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-014 Part 1 from 2016-06-29T18:55
After a hiatus due to some technical issues, everyone's favorite Bible Geek returns to answer your quandaries and questions! The overflowing mailbag was too stuffed to fit in just one episode, list...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-013 from 2016-06-10T08:00
In Revelation one of the churches is congratulated for resisting the teachings of a false apostle, is that a veiled reference to Paul? What do you think of The Complete Jewish Bible? Does non-ortho...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-012 from 2016-05-18T08:00
What do you think of Kenneth A. Kitchen? The recently discovered "Seal of Hezekiah" features Egyptian symbols like the Ankh and the winged sun disc. Does this mean the king was a polytheist? Are th...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-011 from 2016-05-07T08:00
What are some core books you would suggest to supplement a read-through of the whole Bible? Since Genesis 5 begins with the line, "This is the book of the generations of Adam," might this chapter h...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-009 from 2016-04-16T08:00
Is learning the original Greek, Latin, and Hebrew truly essential in learning the meaning and context of the Bible? Bart Ehrman, in his Misquoting Jesus, says that the earlier the manuscript, the m...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-008 from 2016-04-10T08:00
In Gilles Deleuze's essay, "Nietzsche and Saint Paul, Lawrence and John of Patmos," he writes "John of Patmos deals with cosmic terror and death, whereas the gospel and Christ dealt with human and ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-007 from 2016-03-27T08:00
Can you tell me anything about about the origin, authorship, geography or dating of the Meqabyan (or Ethiopic Maccabees) books? Does Galatians 3:1 refer to an early Christian Mystery Play? Is Harol...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-006 from 2016-03-17T08:00
What if Mark was signaling that it was actually Simon Peter who was crucified and Andrew was the young man who fled naked from Gethsemane? What are our sources for the story that Antiochus forbade ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-005 from 2016-03-14T08:00
Why does Matthew 5:17-19 say that if anyone should annul the Torah would be called "the Least," implying a single person? Does he mean Paul? Does "witch" in Exodus 22:18 actually mean something lik...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-004 from 2016-02-15T07:00
Can Karl Popper's philosophical analysis that all induction is "deductively invalid" and strict reliance on falisification be applied to the question of the historicity of New Testament material? I...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-003 from 2016-02-03T07:00
Can you say something about the Greek words used in the NT for "spirit" and "ghost"? In the Salem Witch trials, the accused could not defend herself by saying she was nowhere the scene when someone...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-002 from 2016-01-16T07:00
Dr. Richard Carrier says the very first Christians were probably Jewish-Christians who doubled as literate Rabbis. Is there any evidence to corroborate this? What is the main evidence leading most ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 16-001 from 2016-01-08T07:00
Is the account of the martyrdom of James the Just historical or a conflation of three different versions? Millions of birds starve to death every year, so how do apologists deal with Matthew 6:26? ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-062 from 2015-12-20T07:00
How would Christianity (and the world) be different if Jesus and the Book itself were EXPLICITLY the revealed messenger/word of god, a la Islam? Conversely, how would Islam (and the world) be diffe...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-061 from 2015-12-15T07:00
How does the Jewish notion of Messiah ben Joseph and Messiah ben David influence the New Testament? Is the presence of Joshua as one of the scouts in Numbers 13 a later editorial redaction? What's ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-060 from 2015-12-01T07:00
Is the Angel of Death used for reasons similar to the Angel of Yahweh: an appearance of a God too holy to appear on stage himself? What is your theory as to how or why religion developed at all? Wh...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-059 from 2015-11-23T07:00
Why do Matthew and Luke change Markâ??s picture of Joseph of Arimathea? Why does Jesus assume you would be slapped on the right cheek first seeing that most people are right-handed and would theref...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-058 from 2015-11-14T07:00
Revelation 1:1 seems to say that God gave the Revelation to Jesus to give to the church. Does this undermines any doctrine of Jesus' divinity, particularly the implications for his omnipotence, and...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-057 from 2015-11-04T07:00
In Exodus 1:8, we read about a change in Egyptian leadership from one unnamed pharaoh to another, "who knew not Joseph." So soon? Were there other pharaohs between them? Might the longevity of the ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-056 from 2015-10-31T08:00
A special Halloween treat! The Geek reads his story "The Righteous Rise", originally recorded as part of the 1/29/2013 episode.
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-055 from 2015-10-28T08:00
The possible origin of Matthew 27's resurrection of the saints in the Lotus Sutra. I hear a lot of claims of Jesus being similar or a copy of pagan gods, as well as rebuttals from others about thes...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-054 from 2015-10-24T08:00
Given that demons are supposed to be fallen angels, can we assume that unfallen angels would have the same ability to possess people? I'm wondering if any of the pre-Christian cults made such an ef...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-053 from 2015-10-21T08:00
Can you discuss the zombie story in the Book of Matthew? I always thought that Acts of the Apostles didn't mention the Pauline Epistles because they were Marcionite (and Acts is anti-marcionite in ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-052 from 2015-10-14T08:00
Why did the author of Mark write his/her gospel? And why did he give Peter a starring role when he clearly didn't like Petrine Christianity? Every time something in the New Testament gets connected...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-051 from 2015-09-27T08:00
Can you explain to me what's going on in Acts 8:14-16 with the Samaritans being baptized but not yet receiving the Holy Spirit? Of the various arguments presented by apologists to support the histo...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-050 from 2015-09-25T08:00
Juggling four theories on Simon/Peter/Cephas. In Genesis 19:14, depending on the translation, Lot's daughters are either married or about to be married. If they were in fact married and Lot's offer...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-049 from 2015-09-21T08:00
Why do Jehovah's Witnesses depict Jesus with short hair parted on the right? Is there any biblical basis to the notion that "Hades" is a pre-Hell and that "Gehenna" is the final destination of sinn...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-048 from 2015-09-20T08:00
Do I understand your position correctly that the story in Genesis Chapter 3, about the serpent and the eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil by the man and the woman, is mor...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-047 from 2015-09-03T08:00
David Trobisch replies. More info on the Lemba and the Falasha. If John the Baptist is held in such high esteem by Christians today, why assume ancient Christians would have found his baptism of Je...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-046 from 2015-08-29T08:00
By moving the Transfiguration to come after the 1st Passion Prediction (8:31), the redactor altered Mark's Gospel from clearly adoptionist to merely having adoptionist overtones, and screwed up the...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-045 from 2015-08-28T08:00
Glimpses of David Oliver Smith's work on chiasm and interpolation in Mark's gospel. Why does God appear to Moses in the form of a burning bush, not the pillar of fire? In the opening passage of the...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-044 from 2015-08-27T08:00
Why is an UNMARRIED couple traveling together as in Luke 2:4-5? What do you think of the argument that God speaking of "we" in Genesis is "the royal we"? What does that mean to have "little faith"?...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-043 from 2015-08-26T08:00
What does it mean that Jesus compares John to a reed shaken by the wind and to a person dressed in soft robes? What if James's brother John is really John the Baptist? This would mean that John the...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-042 from 2015-08-18T08:00
How could the atonement (and the scapegoat ritual underlying it) be understood as something other than an immoral passing of the proverbial buck? Wouldn't a satirical and disrespectful description ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-041 from 2015-08-15T08:00
Simon of Cyrene and the chiastic structure of Mark. What accounts for the hostility of members of different religions or even denominations of the same one? How likely do you think it is that there...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-040 from 2015-08-14T08:00
Ephesians 1:3-14 constitutes one sentence. Is there a mnemonic trick for mentally processing these long passages the first time through? Are run-on sentences common in other Greek literature of the...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-039 from 2015-08-10T08:00
Did the Gnostics and the Mystery Religion initiates employ any secret way of communicating? How do apologists explain away anachronistic sayings in which Jesus is made to address or refute issues t...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-038 from 2015-08-06T08:00
You've mentioned that Yahweh derived from Canaanite polytheism, and I wonder if you could go into further detail on the subject and provide a list of suggested readings. Do the archetypal names Ada...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-037 from 2015-08-05T08:00
The Nephilim and their offspring make their brief guest appearance in Gen 6:4. "They were the heroes of old, men of renown". The immediately following verse delivers a sudden condemnation of the ev...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-036 from 2015-07-26T08:00
What is a good source for understanding the polytheistic pre-Jewish religion? Did early Muslims have to syncretize or cater to multiple groups like early Christians did? Am I right in thinking that...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-035 from 2015-07-18T08:00
Did Joshua's troops violate the Sabbath by carrying trumpets around Jericho, or aren't such rabbinical restrictions anachronistic? Now everyone is emphasizing the Jewish nature of the gospels, how ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-034 from 2015-07-17T08:00
Is it true that in the ancient world there two behavior codes, one moral, one ritual, and that to unify morality and religion was a Hebrew innovation? What would have been the social survival value...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-033 from 2015-07-10T08:00
How has scholarship on Galilee impacted studies of the Historical Jesus? What do you make of N.T. Wright's 'criteria of double dissimilarity and similarity'? Please recommend some books on Hell. Wh...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-032 from 2015-07-05T08:00
Why was the Christ Myth so popular and how did it spread so quickly if it was totally untrue? If there had never been the teachings of Christ bringing a sense of the equality of souls, would we hav...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-031 from 2015-07-01T08:00
Another Bible Geek Show special: Dr. Price reads "The Austerity Gospel of Gordon Fee," a paper written for a Johnnie Coleman colloquium.
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-030 from 2015-06-30T08:00
Was David an historical figure? Might he have originally been a great Psalmist later reinterpreted as a king? Might astrology have been condemned in Israel as unauthorized petitioning of guidance f...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-029 from 2015-06-28T08:00
What do you think of DM Murdock's book Did Moses Exist? The Myth of the Israelite Lawgiver, and her mythicist theories? Christine Hayes understands the story of Abraham's attempted sacrifice of Isa...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-028 from 2015-06-25T08:00
Info on the "History in the Bible" podcast by Garry Stevens (http://www.historyinthebible.com/). Would you agree that some atheists who want to "purge society of religion" in order to create a perf...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-027 from 2015-06-16T08:00
Might the Eden story be an etiological myth about the digestive tract? What is the actual historical context of the condemnations of homosexuality in Leviticus 18 and 20? Can the relationships betw...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-026 from 2015-06-11T08:00
Please recommend a few books on Hellenistic culture and influence in Judea/Palestine. In Mathew 3:9 John the Baptist is lambasting those poor old Pharisees and Sadducees again. But I really don't u...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-025 from 2015-06-10T08:00
Robert M. Price reads his essay "Lotus and the Logos".
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-024 from 2015-06-04T08:00
A Buddhist key to the puzzle of the fourfold gospel canon. Please contrast the story of the Widow's Mite with that of Ananias&Sapphira. Was Theophilus in the Lukan prologue Theophilus, bishop of An...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-023 from 2015-05-28T08:00
King Ahab and Elijah question from the 5/27/15 podcast revisited. The criterion of embarrassment: might many groups within the Roman empire's social hierarchy not consider death on the cross in any...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-022 from 2015-05-27T08:00
How well did Mohammad tie into the Jewish and Christian origins? Did he teach that the historical aspects of the Jewish and Christian religions were pretty well accurate up through the time he rece...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-021 from 2015-05-26T08:00
Aren't the "stones fire" in Ezek. 28:13-15 the same as the "coals of fire" in Ezek. 1? Isn't NT Christology a direct continuation of Philo? And what is his role in the evolution of the Christ Myth?...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-020 from 2015-05-25T08:00
How common was it in the ancient world for the first book written about someone to be 40 years after their death? How do apologists explain how Moses learned and wrote about the stories that pre-da...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-019 from 2015-05-24T08:00
Why would the disciples need any Paraclete at all to lead them if Jesus was supposed to return during their lifetimes? Are there any scholars/books you feel comfortable simply rejecting based on re...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-018 from 2015-05-23T08:00
Why would the disciples need any Paraclete at all to lead them if Jesus was supposed to return during their lifetimes? Are there any scholars/books you feel comfortable simply rejecting based on re...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-017 from 2015-05-22T08:00
Is Paul's claim that he will "remain in Ephesus until Pentecost" (1 Cor. 16:8) a bit of Catholicizing redaction? In Acts 21:38 the RSV and other translations read "assassins," but the Greek word is...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-016 from 2015-05-13T08:00
Who exactly were Cephas, James and John, mentioned in Galatians 2? Why is the story of the loaves and fishes considered a miracle? The disciples were not the only ones who had some food, but not en...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-015 from 2015-05-10T08:00
Why does Reza Aslan, in his book Zealot, give no hint of the debt his work owes to S. G. F. Brandon? Does the Bible actually command a victim to marry her rapist? Is it possible to reconcile the id...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-014 from 2015-05-05T08:00
Might the Joram mentioned in 1 Samuel 8:9-10 be the same as King Jeroboam? In the LXX, Samuel and Kings are grouped together as 1-4 Kingdoms. Did the translators work from a Hebrew version that gro...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-013 from 2015-04-24T08:00
Did the author of Acts have a copy of the Pauline and deutero-Pauline epistles in hand and use the (scant) biographical information in them to help him craft stories in his pseudo historical narrat...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-012 from 2015-04-12T08:00
How substantial is the evidence for "James the Just"? We are told when Elkanah and Samuel are introduced that Elkanah (and therefore Samuel) are from Ephraim. Later in Chronicles, he has become a L...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-011 from 2015-04-08T08:00
Moses and Minimalism will be coming out in a few weeks. Holy Fable: The Bible Undistorted by Faith is still in the works. A fundamentalist Bible teacher claimed that the Dead Sea Isaiah scroll debu...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-010 from 2015-04-04T08:00
If there are sufficient references in the Gnostic literature to a mythical conception of Jesus (as opposed to an historical conception) at what stage would it make sense to think of the Gnostic aut...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-009 from 2015-03-27T08:00
What is the official the Roman Catholic teaching concerning the salvation of members of other religions? Can you explain this Quranic passage (Al-Ahzaab 33:40? "Muhammad is the father of no man amo...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-008 from 2015-02-28T07:00
Why there is a discrepancy of 243 years between Bishop Ussher's age for the earth and that given in the Jewish calendar? Do any of the extant apocryphal gospels use Mark and/or Q as source material...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-007 from 2015-02-19T07:00
Some Mormons seem to think Genesis 10:25 refers to a divide/split in the "covenant" line, linking Joktan to both the Jaredites and the Yucatan Peninsula. What are your thoughts on this interpretati...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-006 from 2015-02-05T07:00
In Luke 20:34-36 Jesus says the resurrected righteous do not marry because they cannot die. What has that got to do with anything? In Acts 15:22ff we read that some members of the Jerusalem church ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-005 from 2015-01-25T07:00
Might there have been a connection between early Christianity and the Jewish priesthood, based on various otherwise odd facts mentioned in the NT? Isaiah 11:1-9 seems to be talking about the contin...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-004 from 2015-01-18T07:00
What are your thoughts on the theory that the original text of the Gospel of Matthew had one Joseph as the father of Mary, who then married another man of the same name? Is there a strong case for ...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-003 from 2015-01-11T07:00
What do evangelicals mean when they speak of "blessing"? What factors make us believe that the "seven" Pauline epistles are in fact authentic? What confidence do we have that the information the Pa...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-002 from 2015-01-09T07:00
Re Reuven's question concerning the rabbi who "taught the Torah to God," could it merely be hyperbole denoting that "the rabbi knew the Law so well he could even teach God a thing or two"? In the L...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 15-001 from 2015-01-04T07:00
Is it possible that the low Christology of Mark is really a misreading? What if Mark is not writing of Jesus the man, but of the earthly travels of Paul's heavenly savior? A set of "What Would Supe...
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The Bible Geek Podcast 14-066 from 2014-12-27T07:00
Is there any biblical basis for the claim that God can't be in the presence of sin? What do you know about the Washington DC Bible Museum? Is the concept of free will actually found in the bible? I...
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