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Biblical Time MachineA Crash Course in Biblical History with Dan McClellanJoin Helen and Dave as they attempt the impossible — to cover the entirety of biblical history in one fact-packed episode! To help us, we recruited Dan McClellan from the Data Over Dogma podcast to walk us century by century, book by book through the creation of the Bible. It's like listening to a full season of Biblical Time Machine in one sitting. (In a good way!)For a deeper dive into the biblical history topics discussed on today's show, check out these past podcast episodes --->Biblical Time Machine:How Yahweh Became God...2024-06-171h 03
Question MARKQuestion MARK 16:9-20 with Helen Bond and Theodore TrostTruly the very last (and 69th) episode of our podcast. In this pod we discuss the alternative endings to the story, found in most bibles. Should they be ignored or do they bring something of genuine value to the table? Question MARK veterans and expert theologians, Ted Trost and Helen Bond, help us decide.
We’d like to thank all our contributors without whom this show would have been a lot less enjoyable to do, and certainly a lot less insightful. Thank you for all you did. We know your contributions made a big difference to many of our listeners’ live...2023-12-0438 minQuestion MARKQuestion MARK 14:43-52 with Helen Bond“What’s with the naked guy?” Professor Helen Bond of the University of Edinburgh provides a lively take on that most dramatic of gospel scenes, the arrest of Jesus and his disciples’ cowardly desertion. Of particular interest to Mark’s readers over the years has been the identity and significance of a certain ‘young man, wearing nothing but a linen garment’, who flees ‘naked, leaving his garment behind.’ Is he Mark himself? An angel? A symbol of Christian baptism? You decide - but only once you’ve listened to this podcast.
Helen Bond is Professor of Christian Origins, Head of the School of Divini...2023-07-1144 min