Podcasts

In this week's segment of a Round Table Talk, Dr. Gruber and Dr. Levison talk about the Spirit of God in Isaiah 63. This passage is a lament with strong connections to the Exodus account. But how is the Spirit of God portrayed in this lament?

The Israelites were supposed to love one God only, but is that "monotheism"? If so, where does the idea of a Divine Council come from? To untangle some of these issues, we hear from three IBC faculty who discuss a biblical view of the heavenly realm.

What does it mean to be spirit possessed and what did ancient people think about encounters with the spiritual world? Dr. Reed Carlson joined Dr. Yeshaya Gruber for a Round Table Talk to discuss these issues and more! In this episode we will hear about King Saul's encounter with the which of Endor (1 Sam 28), the use of music to quiet the spirits, and the gospel accounts of spiritual possession. Hang on! It's a wild ride.

Welcome back to the Israel Bible Podcast. We will start this season with a Round Table Talk between Dr. Yeshaya Gruber and Dr. Robert Hiebert who is the editor and translator of the New English Translation of the Septuagint (NETS) and has authored and edited numerous scholarly works on the Septuagint. This demands the question, "What is the Septuagint?" and "Why do we care?" In this episode we will focus specifically on what differs between the Hebrew and the Greek versions of the Genesis creation narratives.

Dr. Brian Robinson is a guest lecturer at Israel Bible Center. He just released a new course called the Jewish Gospel of Luke. Following last week's episode that gave us the Roman backdrop for Luke, we now explore how Luke paints a picture of Jesus in contrast to the Roman surroundings.

Dr. Brian Robinson is a guest lecturer at Israel Bible Center. He just released a new course called the Jewish Gospel of Luke. It is a great course, and today we give you a small taste of what you will learn in the course. We started with backdrop. Where did the Roman empire come from and how does that influence how we understand Luke?

This is a podcast sneak peak at Dr. Nicholas Schaser's new IBC course called Israelite Creation in Context. This week is all about Genesis 2 and the earthiness of the narrative. How does this chapter differ from chapter 1? How does the text portray Eden as sacred? And if you listen to the end you might get a little on that mischief-causing snake.