A week or so ago I saw something on Twitter that made me shake my head. An apparently well meaning Hebrew enthusiast gleefully reported that, after searching through hundreds of manuscripts, he'd found thousands of places where the divine name (YHWH) was vocalized by...
Angel of the Lord
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 97 – Q & A Number 12
The episode is now live. This brisk Q&A tackles a stack of listener questions across Heiser’s core themes. He begins with the perennial “Is there sex in heaven?”—distinguishing earthly procreative embodiment from glorified life and noting that Genesis 6 (Watcher...
Yahweh and Satan in Samuel and Chronicles
What follows is the pre-edited version of an article I wrote for Bible Study Magazine a couple years ago.[1. For a scholarly journal article that argues for the angel connection / explanation in the piece, see Paul Evans, "Divine intermediaries in 1 Chronicles 21 an...
The Name Theology in Israelite Religion
Here is the first of my two ETS papers, "The Name Theology in Israelite Religion." Hope you find it interesting. I think it's a good succinct summary of the history of the discussion. Of course I throw my own two cents in toward the end. The second paper on the...
Class 4 – Jesus & the Old Testament
This is the third in a series of lectures Dr. Heiser did at Grace Church Bellingham. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWM8L01cAkY