Hi everyone. I got an invitation a couple days ago to be on Dr. Michael Brown's Line of Fire radio show. I've been on before, but this time we'll be spending two hours talking about the divine council, The Unseen Realm, and Jewish binitarianism. The show is live 2p-4p...
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Naked Bible Podcast Latest Episode Uploaded
Just a heads up; I uploaded the third episode of the podcast just now. It continues the series on baptism. Remember, you can get the file directly through the link and iTunes subscription right away, but it may take 24 hours for the archive located on this site to be...
How Mike Approaches the Bible
Historically-Conditioned Scriptures
This short piece was posted by Larry Hurtado today. Good food for thought, especially in the context of our (now old) discussion of inspiration (which we will revisit at some point). Larry targets fundamentalists (read: black and white thinkers) on both the...
Is It the Autograph, a Copy, or Something Else?
Ivan has surfaced again! Ivan emailed me this missive yesterday, so I thought I'd post it. Ivan spotlights some very interesting content in Jeremiah that pertains to our discussion. That book of Jeremiah just seems to play with our minds! Here's Ivan, between...
Unseen Realm Review in Christianity Today
Just a quick note -- a review of my best-selling book, The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible, appeared today on the Christianity Today website. It's by Dr. Louis Markos, who will be familiar to the audience of Naked Bible Podcast. My...
Recent Review of Robert Alter’s Translation of the Old Testament
I've had a number of people ask my opinion of Alter's new translation. I haven't read it. I also had several people send me the recent Wall Street Journal review by Blaire French. (Thanks to all of them!) I've reproduced it below. It's a good (and important)...
Bible Project Video on “Elohim”
Here's the second installment of the Bible Project's video series tracking on content items in my book, The Unseen Realm. Another job well done. Check it out!
Mike at Grace Church Bellingham: Thinking Like an Israelite: Week 4: Chaos and Calendar
Here are the slides to the last night (which was tonight). You can catch the video on my Facebook / Youtube channel. Wk4-Chaos-and-Calendar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJa4xA-KZjU
Mike at Grace Church Bellingham: Thinking Like an Israelite: Week 2: Sacred Space
Here are the slides for this second talk. I will post a link to the livestream / video once we have that. Wk2-Sacred Space and Sacrifice-Heiser-GCB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93Vfhyu2kCE
Mike at Grace Church Bellingham: Thinking Like an Israelite: Week 1: Impurity and Sin
In the event that our livestream works for tonight's talk, I thought I'd post my slides as a PDF file for any who want to watch the stream. Even if the stream doesn't work, you still have the slides: Wk1-Impurity and Sin-2 Here is the video for Week 1:
Gods of the Biblical World
This looks like a useful online resource. Here is the explanation on the site landing page: Welcome! This website was constructed to supply resources for an undergraduate class at Wofford College, called “Gods of the Biblical World: Polytheism, Magic, and Israelite...
Book on Artistic Depiction of Mesopotamian Deities Available Online in PDF
Tallay Ornan's important book, The triumph of the symbol: Pictorial representation of deities in Mesopotamia and the biblical image ban, is now available as a PDF for free download. Here's the abstract: This book analyzes the history of Mesopotamian imagery from the...
New Cherubim and Seraphim Video
Here's the latest video (thanks to Shaun's work!). It does a good job summarizing how to parse the cherubim and seraphim (and how not to over-read that material).
The Cosmic Mountain and Trees In Old Testament Theology
In a couple of weeks I'll be filming three courses for Faithlife (my employer; aka Logos Bible Software) that revolve around content threads in my book The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible. The idea is not to go through the book...