Our 20th Q & A episode is now live. In Episode 154 of the Naked Bible Podcast, Dr. Michael Heiser takes on an eclectic and theologically rich batch of listener questions. Kicking off with a question about why a bronze serpent healed snake-bitten Israelites in...
serpent
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 148: Q & A Number 19
The episode is now live. In Episode 148 of the Naked Bible Podcast, Dr. Michael Heiser tackles deep theological questions from listeners on topics ranging from spiritual death to the divine beings in Genesis and the resurgence of Gnosticism in modern Christian...
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 103 – Moses and the Bronze Serpent
The episode is now live. Naked Bible Podcast Episode 103 explores the often-misunderstood passage in Numbers 21:4–9, where Moses is instructed to make a bronze serpent and lift it up for Israel’s healing after yet another episode of rebellion in the wilderness. Dr....
Naked Bible 59: Q&A 4
Our 4th Question and Answer episode! paper referenced in the show: Chiel-The-Mysterious-Book-of-Jasher  Transcript 59 Q&A4 This Q&A session continues Mike Heiser’s practice of engaging directly with listener-submitted questions, particularly on theological,...
Pterosaurs in the Bible
Yes, you read that correctly. Jason Colavito just posted about this piece of wacky Bible interpretation. It's a good post, made entertaining by the fact that the notion of pterosaurs in the Bible comes to us from Ken Ham's creation ministry. It's biblical paleobabble...
Mike on Coast to Coast AM Thursday Night
Many readers are familiar with Coast to Coast AM, the most-listened to late night talk show in the world. I’ll be on the evening of Feb 2. I’ve been on Coast over twenty times, and it’s always fun and unpredictable. The topics tend to be fairly...
The Serpent and Eve Nonsense: Where The Idea Comes From and Does Not Come From
In case readers have been following comments to my earlier posts on this biblical paleobabble issue, I decided to make things convenient. Please note that they may not be any more decipherable, since the articles I link to below require at least a decent grasp of the...
Serpent and Eve PaleoBabble FollowUp
Some of you may have noticed that there has been recent discussion on this thread on the PaleoBabble site. Apparently someone who desperately wants to say the serpent and Eve had sex to (not sure) defend Zecharia Sitchin or some sort of sexual activity between...