The Bible Lore Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Apologies to my Spotify listeners, I thought I had addressed an issue to their satisfaction but they removed the episode anyway. Here is a reupload of episode 31.

This one's all about Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, an oddball devotee of the moon god Sin whose reign ends up becoming the basis for some of Daniel's most infamous stories.

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Keyvan Golsorkhi on Iran:  

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/iran-diaspora-war-trump-israel/

Data Over Dogma on seeing the face of God:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohh4Huzfn2U

Bibliography:  

Paul-Alain Beaulieu - 'Nabonidus the Mad King';  

Paul-Alain Beaulieu - 'Reign of Nabonidus, King of Babylon';  

Moudhy Al-Rashi - 'Between Two Rivers';  

John Collins - 'Daniel';  

Hallo & Younger - 'The Context of Scripture Vol 1-3';  

Marc van de Mieroop - 'A History of the Ancient Near East';  

Radner, Moeller, Potts, et al - 'The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East, Volume V';  

Berlin, Brettler, et al - 'The Jewish Study Bible, Second Edition';  

Robert Alter - 'The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary';  

Pietersma, Wright - 'A New English Translation of the Septuagint'; 

Cyrus the Great arrives, Nabonidus falls, and several people eat human meat as we sort through Herodotus to tell the story of the rise of Persia in the mid-6th century BCE.

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Helpful map:

https://www.worldhistory.org/image/265/empire-of-cyrus-the-great/

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https://www.patreon.com/SuperStructure/posts/late-great-earth-159135809

Bibliography:

https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/cyaxares-gk/  

https://www.livius.org/sources/content/nabonidus-cylinder-from-sippar/  

Paul-Alain Beaulieu - 'Reign of Nabonidus';  

Matt Waters - 'King of the World';  

Herodotus, Sélincourt (trnsl.) - 'The Histories';  

C.J. Gadd - 'The Fall of Nineveh: The Newly Discovered Babylonian Chronicle';  

M. David Litwa - 'How the Gospels Became History'; 

It's the grand finale of the first part of the history of the Bible: the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar the Second. The last king of Jerusalem, Zedekiah, repeats the same mistake made by his brother Jehoiakim and bets against Babylon. As we explore this fateful event, scholar Eric Harvey takes us through the way the elites of ancient society exploited the working class, and how some of the most famous creation stories in all of mythology act as justification for this economic arrangement.

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Bibliography:  

Eric Harvey - 'Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel'; 

Mario Liverani - 'Israel's History and the History of Israel';  

Christian Frevel - 'History of Ancient Israel';  

Marc van de Mieroop - 'A History of the Ancient Near East';  

Robert Alter - 'The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary';  

Berlin, Brettler, et al - 'The Jewish Study Bible, Second Edition';  

Radner, Moeller, Potts, et al - 'The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East, Volume V'; 

We bring Jerusalem to the brink of total destruction and explore the roots of astrology, as we near the end of the Judahite monarchy.

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Bibliography:  

Mario Liverani - 'Israel's History and the History of Israel';  

Christian Frevel - 'History of Ancient Israel';  

Robert Alter - 'The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary';  

Moudhy al-Rashid - 'Between Two Rivers';  

Geza Vermes - 'The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English';  

Berlin, Brettler, et al - 'The Jewish Study Bible, Second Edition';  

Seth Schwartz - 'Imperialism and Jewish Society';  

Radner, Moeller, Potts, et al - 'The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East, Volume V';  

Hallo, Lawson, and Younger - 'The Context of Scripture';  

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/nabonidus-the-first-archaeologist/

https://www.livius.org/sources/content/mesopotamian-chronicles-content/abc-5-jerusalem-chronicle/

Kipp Davis joins the pod again, as we say farewell to a king and an empire. Josiah's time on the throne meets an abrupt and unexpected end, leaving the kingdom of Judah reeling, and Assyria gets its send-off, as the kingdom is conquered by the Babylonians.

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Bibliography:

Radner et al - 'The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East Volume IV';

Radner et al - 'The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume V';

Kipp Davis - 'God's Propaganda';  

Eckart Frahm - 'Assyria';  

Andrew George - 'The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic';  

Robert Cargill - 'The Cities That Built the Bible';  

Vicente Dobroruka - 'Persian Influence on Daniel and Jewish Apocalyptic Literature';  

Robert Alter - 'The Hebrew Bible';  

Charles Dickens - 'A Tale of Two Cities';  

Berlin, Brettler, et al - 'The Jewish Study Bible';  

Christian Frevel - 'History of Ancient Israel';  

Stephanie Dalley - 'The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon'; 

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Dead Sea Scrolls scholar Kipp Davis returns to walk us through the reign of Josiah, the monarch against which all others are measured in the book of Kings. The Assyrian Empire crumbles, Jerusalem rejoices, and the righteous king begins his crusade to centralize all worship in Judah's capital.

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Bibliography: 
Eckart Frahm - 'Assyria'; 
Radner et al - 'The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East Volume IV'; 
Radner et al - 'The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume V'; 
Robert Alter - 'The Hebrew Bible'; 
Berlin et al - 'The Jewish Study Bible, Second Edition'; 
Frevel - 'History of Ancient Israel'; 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7l37SSVImE

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Max (Palma) introduces me to the terrific French Bible epic parody, Deux heures moins le quart avant Jésus-Christ. Join us as we determine whether the movie is racist and homophobic and Orientalist or just French!

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This time, I'm elated to bring on Dr. Eckart Frahm, who is the John M. Musser Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University, and whose wonderful book, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire, is a must-read for fans of the show (click the affiliate link). We talk about the management of empire under the idiosyncratic king Ashurbanipal, whose handling (or mishandling) of Assyria will set the stage for its downfall, and the long afterlife as a cultural figure that Ashurbanipal would have in the Greek tradition, where he was known as the corrupt king Sardanapalus.

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It's child sacrifice time again at the Bible Lore Podcast! Yay! This time I talk about the real mlk sacrifice sites discovered throughout the Mediterranean, the real Manasseh, and the way both biblical authors and modern apologists attempt to deflect and obfuscate the connection between proper Yahweh worship and child sacrifice.

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Bibliography:

Francesca Stavrakopoulou - 'King Manasseh and Child Sacrifice';  

Heath Dewrell - 'Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel'; 

Coogan & Smith - 'Stories from Ancient Canaan'; 

Coogan & Metzger - 'The Oxford Companion to the Bible'; 

Shelby Brown - 'Late Carthaginian Child Sacrifice'; 

Christian Frevel - 'History of Ancient Israel';  

Hallo & Younger - 'The Context of Scripture, vol. 1-3'; 

Charles Krahmalkov - 'Phoenician-Punic Dictionary'; 

Robert Alter - 'The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary';  

Berlin, Brettler, et al - 'The Jewish Study Bible';  

Other Bible quotations taken from the NRSVue and NJPS with adaptations

https://www.thetorah.com/article/giving-your-firstborn-son-to-god

https://www.thetorah.com/article/how-exodus-revises-the-laws-of-hammurabi

https://www.thetorah.com/article/isaac-before-he-was-abrahams-son

https://x.com/timothybarnett/status/822992422888239104

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I am absolutely honored to welcome Bob Cargill to the show to talk about all things Melchizedek, as well as the use and abuse of archaeology to attempt to legitimize claims from Israeli settlers in the modern Palestinian West Bank.

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