A Podcast of Biblical Proportions

The stories about the challenges of the returnees from Egypt are about the real challenges of the returnees from Babylonia. Our Numbers chapters for today are 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, and 20. Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

The oldest stories of Numbers were about the crises of leadership in the Babylonian captivity, told from two distinct perspectives: One from a populist perspective, and the other from an elitist perspective. The combined stories appear as one in Numbers, chapter 11. Shemaya's populist story (verses in ch 11): 11 So Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not f...

In this introductory episode to the fourth biblical book, we will overview its many different layers, written between the 590 BCE and the 80s BCE. Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

New AI research into the Documentary Hypothesis and the authorship of the books of Samuel reinforces our theories. Dr. Rutger Vos from the University of Leiden joins Gil to discuss. Read about this research here Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

Petros Koutoupis joins Gil to talk about biblical authors. Check out his two substacks: Digging Up the Past and Digging Out the Bible Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

Garry Stevens from the History in the Bible podcast and Bernie Maopolski from the Fan of History podcast join Gil to talk about miraculous births in myth Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

Anke Bosma, PhD, joins Gil to share her perspective on what is working and what is not working in academia today, particularly in the humanities. Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

Dr. Rutger Vos is our Resident Academic, academizing our investigation into who wrote the Baby Moses story and why. How would this be viewed by academia? Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

After having learned the origins of the Hebrew festival of Shavuot/Weeks, Garry Stevens of the History in the Bible podcast joins Gil to compare our findings with what we know about the Christian version of this holiday. The results are stunning. Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

In this summary episode, let's review the layers of Leviticus, who wrote them, and when Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

Yom Kippur is the Hebrew Day of Atonement, and it was originally established so the Hebrew people could open a new leaf. Instead, the holy day unleashed chaos among the Hebrews. Click here to read about Dr. Yonatan Adler's research about Yom Kippur beginning in 140 BCE  Click here to find the link for our experimental Discord group Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The pod...

When the Rabbis emerged on the historical scene, during Roman times, Judaism was born. Garry Stevens from the History in the Bible podcast joins Gil to discuss Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

In 140 BCE, the Maccabees reformed the Hebrew calendar and wrote the Leviticus rules in chapters 19 and 25, so they could transfer wealth from the rich back to the people. Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

As we get into the second part of our Leviticus season, we get to two Leviticus stories written in 140 BCE about how the original priests were violently toppled and replaced by Levites.  Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

In 458 BCE, a group of foreign billionaires initiated a coup in Judea in order to exempt themselves from paying taxes. They succeeded thanks to the first edition of the Torah. Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

Garry Stevens of the History in the Bible podcast joins Gil to talk about the origins of Passover and Easter, and how the former became the latter. Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

Who erased the two holiest celebrations in the Hebrew calendar, the Year of Jubilee and the Festival of Weeks, to disconnect them from 537 BCE? Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

Leviticus chapters 8 and 9 are play-by-play accounts of the greatest Hebrew ceremony of all time - summoning Yahweh back to his homeland 50 years after he had left it. Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

In our second episode about Leviticus, we go over the second and third rules of the Hebrew returnees of 538 BCE, which are about how much money everyone owes the wealthiest Hebrews Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

The oldest text in Leviticus, chapter 26, has a Seven Plagues story we did not know about. That chapter has the first rule of the Hebrew returnees in 538 BCE, with a warning: if you break it, Yahweh will bring Seven Plagues on the Hebrew returnees. Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

In this introductory episode, we go over the FOUR layers of Leviticus, written between 538 BCE and 140 BCE, when the final version was published. Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

In the first installment of a new series to add an academic perspective to the podcast, I present my "538 BCE changed the world" hypothesis to our new resident academic, evolutionary biologist, Dr. Rutger Vos. Click here to listen to our first episode about the Persian Axial Age hypothesis. Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gi...

In the second half of my conversation with Dr. Gad Barnea from the University of Haifa, he rejects the idea that the Exodus stories about leaving Egypt are merely tales about leaving Babylonia, and he presents his own hypothesis. Dr. Barnea is a Faculty Member at the University of Haifa, Department of Jewish History and Thought, he is a Research Fellow  at the École biblique et archéologique franç...

For decades, scholars believed that ancient Hebrew letters from 419 BCE proved the continuity of Passover, but a new study shows that, if anything, Passover has Persian Zoroastrian origins. Dr. Gad Barnea from the University of Haifa joins Gil and Garry Stevens from the History in the Bible podcast to discuss his research into the so called Passover Lettersso-called. Dr. Barnea is a Faculty Member...

A new study into the so-called "Passover Letters" reveals the depth of Persian-Zoroastrian influences. I spoke to Bernie Maopolski from the Fan of History podcast to discuss Read the article about this research by Dr. Gad Barnea here Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron