Genesis Marks the Spot

Should Christians read the book of Enoch?  What use could it have?  Can a book not in our canon of Scripture contain the gospel? A conversation with Anthony Delgado ranging from the exile to the end of time.  **Website: www.genesismarksthespot.com   My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GenesisMarkstheSpot   Anthony Delgado's website:  https://www.anthonydelgado.net/   Genesis Marks the Spot on Face...

Genesis interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls: the "Words of the Luminaries": (4Q504) and a "Paraphrase of Genesis and Exodus" (4Q422).  The Words of the Luminaries is a set of weekly liturgical prayers and the Paraphrase of Genesis and Exodus is in the genre of "rewritten Bible," perhaps used as or with a homily.  These are excellent texts to investigate how the people of Qumran and other Jews w...

The Dead Sea Scrolls were an amazing find for the study of the Bible and understanding the context of Jesus' time.  They can also help shed light on the ways that the biblical text is used through time by different communities.  This can help us understand this strange time we are in today, where we have so much information about the context of the Bible and we discover that historical interpretat...

What is the role of the human in inspiration?  Are the Scriptures the "inspired word of God" via dictation or "holy download" to the human writer?  Is there room for editing and compiling?  Discussing the dictation view, the verbal plenary view, and the dynamic view of inspiration.  Each view holds God in high regard, but how do they portray humanity?  AND!   Exciting news from the AWKNG School of...

The Passover and the Day of Atonement both have their fulfillment in Jesus, but how do we see this in Genesis?  Tracing the twin themes of the "two goats" and the exodus through the book of Genesis leads us right to the epicenter of Christological typology. Check out Caleb's new book, and his podcast, The Bible in Context. **Website: www.genesismarksthespot.com   My Patreon: https://www.patreon.co...

Exodus begins in Genesis 1.  Caleb Lewis joins me to discuss the many exoduses of Genesis.  I can almost guarantee you'll find something here that you never thought about before that will shed light on the continuity of the Torah and how it points to Jesus and the church. Check out Caleb's new book, and his podcast, The Bible in Context. **Website: www.genesismarksthespot.com   My Patreon: https:/...

The first and primary parallel flood accounts to Genesis are the flood stories from Mesopotamia.  Seeing how close these stories are to the narrative in Genesis will give us plenty to discuss in the future, and this will also help us investigate the question of the "many" flood accounts of the ancient world.  Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Atrahasis Epic along with commentary on how this ca...

The more I study the Bible, the more I come back to the same question:  Who is God, and what does the Bible tell us about Him?  Looking at the flood narrative from the common paradigm and flipping it on its head to include a more expansive view of our relationship to God and what he wants for us.  Troy Yurchak brings us a delightful symmetry of the flood narrative in contrast to the documentary hy...

How does the structure of Genesis 1 work as a chiasm, and what does that mean for our view of liturgy--what it is and why we do it?  Troy Yurchak joins me for this great discussion that unexpectedly combines literary design with liturgy and discipleship!  **Website: www.genesismarksthespot.com   My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GenesisMarkstheSpot   The Literary Structure of the Old Testament:...

It's time to discuss two important things: the flood, and note-taking.  Broad points about the flood are brought up, and then we do a deep dive into my method of note-taking and why you should do it, too.  **Blog post with pictures of my notes!  https://www.genesismarksthespot.com/blog/note-taking/ My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GenesisMarkstheSpot   How to Take Smart Notes: https://tinyurl.c...

Is Genesis 1 poetry?  A look at biblical poetry and elements of metaphor, ending on the question of what it means to be "blotted out." **Website: www.genesismarksthespot.com   My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GenesisMarkstheSpot   Genesis Marks the Spot on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/genesismarksthespot Genesis Marks the Spot on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/genesismarksthespot/  ...

Apologies to Bishop Ussher, but it is impossible to calculate the age of the earth using biblical statistics.  I don't care if you are a young earth creationist or an old earth creationist or somewhere in between or nowhere else, but the Bible's genealogies cannot be used in scientific calculations.  Hitting also a bit of information of the history of young earth creationism and its connections to...

Death before the fall?  It began when Eve decided and they both ate...or did it?  It might not be that simple.  Plus, in studying, you must have learned that man is mortal, but what about animals?  If they weren't immortal, then how could creation have been a paradise?  Why do we suddenly get "permission" to eat meat after the flood of all places?  (Hint: it's not new.)  Debunking common "certaint...

BONUS questions this week: is Jesus Yahweh and what is the filioque?  Because I had some extra time on my hands after not finishing last week's episode properly, those seemed some fun additions to the conversation.  Talking about the divine economy before digging into the pronunciation of the name YHWH, when it stopped being pronounced, what does it mean that God is the Lord of Hosts, did the patr...

A survey on the names, titles, and designations of God in the Old Testament.  What do they mean?  What do they reveal about the character and nature of God?  In particular, why is God called The Fear of Isaac? **Website: www.genesismarksthespot.com   My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GenesisMarkstheSpot   Genesis Marks the Spot on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/genesismarksthespot Genesis Ma...

Genesis 3, the Passover, the exile, and Jesus.  How do these relate to the wilderness, Babylon, Assyria, and why one always goes "down" to Egypt?  Each of us can relate to the theme of exile in some way, and yet the prevalence of this concept might escape us when we read our Bibles. Understanding exile can help us understand Jesus and our lives today.  **Website: www.genesismarksthespot.com   My P...

Part two of the conversation from episode 70, we discuss the theodicies that Job's friends provide, the idea of Job as a member of the divine council, the structure of the book of Job, and a caution about structuring Scripture without a full knowledge of the language originally used.  Also, some information about what I'm up to beyond this podcast and some thoughts on how you can support me, and w...

If Job is a second Adam, then the satan in Job must be the serpent from the Garden, right?  In our previous conversation about Job as a second Adam, we didn't get into nearly enough talk about the satan reflecting or being the serpent from the garden, after all.  Is it an I-told-you-so moment??  Exploring that further in this episode, we come to some surprising reflections on Leviathan and chaos i...

Comparing translations of passages that touch on the Divine Council Worldview.  Why do some Bible translations have "sons of God" in Deut. 32:8 and others have "sons of Israel"?  Can humans be elohim?  What's with the "so-called gods" in 1 Cor. 8:5?  **Website: www.genesismarksthespot.com   My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GenesisMarkstheSpot   Genesis Marks the Spot on Facebook: https://www.fa...

We hear it, and it's true: we are made to be kings on the earth, and then we lost our dominion, exiled from our true home.  But there is hope in our Messianic King who sets all to right!  But being reconciled to our true home is not all there is to the concept of exile.  Reviewing biblical theology books on exile, talking about the Deuteronomistic history, and discussing the formation of the natio...

A conversation with Dr. Lois Tverberg about reading the Bible in Jesus' Jewish context: haftara, the importance of the prophetic literature, and the theme of kingship in the Bible. **Website: www.genesismarksthespot.com   My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GenesisMarkstheSpot   Links from Dr. Tverberg's blogs: Can We Call Jesus Rabbi?: https://ourrabbijesus.com/articles/can-we-call-jesus-rabbi/ R...

Continuing a conversation about Job with Mike Chu about the message of the book of Job, its application to us, and vindication in speaking to God honestly. **Website: www.genesismarksthespot.com   My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GenesisMarkstheSpot   Genesis Marks the Spot on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/genesismarksthespot   Genesis Marks the Spot on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com...

Job as a second Adam and other fascinating things like the dating of Job's trials, what's up with "the fear of the Lord," and a new look at the satan in Job; you won't want to miss this conversation with Mike Chu! **Website: www.genesismarksthespot.com   My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GenesisMarkstheSpot   Sermon series on Job: https://granitecity.org/connect/news-and-events/tag/yelling-at-go...

What is "the sin offering"?  What does it do?  Why don't we see it in Genesis?  What does it mean for the work of Jesus?  Spencer Owen joins me for a discussion about this oft-misunderstood offering. **Website: www.genesismarksthespot.com   My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GenesisMarkstheSpot   Genesis Marks the Spot on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/genesismarksthespot   Genesis Marks the...

Bible translations: why do we have so many of them and how do we vet them for our use?  One of the newest translations out there is the LSB, the Legacy Standard Bible.  Both John MacArthur and Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis (and the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum) say that the LSB is the "best" translation currently available.  How does this translation actually stack up to other versions out th...