Tag: Tamar
August 5th: 1 Samuel 25 and Romans 6
June 9th: Joshua 7 and Luke 22:1-38
Theopolis Podcast: The Genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1 (The Genealogies of Scripture)
Peter Leithart, James Bejon, David Field, and I discuss the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1.
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February 19th: Genesis 49 and Matthew 7
February 8th: Genesis 38 and John 20
Theopolis Podcast: Q&A with Peter Leithart (Ruth and Tamar; Elijah/Elisha, John the Baptist/Jesus; Metanarrative)
Peter Leithart and I answer three questions sent in by listeners: 1. What are the connections between the story of Judah and Tamar and the story of Ruth? 2. What is the relationship between the Elijah/Elisha pairing and the John the Baptist/Jesus pairing? 3. Does Scripture promote a ‘metanarrative’?
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Puzzling Further About Lot and His Daughters
I discuss further curious details of the perplexing story of Lot and his daughters in Genesis 19, following up my earlier episode.
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The Troubling Absence of Consent in OT Law and Narrative
The issue of consent has been much discussed in the wake of, among other things, the #MeToo movement, and I was wondering how we can relate that to the types of marriage practices that we see in the Bible, where consent really is not at the forefront, if relevant at all. What are we to make of concubinage, war brides, bride kidnapping (in Judges), rape laws (where unbetrothed virgins may be given in marriage to their rapists) or just the fact that Mosaic law seems to place a daughter’s choice of spouse entirely in her father’s hands? Many have highlighted that what David did to Bathsheba was most likely rape, but do we also change the way we speak about, say, Abraham and Hagar? As a concubine/slave, was Hagar in a position to consent? How do we speak honestly and forcefully about the evil of forced marriage and the importance of consent, considering that the Bible does not seem to condemn these things in a straightforward way? The Church has historically held that mutual consent is necessary for marriage, but was that arrived at independent of the biblical witness or in proper extrapolation from it? I would love to hear your thoughts on this issue.
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The Family of Abraham: Part 41—The Continuing Adventures
Today, I discuss a few of the echoes of the Genesis narrative in later stories in Scripture.
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