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🗓️ 30 July 2018
⏱️ 84 minutes
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We are back, Theophiloi! After a bona fide Act of God, we've returned to read the capital-A Apocryphal Book of Tobit, and it is a wild one. Join us for the most canonical of the non-canonical books, in which we find out exactly why you shouldn't go to sleep under a wall, what fish parts you need if you do, and meet an ironically prudish demon and an angel who's cool but rude. Plus: What happens if we find a brand new book of the Bible, autographed by God?
Topics of discussion include: Janelle Monae, Tisha B'Av, the debatable sacrament of Cheddar Bay Biscuits, "The Sons of Thunder," the Dead Sea Scrolls, Antigone, the second ominous black sarcophagus, the lowercase grateful dead, Monster In The Bridal Chamber as a genre, Jack of the Tales and the sack that he used to capture Death, rough times in Ninevah, Asmodeus, Watership Down (or maybe Redwall?), the Seven Princes of Hell, Solomon and his demon bros, the Malleus Maleficarum aka the Witch Hammer (please note we only endorse the title, not the content), the Lantern of Light, the actual true amount of money for which Julius Caesar was ransomed because I know things sometimes too, Angel Disguises, a continuity patch for the book of Daniel, St. Raphael, Dubuque, Iowa, why angels are also saints, Tobias the Eighth, Tiffany and Chad, the first of many rules about angels, Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim.
Special thanks to Cathy Leamy for telling us about "Sons of Thunder!"
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0:00.0 | Then Tobit answered his son Tobias. He gave me his bond, and I gave him my bond. I divided his in two. We each took one part, and I put one with the money. And now 20 years have passed since I left this money in trust. So now, my son, find yourself a trustworthy man to go with you, and we will pay him wages until you return, but get the money back from Gavile. |
0:24.7 | The book of Tobit, chapter 5, verse 3. |
0:27.8 | Carry on my wayward, son. |
0:32.2 | There'll be peace when you are done. |
0:36.8 | Lay your weary head to rest. |
1:11.7 | Don't you cry no more. Hello, everybody, and welcome to Apocrypal's. It's the podcast where two non-believers sit down to read the Bible, |
1:17.2 | but we try not to be jerks about it. We are your heavenly hosts. My name is Chris Sims. |
1:22.7 | With me as always is Benito Serino. Benito, how are you today? I'm great. I'm great. I'm pumped now. Thanks to that top of the show of music. I got the music in me. |
1:29.7 | About that. About that music. We had a really hard time figuring out what music to use for Tobit, and then it, like |
1:37.2 | a thunderbolt from the heavens, I realized it was right in front of us all along. |
1:43.0 | It's very good. |
1:44.0 | That's right, everybody. |
1:44.7 | Today we are reading the apocryphal book of Tobit. |
1:48.1 | This is capital A apocrypha, correct? |
1:50.2 | Absolutely, yep. |
1:51.4 | And you can find that in the N-R-S-V version of the Bible, where it is included, which is on Bible Gateway. |
1:59.0 | Some of you guys might have noticed. |
2:00.4 | We missed a week. |
2:02.2 | That one, well, it's kind of on me, |
2:05.3 | kind of on the one who controls things like weather. |
2:10.3 | I'm not pointing any particular fingers, |
2:12.8 | but whoever it is that controls the weather. |
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