18: Literally and Figuratively Wrestling With God (The Book of Genesis, Part Three)

Apocrypals

Chris Sims

Comedy, History

4.9 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2018

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Content Warning: We cover the story of Dinah in this episode, which involves a sexual assault.

Shanah Tovah, Theophiloi, and welcome back to what we're pretty sure is the world's only Bible podcast! We're kicking off 5779 with the third part of our increasingly unwieldy discussion of Genesis. This week, the Lentil Stew Boys are back for hijinx as we cover the lives of Jacob and Esau, and give you a shofar performance that critics are already hailing as "well-intentioned." It is both our sexiest and most pro wrestling heavy episode yet, and we're as surprised by that as you are.

Topics of discussion: Our wishes for a sweet Rosh Hashanah, Jacob's invention of cosplay, situations in which literally lying to your blind father about God is totally fine, conservation of blessings, a Jacobian installment of Benito's Anthroponomastics Corner, ordinary eyes, quite a few trips to the bone zone, animal husbandry and sympathetic magic, sympathetic sheep magic, Rachel's 11, whether or not the Holy Trinity tapped, the Biblical version of Death Wish meets Death Wish III.

Hymnal: "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. It's Chris and Benino here. Before we start the show this week, we would like to issue another content warning for this episode.
0:07.7	Yeah, not quite as bad or as plentiful in terms of variety as last time. However, there is definitely a chapter that recounts a scene of sexual assault.
0:17.1	And so if that's the kind of thing that's going to make you uncomfortable, maybe skip or we'll see you next week.
0:21.6	Yeah, and that is going to be, if you would like to listen up to that point, it's going to be fairly late in the show. It is the chapter about Dinah. So keep that in mind going forward and enjoy the night there because the sun had set. He took one of the stones from the place,
0:38.2	put it there at his head, and lay down in that place.
0:41.1	And he dreamed.
0:42.3	A stairway was set on the ground with its top-reaching heaven,
0:45.7	and God's angels were going up and down on it.
0:47.8	The book of Genesis, chapter 28, verses 11 through 12.
1:13.6	I should know. verses 11 through 12. And if we wind on down the road, our show's tone of my soul and wants to show I'll never read to start.
1:17.4	Hello, friends and neighbors, and welcome to Apocry Pals.
1:19.8	It's the podcast where two non-believers read through the Bible and we try not to be jerks about it.
1:21.6	We're your heavenly hosts.
1:23.0	My name is Chris Sims, and with me as always,
1:25.2	the other half of the Sons of Thunder.
1:27.3	Benito Serino.
1:28.0	Benito, how are you today?
1:29.8	Pretty good, man.
1:30.7	It feels like it's been seven million of years since we did this show.
1:37.5	That's the most number of years.
1:39.5	Yeah, it is.
1:41.7	And I definitely, so yeah, people who only listened to the show probably were like,
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