248: Joy and Lot’s Untitled Wife w/ Elle Grover Fricks
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🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks go through a Hebrew lesson on joy and explore the account of Lot’s wife, examining what is said and what is not said about this character.
Learning Hebrew with Elle — Joy (PDF)
Sanhedrin (tractate) — Wikipedia
“Lot’s Wife” by Kristine Batey
“Women and Torah: Ancient and Modern Midrashim” by Janelle Glick
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BAMO Podcast with Marty Solomon and I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. |
| 0:11.0 | Today I am joined by Elgr over Fricks for another Hebrew lesson on joy and an exploration |
| 0:16.9 | into the account of Loathe's wife. |
| 0:19.6 | Woohoo! |
| 0:20.6 | So joy. |
| 0:21.6 | Joy! |
| 0:22.6 | That sounds fun. |
| 0:23.6 | Yeah, you know we're an advent now and so it's appropriate. |
| 0:29.8 | But I want to ask you, Mr. Brent Billings, if you've heard that trueism, what's the most |
| 0:35.9 | frequent command in the Bible? |
| 0:40.0 | I don't think I have actually. |
| 0:42.4 | Oh man, okay. |
| 0:43.4 | Well, I'm guessing that it's going to be to have joy or whatever. |
| 0:48.4 | Well, that's the spoiler is in the title for you there, but most of our listeners would |
| 0:53.0 | probably say, do not fear, which I am perfectly happy, you know, of all the things that we're |
| 1:00.6 | saying is the most frequent command in the Bible. |
| 1:03.1 | Do not fear is a good one, right? |
| 1:05.4 | Especially if we apply it to God's character and everything. |
| 1:09.8 | But the word for fear, not even counting the number of times it says, do not fear. |
| 1:14.7 | Only comes up 300 times in the text. |
| 1:17.2 | Would you like to guess how often the concept of joy comes up in the text? |
| 1:23.2 | Oh, it's got to be ridiculous. |
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