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The BEMA Podcast

376: Isaiah — Maternal Images of God

The BEMA Podcast

BEMA Discipleship

Hermeneutics, Religion & Spirituality, Scripture, Jewish Context, Biblical, Judaism, Bible, Christianity

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🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Reed Dent discuss the maternal images seen throughout Isaiah.

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0:00.0

This is the Bayhma podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host

0:09.6

Brent Billings. Today I'm with L and Reed to discuss the maternal images seen throughout Isaiah.

0:16.0

That's right and it's my goal for today not just to be esoteric, not just to be philosophical,

0:22.0

but we got a practical side to each of these texts we're going to look at they're for everybody

0:26.1

Not just women I would wither like a daisy if we were just gonna talk philosophy for an hour so

0:34.2

That's not what we're doing. We have a little bit of Reed to sprinkle in conversation.

0:36.6

I should take my leave.

0:37.9

I'll just go now.

0:38.8

There's room for that.

0:40.2

I'm just warning and inviting in folks for whom that might not be the water they like to swim in

0:46.3

don't worry it won't be all that there'll be some of it though so it's all good okay I said

0:50.7

throughout Isaiah that's not quite,

0:53.3

it's all like second half that we're right here.

0:56.2

Right, which is why this app is in the second half of Isaiah.

1:00.2

We can, we already argued about which Isaiah it is, so we won't return to that conversation.

1:05.1

But we've got a series of maternal images. Brent is going to read those images, those texts to us and then we're going to bring some stuff out.

1:16.8

But before that, a little bit of a little pause, little definition of terms.

1:25.0

First question, this feels like catechism to me.

1:29.0

If we're talking about maternal images, that is imagery for a reason, right? Does God have a sex? My catacism says,

1:39.1

got a spirit and hath not a body like man, right? God doesn't have chromosomes, he doesn't have hormones right that doesn't have chromosomes he doesn't have

1:43.9

hormones he doesn't have body parts nor a body like woman thank you read I

1:49.6

feel so included I had to throw that in there I was you know I was lost I was alone I was wanton without being included so thank you.

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