833: Understanding the Book of Judges: Dr. Michelle Knight

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🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This episode is a deep dive into the book of Judges with one of the world's leading experts in the book: Dr. Michelle Knight. We focus mainly on Judges 4-5, the story about that BA Woman, Jael, who smashes a tent peg through the skull of a skilled warrior and the follow up poem that celebrates the incident. We also talk about the horrific rape of the concubine in Judges 19 and some ethical problems with the conquest in the book of Joshua.

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0:00.0	Hello friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Raw. I have on the show today
0:03.7	Dr. Michelle Knight. Dr. Knight teaches Old Testament and Semitic languages at Trinity
0:08.5	Evangelical Divinity School. She got her PhD at Wheaton College. She is an expert in
0:14.1	the Book of Judges. She did her PhD dissertation on the Song of Deborah and Barric from Judges 5
0:21.8	and that's where we go in this podcast. This is a, this is a, an in-depth Bible study podcast. We
0:29.0	talk about specific nitty-gritty elements of the Book of Judges. Do we talk about the conquest,
0:35.3	some of the ethical problems of the conquest in the Book of Joshua? And so this is just a pure
0:43.4	grade A unadulterated high octane look at some of the most neglected books. Well, I think judges
0:51.8	is often neglected at least in the popular Christian circles. And so we just go after it. This is
0:57.3	just a hardcore Bible study. So please welcome to the show for the first time Dr. Michelle Knight.
1:19.5	Hello friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Raw. I am here with my new
1:23.6	virtual friend Dr. Michelle Knight. Michelle, thanks so much for being on the show for the first time.
1:29.9	I'm excited to be here. Thanks. All right. So Michelle, you have a PhD in Old Testament and
1:34.6	Semitic languages from Wheaton College. And I don't know if people know, but that PhD program,
1:41.6	I remember when they first started it. And it was like so incredibly hard to get into. Like,
1:47.4	they take just a couple of students a year and each discipline. Is it still like that?
1:51.4	Yeah, they still just take two, at least the last time I was there, they took two Old Testament
1:56.5	students a year or two for each advisor. And so, yeah, it was competitive. I mean, it's one of the
2:02.3	most competitive evangelical programs. So it was, but it was a really good fit. So I'm about to work
2:07.8	down. And you studied under Daniel Block, who again, if people don't know that name, he is to my mind,
2:13.1	at least one of the top five evangelical Testament scholars who is truly evangelical. And yet,
2:19.7	I hate saying that yet, but you know what I mean. And yet, a world renowned Old Testament scholar,
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