[Bible] Bonus Episode: Jon D. Levenson - Child Sacrifice in the Bible (Part 2)

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In this bonus episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete and Jared continue their conversation with Jon D. Levenson about the theme of child sacrifice in the Bible, focusing on how the idea evolved from ancient times into later religious traditions. They uncover how the practice became condemned while the meaning persisted through symbolic acts like substitution rituals and how its theology extended into the New Testament. Want to hear the full episode? Become a member of our online community The Society of Normal People at www.thebiblefornormalpeople.com/join. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Bible for normal people, the only God-ordained
0:03.4	podcast on the internet. I'm Pete Ens. And I'm Jared Bias.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, today's episode is part two of the conversation with John Levinson
0:15.2	about child sacrifice in the Bible. If you haven't heard part one, we'd recommend going back
0:19.4	to listen to that one for some more context on where this episode kicks off. We talked in
0:23.9	part one about evidence in the Hebrew Bible for the ancient practice of child
0:27.8	sacrifice, namely of the firstborn son. Here in part two we talk about how
0:32.0	even though the practice was eradicated, the idea of child sacrifice lived on and was transformed in various ways even into the New Testament.
0:39.4	Yes, so if you enjoy the first 10 minutes and you're not already signed up for our online community,
0:44.5	head to the Bible for normal people.com front slash join, where you can listen to the rest of
0:49.8	part two and get access to all of our classes and courses as well.
0:53.3	John 316, for God so loved the world that he gave his only son.
0:59.3	He gave his only son.
1:00.8	This brings us back to where we begin with Exodus 22-29, the first
1:05.0	born of your son you shall give to me, sacrificed. Clearly I think there is an inter-biblical
1:10.4	midrash in which the new Testament is reframing biblical stories, especially the binding of Isaac,
1:16.8	applying that language to the figure of Jesus and relates to this whole question of child sacrifice. All right, well, welcome back again, John here for part two. We're going to keep the conversation going around child
1:34.3	sacrifice and the implications for for the Bible. Thank you very much for having again.
1:38.1	I enjoy our previous conversation and I look forward to this one. Okay well just as a
1:41.6	reminder for folks we'd set up this tension that we find in the Hebrew Bible
1:46.3	around passages that talk about God finding sacrifice child sacrifice abhorrent and something to be avoided at all costs but in some ways you said even
1:55.1	those maybe are protesting too much to a tradition that it was happening and then we
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