Giday, I'm Gary Stevens.

And welcome to the third season of the History in the Bible podcast.

In this final season, I explore how the Jews and the Christians constructed new religions when they were sent

spinning into the void after the destruction of the temple. All of the history, about all of the books

beyond the Bible. Bonus! The Patriarchs, with a podcast of biblical proportions.

In this bonus, I'm back with Omri Harel and Gil Kidron.

Of the Raukas podcast, a podcast of biblical proportions.

Omri and Gil are writers and podcasters from Tel Aviv. In their latest venture, they bring a social perspective to the

stories of the Tanakh. This time we dive into the stories of the Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph. For more discussion,

subscribe to their exuberant podcast. Hope you enjoy the show. Hi Gary. Hi guys. First of all,

very happy to be here and to talk to you again.

At the minute in your show, you are covering the big three patriarchs.

Now, what's your general take on them?

Because I know you have a very specific take and purpose to your show, right?

I think it's very interesting that what we're going to do now for some reason is not something that is a no-brainer.

Like comparing the first two major characters of the Bible, Abraham and Jacob, the first and the third patriarch, but clearly the two important patriarchs.

And comparing them and from their character and their story, there's a ton that we can extrapolate

to understand who are the peoples who wrote these stories because Because they're very, very different characters.

They are nothing alike.

They only share the same book.

There's a lot of scholarly material

about the differences between the two people of Judea and Israel.

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