Hey everyone, this is Aaron. I'm one of the fellows on our Scholar team here at Bible Project.

I wanted to let you know there's a newly released article written by me and the Bible Project team.

This article is all about Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which is this weekend.

If you've been listening to the podcast for any amount of time,

you've heard Tim talk about how Jewish customs, traditions, and holidays often paint a more vibrant

picture of the Bible and Jesus. Through the eyes of Jesus, the holiday of Rosh Hashanah

is an invitation to see Israel's story in our lives less as a self-improvement project

and more as an invitation to rediscover who we already are as God's people.

I'd love for you to check out more in our article, which is up right now at BibleProject.com.

We live in a world of chaos and death and disorder.

In the authors of the Bible, use a common ancient image to depict this reality,

the Sea Dragon. In the story of the Bible, humans are often deceived and align themselves

with the power of chaos and death. And when they do, they become themselves Sea Dragons,

Snaky Monsters. On today's podcast, we're going to look at one such monster, a giant in the Bible

that we know of as the life. He has a Nakhoshet helmet on his head. Nakhoshet is the word for bronze,

but it's spelled with the root letters of the word snake. He was closed with armor of scales.

It's the same word to describe the scales of sea creatures. And what he comes to do is

publicly denounce the armies of Israel and their God. He's a creature bent on destruction.

And then there's David, a young shepherd kid who doesn't like that the sneaky giant is defaming

and David says, listen, I'm a shepherd. I've like faced off a bear and the lion.

Those wilderness creatures of the land of chaos all do to this philistine what I did to the lion

the bear. David strikes down Goliath with a sling shot and then cuts off Goliath's head with

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