Jonathan Greer – Behind the Scenes of the Old Testament

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Judaism, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Episode: Jonathan Greer joins the show to talk about a big project he just co-edited on the history, context, archaeology, culture, and world of the Old Testament. Jonathan shares from his own work digging at Tel Dan, a very significant site for understanding the Jerusalem Temple and worship in ancient Israel. They discuss major archaeologists, the historicity of events in the Bible, the interaction of faith and critical study, and much more. Guest: Jonathan Greer is Associate Professor of Old Testament and Director of the Hesse Memorial Archaeological Laboratory at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary. He has written extensively on the history and context of the Bible. He's the author of Dinner at Dan: Biblical and Archaeological Evidence for Sacred Feasts at Iron Age II Tel Dan and Their Significance (Brill, 2013) and the co-editor with John Hilber and John Walton of Behind the Scenes of the Old Testament: Cultural, Social, and Historical Contexts (Baker Academic, 2019). If you like this episode: Check out our episodes on the Isaiah Seal Impression, and The Ancient World of the Bible. The post Jonathan Greer – Behind the Scenes of the Old Testament first appeared on OnScript.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Onscript podcast, your home for world-class conversations on scripture and theology,
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0:24.2	I'm a co-host along with Matt Bates, Drew Johnson, Aaronheim, Chris Tilling, and Amy Brownhues.
0:31.1	And if you're wondering why I say them in that orders, because that's the order in which they joined as co-host on the podcast.
0:39.3	So we have a very special episode for you today.
0:42.8	I'm really thrilled to have my good friend Jonathan Greer on the podcast for the first time,
0:48.3	and he's co-edited a really important, a big volume on the historical context of the Bible.
0:56.1	And Jonathan's a very rare kind of scholar.
0:58.8	Not only is he a wonderful guy, but he also is able to do really good biblical academic study.
1:08.6	He is invested as an archaeologist, and he's a person of faith. And so
1:13.6	bringing those things together, there aren't many people who do that, or who do it well,
1:18.2	and he's one of them. So I commend him to you and the project he's been working on. Also, I just
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