Naked Bible 212: Joshua’s Conquest of Jericho and the Ugaritic Keret Epic

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 21 April 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The basic details of the Israelite conquest of Jericho are well known. The renewal of the covenant at Shechem, the miraculous crossing of the Jordan with the Ark of the Covenant, Joshua’s encounter with the supernatural commander of the Lord’s host, the sending of the spies to the city and their reception by Rahab, the weird battle instructions to march around the city and blow the ram’s horns, and the collapse of the walls have been retold in countless Sunday School classes and sermons. But virtually unknown is that many of these details have correspondences in a story from Ugarit, an ancient city state in Syria. That story is known as the Keret (or Kirta) Epic. In this episode we talk about the similarities and how an ancient reader might have processed such parallels.

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0:29.5	Joshua's hunk west of Jericho and the Eucharitic Carrot Epic on the layman, Tray Strickland.
0:38.3	And he's the scholar, Dr. Michael Heizer.
0:40.2	Hey Mike, how you doing?
0:42.0	Pretty good.
0:43.0	Pretty good.
0:44.0	We're getting into some Eucharitic today.
0:45.0	You're that great.
0:46.0	Yeah, let's say that fast.
0:47.0	You have 10 times that are.
0:48.0	Yeah, trust me.
0:49.0	I had to say it a couple of times again.
0:53.0	Right?
0:54.8	It's a bit of an interest about it.
0:56.7	I don't know nothing about it.
0:57.9	So, you know, we're not alone.
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