Naked Bible 347: Jonah and the Chaos Dragon

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

The story of Jonah being swallowed by a “great fish” (misunderstood as a whale) is familiar to Bible readers and those in the wider culture who have never read the Bible. Given the flexibility of the Hebrew phrase behind “great fish” (dag gadol), scholars have wondered whether Jonah connects back to biblical Leviathan, the well-know chaos serpent of Canaanite literature. In this episode we explore the potential connections.

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0:26.3	Welcome to the NakedBible Podcast, episode 347, Jonah and the Chaos Dragon.
0:31.8	The layman, Tray Strickland, and he's the scholar, Dr. Michael Heiser.
0:35.6	Hey Mike, how are you?
0:37.8	Pretty good.
0:38.8	Pretty good.
0:39.8	You know, all things considered.
0:41.7	Thanks just to go get back to the Old Testament today, at least more fully.
0:46.8	Yeah.
0:47.8	Well, this is, you know, I mean, we're covering Jonah here and actually you've got one
0:54.4	more week of voting in our poll for the next book study that we're going to be doing.
0:59.8	And it ends next week, next Saturday, Halloween at midnight.
1:03.7	So if you have not done so, go to NakedBiblePodcast.com and cast your vote.
1:09.1	Right now, though, Mike, I think the Old Testament and Revelation is holding at 68, 67%.
1:14.9	Well, you know, it would have been nice if we could have, you know, if we would have put
1:19.5	the vote up a little earlier because then we could start the apocalypse, maybe right
1:24.7	after the apocalypse of the election, you know, we could have done something there.
1:28.6	We just weren't thinking ahead.
1:30.2	Not only if you're thinking of those terms, which I don't.
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