Naked Bible 423: The Queen of Heaven

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The Queen of Heaven with Dr. Peter Goeman The “queen of heaven” is an enigmatic deity figure that appears in Scripture in a handful of verses (Jer 7:18; 44:17-19, 25). Who was the queen of heaven to whom the people of Judah were offering idolatrous sacrifice? What can be known of her? Can she be identified with a named ancient Near Eastern goddess? This episode of the podcast entertains these and other questions with our guest, Dr. Peter Goeman.

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0:26.4	Welcome to the Naked BiblePodcast episode 423, Queen of Heaven with Dr. Peter Gaman.
0:32.4	I'm the layman, Trace Trickman and he's the scholar Dr. Michael Heiser.
0:35.9	Hey Mike, how you doing?
0:37.9	Well, I'm not doing too bad.
0:40.0	I mean about the same status quo as far as my health goes, but yeah, I think the transition
0:48.1	to the new chemo has worked out a little bit, you know, so not too bad, not too bad.
0:56.4	Well, at least you got your baseball going on now.
0:58.7	So he must be enjoying that.
1:00.7	Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
1:03.4	Every day is me, so I'm going to listen to him.
1:06.2	Well, this topic, Queen of Heaven, this is peaked my interest.
1:09.8	So I don't think I was aware of this topic.
1:12.7	Well, this is a question I get asked in email.
1:16.2	What about the Queen of Heaven in the book of Jeremiah?
1:19.9	And typically when I get the questions, it's from somebody who wants to oppose Catholic
1:25.6	teaching about Mary.
1:28.0	And they presume that this gives them a good, a good sort of biblical reference point.
1:33.6	So when I came across this in Dr. Gaiman's blog, I thought, well, you know, he spent some
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