Episodes
Wednesday Aug 25, 2021
Five Views on the Exodus (pt 5) – Peter Feinman
Wednesday Aug 25, 2021
Wednesday Aug 25, 2021
Episode: This is part 5 in our look at views on the Exodus from Egypt. In this episode, Chris and Kyle speak with Peter Feinman about the Levite-Hyksos view. Peter Feinman is the author of The Exodus: An Egyptian Story.
Hosts: Mark Janzen (Louisiana College) and Chris McKinny (Gesher Media)
Summary: In this episode, Mark and Chris interview Peter Feinman about the following:
- The Egyptian evidence for the Israelite Exodus
- The Hyksos and their possible connection to the Exodus
- The importance of the Exodus to Jewish and Christian believes and its connection to Passover and Easter
Additional Resources: 2021 Janzen, Mark (ed.). Five Views of the Exodus. Zondervan
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Wednesday Aug 04, 2021
Five Views on the Exodus (pt 4) - James K. Hoffmeier
Wednesday Aug 04, 2021
Wednesday Aug 04, 2021
Episode: This is Part 4 of our look at Five Views on the Exodus, this time with James Hoffmeier. Hoffmeier makes the case for a 13th century BC exodus from Egypt. In this episode, Mark and Chris interview James Hoffmeier about the following:
- The Egyptian evidence for the Israelite Exodus
- “Egyptianisms” in the Pentateuch
- The historicity of the Exodus events and its importance to the Old Testament as a whole
- The importance of the Exodus to Jewish and Christian believes and its connection to Passover and Easter
Hosts: Mark Janzen (Louisiana College) and Chris McKinny (Gesher Media)
Guest: James K. Hoffmeier
Additional Resources: 2021 Janzen, Mark (ed.). Five Views on the Exodus. Zondervan; (podcast) Thinking Exodus: Egyptology and the Bible (James K. Hoffmeier)
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Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Five Views on the Exodus (pt 2) - Scott Stripling
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Wednesday Jul 07, 2021
Episode: This episode continues our series on five views on the exodus based on a book by that named that Biblical World host Mark Janzen just edited. Our second guest in this series is Scott Stripling, who presents the early (15th century) exodus view.
Hosts: Mark Janzen (Louisiana College) and Chris McKinny (Gesher Media)
Guest: Scott Stripling serves as the provost at The Bible Seminary in Katy (Houston), Texas and as the Director of Excavations for the Associates for Biblical Research at Khirbet el-Maqatir and Shiloh, Israel.
Summary: In this episode, Mark and Chris interview Scott about the early date theory, how we read dates and numbers in the Bible, and archaeological evidence for or against the early date.
Additional Resources: 2021 Janzen, Mark (ed.). Five Views of the Exodus. Zondervan; Ron Hendel’s Academia page.
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Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Five Views on the Exodus (pt 1) - Ron Hendel
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Episode: This begins the first of a series on five views on the exodus based on a book by that named that Biblical World host Mark Janzen just edited. Our first guest in this series is Ron Hendel, who presents the cultural memory view.
Hosts: Mark Janzen (Louisiana College) and Chris McKinny (Gesher Media)
Guest: Ron Hendel is Norma and Sam Dabby Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies at the University of Berkeley. Professor Hendel has been a member of the Berkeley faculty since 1999 and has served as chair of Jewish Studies, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, and the Graduate Program in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology. Hendel approaches the Hebrew Bible from a variety of angles – history of religions, textual criticism, linguistics, comparative mythology, literature, and cultural memory. He is the editor-in-chief of The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Edition, a new critical edition of the Hebrew text, whose first volume (Proverbs, by Michael V. Fox) was published in 2015. He is also writing a new commentary on Genesis for the Yale Anchor Bible. In 1999, he received the Frank Moore Cross Publications Award from the American Schools of Oriental Research. His books include The Text of Genesis 1-11: Textual Studies and Critical Edition (Oxford, 1998), Remembering Abraham: Culture, History, and Memory in the Hebrew Bible (Oxford, 2005), Reading Genesis: Ten Methods (editor and contributor; Cambridge, 2010), The Book of Genesis: A Biography (Princeton, 2013), Steps to a New Edition of the Hebrew Bible (SBL Press, 2016), and How Old is the Hebrew Bible? A Linguistic, Textual, and Historical Study (Yale, 2018). (from the University of Berkeley website)
Summary: In this episode, Mark and Chris interview Ron Hendel about the following:
The Egyptian evidence for the Israelite Exodus
“Egyptianisms” in the Pentateuch
The historicity of the Exodus events and its importance to the Old Testament as a whole
The importance of the Exodus to Jewish and Christian believers and its connection to Passover and Easter
Additional Resources: 2021 Janzen, Mark (ed.). Five Views of the Exodus. Zondervan; Ron Hendel’s Academia page.
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Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
Five Views on the Exodus (pt 3) - Gary Rendsburg
Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
Episode: This is part 3 of our 5 part look at five views on the exodus from Egypt. In this episode, Gary Rendsburg presents the 12th century BC view.
Hosts: Mark Janzen (Louisiana College) and Chris McKinny (Gesher Media)
Guest: Gary A. Rendsburg (Rutgers University)
Summary: In this episode, Mark and Chris interview Gary Rendsburg about the following:
- The Egyptian evidence for the Israelite Exodus
- “Egyptianisms” in the Pentateuch
- The historicity of the Exodus events and its importance to the Old Testament as a whole
- The importance of the Exodus to Jewish and Christian believes and its connection to Passover and Easter
Additional Resources: 2021 Janzen, Mark (ed.). Five Views of the Exodus. Zondervan; Gary Rendsburg’s publication page
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