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I created this podcast – to attempt to retell some of my favourite Bible stories in a way that might help us to hear them as their first listeners would have done so. Such a retelling may not help us to know exactly what happened, but I hope it might help us to delve into those truths that they were trying to communicate.
Episodes
Nov 15, 2017
Nov 15, 2017
18 min
As Mary and Joseph walk down the long road towards Bethlehem, their conversation reveals a number of surprising things about the purpose that they see in this dangerous journey.
Nov 8, 2017
Nov 8, 2017
9 min
Mary and Joseph, on their way to Bethlehem, pass through a village that has been recently destroyed. As they search through the rubble and ruins, trying to understand what has taken place, they are confronted with a frightening truth and realize how dangerous this journey of theirs may prove to be.
Nov 1, 2017
Nov 1, 2017
20 min
A stranger comes to the village of Nazareth in this retelling of the Christmas Story (specifically the story of the Annunciation) that will help you understand both the historical context of Luke's nativity story and the use he is making of Old Testament imagery and ideas.
Oct 25, 2017
Oct 25, 2017
17 min
The formal betrothal of Mary and Joseph is something alluded to in the gospels but it is never described. First-century readers and listeners would have had some clear ideas of what such a betrothal would have looked like so I have taken the opportunity to fill in the background with a relatable story of how Mary and Joseph came to be engaged.
Music:
“AhDah” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Ascending the Vale” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Oct 18, 2017
Oct 18, 2017
16 min
Mary and Joseph are traveling toward their goal in Bethlehem when they come into a region -- the region between Galilee and Samaria -- that highlights the volatile political times in which they are living. This episode will help you to understand the historical circumstances in which the Gospel of Luke describes the birth of Jesus taking place.
Oct 11, 2017
Oct 11, 2017
10 min
This is the first episode in the new "Retelling the Bible" Podcast.
We will spend the first season retelling the story of the birth of Jesus as it is told in the Gospel of Luke, focussing specifically on the journey that Luke says that Mary and Joseph took from Nazareth to Bethlehem. This story raises all kinds of historical questions and makes me wonder how its author really meant for people to understand it. I suspect that we have largely missed many of the points that Luke was trying to make.
We start out in this episode by looking at the ways in which the story has traditionally been understood and seeing some of the problems with that traditional understanding.