Understanding Sin and Evil
We’re back! Join us as we engage in a high-level discussion on the different views of collective and intergenerational punishment in the Bible. What does God and Abraham’s conversation on Sodom tell us about justice? How is the problematic nature of collective punishment portrayed in the Hebrew Bible? What problems …
This podcast is a continuation of the previous discussion on the shift of the biblical view and representation of intergenerational punishment. In this podcast, we delve into Ezekiel and his presentation of the “way things work”: there is no intergenerational punishment, and each individual is responsible for him or herself …
In this episode we discuss the approach to divine intergenerational punishment (the punishment of a future generation for the sins of a …
In this far-reaching episode, we discuss the idea of collective punishment in the Hebrew Bible, the problems it poses in the context …
What was behind Antiochus’s decrees? Was Hanukkah really the end of the fight for independence? And what was the difference between Judean …
In this episode, we discuss what it means for our changing understanding of sin to have a canonized, “frozen” Scripture that must …
In this episode, I recap everything we have discussed so far, before I begin a new chapter of the podcast. This is …
Join me for a close reading of the Treatise of the Two Spirits, a passage in the Community Rule that explains the …
In this episode, we explore texts from the Qumran community that emphasize responsibility for sin and freedom of choice, despite the sect’s …
In this episode, we look at two Dead Sea Scroll sectarian prayers — the Hodayot and the “Hymn of Praise” in the …