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An excerpt from Gil's new exclusive series on Patreon, reading out the dramatic chapters of 1 Maccabees. For the full episode click here   Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

The battles of Joshua the military leader are strikingly similar to those of a real-life Hebrew military leader, Judah the Maccabee Let's become experts on the Maccabees together - listen to 1 Maccabees, chapter 1 Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

Our first story of the season is the book's oldest and its most iconic. It was written by priests of Persian times who crossed the Jordan River on their way back home from captivity   Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

To get ready for the season of Joshua, let's get the lay of the land he is going to conquer. It's basically like a narrow rectangle between the desert and the sea. Watch the view from Gezer Watch the view from Hadid Maps and pictures of the geography of the Holy Land   Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

In this introductory episode to the sixth biblical book, we learn that it was written to provide the Maccabees with a biblical past they could say they were restoring Watch the view from Gezer Watch the view from Hadid Watch the geographical parallels between the conquests of the Maccabees and those of Joshua A bit of info and pictures of the geography of the Holy Land     Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

In this final Torah summary, we go over things we missed and recap how we found the biblical authors of the Torah and academia didn't. Our list of biblical authors and the texts they wrote Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

The epics of the Odyssey and the Bible have a lot in common. Rutger Vos joins Gil to discuss the new Christopher Nolan movie Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

There are many expressions in Hebrew and English derived from the Bible. Garry Stevens from the History in the Bible podcast joins Gil to compare Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

Gil chooses his favorite verses from the first five biblical books: some are beautiful, others are personal and some are funny Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

As we are moving on from the Torah portion of the Bible, it's a good opportunity to broaden the scope and discuss the life of the Torah in the last 2,000 years, after it was completed. For that, we have a special guest: Dr. Jonathan Friedmann is a scholar of ancient Hebrew and Jewish music, vice president of Ezzree Institute, associate professor at the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism, president of the Western States Jewish History Association, director of the Jewish Museum of the American West, and co-host of the podcast & YouTube interview show, Amusing Jews. He's also the author or editor of over 30 books on music, Jewish history, and popular culture.  Check out Dr. Friedmann's book Goliath as Gentle Giant Check out his YouTube interview channel Amusing Jews Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

In this Torah summary episodes, we're reviewing Moses. Moses is the great hero of the Torah, the Pentateuch and one of the most popular and important characters in human history, but his character episodeis a combination of several characters sewn together Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

In 140 BCE, the Maccabees and Levites broke apart the priestly narrative and drowned it out in their own to create the Torah we have today Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

In this first Torah summary, we're looking back at the writers who lived between 600 BCE and 450 BCE, their lives, circumstances and iconic biblical stories Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

After getting to know Maccabean times so well, if we compare the Maccabean book 2 Maccabees with the biblical book Chronicles, we will see that they seem to have been written by the same people. Garry Stevens from the History in the Bible podcast joins Gil to discuss. To Garry's podcast Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron

Now that we've gone over all of Deuteronomy, Garry Stevens from the History in the Bible joins Gil to discuss how the broken promises of Deuteronomy led to the rise in apocalyptic literature To Garry's podcast Join our tribe on Patreon! To give Gil a one-time donation The podcast is written, edited and produced by Gil Kidron