Archive for the ‘2 Kings’ Category

  • Humour in the Bible: Book 12: 2 Kings 1: Mission interrupted.

    Feb 2, 15 • 2 Kings, HumourComments Off on Humour in the Bible: Book 12: 2 Kings 1: Mission interrupted.
    Humour in the Bible: Book 12: 2 Kings 1: Mission interrupted.

    Since Google suggests the first chapter of 2 Kings is humorous I’ll measure it against the criteria. It meets most (but not all) which i think makes it clear this passage is not merely funny but was intended to be funny. Though again it is a “black” humour. As a bonus I’ll offer a reading [&hellip...

  • 2 Kings 10: a really nasty text as a test for the 5 step process

    Aug 14, 14 • 2 Kings, 5 Steps9 Comments
    2 Kings 10: a really nasty text as a test for the 5 step process

    I once made a silly offer: “Give me a random Old Testament passage, and I’ll show you how the 5 step process works!” So they offered me 2 Kings 10, the lovely story of the seventy heads offered to Jehu in baskets. (Read it yourself if you don’t believe me.) My goal was to show [&hellip...

  • Are you an idolater? (Not – Was God married? Part Two)

    Are you an idolater? (Not – Was God married? Part Two)

    As a matter of fact Yahweh was married, yet the Bible cannot tolerate people who speak of God as male or masculine. This podcast seeks to explore this apparent contradiction as a first follow up to yesterday’s “Why do you read? Or: Was God married?” The original (audio only) version of this podcast was here...

  • Why do you read? Or: Was God married?

    Why do you read? Or: Was God married?

    This is the video version of a post whose original audio only version is here. It was stimulated by an article in The Daily Mail (a UK tabloid newspaper) “Why the BBC’s new face of religion believes God had a WIFE” It caused a flurry among the Twittering classes, and on Facebook, and even among [&hellip...

  • E100-40: 2 Kings 25:1 – 25:30: The holy city falls

    Jun 11, 10 • 2 Kings, E100Comments Off on E100-40: 2 Kings 25:1 – 25:30: The holy city falls
    E100-40: 2 Kings 25:1 – 25:30: The holy city falls

    Today’s is a grim reading. But such brutality was not unusual in the Ancient Near East. The Assyrians, for example, when they captured the Judean city of Lachish after a siege in 701BC impaled the surviving leaders outside the city, and left a mass grave of 1,500 people (mainly women and children). Despite what one [&hellip...

  • E100 Week 8:The Fall of Israel

    Jun 6, 10 • 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 2 Samuel, E100Comments Off on E100 Week 8:The Fall of Israel
    E100 Week 8:The Fall of Israel

    “The fall of Israel” is a theological (not historical) title. This five covers almost the whole history of the Israelite kingdoms from David to the destruction of Jerusalem. The Deuteronomistic History (Joshua-Kings) from which they all come (cf. remarks on Judges) tell the story with the end in view, one important goal of these books [&hellip...