Episode 83: We need to talk about Jehovah

In the final part of our romp through Nick’s book The Badly Behaved Bible, we look at the acts of violence in the Old Testament. How are we to understand these? Also, we explore why Jesus, Paul and Matthew would all fail preaching class and how we can read the Bible more rabbinically. What is Cricket?Guardian article on Third Ashes testBBC, In Our TimeIn Our Time: The TalmudBurton L. Visotzky, Reading the Book: Making the Bible a Timeless TextMidrash - WikipediaMidrash - Oxford Bibliographies