The Bible Lore Podcast

Apologies to my Spotify listeners, I thought I had addressed an issue to their satisfaction but they removed the episode anyway. Here is a reupload of episode 31.
This one's all about Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, an oddball devotee of the moon god Sin whose reign ends up becoming the basis for some of Daniel's most infamous stories.
Support the show on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/BibleLorePodcast
Buy Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/between-two-rivers-ancient-mesopotamia-and-the-birth-of-history-moudhy-al-rashid/9a6c9713e7d1cb21
Keyvan Golsorkhi on Iran:  
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/iran-diaspora-war-trump-israel/
Data Over Dogma on seeing the face of God:  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohh4Huzfn2U
Bibliography:  
Paul-Alain Beaulieu - 'Nabonidus the Mad King';  
Paul-Alain Beaulieu - 'Reign of Nabonidus, King of Babylon';  
Moudhy Al-Rashi - 'Between Two Rivers';  
John Collins - 'Daniel';  
Hallo & Younger - 'The Context of Scripture Vol 1-3';  
Marc van de Mieroop - 'A History of the Ancient Near East';  
Radner, Moeller, Potts, et al - 'The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East, Volume V';  
Berlin, Brettler, et al - 'The Jewish Study Bible, Second Edition';  
Robert Alter - 'The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary';  
Pietersma, Wright - 'A New English Translation of the Septuagint';

Cyrus the Great arrives, Nabonidus falls, and several people eat human meat as we sort through Herodotus to tell the story of the rise of Persia in the mid-6th century BCE.
Support the show by joining the Patreon:
https://patreon.com/biblelorepodcast
Helpful map:
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/265/empire-of-cyrus-the-great/
Check out the episode of Super Structure I was featured in:
https://www.patreon.com/SuperStructure/posts/late-great-earth-159135809
Bibliography:
https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/cyaxares-gk/  
https://www.livius.org/sources/content/nabonidus-cylinder-from-sippar/  
Paul-Alain Beaulieu - 'Reign of Nabonidus';  
Matt Waters - 'King of the World';  
Herodotus, Sélincourt (trnsl.) - 'The Histories';  
C.J. Gadd - 'The Fall of Nineveh: The Newly Discovered Babylonian Chronicle';  
M. David Litwa - 'How the Gospels Became History';

David M. Perry stops by the show to promote his new book, The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook, a book that is good enough that you'll forget you're reading a manual on how to pitch op-eds and trade volumes. Because David has a wide knowledge base, I used his book as a platform to discuss a variety of subjects, from "Who are your guys?" for medieval popes to how changes in disability policy could impact millions of Americans today to even a little discussion of what the Bible meant to people before the advent of the printing press. This one's good, gang!
Support the show on Patreon:  
https://www.patreon.com/BibleLorePodcast
Buy the book:  
https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/54219/public-scholar
Read David's recent article on disability policy:  
https://www.ms.now/opinion/social-security-disability-payments-trump-new-rule

This one's all about Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, an oddball devotee of the moon god Sin whose reign ends up becoming the basis for some of Daniel's most infamous stories.
Support the show on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/BibleLorePodcast
Buy Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/between-two-rivers-ancient-mesopotamia-and-the-birth-of-history-moudhy-al-rashid/9a6c9713e7d1cb21
Keyvan Golsorkhi on Iran:  
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/iran-diaspora-war-trump-israel/
Data Over Dogma on seeing the face of God:  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohh4Huzfn2U
Bibliography:  
Paul-Alain Beaulieu - 'Nabonidus the Mad King';  
Paul-Alain Beaulieu - 'Reign of Nabonidus, King of Babylon';  
Moudhy Al-Rashi - 'Between Two Rivers';  
John Collins - 'Daniel';  
Hallo & Younger - 'The Context of Scripture Vol 1-3';  
Marc van de Mieroop - 'A History of the Ancient Near East';  
Radner, Moeller, Potts, et al - 'The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East, Volume V';  
Berlin, Brettler, et al - 'The Jewish Study Bible, Second Edition';  
Robert Alter - 'The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary';  
Pietersma, Wright - 'A New English Translation of the Septuagint';

Hello wonderful Patreon subscribers and freeloaders (whom I also love). Today's episode is a special one, an extended conversation with Andrew Tobolowsky about the myth of the 12 tribes of Israel in the Hebrew Bible and then later in everything from early Christianity to the Black Hebrew Israelites.
Plus, a small announcement, now in custom written form: the pace of this show has slowed down due to my gaining of employment (steel foundry maintenance helper, an insane job for the young or delusional-and-mid-30s). Because this happened nearly overnight (I applied and started working within four days), I haven't had time to address the slowdown until now, nearly a month after my last release. My sincere apologies. Here's the rub: for the near future, I'll be shifting to releasing one episode per month, with occasional bonus content for Patrons only, and a move to two-week early access for all content for my Patreon subscribers, the blessed Shaddayim. If that's not enough content for your $5, I totally get it; I'm obviously as bummed as you are that the show has slowed down. It's no worries at all. You'll still be able to enjoy all free scripted episodes and Bible at the Movies episodes on the free tier. My main goal, which I will not abandon despite its Quixotic nature, is to tell the entire history of the Bible and how it accrued the lore it did in a format that's accessible to just about anyone. The breadth of this journey and the massive scope of this history is something that could keep this show going for many years, until I inevitably have to figure out how to tell the story of a quarter of the planet in a coherent way. I hope you'll all stick with me through this slower period, cuz I'm not leaving.
Buy Andrew's books:
The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel
Israel and its Heirs in Late Antiquity
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