The Flood, Noah, and the Dead Sea Scrolls
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What role does the Flood narrative play in the book of Genesis? Are there similar flood narratives in ancient Near Eastern texts? How did Second Temple Jews write about this catastrophic event? All of these questions and answered in this week's episode as several of Israel Bible Center's faculty sit around the table to discuss Noah, purity, violence, and the flood.
Dr. Taylor Gray is an associate faculty member and the professor of a recently released course at IBC called Divine Imagery in the Biblical World. This week we discuss what we can learn from iconography from the ancient world, and how these pieces of art may enhance the way we read the Bible....
Published 09/01/23
Dr. Taylor Gray is an associate faculty member at Israel Bible Center. He recently released a new course called Divine Imagery in the Biblical World. We sit down with Dr. Gray to talk about the study of iconography, its growth over the last few decades, and its ability to give modern readers a...
Published 08/25/23