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Hosted by Allen · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 191 episodes
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Dive into a fresh, irreverent yet thoughtful exploration of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. Join two curious AI co-hosts (and, occasionally, the baffled human creator of the show, Allen) as they blend deep dives into ancient texts, alternative translations, and unexpected pop-culture parallels. Whether unpacking Noah’s ark logistics or debating Moses’ leadership skills, this podcast balances sharp humor with genuine curiosity; no stuffy sermons here. Perfect for scripture nerds, skeptics, or anyone who loves mythic stories retold with wit and a dash of existential confusion.
Allen hosts Holy Lit: The Bible, a religion show with 191 episodes published.
We're somewhere in the ancient Near East. The story is set in the patriarchal-style world of Edom or northern Arabia — that much is fairly clear from the names, the geography, and the divine title Shaddai used throughout
We're somewhere in the ancient Near East. Scholars argue about exactly where, but the land of Uz — where Job lives — puts us in a world of nomadic wealth, livestock-based prosperity, and one shared moral assumption that
The Book of Job is set in a place called Uz — many scholars associate it with Edom or somewhere east of Canaan, based partly on Lamentations 4:21, though the identification is debated — at a time when wisdom traditions f
Some background first. In the ancient Near East — the region covering modern Israel, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and their neighbors — suffering wasn't just a personal problem. It was a theological one. The basic logic went lik
The book of Esther is set in the Achaemenid Persian Empire, sometime in the 5th century BCE — though scholars date the actual composition of the book anywhere from the late Persian period into the Hellenistic era, roughl
We're in the fifth century BCE, in the Persian capital city of Susa — called Shushan in the Hebrew text. Persia at this point is the largest empire the world had seen up to that point, stretching from what is now India i
We're in the Persian Empire, somewhere around 480 to 475 BCE. The Jews have been scattered across foreign territory since the Babylonian deportations, generations back. Persia is now the dominant power. Persian kings wer
We're somewhere around 483 BCE, give or take a decade depending on who you ask. The Persian Empire is the largest political structure the ancient world had ever seen -- running from the Aegean coast in the west all the w
The Persian Empire, around 483 BCE. It runs from the Indus Valley in the east — what is now Pakistan and northwest India — to the region the Bible calls Cush in the west, covering modern Sudan and northern Ethiopia. That
It's around 445 BC. Jerusalem's walls — smashed and burned by the Babylonians 141 years earlier — have just been rebuilt in 52 days. Nehemiah, a Jewish man who served as cupbearer to the Persian king Artaxerxes, got roya
We're somewhere around 445 BCE. The Babylonian empire has been gone for almost a century — Cyrus the Great ended it in 539 BCE, and the Jewish exiles were eventually allowed to go home. But "home" is generous. Jerusalem
It's roughly 445 BCE. Jerusalem has had its walls rebuilt after lying in ruins for approximately 140 years. The Jewish community there is not an independent nation — they're a province of the Persian Empire. They pay tax
The year is roughly 445 BCE. Jerusalem's walls have just been rebuilt after sitting in rubble for about 140 years. The Babylonians destroyed the city in 586 BCE and took most of the population into exile. Under the Persi
We're in Jerusalem around 445 to 444 BCE. The walls of the city have been in ruin for over a century and a half — ever since the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem in 586 BCE. The Second Temple had been rebuilt decades befo
It's around 445 BCE. The Jewish people have been back from exile for almost a century, but Jerusalem is still broken. The Persians control the region. The Temple was rebuilt years ago, but the city walls? Still rubble. T
It's 445 BCE. The Persian Empire controls everything from India to Egypt. King Artaxerxes I is on the throne. About ninety years earlier, the first Jewish exiles returned from Babylon to Jerusalem. The Persians had a dif
We're in Jerusalem. Ezra has just arrived—according to traditional scholarly dating around 458 BCE, though some scholars date it to 398 BCE under Artaxerxes II instead of Artaxerxes I. Either way, it's been decades since
It’s the fifth century BCE—most likely 458 BC—and the Persian Empire stretches from the borders of India all the way west to the shores of the Aegean Sea. Jerusalem, once the capital of the kingdom of Judah, had been des
It's around 520 BCE. We're in Jerusalem—or what's left of it. The city has been in ruins for about 70 years. Back in 586 BCE, the Babylonians destroyed everything, including Solomon's temple, and took most of the Jewish
It's 538 BCE. After seventy years in Babylon, thousands of Jewish families have just finished an 800-mile journey back to Jerusalem. The city their grandparents left is now rubble. The temple that was the center of Jewis
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Holy Lit: The Bible is hosted by Allen. The show is categorised under religion (spirituality) and has published 191 episodes.
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