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Each week, Fr. Marc Boulos discusses the content of the Bible as literature. On Tuesdays, Fr. Paul Tarazi presents an in-depth analysis of the biblical text in the original languages.
The Ephesus School hosts The Bible as Literature, a education show with 930 episodes published.
In Episode 584 of the Bible as Literature Podcast, Fr. Marc Boulos explores Luke 9:10 through the Semitic root ס־פ־ר / س־ف־ر (samek-fe-reš / sīn-fāʾ-rāʾ), uncovering a rich biblical ecology of sending, hearing, obeying,
In this episode, Fr. Marc Boulos explores the profound connection between the Qurʾanic account of Adam as khalīfa (خليفة), Paul’s teaching on κοινωνία (koinonia), the biblical function of stewardship, and Luke 9:7–9, whe
In this episode of The Bible as Literature, Fr. Marc Boulos delivers a powerful Mother’s Day homily and biblical reflection on the meaning of Baal, husbandry, empire, and the anti-imperial function of scripture. Beginnin
I call out to Isaiah: اخرج من الكتب القديمة ( ukhruj min al-kutub al-qadīmah ), come out of the old books as they came out. The world needs you now. Mahmoud Darwish said it under the siege of Beirut, in 1982, watching hu
The Greek ὑπομονή ( hypomone ) is a compound: ὑπό ( hypo , under) and μονή ( mone , a remaining, from μένω, meno ). Literally: remaining under. The one who endures is the one who remains standing under the pressure of we
When Luke records Jesus commanding the Twelve to take nothing for the journey, neither staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money, he activates a deliberate stripping that recalls the scriptural logic of exile as exposure. The
Homily: The Prodigal Son, The Lost Sheep, and the Raven Fr. Marc Boulos Sunday, February 8, 2026 In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Today’s Gospel (Luke 15:11-32) forms a diptych with
My mother was born in Bethlehem, Palestine, a land where hospitality is not sentiment, not a virtue to be cultivated, but obedience. It is not taught, debated, or defended. It is enacted. The land itself bears witness to
Human beings move as a flock. What feels like freedom is motion inside a herd. People act the way they do because of pressure, habit, fear, desire, reward, or past experience. When we make decisions, we are responding to
Jairus appears as an administrator. He was named, titled, and located inside a functioning system. He knew how things worked, when to ask, when to stop, when a situation was resolved. When he knelt before Jesus, it was a
Most assume that the difference between Greek literature and the Semitic Scrolls, written in Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, and Qurʾanic Arabic, lies in narrative. It does not. Narrative is the veil, a carrier wave for what r
Human beings have always prided themselves on the advantage gained from possessing knowledge that others lack. We boast of being smarter, more informed, more enlightened—as if we were the elite guardians of some secret i
The thorns in Luke press and threaten. They are the self-referential swarm posing as a flock: the so-called “community” that gathers to its own voice, circling death, mistaking its stench for sweetness, even as it strang
The functional path of oneness is not an abstract unity but a lived encounter of utter dependence. Western thought, enslaved by the grammar of the Anglo-Saxons, treats the human as an individual: a self-contained atom, a
The obsession of Western spirituality with forgiveness—therapeutic forgiveness—is an obsession with the self. With control. With the usurpation of God’s throne by human power. It domesticates God, it drags wisdom into ab
Every dynasty insists on its permanence. Every people clings to the hollow echo of its own voice. Every generation invents its own despair and dares to call it light. Yet Scripture unmasks the fragility of these human bu
All of Scripture comes to this: hope and trust. Not in the work of our hands, but in the righteousness of God. He alone vindicates the poor, he alone tends the needy. He is the Good Shepherd, the breath in the night, the
The function ש־ו־ב ( shin–waw–bet ) is not the sigh of remorse in a cloistered heart, but the pivot of a sword’s edge; the turn God commands into the place where his name has been denied. Abraham returns from the valley
In Scripture, to “find” is never mere discovery. It is encounter— a turning of the text where mercy meets rebellion, where favor walks hand-in-hand with wrath. In Gerasa, the people find the healed man—clothed, sane, sil
Examining the history of nomadic pastoralism across Asia—from the Caucasus and Central Asian steppes to ancient Mesopotamia—reveals a consistent pattern: settled elites have repeatedly waged war against pastoral peoples.
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