With All Your Mind

Hear me ramble about books!   A list of the books I mention in this episode: Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes - Kenneth Bailey Brief Insights on Mastering Bible Study - Michael Heiser        (and Brief Insights on Mastering Bible Doctrine, and Mastering the Bible) The Unseen Realm - Michael Heiser Iran: Open Hearts in a Closed Land - Mark Bradley Jesus: Incarnation of the Word - David Mitchell The Dead Sea Scrolls Today - James VanderKam Textual Criticism of the Bible - Paul Wegner How We Got the Bible - Neil Lightfoot How (Not) to Read the Bible - Dan Kimball

Ok, so we know about English now.  What are the other alphabets and writing systems in the world and how do they work?     One of the resources used for this episode: The Writing Revolution – Amalia Gnanadesikan   Contact me at: withallyourmindpodcast@gmail.com

No Seriously, why with all the nonsense??  More about the written English language, a short history of English and maybe some reasons to hate written English a little bit less.  Maybe.   Some of the resources used for this episode: The Writing Revolution – Amalia Gnanadesikan “List of English words with dual French and Anglo-Saxon variations” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_with_dual_French_and_Anglo-Saxon_variations   Contact me at: withallyourmindpodcast@gmail.com

This is the first of our tiny summer linguistics series, all about written language.   Where did our English alphabet come from?  Wasn't there something about the Phoenicians?  Why do we have so many different kinds of spellings?  Who is responsible for that trash. One of the resources used for this episode: The Writing Revolution – Amalia Gnanadesikan   Contact me at: withallyourmindpodcast@gmail.com

Guess what time it is...   Contact me at: withallyourmindpodcast@gmail.com

Do we know where any of the nations or peoples are from Genesis 10 and Ezekiel 38?  What DO we know about these chapters?     Some resources used for this episode: Zondervan Atlas of the BibleThe Lexham Bible DictionaryThe Baker Encyclopedia of the BibleMichael Heiser – The Unseen Realm   Contact me at: withallyourmindpodcast@gmail.com

We need a prereq episode for next week's episode!  What's the difference between culture and ethnicity?  Is it important to know any of this for studying the Bible?  (Spoiler, yes)   Some resources used for this episode: Stephen Dempster – Dominion and DynastyIs it Kyiv or Kiev?  And why the pronunciation changed – Alina DizikThe Encyclopedia BritannicaRyan Grimm’s way-over-the-top research into how-people-got-bad-info on this stuff   Contact me at: withallyourmindpodcast@gmail.com

Are biblical and modern Hebrew the same?  And how does Yiddish fit into the picture?   A resource used for this episode: Das R, Wexler P, Pirooznia M and Elhaik E (2017) The Origins of Ashkenaz, Ashkenazic Jews, and Yiddish. Front. Genet. 8:87. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2017.00087   Contact me at: withallyourmindpodcast@gmail.com

And how does that make you feel?   Some resources I used for this episode: What Does ‘Abba’ Really Mean? - Logos BlogThe Revisionary Potential of “Abba! Father!” in the Letters of Paul  - Sigve TonstadLexham Theological Dictionary   Contact me at: withallyourmindpodcast@gmail.com

What does gospel mean, and what language is that?  What should evangelism be?   Some resources I used for this episode: The Theological Dictionary of the New TestamentThe Lexham Theological Wordbook   Contact me at: withallyourmindpodcast@gmail.com