The Third Hour Podcast

There's a good chance you know the story of Ruth. After the horror and bloodshed of Judges, this is the one where everybody's courteous and does the right thing. Right? Well, about that. Today on the Third Hour Podcast, we're talking about who wrote Ruth, why they wrote it, and how that should inform what we draw out of it.

Leviticus isn't often considered very exciting. We're determined to fix that! Between the identity and mindset of the book's first author, the difference between cleanliness and sin, and whatever is going on with the scapegoat, there's plenty to learn on this week's episode of the Third Hour Podcast.

Now when Israel was in Egypt land, oppressed so hard they could not stand, so the Lord said, "Go down, Moses, way down Egypt land, tell old Pharaoh to let my people go." You know the rest. But have you considered some of the story's peculiarities? Join the Third Hour Podcast as we discuss hardened hearts, poetic structure, whether God harms the innocent to prove something to the guilty, and the necessity of liberation.

With Abraham's uncertain relationships behind us, the Third Hour Podcast dives into some of the most pronounced contrasts in the entire Book of Genesis: the vibrant Rebecca, the absent Isaac, and their quarreling children Esau and Jacob.

Today we investigate the books of Haggai and Zechariah, which illuminate another perspective on the beginning of the Second Temple Period, and in some cases contrast with the narratives found in Ezra and Nehemiah.