OS 142 - The Assyrian Empire Takes Shape
King Tukulti-Ninurta II slows down the pace of conquest for a crucial decade. Conquest still...
39:54
OS 141 - The Unintended Aramization of Assyria
Today we see Adad-Nirari bring huge quantities of Arameans into the Assyrian empire. This will...
42:09
OS 140- The Dawning of a New Assyrian Empire
The king today is Adad-Nirari II, but we have a lot to discuss in the background as well. The...
38:57
OS 139 - An Iron King for an Iron Age
Today we talk about iron working, economics and climate change. Then we watch Assur-Dan II flay...
48:48
OS 138 - Erra and Ishum Threaten Destruction
Most of our modern end of the world literature is set in the future, but the Babylonians, in the...
50:57
Do dreams count as literature, are the dream records we have an accurate depiction of ancient...
37:36
OS 136 - The Fifty Shades of Marduk
The thrilling conclusion of the Enuma Elish is an extended hagiographical top-50 list extolling...
50:00
OS 135 - Middle Class Demons of Mesopotamia
Today we look at Pazuzu, Lamashtu, Samanu, Mushussu, and Lamassu. These are not the great gods of...
50:50
OS 134 - Poverty, Pessimism, and Comedy in Ancient Mesopotamia
Today we read through the Dialogue of Pessimism and the Poor Man of Nippur. Both are comedies...
41:06
Today we overview the historical portions of the bible and look at the fallibility of heroes,...
45:55
Christmas Special! We are reading Isaiah chapter 55, a pretty short one, partly because it is...
27:40
Today we read through the five poems of Jeremiah's Lamentations over the destruction of...
42:39
The Book of Job in a Near Eastern Context
Today we go on a wide ranging survey of the Near Eastern predecessors to the Book of Job,...
43:52
Today we ask the question - Who put the "Deuteronomic" in the Deuteronomistic Histories? Plus...
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Israel has been destroyed by the Assyrians, and Judah very nearly follows. But Jerusalem never...
50:39
OS 131 - Israel's Brutal Judgement
The first Oldest Stories Book is available for purchase: https://a.co/d/64mxp6w Today, we go in...
52:54
Celebrating 1 million downloads and my birthday, the first Oldest Stories book releases on...
02:53
OS 130 - Israel Runs Out of Names
Today we are in a mad gallop through decades and kings, each of them having pretty short, one or...
36:36
OS 129 - Israelite and Phoenician Prosperity
Today we talk about Phoenicia, overviewing where it has been since we left our bronze age Canaan...
45:58
OS 128 - Israel's Moabite Neighbors
One of the most important extra-biblical confirmations of biblical history is the Mesha Stele,...
36:47
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