Matriarch of the Ark: Wife of Noah

A shadowy figure, she is never mentioned by name, though she is spoken of five times throughout the Flood account and specifically included in Godโ€™s instructions to Noah.

Women from the Dawn of Time

Each podcast is designed to offer background scholarship on the topic, including setting, culture, original language, and archaeology, as well as a theological study.ย 

Isaiah 13: From Nimrod to Babylon

the next eleven chapters, starting here in chapter thirteen, are going to be about Godโ€™s judgement on other nations.

Revelation 4: A Throne in Heaven

Once John was finished taking down the seven lettersโ€”after these thingsโ€”the scene changes dramatically. John looks up as a portal opens in the sky, and the sound of a trumpet-like voice invites him to come up into heaven.

Wife of Noah

To date, anthropologists have collected between 250 to 300 such flood stories from various cultures.

Hebrews: Definition of Faith

Have you ever felt a small curl of melancholy, or maybe a tendril of fear, or a root of bitterness, or a little flame of anger, asking โ€œWhy me?โ€ What does it mean to persevere, to be patient in affliction, to have joy and contentment in every circumstance?

2 Peter 2: Righteous? Really?

It complicates things, does it not? When scripture specifically describes Lot and Noah as righteous, then carefully records their drunkenness and sexual deviance.

2 Peter 2: Sodom and Gomorrah

Now, Peter would present his second and third examples, Godโ€™s cleansing the whole earth of abject wickedness, yet rescuing the tiny remnant of righteous ones.

Table of Nations: Japheth and Shem

Last week, I covered the migration of Ham's descendents across the Middle East and through to the continents of Africa to the west and south. This week I'll follow Japheth into Eurasia, over the top of the world and across to the other side of the globe, the Americas. Shem will settle largely in the Levant.

Table of Nations: the Sons of Ham

Genesis chapter 10 acts as both an expansion and illustration of what Noah was prophesying