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The BEMA Podcast

The BEMA Podcast is a walk-through of the context of the Bible and the Text itself, as well as surrounding history. We deconstruct our common readings of the Bible and attempt to reconstruct them through the lens of historical context. The main body of work is contained in Seasons 1–5, and we encourage you to start with episode 0 (or even -1) and continue in order through episode 204. Beyond that, we explore new topics, revisit old topics, and dive deeper into practical ways of living out the things we have learned together. BEMA Discipleship is a ministry of Impact Campus Ministries.

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374: Isaiah — When Suffering Is the Way Jan 18, 2024

Show notes

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings enter a new season of Isaiah’s prophecy. Times have changed, circumstances are different, but God’s love remains the same.

Discussion Video for BEMA 374

Tikkun Olam — Wikipedia

BEMA 192: Telling a Story

BEMA 64: 3 Isaiah — Servant

BEMA 289: John — Loved to the End

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373: Preston Ulmer — Deconstruct Faith, Discover Jesus Jan 11, 2024

Show notes

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by Preston Ulmer, author of Deconstruct Faith, Discover Jesus, founder and director of the Doubters’ Club, pastor at North Point Church in Springfield, MO, and many pastoral roles before that.

Discussion Video for BEMA 373

Deconstruct Faith, Discover Jesus by Preston Ulmer

The Doubters’ Club (website)

The Doubters’ Club (book) by Preston Ulmer

Encanto (2021 film) — JustWatch

Conversational Intelligence by Judith E. Glaser

Preston Ulmer on Instagram

Additional audio production by Gus Simpson

Special Guest: Preston Ulmer.

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372: Isaiah — History and Redaction Jan 04, 2024

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Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are with Elle Grover Fricks to discuss the historical portion of Isaiah that bridges the two parts of the prophetic work, considering the possibilities for voices and redactions.

Discussion Video for BEMA 372

BEMA 82: The Text — When, Where, Who, and Why

Documentary Hypothesis — Wikipedia

Asking Better Questions of the Bible by Marty Solomon

“The Re-Emergence of Source Criticism: The Neo-Documentary Hypothesis” by Joel S. Baden — Yale Divinity School

BEMA 71: The Prophetic Table

The Documentary Hypothesis and the Composition of the Pentateuch by Umberto Cassuto (PDF)

“You have been weighed, measured, and found wanting” — A Knight’s Tale, YouTube

BEMA 365: Isaiah — Prophet vs. Wizard Priests

Ašipu — Wikipedia

Where God Was Born by Bruce Feiler

If All the Seas Were Ink by Ilana Kurshan

2023 NFL Season — Wikipedia

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371: Isaiah — The Hulk Factor Dec 21, 2023

Show notes

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings consider the reality of God’s anger in the next portion of Isaiah.

Discussion Video for BEMA 371

The Jewish Study Bible: Second Edition

“JPS Bible Translation Enters Digital Era with Sefaria” — The Jewish Publication Society

JPS Tanakh 1917 — BibleHub

New Jewish Publication Society of America Tanakh — Wikipedia

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370: Isaiah — Woes Dec 14, 2023

Show notes

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings look at the next portion of Isaiah to see God’s message aimed directly as His own people.

Discussion Video for BEMA 370

BEMA 176: Revelation — Smyrna and Their Crown

Beth Moore on the Church in History — Twitter

BEMA 136: Each One

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369: Isaiah — The Choice Is Yours Dec 07, 2023

Show notes

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings hear the universal pronouncement of God’s care and judgment in Isaiah, and then see the response of the prophet to what could lie ahead.

Discussion Video for BEMA 369

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368: Elisa Bosley — Spiritual Eldercare Nov 30, 2023

Show notes

Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks are joined by Elisa Bosley, founder of Spiritual Eldercare. Elisa has decades of experience leading worship services and Bible studies, and also working with adults who have dementia. Combining those efforts, she became a chaplain in 2016 and serves at a long-term memory care community in Boulder, Colorado.

Discussion Video for BEMA 368

Spiritual Eldercare

Additional audio production by Gus Simpson

Special Guest: Elisa Bosley.

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367: Isaiah — Burdens Nov 16, 2023

Show notes

Marty Solomon and Brent Billings hear Isaiah communicate the comprehensive and exhaustive nature of how God carries the burdens of all nations, not just the ones that bear His name.

Presentation for Isaiah — Burdens (PDF)

Discussion Video for BEMA 367

NIV Archaeological Study Bible

NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible

The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary by Robert Alter

Cross Vision by Gregory A. Boyd

Crucifixion of the Warrior God by Gregory A. Boyd

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366: Isaiah — Let the Man Cook! Nov 09, 2023

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Marty Solomon and Brent Billings venture further into Isaiah and the days of Ahaz to see God’s invitation to trust the story—and warnings for what might happen if that invitation is not accepted.

Discussion Video for BEMA 366

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365: Isaiah — Prophet vs. Wizard Priests Nov 02, 2023

Show notes

Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Josh Bossé dig a little deeper into the cultural context of Isaiah 6.

Discussion Video for BEMA 365

“Isaiah's Impure Lips and Their Purification in Light of Akkadian Sources” by Victor (Avigdor) Hurowitz — JSTOR

Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria by Lewis Spence

Bārû — Wikipedia

Bāru (Mesopotamian priest) — Britannica

Bārûtu — Wikipedia

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