The Yale Bible Study's Podcast

Casting the Pageant: Meeting the Characters of Christmas with the Rev. Dr. Allen Hilton, Session 2, December 7, 2023.

Casting the Pageant: Meeting the Characters of Christmas with the Rev. Dr. Allen Hilton, Session 1, November 30, 2023.

Advent comes wonderfully but relentlessly every year, and the task of preaching and programming and participating freshly in the annual observance, with its sometimes-threadbare traditions, can be a challenge.

This Advent, join Rev. Dr. Allen Hilton as we have some faithful fun with the annual pageant. Every year, kids don the costumes, parents and grandparents and godparents capture video on their cell phones, but what do we actually know about the characters in this drama? In this study, we’ll spend the four Thursday evenings of Advent diving deeper into the stories behind the cast, using descriptions from their ancient social world to build a historically-based character profile for each part.

Biblical Wisdom: An Online Bible Study with Dr. John Collins, Session 6, November 6, 2023.

Biblical Wisdom: An Online Bible Study with Dr. John Collins, Session 5, October 30, 2023.

Biblical Wisdom: An Online Bible Study with Dr. John Collins, Session 4, October 23, 2023.

Biblical Wisdom: An Online Bible Study with Dr. John Collins, Session 3, October 16, 2023.

Biblical Wisdom: An Online Bible Study with Dr. John Collins, Session 2, October 9, 2023.

Biblical Wisdom: An Online Bible Study with Dr. John Collins, Session 1, October 2, 2023.

The Hebrew Bible contains three books that are concerned with "wisdom" as their primary object. These are the books of Proverbs, Job, and Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes). These books are remarkable for the fact that they never mention Israel and are concerned with humanity at large. Two other wisdom books are included in the Catholic canon and the Protestant Apocrypha. These are the books of Ben Sira and the Wisdom of Solomon. These books do concern themselves with Israel, but retain the typical wisdom focus on humanity as such. This series will examine the question "what is wisdom" and consider the distinctive contribution of these books to the biblical tradition.

Joel Baden, Professor of Hebrew Bible talks with Tisa Wenger, Associate Professor of American Religious History and Volker Leppin, Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology about the study of the field at Yale Divinity School and where it's going over the next 25-50 years.

Joel Baden, Professor of Hebrew Bible talks and Jacqueline Vayntrub, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible talk about the study of the field at Yale Divinity School and where it's going over the next 25-50 years.