AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
The Household Idea of the Ancient World
The biblical theology is not mom and dad and three kids. Not Old Testament, not New Testament. That's not what they mean by family. This is where we have to start thinking much broader because first of all, in that world, and life view, intergenerational, multi-generational. So the parents, the grandparents are very much still around in the ancient world. They are usually in your home. Yes. And you have actually a sense of being part of a way longer tradition. It's why genealogies are in the Bible. Can you imagine if I asked you what's your genealogy? Could you do Matthew 1? Could you go back 28 generations of-