Episode 9: The Bull, the Goat, and the Donkey (feat. Seth Sanders)

This time we pick back up on the history of the emergence of Israel and the Hebrew language before diving deep into the complicated lore that connects Jeroboam I, Jeroboam II, Moses, Aaron, and Jacob/Israel. Along the way we look at early Hebrew and West Semitic alphabetic inscriptions with the brilliant Seth Sanders here to guide us. Check out Seth's blog here:

https://sethlsanders.wordpress.com/

Bibliography:

Christian Frevel - ‘History of Ancient Israel’; 

Mario Liverani - ‘Israel’s History and the History of Israel’; 

Shinan & Zakovitch - ‘From Gods to God’; 

Finkelstein & Silberman - ‘The Bible Unearthed’; 

Theodore J. Lewis - ‘The Origin and Character of God’;

Van der Toorn et al - ‘Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible’;

Esther Hamori - ‘God’s Monsters’;

David Wright - ‘Inventing God’s Law’;

Robert Alter - ‘The Hebrew Bible: A Translation With Commentary’; 

Youn Ho Chung - ‘The Sin of the Calf’; 

Coogan & Metzger - ‘The Oxford Companion to the Bible’;

John E. Anderson - ‘Jacob and the Divine Trickster’;

Seth L. Sanders - ‘The Invention of Hebrew’;

Other Bible quotations taken from the NRSVue and the JPS Jewish Study Bible with adaptations

https://www.thetorah.com/article/the-depiction-of-jeroboam-and-hadad-as-moses-like-saviors

https://www.abibledarkly.com/2021/06/golden-calves-israels-origins.html