[Bible] Episode 335: Phillip Lasater - The Self & Personal Agency in the Hebrew Bible
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[Bible] Episode 335: Phillip Lasater - The Self & Personal Agency in the Hebrew Bible

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 24, 202647 min
  • Interview
  • Religion

In this week’s episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete and Jared talk with Phillip Lasater about how ancient Israelite and Jewish writers understood the self, personal agency, emotion, and human flourishing in ways that can be very different from modern assumptions. They explore how concepts like fear, the heart, and individuality function in the Hebrew Bible, how texts such as Ruth and Genesis 22 invite readers to engage the interior lives of biblical characters, and how ancient Jewish traditions understood human beings as having the capacity for godlikeness and ethical transformation. Together, they invite listeners to recognize th...

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You're listening to the Bible for Normal People, the only God-ordained podcast on the internet. I'm Pete Enns. Jared-Bias On today's episode, we're talking about the self and personal agency in the Hebrew Bible with Philip Glasser.

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Yeah, Philip is a scholar of Hebrew Bible and ancient Judaism at Worcester College, Oxford. All right, let's dive in. This idea about the capacity for God-likeness is, I think, a thread that goes through a lot of these

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and that's captured what these ancient writers were getting at in their reflections on the self. To be a human self is to be the sort of creature that has the capacity to become God-like and that ought to become divinized in a way. Bill, welcome to our podcast. It's a pleasure to have you.

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