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Podcast: Sacrilegious Discourse - Bible Study for Atheists
Episode: Covenants, Chaos, and the Chronicles of Exodus
Description: Moses gets a glow-up, Pharaoh gets the ick, and we get pedantic about timelines. In this one, we blitz from the patriarchs (Abraham → Isaac → Jacob → Joseph) to the start of Exodus—with a detour through Job (aka “God took a dare and your kids paid for it”) and two juicy side texts: Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and the Book of Jubilees. We drag the “430 vs. 400 years in Egypt” math fight, list out the Ten Plagues (gnats that probably weren’t fruit flies, boils, darkness, dead firstborn—fun!), and side-eye how Passover gets reframed in modern practice.Then we crack open...