This year (2022) we (Bryce Dunford and Mike Day) are excited to produce podcasts that get into ways the Old Testament can be applied and understood in our lives. We will read the Old Testament with an ancient as well as modern outlook. We will also work to teach and explain this sacred book looking through the frame of the Book of Mormon, for we believe that the Book of Mormon is a clear lens by which to see the text. If you have any suggestions on material that you would like to see, feel free to comment on this page or send me an email. Thanks!

Messiness of Scripture

How does the Old Testament compare to the Book of Mormon in its witness of Jesus Christ?

The Documentary Hypothesis and Reading the Bible Critically

Old Testament Reading Chart – First Semester

Monolatry in the Old Testament

Prophets have Melchizedek Priesthood

Problems with numbers in the Old Testament

Teaching correct principles

Talents in the pre-earth life

Moses 1; Abraham 3 – Podcast Ep 134

Moses 1; Abraham 3 – Podcast Ep 134 Show Notes

Moses 1 – Identity

Gospel Doctrine notes on Moses 1

The Creation and ancient cosmology

Heavenly Mother

Doublets in the Pentateuch

Genesis 1-2 University of Utah Institute audio file

Seers, Savants, and Evolution: The Uncomfortable Interface – Duane Jeffrey

Mormon Rhetoric and the Theory of Evolution – Kurt Laird

Science and Mormonism: Past, Present, Future – David Bailey

Genesis 1-3 – Liturgy and Cosmogony: The Ritual use of Creation Accounts in the Ancient Near East

Genesis 1-2 – How to create a wonderful life

Genesis 1 – The Anthropic Principle

Genesis 1:28 – Righteous Dominion

Genesis 1-2; Moses 2-3; Abraham 4-5 – Podcast Ep 135

Genesis 1-2; Moses 2-3; Abraham 4-5 – Podcast Ep 135 Show Notes

Genesis 2 – The Message of the Rib

Genesis 1-11 The Liturgy and Layout of Temples – Jeffrey Bradshaw’s article – excellent!

Genesis 3-4; Moses 4-5 – Podcast Ep 136

Genesis 3-4; Moses 4-5 – Podcast Ep 136 Show Notes

Moses 4 and Genesis 3 – The Fall of Adam and Eve

Moses 5 – The Downfall of Cain

Genesis 5; Moses 6 – Podcast Ep 137

Genesis 5; Moses 6 – Podcast Ep 137 Show Notes

Moses 6 – Enoch is in the house

Moses 7 – Podcast Ep 138

Moses 7 – Podcast Ep 138 Show Notes

Moses 7 – Enoch’s city translated and taken to heaven

Moses 7 – Enoch’s goal: Creating Zion

Moses 8 – Noah and the flood

Genesis 6-11; Moses 8 – Podcast Ep 139

Genesis 6-11; Moses 8 – Podcast Ep 139 Show Notes

Genesis 3-9 University of Utah Institute audio file

The Epic of Gilgamesh – Tablet XI

The 120 year age limit – What is going on in Genesis 6:3?

Genesis 6-9 With Sources Revealed – The Composite nature of the Flood Narrative

Noah’s Ark as a Symbol

Genesis 9-11 University of Utah Institute audio file

Genesis 10-11 – The beginning of differences

Genesis 12:10-13:4 The Wife/Sister Motif

Genesis 12.10-13.4 Tona and Tahdif

Genesis 11-12 Abraham Wrecks Terah’s Idols

Genesis 12 – The Hero’s Journey & The Sacrifice of Sarah podcast audio file

The Sacrifice of Sarah – Hugh Nibley

Questions About The Book of Abraham

Genesis 12-17; Abraham 1-2 – Podcast Ep 140

Genesis 12-17; Abraham 1-2 – Podcast Ep 140 Show Notes

Genesis 13-17 University of Utah Institute audio file

Genesis 15 – Why is Abraham cutting up all these animals?

Genesis 18-19 University of Utah Institute audio file

God will provide a lamb

Genesis 18-23 – Podcast Ep 141

Genesis 18-23 – Podcast Ep 141 Show Notes

Genesis 20-23 University of Utah Institute audio file

Genesis 24-27 – Podcast Ep 142

Genesis 24-27 – Podcast Ep 142 Show Notes

Genesis 24-28 University of Utah Institute audio file

Genesis 25-27 – Shedding the tears of Esau

Genesis 28-33 – Podcast Ep 143

Genesis 28-33 – Podcast Ep 143 Show Notes

Genesis 29-31 – Punning Around: Jacob and Laban’s Double Talk

Genesis 29-34 University of Utah Institute audio file

Genesis 29-34 slides

Genesis 31 – Rachel Steals Laban’s Household Gods

Genesis 35-39 University of Utah Institute audio file

Genesis 35-39 slides

Genesis 37 – The betrayal of Joseph

Genesis 37-41 – Podcast Ep 144

Genesis 37-41 – Podcast Ep 144 Show Notes

Genesis 41 – Who was Asenath and what did she represent?

Genesis 37-50 – Fighting the Mighty Green Monster

Genesis 39 – Time to get real

Genesis 40-50 University of Utah Institute audio file

Genesis 43.32 Abomination to the Egyptians

Genesis 42-50 – Podcast Ep 145

Genesis 42-50 – Podcast Ep 145 Show Notes

Joseph as a type of Christ

Genesis 49 – Israel blesses his sons

Exodus 1 – The Birth of Moses and the Sargon Birth Narrative

Exodus 3 – Moses converses with Jehovah

What is your name? Ways to look at Exodus 3

Exodus 1-6 – Podcast Ep 146

Exodus 1-6 – Podcast Ep 146 Show Notes

Exodus 4 and 7 – Whose staff is it anyway? Discrepancies in the text regarding the ownership of the miraculous staff

Exodus 5 – Making bricks without straw

Exodus 6-12 – Why miracles are necessary

The hardening of Pharaoh’s heart

Exodus 12-13 – Redemption of the firstborn

Exodus 7-13 – Podcast Ep 147

Exodus 7-13 – Podcast Ep 147 Show Notes

Miriam as Portrayed in the Hebrew Bible

Exodus 16 – Did God provide quail before or after Sinai? (Comparing Numbers 11 to Exodus 16)

Exodus 17 and Numbers 20 – The Movable Rock, or the Mobile Drinking Fountain

Exodus 14-17 – Podcast Ep 148

Exodus 14-17 – Podcast Ep 148 Show Notes

Exodus 18 – Use your strengths

Exodus 17-20 – Sustaining the Brethren, A Model Example of Thoughtful Discipleship

Exodus 18-20 – Podcast Ep 149

Exodus 18-20 – Podcast Ep 149 Show Notes

Slave Laws in the Old Testament – An analysis of Exodus 21, Deuteronomy 15, and Leviticus 25

Exodus 25-27 – The tabernacle as a type

Exodus 25-31 Why did the Lord want the Tabernacle built?

Exodus 28 – The Priestly Garments

Exodus 28 – Jesus Christ the Great High Priest

An eye for an eye

Exodus 32 – The Golden Calf, Moses, Aaron, and the Northern Priests of Israel

Exodus 32 – Leadership Practices

Exodus 32 – Throw Your Rope Over the Wall

Exodus 24; 31-34 – Podcast Ep 150

Exodus 24; 31-34 – Podcast Ep 150 Show Notes

Exodus 35-40; Leviticus – Podcast Ep 151

Exodus 35-40; Leviticus – Podcast Ep 151 Show Notes

What’s going on with all this purity and cleanliness stuff in the Old Testament?

Leviticus 19:14 – Don’t Curse the Deaf! The Enchanted World of the Ancient Near East

Leviticus 23: Seven Commemorative Feasts

Leviticus 25 – The Jubilee Year

Numbers – Podcast Ep 152

Numbers – Podcast Ep 152 Show Notes

Numbers 5 – Lepers cast out?

Numbers 6 – What is a Nazarite?

Numbers 9 – A cloud by day and a pillar by night

Numbers 11 – Over a Billion Quail!

Numbers 11 – Did God provide quail before or after Sinai? (Comparing Numbers 11 to Exodus 16)

Numbers 16 – Korah’s Rebellion

Numbers 22 – Balaam and the donkey

Numbers 22 – Is Balaam a bad guy or a good guy?

Numbers 25 – The Baal-Peor Incident

The 42 Stations of the Exodus: Numbers 33

Deuteronomy – Podcast Ep 153

Deuteronomy – Podcast Ep 153 Show Notes

Deuteronomy – Cult Centralization & ANE Analogies – Reinhard Kratz

Deuteronomy and the changes to the Divine Council – Monotheism inserted into Israelite religion

Deuteronomy 1.1 – On the other side Jordan, or is it this side of the Jordan?

Deuteronomy 12-26 How did Josiah change the religion of the Jewish nation?

Deuteronomy 7 – Consequences of the marriage decision

Deuteronomy 32:8-9 and the Sons of God

The Amarna Letters

The Merneptah Stele – 1208 B.C.E.

Joshua – Podcast Ep 154

Joshua – Podcast Ep 154 Show Notes

Joshua 6 – The walls of Jericho

Joshua 10 – What is the book of Jasher?

Joshua 21 – The Lord keeps his promises

Judges – Podcast Ep 155

Judges – Podcast Ep 155 Show Notes

Judges – Israel cycles between apostasy and repentance

Judges 11 – Jephthah’s Daughter and Her Sacrifice

Samson – How to lose friends and negatively influence people

Ruth; 1 Samuel 1-3 – Podcast Ep 156

Ruth; 1 Samuel 1-3 – Podcast Ep 156 Show Notes

Ruth – An illustration of heaven working backwards

Why does 1st and 2nd Samuel/Kings read so differently than 1st and 2nd Chronicles?

1 Samuel 1 – How to deal with your adversaries

1 Samuel 3 – Hearing the Voices of the Lord

1 Samuel 3 – Be Ready

1 Samuel 4-31 – Podcast Ep 157

1 Samuel 4-31 – Podcast Ep 157 Show Notes

1 Samuel 4-9 – Keeping sacred things sacred

1 Samuel 9-10 – The nature of God

1 Samuel 10 – The children of Belial

1 Samuel 13 – Wait upon the Lord

The Downfall of Saul

David – His Story is Complicated!

1 Samuel 17 – David and Goliath

2 Samuel; 1 Kings 1-11 – Podcast Ep 158

2 Samuel; 1 Kings 1-11 – Podcast Ep 158 Show Notes

2 Samuel 6 – Steadying the Ark

2 Samuel 11 – Overcoming temptation

2 Samuel 13 – Dealing with abuse

Kings – Chronicles – Charting the kings of Israel and Judah 922-587 BC

1 Kings 11-14 – Fear makes us stupid!

1 Kings 16 – King of the mountain

1 Kings 17-22 – Podcast Ep 159

1 Kings 17-22 – Podcast Ep 159 Show Notes

1 Kings 17 – Elijah and the widow of Zarepath

1 Kings 18 – Blaming others for our problems

2 Kings 1-9 – Podcast Ep 160

2 Kings 1-9 – Podcast Ep 160 Show Notes

2 Kings 17-25 – Podcast Ep 161

2 Kings 17-25 – Podcast Ep 161 Show Notes

2 Kings 24 – The Nehushtan נְחֻשְׁתָּֽן 

What is going on with the Levites?

Ezra; Nehemiah – Podcast Ep 162

Ezra; Nehemiah – Podcast Ep 162 Show Notes

Esther – Podcast Ep 163

Esther – Podcast Ep 163 Show Notes

Esther – A credible witness

Job – Podcast Ep 164

Job – Podcast Ep 164 Show Notes

Job & The Problem of Evil

Suffering – Why did Jesus Suffer, Bleed, and Die?

Psalms 1-46 – Podcast Ep 165

Psalms 1-46 – Podcast Ep 165 Show Notes

Psalms

Psalms – Gospel doctrine lesson 25

Psalms 22.20-21

Psalms 49-86 – Podcast Ep 166

Psalms 49-86 – Podcast Ep 166 Show Notes

Psalm 82 – “Ye are Gods: Psalm 82 & John 10 as witnesses to the Divine Nature of Humankind – Daniel C. Peterson

Psalms 89-150 – Podcast Ep 167

Psalms 89-150 – Podcast Ep 167 Show Notes

Psalm 110, Kingship, Melchizedek, and Jesus Christ

Proverbs; Ecclesiastes – Podcast Ep 168

Proverbs; Ecclesiastes – Podcast Ep 168 Show Notes

Isaiah 1-12 – Podcast Ep 169

Isaiah 1-12 – Podcast Ep 169 Show Notes

The Use of Isaiah in The Book of Mormon

Isaiah 1-6 Video (with slides)

Isaiah 1-6 University of Utah Institute audio file

Isaiah 5 – The parable of the vineyard

Isaiah 7-11 Video – Messianic Prophecies Amidst Political Turmoil

Isaiah 7-11 University of Utah Institute audio file

Isaiah 12-29 Video

Isaiah 13-35 – Podcast Ep 170

Isaiah 13-35 – Podcast Ep 170 Show Notes

Isaiah 12-29 University of Utah Institute audio file

Isaiah 22 – I will place on his shoulder the key to the House of David

Isaiah 29 – A book that is sealed

Isaiah 30-39 – University of Utah Institute audio file

Isaiah 34.14 – Who or what was Lilith?

Isaiah 36-49 – Podcast Ep 171

Isaiah 36-49 – Podcast Ep 171 Show Notes

Isaiah 50-57 – Podcast Ep 172

Isaiah 50-57 – Podcast Ep 172 Show Notes

Isaiah 46-55 – University of Utah Institute audio file

Isaiah 52:7-10 – Beautiful feet

Isaiah 53.9-10 – He shall see his seed

Isaiah 56-66 – University of Utah Institute audio file

Isaiah 56 – The Outcasts of Israel

Isaiah 58-66 – Podcast Ep 173

Isaiah 58-66 – Podcast Ep 173 Show Notes

Isaiah 65-66 A New Heaven and a New Earth

Isaiah – A Book Relevant for Young People

Enough and To Spare

Partnership with the Lord

Jeremiah 1-20 – Podcast Ep 174

Jeremiah 1-20 – Podcast Ep 174 Show Notes

Jeremiah

Jeremiah’s Symbolic Acts

Jeremiah 21-52; Lamentations – Podcast Ep 175

Jeremiah 21-52; Lamentations – Podcast Ep 175 Show Notes

Ezekiel – Podcast Ep 176

Ezekiel – Podcast Ep 176 Show Notes

Ezekiel 1-3 – Ezekiel’s vision

Ezekiel 26-28 – The Conquest of Tyre by Alexander the Great

Ezekiel 37-39 – Dry bones, sticks, and war

Ezekiel 40-48 – Explained by Kent Jackson

Daniel – Podcast Ep 177

Daniel – Podcast Ep 177 Show Notes

Daniel

Hosea; Joel – Podcast Ep 178

Hosea; Joel – Podcast Ep 178 Show Notes

Hosea

Amos; Obadiah – Podcast Ep 179

Amos; Obadiah – Podcast Ep 179 Show Notes

Obadiah

Jonah; Micah – Podcast Ep 180

Jonah; Micah – Podcast Ep 180 Show Notes

Jonah

Jonah As A Type

Jonah – A Message of God’s Love

Micah 3 – An Oracle Against False Prophets

Nahum; Habakkuk; Zephaniah – Podcast Ep 181

Nahum; Habakkuk; Zephaniah – Podcast Ep 181 Show Notes

Habakkuk 3 and Resheph 

Haggai; Zechariah – Podcast Ep 182

Haggai; Zechariah – Podcast Ep 182 Show Notes

Haggai – Put the Lord first

Malachi – Podcast Ep 183

Malachi – Podcast Ep 183 Show Notes

Malachi – My messenger

Malachi 3 – Do you love the Lord as much as you love the grocer?

Malachi 4 – I will send you Elijah

How God Lost His Body

Why a Body Does Us Good

The New Jerusalem

The Book of Mormon as a type

A scriptural search for the lost Ten Tribes and other things we lost

Signs of the Times

Joseph Smith and the Apocrypha

Old Testament 2022 Podcast Episodes

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