Episode 6: The Ancient Community Mindset: Why Bible People Confuse Us

Ever wonder why, when Joseph came up with the idea of storing extra grain, Pharaoh didn’t just say, “Yeah, no duh, you idiot. Go back to your cell.”?

Understanding the ancient dyadic mindset was a game changer for me when it all kinda clicked about four years ago. So many crazy, awful things that people did in the Bible–things that make zero sense to modern scientifically influenced individualists–suddenly became clear, even when I totally disagreed with them. This is a fun sort of thing to explore, and very challenging–especially for those who think that women are/were oppressed by the Bible. Our perspective is 180 degrees off and we tend to make some invalid judgments.

No transcript for this one, if you want to learn about this subject I recommend my book Context for Adults: Sexuality, Social Identity and Kinship Relations in the Bible, available at amazon.com