5.102: How Did the 12 Tribes Enter the Promised Land?

Co-hosts Katie & Kathryn speak with Paul R. Hinlicky, asking, "How Did the 12 Tribes Enter the Promised Land?"

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Welcome, to season five of Enter the Bible, a podcast in which we share “Everything You Wanted to Know about the Bible…but were afraid to ask.”

In episode 3 of season 5, Lutheran theologian and author, guest Paul R. Hinlicky joins hosts Katie Langston and Kathryn Schifferdecker. He has served congregations in New York, New Jersey, and Virginia and is an eagerly anticipated speaker at church events and academic conferences alike.

Today our theologians will be answering the question, “How Did the 12 Tribes Enter the Promised Land?”

Show notes

Biblical books and passages mentioned

  • Exodus 15:20-22
  • Joshua
  • Ezra
  • Romans
  • Ephesians

Topics, themes and figures mention

  • Moses, wilderness, and the promised land
  • Origen of Alexandria: early Christian scholar, commentator, and theologian
  • Gnostic sects and Gnosticism
  • 587 BCE: Siege of Jerusalem
  • 539 BC: Fall of Babylon
  • Theodicy
  • Sea of Reeds: Yam Suph
  • Miriam’s Victory Song
  • Herem Law
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • The Second Joshua

Works Mentioned

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Today's Episode Hosted By

Kathryn Schifferdecker
Katie Langston

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Paul Hinlicky

Paul Hinlicky

Paul R. Hinlicky is a Lutheran theologian and prolific author of about a dozen books. He has served congregations in New York, New Jersey, and Virginia and is a eagerly anticipated speaker at church events and academic conferences alike. In his spare time he farms on a piece of once exhausted, now renewing mountain soil in southwestern Virginia.

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Kathryn M. Schifferdecker

Kathryn M. Schifferdecker

Kathryn M Schifferdecker came to Luther Seminary as an assistant professor of Old Testament in 2006. Ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 2001, Schifferdecker was associate pastor for five years at Trinity Lutheran Church, Arkdale, Wisc., before coming to Luther. Schifferdecker is a frequent contributor to workingpreacher.org, Word & World and the author of Out of the Whirlwind: Creation Theology in the Book of Job (Harvard University Press, 2008). She is currently writing a commentary on the book of Esther.

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Katie Langston

Katie Langston

Katie Langston is a doubter by nature and a believer by grace. She grew up Mormon in a small Utah town and still isn't sure she fits in anywhere sophisticated enough to have a Target. She's the author of Sealed: An Unexpected Journey into the Heart of Grace, an acclaimed spiritual memoir about her conversion to orthodox Christianity. Katie works as the director of digital strategy for Luther Seminary's innovation team, where she oversees digital projects aimed at cultivating vibrant Christian spirituality in a post-modern, post-Christian cultural context.

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