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And we're back, with thanks to my friend Jessica for being the podcast's first live-in-person co-host! This week we go to Job, Malachi, and Revelation to talk about biblical literature, history, mythical creatures, and the end of the world.

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All of the texts are quite challenging this week, with malign mystical creatures filling the Job and Revelation passages. How do we read those passages, or even the books as a whole? And in Malachi, we meet the prophet who seems to want the priesthood to take on the duty of prophecy.

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References

Fee, Gordon D. (2011). Revelation, A New Covenant Commentary. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books.
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Hill, Andrew E. (2008). Malachi, in Cornerstone Biblical Commentary: Minor Prophets - Hosea-Malachi. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House.
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Sweeney, Marvin A. (2000). The Twelve Prophets: Volume 2, Berit Olam: Studies in Hebrew Narrative & Poetry. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press.
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Trafton, Joseph L. (2005). Reading Revelation: A Literary and Theological Commentary (Revised Edition), Reading The New Testament series. Macon, GA: Smyth & Helwys Publishing Inc.
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Wright, Tom (2011). Revelation For Everyone. London: SPCK.
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Links

b. Bava Batra 74b, in an online interlinear edition of the Talmud

Leviathan and Behemoth, in the online edition of the Jewish Encyclopedia (1906)

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REF, Job 40, Job 41, Job 9, Malachi 2, Malachi 3, Revelation 20, Ecclesiastes 6, Psalm 90, 2 Peter 3, Revelation 5, Revelation 7, Revelation 14, Revelation 12, BO12PROPH, CSTONECM28HO, NEWCOVCOMM87REV, EVRY87REV, READ87REV