Father Stephen De Young

speaker
1,150 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 29 May

Father Stephen De Young’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months
1 · May OctJan 26AprJulnow

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment
So that's the difference, is that that was malleable.
That was changeable.
That was after the exile.
Destruction of the temple?
Yeah, that was after the return from exile.
So if you read Ezra and Nehemiah, they're talking about that.
That's when they banned Israelite men marrying foreign women.
So that's a later thing.
If you look in the Torah and Deuteronomy, there's a whole ritual set up for if you want to marry a woman from one of these other groups where she shaves her head.
And there's this sort of ritual thing where her old life is put away and her new life, now she's an Israelite.
So they had a way of incorporating.
No.
I mean, I don't know how tall, but taller than... Well, yeah.
A lot of times, so when we have visual depictions, they're usually depicted as 15-foot tall.
But that's a sort of deliberate coding.
So...
In the ancient Near East, they believed that their gods had a ritual body that was about 15 feet tall.
Um, and if you look at, uh, we, we've got excavated temples of bail, for example, where they have footprints, they're supposed to be bail's footprints, right?
Uh, as he was walking in to be sort of enthroned in his temple was the idea.
And if you measure the stride, it's based on him being about 15 foot tall.
Showing 621–640 of 1,150 · page 32 of 58 ← Previous Next →