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The Bible Unfiltered

Approaching Scripture on Its Own Terms

Michael S. Heiser

The Bible Unfiltered: Approaching Scripture on Its Own Terms

Some material adapted with permission from content originally published in Bible Study Magazine.

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For all my faithful Naked Bible Podcast listeners

Contents

Introduction

PART ONE: INTERPRETING THE BIBLE RESPONSIBLY

1. Serious Bible Study Isn’t for Sissies

2. Getting Serious—and Being Honest—about Interpreting the Bible in Context

3. Sincerity and the Supernatural

4. Let the Bible Be What It Is

5. Bad Bible Interpretation Really Can Hurt People

6. Unyielding Literalism: You Reap What You Sow

7. Everything in the Bible Isn’t about Jesus

8. Bible Reading and Bible Memorization Are Not Bible Study

9. Marxism and Biblical Theology Aren’t Synonyms

10. How to (Mis) Interpret Prophecy

PART TWO: OLD TESTAMENT

11. Did Yahweh Father Cain?

12. All Your Genesis Commentaries Are 8-Track Tapes

13. What’s in a Name?

14. Lost at Sea

15. The Slave before “Elohim” in Exodus 21:1–6

16. The Angel of Yahweh in the Old Testament

17. Salvation in Old Testament Israel

18. Where the Wild (Demonic) Things Are

19. The Secret Things Belong to the Lord

20. The Ongoing Battle of Jericho

21. Scripture’s Sacred Trees

22. Boaz—the Lawbreaker?

23. Of Mice and Manhood

24. Samuel’s Ghost and Saul’s Judgment

25. The Politics of Marriage

26. Defeating Ancient Foes

27. Yahweh and His Asherah

28. Angels Aren’t Perfect

29. From Intercessors to Advocate

30. Jurassic Bible?

31. Proverbs: The Wisdom of Egypt?

32. Heap Burning Coals on Their Heads

33. Denial of the Afterlife

34. Solomon’s Bride or Jesus’ Bride?

35. Gog of the Supernatural North

36. Filtering God

37. God of Fire and Storm

38. Zechariah’s Divine Messiah

PART THREE: NEW TESTAMENT

39. Mark’s Use of Isaiah

40. Demons, Swine, and Cosmic Geography

41. Strange and Powerful Signs

42. Is Exorcism for Everyone?

43. The Word Was God

44. The Table of Nations and Acts 2

45. Paul’s Missionary Goals

46. Divine Misdirection

47. Who is the God of This World?

48. New Testament Language of Spiritual Adoption and Sonship

49. The Lord, Who Is the Spirit

50. Paul, Puppies, and People with Tattoos...

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About The Bible Unfiltered: Approaching Scripture on Its Own Terms

The Bible is mysterious, surprising—and often deeply misunderstood.

In The Bible Unfiltered, Dr. Michael Heiser, an expert in the ancient Near East and author of the best-seller The Unseen Realm, explores the most unusual, interesting, and least understood parts of the Bible and offers insights that will inspire, inform, and surprise you on every page.

Dr. Heiser has helped to remind the church of the supernatural worldview of the Bible. In The Bible Unfiltered, you will see his methods and expertise applied to dozens of specific passages and topics. Gleaned from his years working as Faithlife’s scholar-in-residence, this is some of the very best of Dr. Heiser’s work.

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