The Torah Teachers’ Round Table (various editions!) is the show where Mark Pitrone, Rob Miller, and Mark Call, each with different backgrounds and understandings, get together for an in-depth discussion of Books in the Bible which often don’t get much focus. In the “Tanakh edition,” they explore some of the histories, from Joshua and Judges through the exiles which follow them.
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Torah Teachers’ Round Table – Tanakh Edition – I Kings 12 into 13
The teachers continue the study of the split between the northern ("Israel") and southern ("Judah") kingdoms during the time of Rehoboam and Jeroboam. Most importantly, the description of how Jeroboam was able to convince people that was looks like idolatry just might...
Torah Teachers’ Round Table – Tanakh Edition – I Kings 12 (concl)
This week the teachers complete the discussion of I Kings chapter 12 and the division of the kingdom during the time of Rehoboam and Jeroboam. "So Israel rebelled against the house of David until THIS DAY." -- I Kings 12:19 And indeed it still is. The fact that most...
Torah Teachers’ Round Table – Tanakh Edition – I Kings 12
I Kings chapter 12 is the story of how the kingdom of Israel under Kings David and Solomon becomes divided during the time of Rehoboam and Jeroboam. This narrative tells SO much about how both of those houses separated, and then fell into exile. And why they still...
Torah Teachers’ Round Table – Tanakh Edition – I Kings 11 concl
The study of both I Kings chapter 11 and the life of King Solomon conclude this week. The story also introduces Jeroboam the Ephraimite, via the prophetic meeting with Achiyah, and the garment torn into twelve pieces, who will end up being the first king of the...
Torah Teachers’ Round Table – Tanakh Edition – I Kings ch 11
The teachers, Mark Call, Mark Pitrone, and even Rob Miller again, discuss some of the most famous, and controversial, elements of the life of King Solomon. Not just that "he loved many foreign women," and that as a result, his "heart turned away from YHVH," but the...
Torah Teachers’ Round Table – Tanakh Edition – I Kings ch 10 into 11
Good news this week: the long-lost Rob Miller is finally back on-line, so the TTRT is less of a see-saw, and more of a Round (or at least triangular!) Table again. And it's a fitting segment for his return, too, 'cause this part of Scripture contains no shortage of...