The Living Bible Series
Season 1 Episode 42 - Vol. 42: The Book of Esther
The Book of Esther, it relates the story of a Hebrew woman in Persia, born as Hadassah but known as Esther, who becomes queen of Persia and thwarts a genocide of her people.
Season 1
S01:E01 - Vol. 1: Creation
The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth of both Judaism and Christianity.
S01:E02 - Vol. 2: Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman and the ancestors of all humans.
S01:E03 - Vol. 3: Cain and Abel
The motive for Cain's crime is typically assumed to be jealousy, but the narrative never states this, nor does it provide a reason for God's rejection of his sacrifice.
S01:E04 - Vol. 4: The Flood
The Genesis flood makes up chapters 6 to 9 in the book of Genesis.
S01:E05 - Vol. 5: The Rainbow and the Tower of Babel
Even though the rainbow is a natural phenomenon today, it must be remembered that it had never rained before this event.
S01:E06 - Vol. 6: Abram
There was a severe famine in the land of Canaan, so that Abram and Lot and their households, traveled south to Egypt.
S01:E07 - Vol. 7: Abram and Lot
Abraham and Lot divide the land and settle in separate lands.
S01:E08 - Vol. 8: Abraham's Covenant
God speaks to Abraham and makes a covenant with him.
S01:E09 - Vol. 9: Sodom and Gomorrah
Three angels bring a message to Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah is destroyed.
S01:E10 - Vol. 10: Sarah the Mother of Nations
God promises that Sarah will give birth to a son. She gives birth to Isaac.
S01:E11 - Vol. 11: Isaac Father of Jacob and Esau
Isaac married Rebekah. She gave birth to two sons, Esau and Jacob.
S01:E12 - Vol. 12: Jacob and Esau Part 1
Jacob decieved his father by pretending to be Esau and thereby taking his birthright.
S01:E13 - Vol. 13: Jacob and Esau Part 2
Jacob fell in love with Rachel. He was deceived into taking her sister Leah as his wife. Rachel was barren but Leah gave birth to four sons.
S01:E14 - Vol. 14: Trouble in the Land of Israel
Shechem is killed by Jacob and Simeon for defiling their sister.
S01:E15 - Vol. 15: The Life of Joseph (Pt. 1)
Joseph interprets a dream for Pharaoh and is then put in charge of the whole of Egypt.
S01:E16 - Vol. 16: The Life of Joseph (Pt. 2)
Joseph is reunited with his father and brothers.
S01:E17 - Vol. 17: Moses (Pt. 1)
Moses is found in a basket in a river by Pharao's daughter.
S01:E18 - Vol. 18: Moses (Pt. 2)
God comands Moses to bring his chosen people out of Egypt into the Promised Land.
S01:E19 - Vol. 19: Moses (Pt. 3)
From Egypt, Moses led the Israelites to biblical Mount Sinai, where he was given the Ten Commandments from God, written on stone tablets.
S01:E20 - Vol. 20: Moses (Pt. 4) & Nadab and Abihu
Some of the Isaraelites make a golden calf to worship instead of God. The tabernacle is built.
S01:E21 - Vol. 21: Miriam and Aaron, the Ten Spies and Korah, Dathan, Abira
Moses sends men who discover that Canaan is a good land. People loose trust and God says that they will never see the Promised Land.
S01:E22 - Vol. 22: Moses' Sin at the Waters of Meribah, Fiery Serpents, Balaam
The Israelites arrive in the desert of Zin. There was no water for them and the people questioned why Moses had led them out of Egypt.
S01:E23 - Vol. 23: The Duty and Blessings for Obedience, Death of Moses, Rahab Hiding the Spies
The death of Moses was at God's command: So Moses died according to the word of the Lord.
S01:E24 - Vol. 24: Taking of Jericho, Achan
The march around the city for seven days, the shouts and blowing of the ram's horn trumpets, the crumbling of Jericho's walls all are dramatic and unforgettable.
S01:E25 - Vol. 25: Sun and Moon Stand Still, Cities of Refuge, Joshua's Final Charge to Israel
So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar.
S01:E26 - Vol. 26: Deborah, Barak, and Jael
The Israelites had been under the control of the Canaanite king Jabin and the commander of his army, Sisera.
S01:E27 - Vol. 27: Gideon's Army
Gideon was a military leader, judge and prophet whose calling and victory over the Midianites is recounted in the chapters 6 to 8 of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible.
S01:E28 - Vol. 28: Parable of the Trees, Shibboleth and Sibboleth, Samson
The good fruits are symbols of good works. The olive is the type of a person who loves the Lord and does good works full of the oil of love.
S01:E29 - Vol. 29: Ruth
The book tells of Ruth's accepting the God of the Israelites as her God and the Israelite people as her own.
S01:E30 - Vol. 30: The Child Samuel, Eli and His Sons
Samuel's mother was Hannah and his father was Elkanah. Elkanah lived at Ramathaim in the district of Zuph.
S01:E31 - Vol. 31: The Ark Among the Phillistines, Israel Asking for a King, Saul's Disobedience
The Philistine captivity of the Ark was an episode described in the biblical history of the Israelites.
S01:E32 - Vol. 32: David Chosen King, David and Goliath (David Kills Lion), David and Jonathan
David, sent by his father to bring provisions to his brothers serving in Saul's army, declares that he can defeat Goliath.
S01:E33 - Vol. 33: Saul and the Witch of Endor, David Annointed King, Uzzah's Presumption
With the death of Saul's son, the elders of Israel come to Hebron and David is anointed king over all of Israel.
S01:E34 - Vol. 34: David's Great Sin
David calls her husband, Uriah the Hittite, back from the battle to rest, hoping that he will go home to his wife and the child will be presumed to be his.
S01:E35 - Vol. 35: The Story of Absalom
Absalom, David's third son, by Maacah, was born in Hebron. He moved at an early age along with the transfer of the capital to Jerusalem.
S01:E36 - Vol. 36: Solomon Annointed King, Solomon Asks for Wisdom, Solomon's Wisdom Displayed, Dedication of the Temple
The Bible credits him as the builder of the First Temple in Jerusalem, beginning in the fourth year of his reign, using the vast wealth he had accumulated.
S01:E37 - Vol. 37: God's Second Appearance to Solomon, Queen of Sheba, Solomon and His Idolatrous Wives, the Disobedient Prophet
Solomon was a king who sinned. His sins included idolatry, marrying foreign women and, ultimately, turning away from Yahweh.
S01:E38 - Vol. 38: Elijah, Jezebel Procures for Ahab Naboth's Vineyard
Elijah warns Ahab that there will be years of catastrophic drought so severe that not even dew will form.
S01:E39 - Vol. 39: The Death of Ahab, Elijah Translated, Elisha (Pt. 1)
War broke out east of the Jordan River, and Ahab with Jehoshaphat of Judah went to recover Ramoth-Gilead from the Arameans.
S01:E40 - Vol. 40: Elisha (Pt. 2), Naaman Cured of the Leprosy, Fifteen Years Added to Hezekiah's Life
Before Elijah was taken up into the whirlwind, Elisha asked to "inherit a double-portion" of Elijah's spirit.
S01:E41 - Vol. 41: The Rebuilding of Jerusalem
Nehemiah is the central figure of the Book of Nehemiah, which describes his work in rebuilding Jerusalem
S01:E42 - Vol. 42: The Book of Esther
The Book of Esther, it relates the story of a Hebrew woman in Persia, born as Hadassah but known as Esther, who becomes queen of Persia and thwarts a genocide of her people.
S01:E43 - Vol. 43: Job and His Afflictions, God Speaks to Job, God Blesses Job
Addressing the problem of theodicy – the vindication of the justice of God in the light of humanity's suffering.
S01:E44 - Vol. 44: The Sluggard and Field of the Slothful, the Industrious Woman, the Poor Wise Man, the New Earth, the Fall of Satan, How Jeremiah and His Writings Were Treated, EzekielÕs Vision of Dry Bones
The people of Judah think that performing the sacrifices is sufficient to fulfill their part of the Covenant, and that God will protect them.
S01:E45 - Vol. 45: The Book of Daniel
The Book of Daniel is a biblical apocalypse, combining a prophecy of history with an eschatology.
S01:E46 - Vol. 46: The Book of Jonah
The Book of Jonah tells of a Hebrew prophet named Jonah son of Amittai who is sent by God to prophesy the destruction of Nineveh but tries to escape the divine mission.
S01:E47 - Vol. 47: Birth of John the Baptist, the Birth of Jesus, Jesus and the Doctors in the Temple, the Baptism of Jesus
In Christian theology the nativity marks the birth of Jesus in fulfillment of the divine will of God, to save the world from sin.
S01:E48 - Vol. 48: The Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness, Sermon on the Mount, Nicodemus's Visit to Christ, Christ Stilling the Tempest
The Gospels include eight pre-resurrection accounts concerning Jesus' power over nature.
S01:E49 - Vol. 49: Jesus Christ Feeding Five Thousand, Transfiguration of Jesus Christ, Christ Walking on the Sea, Jesus Christ's Entry Into Jerusalem, Christ Cleansing the Temple, the Resurrection of Lazarus
In the accounts of the four canonical Gospels, Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem takes place in the days before the Last Supper, marking the beginning of his Passion.
S01:E50 - Vol. 50: The Last Supper
The Last Supper is the final meal that, in the Gospel accounts, Jesus shared with his Apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion.
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