The Dragon Slayer in the Psalms
While the chaos dragon is not God’s rival — it’s the rival of creation – it is God’s enemy. The Psalms sometimes portray creation as the ordered result of Yahweh’s battle with the dragon, to bring order out of chaos. In this episode, Tim and Jon discuss two psalms that look back to the cosmic battle at the beginning of creation and also look ahead to a day when Yahweh will give his own dragon-slaying power to a human image of God.
The Dragon Slayer in the Psalms
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Episode Chapters
Scripture References
Genesis 111 Samuel 16Psalms 89:1-4Exodus 32Psalms 89:1-2Psalms 89:5-8Psalms 89:9-12Psalms 89:10Psalms 89:11-12Genesis 1Psalms 89:13-14Exodus 15Deuteronomy 26:8Psalms 89:15-18Psalms 89:19-372 Samuel 7Psalms 89:20-21Psalms 89:24-25Psalms 89:29-33Psalms 89:38-422 Kings 25Psalms 89:46-47Psalms 89:48Psalms 89:49-51Psalms 89:52Psalms 41:13Psalms 72:18-19Psalms 106:48Genesis 3Isaiah 27Psalms 74Psalms 89Psalms 74:18-23
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Show Credits
- “Defender (Instrumental)” by TENTS
- All music from Leche Demos by Matthew Halbert-Howen Show produced by Cooper Peltz with Associate Producer Lindsey Ponder, Lead Editor Dan Gummel, and Editors Tyler Bailey and Frank Garza. Mixed by Tyler Bailey. Podcast annotations for the BibleProject app by Hannah Woo. Powered and distributed by Simplecast.