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The Wild Olive Podcast brings you game-changing conversations about literature, culture, and the Bible. With co-hosts Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird, Wild Olive serves up idea-feasts: tasty insights about biblical texts and contemporary (or classic!) literature, with generous side-portions of cultural commentary and hearty laughter. One literature professor + one biblical studies professor = uncontrolled, out-of-bounds, untamed conversation: ideal listening for the post-evangelical, the s ...
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Jennifer and Jeanne continue their discussion on Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper". Together, they dig deep into the gender roles of Victorian period, the psychological impact of Stockholm syndrome and the act of putting women on a pedestal. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook…
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Jeanne and Jennifer are back with a discussion on Victorian marriages. Through the lens of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892), they analyze examples of abuse towards Victorian women and it's biblical context. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook…
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Jeanne interviews Wild Olive Audio Engineer, Klara Carrera. Together they analyze sitcom Jane The Virgin, Herman Hesse's 1922 novel "Siddhartha" and The Gospel of John. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram FacebookΑπό τον Jeanne Petrolle, Klara Carrera, Matt Byrne, Nick Stubblefield
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Jeanne goes solo to discuss an interesting biblical marriage between Abigail, the beautiful and clever, to Nabal, a Calebite. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram FacebookΑπό τον Jeanne Petrolle, Matt Byrne, Klara Carerra, Nick Stubblefield
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Jennifer and Jeanne continue to discuss Jennifer's new book "Marriage In The Bible". Together they talk on the mistranslation of "marriage" in the bible and what matrimony means in the modern world. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram FacebookΑπό τον Nick Stubblefield, Klara Carerra, Jeanne Petrolle, Matt Byrne, Jennifer Bird
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This week, Jeanne and Jennifer continue their conversation on Jennifer's new book "Marriage In The Bible". Together they discuss marriage as it appears in Genesis 1.28, the Daniel diet and the culture of eunuchs both past and present. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook…
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Kicking off a new series "Talking Jesus With Gen Z", Jeanne starts with Wild Olive Producer, Matt Byrne. Together they discuss Christ imagery in Lord of the Rings, Matt's centenarian Grandmother and the history of famous musicians. Listen to Matt's Show Here: https://open.spotify.com/show/745JwgfSbILakcdFt1fsNq?si=ea73bd2815e2444c Help support Wild…
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This week, Jennifer and Jeanne speak on Jennifer's new book "Marriage In The Bible". Together they discuss what it means to have a 'Biblical' marriage, modern interpretations on the "head of the woman" and Margaret Atwood's poem "Habitation". Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook…
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Jeanne and Jennifer wrap up this second season of Wild Olive with their conversation on Oscar Wilde, as part of this season's theme of "Queering The Bible". Together they discuss the concept "Man of Sorrows", life as poetry and how Wilde transformed misery into divinity. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook…
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This week, Jennifer and Jeanne begin a conversation on Oscar Wilde's "De Profundis" (1905). Together they discuss Wilde's legacy, how he perceives Christ as an artist and explaining the widely used concept of "penal substitutionary atonement". Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook…
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This week, Jeanne is solo and talking more in depth about Indigenous perceptions on the Apocalypse featuring writings from authors on Deborah A. Miranda's "Bad Indians", Sherman Alexie's "Crow Testament" and Scot McKnight's "Revelation for the Rest of Us". Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook…
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Jeanne and Jennifer continue their discussion on Deborah A. Miranda's "Bad Indians" an award winning memoir which gives readers a first-hand experience in the history and culture of the Californian Indians. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram FacebookΑπό τον Matt Byrne, Jeanne Petrolle, Klara Carerra, Jennifer Bird, Nick Stubblefield
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Jennifer and Jeanne begin an in-depth discussion on Deborah A. Miranda's "Bad Indians", an award winning memoir which gives readers a first-hand experience in the history and culture of the Californian Indians. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram FacebookΑπό τον Jennifer Bird, Jeanne Petrolle, Matt Byrne, Klara Carerra, Nick Stubblefield
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Jeanne and Jennifer break down weaponized faith in Martin Scorsese's crime drama "Killers of the Flower Moon" in this episode of WildER Olive. Also discussed, Linda Hogan's book "Mean Spirit" and a look at how spirituality is used as a tool, for better and worse. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram Facebook…
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Jennifer and Jeanne dissect Emily Dickinson's poem "Some Keep the Sabbath" and Alanis Morrissette's "Citizen of the Planet". Together they discuss for the sacredness of nature, the beauty of isolation and what makes a space "holy". Links: Some Keep The Sabbath - Emily Dickinson Citizen Of The Planet - Alanis Morrissette Help support Wild Olive, Don…
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This week, Jeanne and Jennifer discuss the symbolism of water wells as they appear in Genesis and the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Together they explore concepts of maternity, divine intervention and desire. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram FacebookΑπό τον Nick Stubblefield, Jennifer Bird, Jeanne Petrolle, Klara Carerra, Matt Byrne
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Introducing "Wilder Olive", A more laid back approach to some of Jeanne and Jennifer's favorite current topics as they relate to the Bible, modern literature and culture. This week, Barbie! An in-depth analysis into the social ideas presented within the film, as well as it's many biblical references. READ JEANNE'S ARTICLE HERE: https://www.patheos.…
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S2 Episode 6: Returning To Eden - An Interview with Heather Hamilton
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This week, Jennifer is joined by author Heather Hamilton to discuss her book "Returning To Eden: A Field Guide for the Spiritual Journey". They dive deep into Heather's experience with depression, her own spiritual journey to self-realization, how psychology and mythology helped her cope, and how she found her true self. Help support Wild Olive, Do…
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This week, Jennifer and Jeanne compare Luke Chapter I to Natalie Diaz's poem "Eve Side-Stealer" and discuss ideas of Indigenous faith, women in biblical text and the effects of imposed religion. Works Cited: Diaz, Natalie. "If Eve Side-Stealer & Mary Busted-Chest Ruled the World". Yale Divinity School , 2013: https://reflections.yale.edu/article/fu…
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This week, Jeanne and Jennifer are back and wrapping up their engagement on Kushner's work with a discussion about characters wrestling with angels - Jacob in the Hebrew Bible and Prior & Joseph in Angels in America (1991). Follow us here! Website: https://www.wildolivebibleandculture.org/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildoliv3/ Facebook:ht…
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This week, Jeanne is joined by professor and author, Deborah Holdstein. Together they explore Christian and Jewish concepts of forgiveness and reconciliation present in Tony Kushner's play Angels In America (1991), continuing this season's theme "Queering The Bible". Follow us here! Website: https://www.wildolivebibleandculture.org/ Instagram: http…
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Jennifer and Jeanne continue their in-depth discussion and analysis of angels as portrayed in Tony Kushner's stage play "Angels In America" (1991), an entangled story of various characters struggling with identity, faith and mortality in 1980s New York City during the AIDS crisis. This season, our hosts will be taking on the theme "Queering The Bib…
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Jeanne and Jennifer kick off the new season with an in-depth discussion of Tony Kushner's stage play "Angels In America" (1991), an entangled story of various characters struggling with identity, faith and mortality in 1980s New York City during the AIDS crisis. This season, our hosts will be taking on the theme "Queering The Bible" in which we wil…
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While we prepare the next season of Wild Olive, please enjoy one of our older episodes you may have missed! Hosts Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird talk about their backgrounds and how these backgrounds shape the reading lenses that each brings to biblical texts. Conversation goes on to explore the nature of reading "lenses," and how one's "lenses"…
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While we prepare for Season 2, please enjoy one of our earlier episodes. Wild Olive returns for Season 2 in October, 2023!The Wild Olive Podcast brings listeners game-changing conversation about literature, culture, and the Bible. Literature Professor Jeanne Petrolle and Biblical Studies Professor Jennifer Bird talk about the Protestant Bible from …
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Jeanne and Jennifer continue their conversation about Revelation to John (Book of Revelation) using Sherman Alexie's poem "Crow Testament" as a means of considering what history, trauma, and political persecution have to do with the idea of apocalypse, as well as how imagined worlds hold their influence over our own. Help support Wild Olive, Donate…
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Jeanne and Jennifer talk about Revelation to John (Book of Revelation) as political allegory and means of exploring historical trauma, using Sherman Alexie's poem "Crow Testament" as a means of considering what history. trauma, and political persecution have to do with the idea of apocalypse. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here!Blo…
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-Links to today's material- Shelly Matthews: The Perfect Martyr: The Stoning of Stephen and the Construction of Christian Identity (Oxford University, 2010) The Acts of the Apostles: An Introduction and Study Guide: Taming the Tongues of Fire (T&T Clark, 2017) Pamela Eisenbaum: Paul was not a Christian: The Original Message of a Misunderstood Apost…
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In this episode, Jennifer and Jeanne talk about the conversion stories associated with Saul, who became known as Paul, after he went from being a Jewish Roman citizen who arrested followers of "the Way," to a primary messenger for the Way modeled by Jesus, proclaiming the sonship of Jesus to non-Jewish peoples. Your co-hosts also explore a poem by …
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Jeanne and Jennifer revisit Anne Sexton's poem "Jesus Walking," diving deeper into the poem's rhythms, the process of experiencing poetry, and how literary strategies also get used to illuminate the Jesus of the Gospels. Close reading reveals that the Jesus of each Gospel is highly distinct from the Jesus of the other Gospels, with each Gospel emph…
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This week, Jeanne and Jennifer explore the poem "Jesus Walking" by Anne Sexton, which refers to the "Temptation in the Wilderness" scene from Luke Chapter 4. The poem and the Gospel scene engage with concepts of divinity, humanity, temptation, and the idea of mission. The idea of "temptation" can be thought of as anything that diverts or distracts …
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This week, Jennifer and Jeanne dive deep into "The Annunciation" by Edward Muir. Pairing it with Luke Chapter 1, they discuss conception, purity, motherhood and how other interpretations can affect our understanding of the story.Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here!BlogInstagramFacebook…
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Jeanne and Jennifer explore "Mrs. Lazarus," a poem by the Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy. The poem remixes the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. As they engage the Gospel story alongside Duffy's poem, your hosts discuss the meaning of resurrection as a life-death-life pattern that appears in the Hebrew Bible, the Newer Testament and, met…
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In this episode, Jeanne and Jennifer share a poem from Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry collection Love Poems to God. Rilke's poem invites readers to think about the problem of representation as it pertains to the representation of God. To think about the "problem of representation" is to think about the gap that exists between the reality of God--whate…
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Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird discuss the rampant violence that characterizes so many Bible stories. Using Sherman Alexie's poem "Crow Testament" and American independent film as lenses through which to reconsider the Bible's violence, Jeanne and Jennifer reflect on some of the real-life consequences connected with the location of a collection …
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Jeanne and Jennifer discuss gender, power, and sexuality in Genesis 3 and in "Loving You," a poem by Vievee Francis. Help support Wild Olive, Donate Here! Follow us here! Blog Instagram FacebookΑπό τον Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird
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Jennifer and Jeanne share observations about rhythm, rhyme, parallelism, and imagery in the first three chapters of Genesis. After exploring how the Hebrew poetry in these Genesis chapters work poetically, the conversation goes on to consider the thematic richness of the story, the myriad ways of understanding the woman in Genesis, and two ways of …
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Sometimes, readers of the Bible underestimate the effects of translation on the meanings that arise from particular Bible stories. In this episode, Jeanne and Jennifer discuss the complexities of translation, exploring a number of specific examples in which changes made in the process of translation from Hebrew to English--or Hebrew to Greek to Eng…
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While some understand the term "myth" to mean "something that's not true," that isn't what biblical or literary scholars mean when they use the term. For scholars, "myth" is the literary term for certains kinds of storytelling. Jeanne and Jennifer explore a range of meanings for the term "myth," and discuss how reading the Bible as myth opens up a …
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Hosts Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird talk about their backgrounds and how these backgrounds shape the reading lenses that each brings to biblical texts. Conversation goes on to explore the nature of reading "lenses," and how one's "lenses" shape interpretation of any work of literature, and will certainly shape interpretation of the Bible. Help …
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S1 Episode 1: What is the Wild Olive podcast and how is it different from other Bible podcasts?
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The Wild Olive Podcast brings listeners game-changing conversation about literature, culture, and the Bible. Literature Professor Jeanne Petrolle and Biblical Studies Professor Jennifer Bird talk about the Protestant Bible from a literary perspective, connecting biblical texts with other kinds of texts, and with American culture. In this inaugural …
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Pugs &a Unicorns 🦄
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Pugs &a Unicorns 🦄
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Child's dreams about unicorns • Hi
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Me and Sis first
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Lil : Season 1 Eps .2 ( Panda )
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Unicorn : part 1 • Child's dreams about unicorns • Doggie Danger • Hi 3 Dangerous Dogs • Panda 🐼 panda panda 😍😍😍😍😍lil girl season one episode 2
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Unicorn : part 1 • Child's dreams about unicorns • Doggie Danger • Hi 3 Dangerous Dogs • Doggie Danger 2 • Talking 2 A Guy : Little Girl Season
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Abigail's Favorite Animals🌷🐾
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Trolls
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