4:45 – The Overnightscape Central is returning as a monthly show in January 2024. Press Play for full details. The January topics will be “Fast Food, the Occult, and Other Bad Ideas.” Talk about one, two or all three topics and get your mp3 files to DaveKY at mail.com by hook or by crook. Deadline is 5pm Central Time (natch) on January 10, 2024, but much earlier submissions are encouraged and appreciated.
Show art: “The Noordermarkt by Night” (1840) by Petrus van Schendel (1806-1870) depicting “night people” typical of the Overnightscape Underground.
29:45 – If there is only one God, why are we commanded not to serve any others? If God knows everything already, what new information can tests of faith give him? If he is all-powerful, why doesn’t he just destroy the competition and be done with it? And if he is totally benevolent, why does he destroy so many people? Dave in Kentucky poses the questions, but you’ll have to provide your own answers.
Show art: “Baalites” (1896-1902) by James Tissot (1836-1902), Public Domain.
Theme music: Unknown hymn used as the theme music for Father Coughlin’s radio show in the 1930s, Public Domain, performed by Dave in Kentucky (2021), Public Domain Dedication.
49:51 – Holed up in his bunker, Dave reports a tragic casualty list. Be forewarned: this is a depressing episode that you might just be better off skipping.
Show art: Mama & Her Babies, with Angels (2023) by Dave in Kentucky.
30:50 – Were the giants called “Anakim” in Hebrew members of the giant race called “Anunnaki” in Sumerian? Was the Ark of the Covenant the same as the Ark of the Testimony, or were they two quite different boxes, with two quite different functions? What does Deuteronomy 10 mean by a “heaven of the heavens,” a “god of the gods,” and a “lord of the lords”? Dave in Kentucky will ‘splain it to you, loosely.
Show art: An apparently modern work depicting the Ark of the Covenant going before the Israelites into battle, destroying their enemies “as a consuming fire.” Title, artist and dates unknown. (Sources failed to attribute.)
Theme music: Unknown hymn used as the theme music for Father Coughlin’s radio show in the 1930s, Public Domain, performed by Dave in Kentucky (2021), Public Domain Dedication.
30:35 – Did Yahweh have a girlfriend who also fooled around with Baal and perhaps other gods? Is this one reason the Bible insists that he is a jealous god? And what does it have to do with cutting down trees or knocking down totem poles? Dave in Kentucky has the answers. (The purported answers, anyway.)
Show art: Clay figurine of the goddess Asherah (circa 13th century B.C.) by an unknown artist, Public Domain. Photo by David Harris of the Israel Museum of Jerusalem.
Theme music: Unknown hymn used as the theme music for Father Coughlin’s radio show in the 1930s, Public Domain, performed by Dave in Kentucky (2021), Public Domain Dedication.
30:14 – The Great Flood did not rid the world of giants, any more than it rid the world of normal-sized humans. After the Nephilim came the Anakim, the Emim, the Horim, the Zamzummim, the Avim, and God knows how many other plus-sized races or tribes. King Og of Bashan, with his thirteen-and-a-half-foot bed, was thought by Moses to have been the last of the giants, but we know that Goliath came along later. The Bible provides the information; Dave in Kentucky provides the commentary.
Show art: Ancient Sumerian carving depicting normal-sized humans in the presence of an Anunnaki giant, Public Domain.
Theme music: Unknown hymn used as the theme music for Father Coughlin’s radio show in the 1930s, Public Domain, performed by Dave in Kentucky (2021), Public Domain Dedication.
30:14 – Why did the Levites live in the inner city while their sheep lived in the suburbs? Why were Hebrew heiresses forbidden to marry men from other tribes? When were the first sanctuary cities established, and which homicide suspects were provided safe haven in them? The answers to these and other questions are here in this podcast.
Show art: “The Daughters of Zelophehad” (circa 1908) by the illustrator(s) of The Bible and Its Story Taught by One Thousand Picture Lessons (1908) edited by Charles F. Horne and Julius A. Bewer, Public Domain.
Theme music: Unknown hymn used as the theme music for Father Coughlin’s radio show in the 1930s, Public Domain, performed by Dave in Kentucky (2021), Public Domain Dedication.
35:59 – In the spirit of the Halloween season, Dave regales us with some ghostly goings-on involving his former familiars, as well as more of the usual adventures while driving Uber.
35:07 – More recent driving adventures, an extended digression about the show “Monk” and its place in the Great Detective subgenre, and a brief review of Kenneth Branagh’s “A Haunting in Venice”. Plus: speed bumps vs. speed humps.
Show art: German propaganda poster (1942), artist unknown, Public Domain.
Theme music: Clip(s) from “Also Sprach Zarathustra” (1896) by Richard Strauss (1864-1949), Public Domain, performance Fair Use.
28:12 – After helping the Israelites conquer the Midianites, the Yahwelians received tribute which included thirty-two Midianite virgins, without blemish. Why? Strange. Hey, why do you think they call it booty? And it’s not like they hadn’t mated with earth women before, notably in Genesis 6. Also: cultural destruction and ethnic cleansing of the Canaanite peoples, the laying out of the borders of Israel, and a recap of the main events of the Exodus.
Show art: “Moses Ordering the Slaughter of the Midianites” (circa 1650) by Claes Corneliszoon Moeyaert (1592–1655), Public Domain.
Theme music: Unknown hymn used as the theme music for Father Coughlin’s radio show in the 1930s, Public Domain, performed by Dave in Kentucky (2021), Public Domain Dedication.
