Data Over Dogma Podcast

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Last week, Aaron's rod budded and everybody agreed he was in charge. This episode, we back up a chapter to see what it took to get there, and let's just say it wasn't a stick contest: Numbers 16 gives us Korah, Dathan, Abiram, a fourth guy who evaporates from the story after one verse, 250 men with censers, and a body count in the thousands. We pull apart the seams where two (maybe three) separate rebellion traditions got stitched together, and work out how the sons of Korah went on to get eleven psalms named after them—even after being swallowed up by the Earth. _______________________________________________ Get your Data Over Dogma merch at our online store: https://data-over-dogma-shop.fourthwall.com/ _______________________________________________ Support Data Over Dogma and get every episode early and ad-free, plus exclusive bonus content — become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/DataOverDogma _______________________________________________ Listen to the podcast on every app: https://pod.link/1681418502 _______________________________________________ Follow us: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/dataoverdogmapod TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@data.over.dogma.pod Threads — https://www.threads.com/@dataoverdogmapod X — https://x.com/data_over_dogma Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/DataOverDogmaPod _______________________________________________ Get Dan McClellan's New York Times bestselling book, The Bible Says So: https://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/bible-says-so-9781250347466/ _______________________________________________ Chapters: 0:00 Opening 0:52 Setting Up Numbers 16 1:38 The Battle of the Levites 2:36 Meet Korah and Company 3:20 Whatever Happened to On? 4:16 250 Men Confront Moses 6:02 Rival Priestly Schools 7:49 The Censer Showdown 9:35 "We Will Not Come" 10:46 Egypt, Milk, and Honey 12:56 Moses Loses His Temper 14:48 Separate Yourselves 17:04 The Ground Opens Up 18:34 Who Actually Died? 19:45 Fire Takes the 250 20:11 Censers Become Altar Plating 21:27 The Numbers 26 Problem 22:23 The Korahite Psalms 26:34 They Rebel Again 27:24 Aaron and the Plague 29:38 14,700 Dead 30:34 Why the Budding Rod? 32:13 Closing _______________________________________________ #DataOverDogma #BibleScholarship #Korah #Numbers16 #HebrewBible