Podcast Interview on Perpetual Fire

I was very happy to have a chance to talk with Claire Mummert, host of the Currents in Religion podcast about my new book: Perpetual Fire: Temple, Ritual, and Biblical Theology. You can listen to the episode here:

Claire is a Ph.D. Candidate at Baylor and she read the book deeply and had some great interview questions for me. We talked through some of the more complicated parts of the story of the ever-burning fire on the altar of sacrifice, why the Levites are commanded to keep it burning, what it represents, and how those foundational ritual symbols from the Temple cult function as theological vocabulary in New Testament eschatology. It’s hard to distill years worth of research down to 45 minutes, but I hope that you enjoy listening to the conversation–and even more, I hope you enjoy reading the book!