About the Podcast
A Podcast of Biblical Proportions dives into ancient Hebrew history. Our time machine is the countless texts the ancient Hebrews wrote, including stories, historical accounts, songs, poems, prophecies, laws, rules, and regulations. Most of these texts can be found in the Hebrew Bible, aka the Old Testament or the Tanakh.
This English-speaking podcast brings a new perspective to reading the Hebrew Bible — that of the person who wrote it, immersing ourselves in his world and perspective. We started with Genesis chapter 1, and have been proceeding in the order in which the texts appear in the Bible.
Join Hebrew-speaking writer and editor Gil Kidron on a journey of biblical proportions into the lives of ordinary people living through extraordinary circumstances. The things they wrote ended up, through the quirks of history, laying the groundwork for so much of human culture.
Why the Podcast
When I first had the urge to create A Podcast of Biblical Proportions, I had no idea where this journey would take me. The initial premise of the podcast was a Bible and history podcast that would focus on the people who wrote the stories of the Bible.
I kept imagining what these ancient writers were like, what motivated them, and what drove them, and I found myself motivated and driven — by them.
I am neither a scholar nor a theologian. My skills lie mostly in writing, editing, storytelling, and history, and I speak, think, and dream in a language that is almost identical to that used by biblical authors 2,500 years ago. I use every skill that I have to perform my original research into every text, be it a story, poem, prophecy, or historical account.
We are learning as we move along, and as far as I'm concerned, we are on this journey together.
If you'd like to help me complete this journey, please consider joining the tribe by becoming a member of the podcast on its Patreon Page.
About Gil
I am Gil Kidron, a writer, editor, and podcaster from... many places. I was born in Athens, Greece, I spent the most significant part of my childhood in Brussels, Belgium, and I spent my teenage and adult years in Israel, mostly in Tel Aviv. Recently, I moved to Barcelona, Spain. I also traveled extensively in Europe, Asia and the US.
I am fluent in Hebrew, English, and French, and I'm getting better in Spanish. For a time I was partly fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
I have done a lot of writing, editing, and storytelling in both Hebrew and English. I was a journalist and editor for Walla, the biggest website in Israel, where I wrote about sports, world politics, and culture. For several years I served as a film critic for the weekend edition of the popular newspaper Ma'ariv.
In 2011, I founded an anti-fascist political activist movement that was named one of 2012’s 100 "most influential people" by the prestigious Israeli magazine The Marker. In 2013, my first (and only) novel was published, called Bad Seed (זרע הפורענות). I had an independent popular daddy blog and a vegan blog for the biggest health provider in the country, Clalit. In 2014, I co-created the YouTube channel Got Academy, where we compared high fantasy stories to real history. Starting in 2018, I began collaborating on videos with novelists, scientists, filmmakers, psycho-therapists, philosophers, and more.
In 2019, I launched the podcast Pod Academy, later renamed As Depicted on Film. On it, I collaborate with my friend and Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Rutger Vos and various other interesting people from around the world. We focus on the historical and contemporary inspirations for films and shows and on their perspective.
Also in 2019, I co-produced, edited, and compiled the book The Thrones Effect: How HBO's Game of Thrones Conquered Pop Culture. I recruited for it several writers and wrote one chapter, co-wrote another and edited the rest of them.
I have a B.A. in History and Eastern Asia Studies from the University of Tel Aviv.
I launched A Podcast of Biblical Proportions in 2021 with Omri Harel, who collaborated with me on episodes 1-34. From episode 35 and onwards, the podcast has been exclusively written, edited, and produced by me.
You can email me at podcastofbiblicalproprtions@gmail.com
