Wild Olive

By: Jeanne Petrolle and Jennifer Bird
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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 spiritual-but-not-religious, the Bible-curious secularist, the free-thinking religionist, and the literary-but-not-stodgy! New episodes every other Friday!
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  • S4 Episode 1: Dreams with Gen Z

    S4 Episode 1: Dreams with Gen Z
    Mar 14 2025

    This week, Jeanne is joined by her Wild Olive colleagues (Matt, Klara & Luke) to discuss Levertov's poem "The Jacob's Ladder" and kick off this season's theme of "Dreams". Together they analyze dreams as they appear in the Hebrew Bible, specifically Genesis and Jacob's Dream at Bethel.

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    36 mins
  • S3 Episode 19: The Sauciness of "Song of Songs"

    S3 Episode 19: The Sauciness of "Song of Songs"
    Feb 28 2025

    This week, Jennifer and Jeanne entertain ideas found in chapter nine of Jennifer's book "Marriage and The Bible" through analyzation of "Song of Songs" as love poetry, and a saucy one at that!

    DISCLAIMER: Technical difficulties on Jeanne's mic, apologies for sound quality!

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    41 mins
  • S3 Episode 18: Four Scandalous Women (Not Including Us)

    S3 Episode 18: Four Scandalous Women (Not Including Us)
    Feb 14 2025

    Jeanne and Jennifer return! With them, they bring a new discussion on the four women who appear in the genealogy for Jesus; Tamar, Rahab, Ruth and Bathsheba. Together, their stories give an insight into the biblical portrayal of femininity, motherhood and marriage.

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    38 mins

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