She’s So Scripture Podcast

Who Was Ezra the Scribe? Seek, Observe, Teach

This episode introduces Ezra as a priestly descendant of Aaron and a skilled scribe who came from Babylon to Jerusalem to teach the Torah after the temple was rebuilt. I

The Torah Ends on the Wrong Side of the River

Diane explores Simchat Torah (“the joy of the Torah”), observed with a yearly synagogue cycle that finishes Deuteronomy and immediately restarts Genesis with singing, dan

Zechariah 14: The Apocalypse Ends at Sukkot

Diane explores Zechariah 14 as a startling end-times vision that moves from Jerusalem’s violent siege and exile to God fighting the nations, the Mount of Olives splitting

Peter and the Vision of the Sheet

Acts 10 Isn’t the “Bacon Chapter”: Peter’s Vision, Cornelius, and the Real Point of the Sheet Diane revisits Acts 10 and argues Peter’s vision of the sheet is commonly r

An Eye for an Eye - What It Actually Meant, From Babylon to Yeshua

Diane kicks off a series on difficult biblical passages by reexamining the often-misquoted “an eye for an eye,” arguing it’s commonly treated as “vibes” instead of read i

What the Crowd Was Really Waving - Palm Sunday, the Maccabees, and John 12

Diane traces Palm Sunday back beyond childhood church memories to the first-century Jewish meaning of palm branches under Roman occupation. Drawing from 1–2 Maccabees,

The Bald Prophet and the Bears - What Your Sunday School Never Told You

That infamous “bald prophet and the bears” story is disturbing but the Sunday school version adds details 2 Kings never gives. Diane walks through the Hebrew terms (na’ar

The Sound of Thin Silence

Diane revisits 1 Kings 19 and her long-held teaching on the “still small voice,” arguing the passage isn’t about God speaking quietly so much as what happens to Elijah af

The Angriest Letter in the New Testament - What Your Sunday School Never Told You

Diane introduces the one-chapter letter of Jude as a furious, urgent warning often skipped despite its famous closing doxology. She explains Jude (Judah), brother of Jame

Jephthah’s Vow and the Four Days Israel’s Daughters Wouldn’t Forget

This episode of She’s So Scripture walks through Judges 11 and the story of Jephthah’s vow, focusing on the unnamed daughter who becomes the cost of his reckless promise.

The Mighty Warrior Hiding in a Hole - What Your Sunday School Never Told You Podcast

In this episode: This episode retells Judges 6 by reframing Gideon’s “courage” as fear-driven faithfulness: he threshes wheat inside a wine press to hide from seven year

What Did Jesus Write in the Dirt?

Diane explores the puzzling detail in John 8 where Yeshua, confronted in the temple with a public halakhic trap over the woman caught in adultery, kneels and writes in th

Paul’s Damascus Road: Conversion Story or Prophetic Calling?

Diane reexamines the Damascus Road story, arguing Paul never calls it a “conversion” in Acts, Galatians, or Philippians, but describes it with prophetic calling language

John 7 at Sukkot - The Water Ceremony Behind “Come and Drink”

John 7 at Sukkot: The Water Ceremony Behind “Come and Drink” Yeshua’s famous invitation in John 7—“If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink”—is unpacked in its

The One-Word Detail in the 10 Lepers Story - What Your Sunday School Never Told You

Diane revisits Luke 17’s ten “lepers,” and highlights Luke’s delayed reveal that the thankful man is a Samaritan and focuses on Yeshua’s rare word for him—allogenes (“for

Healing in His Wings: The Woman Who Touched Yeshua’s Tzitzit

Diane retells the unnamed woman’s 12-year bleeding in Mark 5, emphasizing that ritual impurity in Leviticus 15 is not sin and highlighting her isolation, poverty, and ris

Jacob Wrestles at the Jabbok: Why God Named Israel After a Fight | What Your Sunday School Never Told You

In this week’s episode, we’re going back to the Jabbok, and we’re bringing the Hebrew with us. Here’s a taste of what’s inside: Genesis 32 isn’t a cute perseverance sto

The God Who Is: Unpacking Exodus and God's Eternal Verb

God’s Name in Exodus 3: “I Am” or “I Will Be” (Ehyeh) and the Promise of Presence Diane from She’s So Scripture revisits Exodus 3, arguing that when Moses asks God’s nam

He Had No Sin to Confess | What Your Sunday School Never Told You

In this episode we're exploring the baptism of Yeshua from all three Synoptic Gospels, and what we find is not a warm opening scene before the real ministry starts. It's

God Built a Language - Examining the Sacrifices

Most people skip Leviticus. And honestly? I understand. It’s dense, it’s ancient, and nobody’s Sunday school teacher ever made the burnt offering sound like the thing tha