---
title: "Talmudic Matthew — Desert and Sea"
description: "Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Reed Dent revisit Matthew 4 with a Talmudic lens."
canonical: https://bema.jpamorgan.com/episodes/396
published: 2024-06-20
---

# Talmudic Matthew — Desert and Sea

Temptation and Testing

- Published: 2024-06-20T08:00:00.000Z
- Episode slug: `396`
- Episode number: 396
- Session: 8
- People: Brent Billings, Reed Dent, Elle Grover Fricks

## Description

Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Reed Dent revisit Matthew 4 with a Talmudic lens.

## Show notes

Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Reed Dent revisit Matthew 4 with a Talmudic lens. BEMA 92: How to Bring Order Out of Chaos Ethics Ratings of Nearly All Professions Down in U.S. — Gallup Scutching — Wikipedia Tractate Sanhedrin — Sefaria “Questions About Angels” (poem) by Billy Collins Gospel of Matthew Summary (Part 1) — BibleProject Gospel of Matthew Summary (Part 2) — BibleProject

## Sources and machine-readable records

- [BEMA Podcast Explorer episode page](https://bema.jpamorgan.com/episodes/396)
- [Official BEMA source page](https://www.bemadiscipleship.com/396)
- [Episode JSON](https://api.bema.jpamorgan.com/v1/episodes/396)
- [Audio](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/7d8cc2be-fe66-43fb-ada4-e62e2f8c00e7/13df5865-5c7a-4e79-81d8-31f1cd0cfc2c.mp3)