---
title: "Talmudic Matthew — Oaths"
description: "Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks investigate Jesus’s teaching on oaths."
canonical: https://bema.jpamorgan.com/episodes/443
published: 2025-03-27
---

# Talmudic Matthew — Oaths

Addressing the Greco-Roman Context

- Published: 2025-03-27T08:00:00.000Z
- Episode slug: `443`
- Episode number: 443
- Session: 9
- People: Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks

## Description

Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks investigate Jesus’s teaching on oaths.

## Show notes

Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks investigate Jesus’s teaching on oaths. “Greek Oath-Rituals” by Irene Berti — OpenEdition Books “The Greek Oath in the Roman World” by Serena Connolly — Oxford Academic “Loosing Vows and Oaths in the Roman Empire and Beyond: Authority and Interpretation” by Moshe Blidstein — De Gruyter “The Kinyradai of Paphos” by John Curtis Franklin — The Center for Hellenic Studies

## Sources and machine-readable records

- [BEMA Podcast Explorer episode page](https://bema.jpamorgan.com/episodes/443)
- [Official BEMA source page](https://www.bemadiscipleship.com/443)
- [Episode JSON](https://api.bema.jpamorgan.com/v1/episodes/443)
- [Audio](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/7d8cc2be-fe66-43fb-ada4-e62e2f8c00e7/29f83bff-ec91-41d6-a60b-218586ae549f.mp3)