The Pastorate Podcast hosts thoughtful conversations with guests who are passionate about the Canadian church. Here to serve Canadian pastors, we dive into topics that speak to the heart, soul, and vision of the pastorate, all the while sharing stories from guests who minister in diverse church contexts.
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Early Christian Texts Podcasts
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The Bible and Beyond podcast is a series of interviews with scholars who are able to unlock mysteries from extra-canonical books, forgotten scriptures, so-called 'gnostic' gospels, as well as the Bible. Host Shirley Paulson, Ph.D., and her guests explore historical and spiritual questions about Jesus, gender, women, salvation, healing, and the meaning of life. The discoveries these scholars share don’t always fit with what we've been told, but time and again they lead us toward a deeper inti ...
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Consecrate your day to the Lord by committing your early mornings to the universal prayer of the Church. The Office of Lauds reminds the Christian that the first act of the day should be praise, and that one's thoughts should be of God before facing the cares of the day. Text of today's prayer is available at http://www.ibreviary.com/ Brought to you by the Cebu Archdiocesan Commission on Social Communication. Make it a daily habit. God bless your day.
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This podcast helps you to study through God's Word with practical and in-depth Bible study lessons. These lessons go through the Bible one passage at a time book by book. The goal is to help Scripture come alive as you discover new insights into the meaning of the text and are motivated to make life changes based on what you learn.
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Interviews with Scholars of East Asia about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies
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How do we separate history from myth? Both atheists and Christians often assume they're worlds apart, but in the early years of Christianity, skeptics and believers shared more common ground than you might imagine. In this podcast, we'll explore the ancient texts, archaeological finds, and scholarly debates that both sides use to argue their case. From examining Roman historians' accounts of Jesus to decoding early Christian writings and the surprising historical parallels, this is your invi ...
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Tylor Standley hosts this podcast on early Christianity. On each episode, he discusses a person, text, or issue in early Christian history. By the end of each episode you will be able to either read an ancient text for yourself or engage with some more dense introductory materials.
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"so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love" - Ephesians 3:17 Connect with God through this study of scripture looking at the roots and grounded truths we can draw from the text. 109.church
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BYU Studies publishes scholarship that is informed by the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. Submissions are invited from all scholars who seek truth "by study and also by faith" (Doctrine and Covenants 88:118), discern the harmony between revelation and research, value both academic and spiritual inquiry, and recognize that knowledge without charity is nothing (1 Corinthians 13:2). For more information, visit our website at byustudies.byu.edu
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Bringing you engaging conversations with leading authors, scholars, and teachers on the great works of Christian literature. Each episode dives into a timeless classic, exploring its historical context, theological significance, and its ongoing relevance for modern readers. Whether you’re discovering these works for the first time or revisiting them, our interviews provide fresh insights and thoughtful guidance to help you engage deeply with these foundational texts. This series builds on th ...
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The Didache is the common name of a brief early Christian treatise (dated by most scholars to the late first or early second century), containing instructions for Christian communities. The text, parts of which may have constituted the first written catechism, has three main sections dealing with Christian lessons, rituals such as baptism and eucharist, and Church organization. It was considered by some of the Church Fathers as part of the New Testament but rejected as spurious or non-canoni ...
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Interviews with Scholars of Religion about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion
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Interviews with De Gruyter Brill authors about their new books
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Turning the Gem is a podcast where we come to the ancient text of the Bible with fresh eyes through the lens of Jewish Tradition and historical context. Kristian and Daniel give a crash course on the early books of scripture to pursue the wisdom the Biblical Authors intended to pass on. Diving in to the many deeply challenging stories of the Old Testament to find the deeper beauty just behind our typical reading of the text. This podcast is meant for those who are looking to come back to scr ...
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The Wise Studies podcast is an extension of our audio library of courses at wisestudies.com. You want to study the world’s great wisdom traditions in more depth but you don’t want to have to go to university to do it. At Wise Studies, we partner with leading scholars, practitioners, and experts in their field to produce high-quality audio courses, ebooks, and podcasts to bring reliable wisdom into your life. This podcast features the authors we work with. Choose a course at https://wisestudi ...
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The Coptic Magical Papyri: Vernacular Religion in Late Roman and Early Islamic Egypt is a five-year research project (2018-2023) based at the Chair of Egyptology of the Julius Maximilian University Würzburg. The team consists of Korshi Dosoo (research group leader), Markéta Preininger, and Julia Schwarzer (formerly also Edward O.D. Love). We bring you what we know about Coptic magic in the form of academic publications, blogs and podcast episodes! http://www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/
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Save My Freedom with Michele Swinick isn’t just a podcast — it’s a Movement! A digital freedom revolution powered by real relationships, life-changing products, and proven income systems. If you’re ready to make more money, get healthy, and take back control of your life — this is your show. Every episode delivers raw truth, real solutions, and no B.S. strategies from the front lines of freedom, faith, health, and financial independence. We're helping 100,000 Americans build real income, bet ...
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“I think you guys should start a podcast with Jake.” The podcast started with a group text from Maggie, Jake’s wife. A few months later, Holdeman and Fin sat down with Jake to find out what was behind Maggie’s text (besides her usual motivations of starting a wildly successful business that would allow us all to retire at 40). Jake shared that he just had a nagging desire to ‘do something’. Life was good, work was good, but still, something creative and generative seemed untapped within him. ...
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Emily Vine, "Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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39:55Early modern London has long been recognised as a centre of religious diversity, yet the role of the home as the setting of religious practice for all faiths has been largely overlooked. In contrast, Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London (Cambridge UP, 2025), Dr. Emily Vine offers the first examination of domestic religion in L…
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Most people know about the big heresies of the early Church—Arianism, Nestorianism, Monophysitism. But have you ever heard of the Agnoetae? This strange and almost forgotten heresy claimed that Jesus didn’t know everything in His earthly life. In this video, we’ll explore who the Agnoetae were, what they believed, why the Church condemned them, and…
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Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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1:39:40Today I had the pleasure of talking to Professor Xiang Biao on his new book, Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World, which was originally written and published in Chinese. The English translation has just come out with Palgrave Macmillan. Self as Method provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people t…
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Ryan Johnson on Healing from Brokenness, Leading through Pain, and Building a Community of Worship and Hope
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1:00:04In this conversation, Jason sits down with Ryan Johnson, pastor of Church Untitled in downtown Vancouver. Ryan shares openly about how the church began after the collapse of another, walking through seasons of anxiety and depression, and learning to cultivate a dependence on God while shepherding people who were hurting. What started with a small g…
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Stuart McHardy, "Scotland's Sacred Goddess: Hidden in Plain Sight" (Luath, 2025)
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27:30In Scotland’s Sacred Goddess: Hidden in Plain Sight (Luath Press, 2025), Stuart McHardy delves into the rich tapestry of pre-Christian Scottish beliefs, uncovering the enduring presence of ancient mythologies in today’s landscape. Long before the arrival of Christian monks, the Scots revered a pantheon of deities, with the Cailleach Goddess at its …
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A Message to My Critics – Let’s TalkBy Michael Lofton
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Yu Zhang, "Going to the Countryside: The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915–1965" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
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57:41Since the beginning of the twentieth century, modern Chinese intellectuals, reformers, revolutionaries, leftist journalists, and idealistic youth often crossed the increasing gap between the city and the countryside, which made the act of "going to the countryside" a distinctively modern experience and a continuous practice in China. Such a spatial…
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How to Respond to Threats: The Role Forgiveness PlaysBy Michael Lofton
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Christopher Joby, "Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan: A Reception History of Texts, Beliefs, and Practices" (Brill, 2025)
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1:00:47How do new ideas and beliefs take root when they cross cultural and linguistic borders? In seventeenth-century Taiwan, both Dutch and Spanish missionaries tried to replace Indigenous gods, practices, and laws with their own Christian traditions. Christopher Joby’s Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan: A Reception History of Texts, Belief…
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Christopher Joby, "Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan: A Reception History of Texts, Beliefs, and Practices" (Brill, 2025)
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1:00:47How do new ideas and beliefs take root when they cross cultural and linguistic borders? In seventeenth-century Taiwan, both Dutch and Spanish missionaries tried to replace Indigenous gods, practices, and laws with their own Christian traditions. Christopher Joby’s Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan: A Reception History of Texts, Belief…
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Christopher Joby, "Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan: A Reception History of Texts, Beliefs, and Practices" (Brill, 2025)
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1:00:47How do new ideas and beliefs take root when they cross cultural and linguistic borders? In seventeenth-century Taiwan, both Dutch and Spanish missionaries tried to replace Indigenous gods, practices, and laws with their own Christian traditions. Christopher Joby’s Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan: A Reception History of Texts, Belief…
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Book Review: Focusing the Lens of Exploration: Elizabeth Dennistoun Wood Kane, a Photographic Journey Through the Life of a 19th Century Polymath
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7:27Jeffrey Paul Thompson reviews an evocative photographic journey documenting the remarkable life and contributions of Elizabeth Dennistoun Wood Kane, celebrating her as an influential 19th-century polymath and explorer. Read the full review online.
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Pope Leo XIV Calls on Catholics to Embrace Religious DiversityBy Michael Lofton
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Newly revealed text messages show the chilling confession of Tyler Robinson, the accused killer of Charlie Kirk. In this episode, we go through the messages and what they reveal about his motive and state of mind.By Michael Lofton
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Richard Lyman Bushman offers thoughtful reflections on the historical, spiritual, and symbolic significance of the Gold Plates, inviting listeners to reconsider their impact on faith and history. Read the full article online.
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Some are pointing to official Vatican transcripts. Others are sharing a viral post online. And questions are swirling: Did Pope Leo XIV really use those words? Was something changed or covered up? Or is this just another case of fake news? In this episode, we dig into the sources, compare transcripts, and look directly at the Pope’s speech to find …
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Walk in Holiness - 1 Thessalonians 4 Bible Study
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37:211 Thessalonians 4 Bible study. God calls us to walk in holiness and purity. This Bible passage is a strong call to live differently than the world around us. What God intended for good, Satan and the world want to twist for evil. You are not alone. God gives the help needed to have victory over this temptation. 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 Bible study - h…
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First Rap Concert at the Vatican? Here’s What Just HappenedBy Michael Lofton
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Tyler Robinson, Kirk’s Alleged Assassin, Linked to Transgender PartnerBy Michael Lofton
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Charlie Kirk’s Wife Speaks Out: Her Message to AmericaBy Michael Lofton
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Matthew V. Novenson, "Paul and Judaism at the End of History" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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43:23The apostle Paul was a Jew. He was born, lived, undertook his apostolic work, and died within the milieu of ancient Judaism. And yet, many readers have found, and continue to find, Paul's thought so radical, so Christian, even so anti-Jewish – despite the fact that it, too, is Jewish through and through. This paradox, and the question how we are to…
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Susan Juster, "A Common Grave: Being Catholic in English America" (UNC Press, 2025)
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54:16From Nevis to Newfoundland, Catholics were everywhere in English America. But often feared and distrusted, they hid in plain sight, deftly obscuring themselves from the Protestant authorities. Their strategies of concealment, deception, and misdirection frustrated colonial census takers, and their presence has likewise eluded historians of religion…
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Peter Arzt-Grabner "Letters and Letter Writing" (Brill U Schoningh, 2023)
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50:14New Testament letters are compared with private, business, and administrative letters of Greco-Roman antiquity and analyzed against this background. More than 11,800 Greek and Latin letters – preserved on papyrus, potsherds, and tablets from Egypt, Israel, Asia Minor, North Africa, Britain, and Switzerland – have been edited so far. Among them are …
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Robbie Taggart presents a poignant poem exploring faith, loss, and healing, inspired by the biblical story set in Nain, inviting listeners into a deeply reflective and spiritual experience. Read the full poem online.
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Jan E. M. Houben and Julieta Rotaru, "Vedic Myths and Rituals" (Dev Publishers, 2025)
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57:44Vedic Myths and Rituals, edited by Jan E.M. Houben and Julieta Rotaru, is a scholarly volume exploring the deep interplay between mythic narrative and ritual practice in the Vedic tradition. Drawing on diverse case studies—from the myth of Pedu’s horse to the consecration rites of the Soma sacrifice—the book examines how ritual structure, symbolic …
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Brandon Bloch, "Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2025)
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55:53Germany’s Protestant churches, longtime strongholds of nationalism and militarism, largely backed the Nazi dictatorship that took power in 1933. For many Protestant leaders, pastors, and activists, national and religious revival were one and the same. Even those who opposed the regime tended toward antidemocratic attitudes. By the 1950s, however, C…
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DEBATE: Is the Prophet Muhammad in the Bible? (The Orthodox Muslim vs. Dale Glover)By Michael Lofton
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Anna Strhan and Rachael Shillitoe, "Growing Up Godless: Non-Religious Childhoods in Contemporary England" (Princeton UP, 2025)
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38:05What do children believe in? In Growing Up Godless: Non-Religious Childhoods in Contemporary England (Princeton UP, 2025) Anna Strhan, a Reader in the Department of Sociology at the University of York and Rachael Shillitoe, a senior social scientist in the UK civil service and honorary fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of York…
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Pope Blesses LGBTQ Catholic Event, NYT ReportsBy Michael Lofton
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The Seven Seals, the Age of the Earth, and Ongoing Revelation
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5:08Nicholas J. Frederick investigates the theological intersections between scriptural symbolism, Earth's age, and ongoing divine revelation, addressing some of the profound mysteries and debates within Church doctrine. Read the full article online.
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Vatican Smokescreen: Latin Mass Used to Distract After LGBTQ Takeover?By Michael Lofton
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Pete Hughes with the Lead Pastors Fellowship: Pastoral Courage, Revival, and Leading in the Power of the Spirit
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1:06:19Today’s episode of The Pastorate looks a little different. Instead of our typical format where Jason interviews a guest, we’re pulling back the curtain on our Lead Pastors Fellowship and inviting you into a conversation that Pete Hughes, pastor of KXC London, had with our cohort participants during one of their monthly Zoom sessions. We’re sharing …
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LGBTQ+ Catholics processed a rainbow cross into St. Peter’s Basilica during their Jubilee pilgrimage in Rome. Even more shocking, Pope Francis (through Cardinal Leo) personally sent a bishop to celebrate their LGBTQ Mass. The Vatican even listed the event on the official Holy Year calendar, sparking worldwide outrage. In this episode, I unpack what…
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Michel-Yves Bollore and Olivier Bonnassies, "God, the Science, the Evidence" (Palomar, 2025)
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43:54For more than four centuries, the scientific discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin, and Freud created the impression that we could explain the workings of the Universe without the idea of a creator--God. By the beginning of the twentieth century, materialism had become the dominant theory of the time. And yet, with unexpected and astonishing f…
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Ruth E. Toulson, "Necropolitics of the Ordinary: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore" (U Washington Press, 2024)
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58:30Can a state make its people forget the dead? Cemeteries have become sites of acute political contestation in the city-state of Singapore. Confronted with high population density and rapid economic growth, the government has ordered the destruction of all but one burial ground, forcing people to exhume their family members. In Necropolitics of the O…
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Leah Hochman and Stanley M. Davids, "Re-forming Judaism: Moments of Disruption in Jewish Thought" (Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2023)
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49:50The story of Judaism is the story of change. Throughout Jewish history, revolutionary events and subversive ideas have burst forth, repeatedly transforming Jewish experience. Re-forming Judaism: Moments of Disruption in Jewish Thought (Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2023), edited by Rabbi Stanley M. Davids (z’l) and Dr. Leah Hochman seeks t…
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An LGBTQ group officially processed a rainbow pride cross into St. Peter’s Basilica—wearing pride shirts, waving pride flags, and holding a special Mass endorsed by Pope Leo – who personally sent a bishop to celebrate it. In this episode, I break down what happened, why it matters, and what this means for the future of the Church.…
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Cardinal Cupich Says Traditionalists Are ‘Backwards’—Online Trads ReactBy Michael Lofton
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Ruth Perini, "Varaha Upanishad: The Path to Supreme Knowledge" (2025)
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30:29This conversation examines the newly published translation of the Varāha Upaniṣad, a lesser-known but deeply transformative scripture from the Kṛṣṇa‑Yajurveda, composed between the 13th and 16th centuries CE and spanning 249 verses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! http…
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