other OUaT podcasts and biblical references

Yeah there are a lot of Biblical references. The entire episode the Shepherd was a Biblical reference. You have a shepherd boy who is brought to kill a dragon instead of a giant, but still. They think that he has no chance against the dragon but he is then able to beat the dragon using his brain just like David in the Bible by a stone to the head of the giant and without brute strength, Charming is able to kill the dragon by getting him to follow him and get the upper hand and behead him.

And, of course, the names. Charming is called David in the real world and Abigail was the name of the Biblical David’s wife. I think the wife that was the daughter of Saul who was the previous king. And Ruth is the name of Charming’s mother in the fairytale world and Ruth is the Biblical David’s great grandmother.

And the name of the fifth epsiode was The Still Small Voice which is a name given to god in the Bible. There is a story about a man who looks for God in a fire and he is not there and he looks for him in an earthquake and he is not there and he looks for him in a mountain and he is not there and then he listens and hears God in a still small voice.

And then the very premise of the show. A child of prophecy, Emma, must run away as a child so that she will not be killed, which Jesus does as a baby running to Egypt. And then Emma is supposed to come back to save the world from the curse. That seems like a very Biblical connection to me.

I never thought about it that way before. Thats really interesting. Im gonna try to catch the biblical references to.