Who wrote the Bible? (A history of the Torah)

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• BL

  @blakewilley2754 · 4 years ago

  This is one of the clearest, most concise and most precise presentations of the documentary hypothesis with which I am familiar. Much better than the graduate - level scripture courses I've taken. Good work. Good teaching!

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• JJ

  @JJBushfan · 2 years ago (edited)

  I have spent my life being fascinated by religion as a cultural phenomenon, and also in searching for the true nature of spirituality as it underpins the meaning of life. This man is benefiting me greatly. No didacticism, no guru delusion, no ego - just the facts and theories stated with commendable lucidity. The fact that we don't even know his name gives us a reason to trust and listen to him. I'm watching one video a night and learning a lot.

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• DI

  @disengronkulifactice · 5 years ago

  I always think about this stuff when I hear people (American Evangelicals, mostly) say that every word of the Bible is literally true. Like... ok but which version each story? Why wouldn’t you acknowledge that fallible humans wrote the stuff down sometimes? It’s just so obvious if you look at the text...

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• GY

  @gypsycruiser · 5 years ago (edited)

  The mural relief you showed was of the Romans carrying away the contents of the Temple in Jerusalem after they sacked it and left ‘no stone atop another’

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• FR

  @frankboulton2126 · 5 years ago

  Speaking purely from a linguist's perspective, the Torah is written in a number of language varieties, whose differences from each other go far beyond differences of style.  Differences in the inflection of verbs give the impression that some passages are of much greater antiquity than others.  As I am not a theologian, I will not speculate as to why this should be so.

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• SH

  @shariarnold9649 · 5 years ago

  I really enjoy your presentations...I just finished the one on the Jinn. Thank you for all the research you have done for these.  You are a very good teacher.

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• EN

  @endthisnonsense7202 · 4 years ago

  Clearly the great-great-great-great-great-etc-grandfather of J.R.R. Tolkien.

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• DA

  @dalesands1291 · 5 years ago

  I have to wonder whose story we are reading. I have read the Epic of Gilgamesh and found a few stories the same as in the Torah. The is a seven year bounty and famine in Gilgamesh similar to the story in Genesis of Joseph preparing Egypt for the same conditions.

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• CH

  @changer1285 · 5 years ago

  Really digging this breakdown between Gen 1 and 2. Especially the Elohim v YHVH-Elohim

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• SI

  @siobhanonavon1989 · 4 years ago

  I really love your videos!  Your presentation style is rationally presented as a means of learning, and I really love that.

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• WI

  @williamj.1637 · 4 years ago

  Very informative and well constructed video. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.

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• DR

  @drd6893 · 5 years ago

  Great work!  Especially how you focus on facts and you’re  not  biased,  but rather you keep to the historical facts as they are available.   Thank you

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