#30 Joshua Bowen - How the Bible Supports Slavery
Within Reason
Alex J O'Connor
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🗓️ 7 May 2023
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
Joshua Bowen is an Assyriologist, YouTuber, and author of the book, "Did the Old Testament Endorse Slavery?"
Links: The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament: Volume 1: https://t.co/SrcMTKcxS6 Volume 2: https://t.co/RuPDimaomv Did the Old Testament Endorse Slavery?: https://tinyurl.com/3m6prd3h Digital Hammurabi: www.youtube.com/digitalhammurabi Misquoting Jesus Podcast (Bart Ehrman and Megan Lewis): https://www.bartehrman.com/podcast/ Digital Hammurabi: Website: www.digitalhammurabi.com YouTube: www.youtube.com/digitalhammurabi Twitter: www.twitter.com/digi_hammurabi Patreon: www.patreon.com/digitalhammurabi
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to within reason. |
| 0:01.8 | My name is Alex O'Connor, and my guest today is Dr Joshua Bowen. |
| 0:05.8 | Josh Bowen is an eeriologist, a yucuber, |
| 0:08.6 | and author of the book, |
| 0:09.8 | did the Old Testament endorse slavery, |
| 0:12.4 | a work which is currently in the process of being updated |
| 0:15.2 | and reissued? |
| 0:16.2 | So I thought it was a good time to sit down with Dr Bowen to discuss that question. |
| 0:20.2 | Does the Old Testament endorse slavery? |
| 0:23.0 | And if it does, what kind of slavery are we talking about? |
| 0:26.6 | We sometimes hear from religious apologists |
| 0:28.7 | that this isn't the bad kind of slavery that comes to mind |
| 0:31.6 | when we think of the antebellum slavery of 19th century America, for example. |
| 0:36.0 | But Josh Bowen wants to argue that this is a mistaken idea. |
| 0:40.0 | I was astonished by this conversation and found it to be greatly enjoyable and I hope that you do too. Joshua Bowen, thank you so much for coming on the podcast. Ah, thank you for having me. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm excited to sit down and talk to you. |
| 1:06.6 | I saw on Twitter that you were working on an updated version of your book, |
| 1:13.0 | did the Old Testament endorse slavery. |
| 1:16.0 | I wondered sort of, I mean we were just talking on camera and you said that this book has sort of expanded greatly |
| 1:22.0 | since the original edition. Why is this something |
| 1:25.3 | that you wanted to write about? I think probably because one I end up talking |
| 1:31.7 | about this far more than anyone would hope or dream to talk about it. |
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