712: #712 - Can we trust the Bible? A conversation with Dr. Peter Williams
Theology in the Raw
Theology in the Raw
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🗓️ 10 December 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On episode #712 of Theology in the Raw Preston has a conversation with Dr. Peter Williams. Dr. Peter Williams is the Principal of Tyndale House Cambridge and a lecturer on Hebrew language at the University of Cambridge. He earned his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge studying ancient languages related to the Bible.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw I have on the show today Dr |
| 0:05.8 | Peter Williams I don't know if you know the name Peter Williams but Peter Williams and I go |
| 0:16.1 | Pretty far back He was a professor at Aberdeen University when I was doing a PhD. He had recently got done with his own PhD at Cambridge |
| 0:21.6 | University. I believe he was teaching for a couple years somewhere else and then he got hired on the Aberdeen University, I think a year before I got there. |
| 0:30.0 | And Pete and I, and not only was he one of my professors there, but he was also a fellow |
| 0:34.7 | a churchman. |
| 0:35.7 | We went to church together, we kind of served a ministry together there, and we became family |
| 0:39.6 | friends. |
| 0:40.6 | We hung out as families, and I kid you not Peter Williams is one of the smartest most |
| 0:48.7 | brilliant people I have ever spent time with and and I spent time with I've hung out with a lot of really smart |
| 0:56.0 | people and he just is off the chart this guy is so incredibly brilliant and he wrote a |
| 1:02.1 | book called Can We Trust The Gospels which is like a like a popular level |
| 1:07.1 | treatment of that question are the Gospels reliable this book just came out and I read it |
| 1:17.7 | Right when it came out and it is so good and he is so good and |
| 1:25.1 | Winsome and wise and shrewd in many ways and knowledgeable when it comes to understanding and defending and teaching the truthfulness of Christianity and the Bible. So I |
| 1:31.2 | wanted to have Pete on the show just to talk about some of the |
| 1:33.4 | nitty gritty kind of scholarly questions that surround the veracity of |
| 1:38.2 | scripture. So you're really going to enjoy this episode with Peter Williams. If you are a new listener to the show or even an |
| 1:45.8 | old listener to the show and you want to support the show. If you've been blessed by |
| 1:48.8 | the show, if you've been helped, encouraging your faith, then please do consider |
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| 1:54.1 | Patreon.com at patreon.com forward slash theology in the raw, patreon.com |
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