[Bible] Episode 266: Candida Moss - Enslaved People & the Making of the Bible

The Bible For Normal People

The Bible for Normal People

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Whose contributions to the production of the Bible have been historically overlooked? In this episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete and Jared have a fascinating conversation with Candida Moss about enslavement in the Roman Empire, challenging our perception of biblical authorship and shedding light on the roles of enslaved people as scribes and translators of ancient texts. Show Notes → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Bible for normal people, the only God-ordained
0:03.4	podcast on the internet. I'm Pete Ens. And I'm Jared Bias.
0:07.0	On today's episode, we're talking about enslaved people and the making of the Bible
0:16.6	with Canada Moss. Canada is the Cadbury Professor of Theology at the University of
0:21.0	Birmingham in the UK.
0:22.8	She's a columnist for the Daily Beast,
0:24.5	has written for a lot of outlets like the Atlantic,
0:26.3	LA Times, Washington Post,
0:27.9	and a frequent commentator on CBS and CNN.
0:31.2	And in the midst of doing all that,
0:32.4	she was also able to write a book called
0:34.2	God's Ghost Writers enslaved Christians in the making of the Bible which is what we're
0:38.4	talking about today and it's out tomorrow March 26 so go grab your copy wherever you buy your books.
0:43.2	Right let's get to the episode.
0:44.8	To people in the past this language would have been far more consequential
0:51.8	than it is to those of us reading it today who are
0:55.1	freeborn. So it made me think a lot more about the power that these texts
0:59.5	exert about their potential to do harm. And it's not Paul's fault if people have
1:05.0	taken his texts and used them to oppress, marginalize, and harm others but it's
1:11.6	certainly our fault as modern readers if we don't notice that.
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