Deconstructed these walls and I found a bed.

Welcome to the Deconstructionist podcast. I'm your host, John Williamson, and welcome to part two of my interview with Dr. Benjamin Laird, where we discussed his brand new book, creating the canon,

composition, controversy, and the authority of the New Testament.

As always, if you've enjoyed the music that you've heard on the podcast, is from our good friend,

the talented Clay Kirchamower, who, terrible gambler, but very talented musician,

who releases music under the name Forrest Clay. You can find the

songs that you've heard here, as well as others, anywhere you find your music. Getting back to Dr. Laird,

he received his PhD from the University of Aberdeen and is the Associate Professor of Biblical

Studies at the John W. Rawling School of Divinity at Liberty University. He's written a number

of books on the New Testament, including 40 questions about the Apostle Paul and five views on the

New Testament canon. So without further ado, here is part two with Benjamin Freakin Laird.

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That's really interesting.

And one of the things that you bring up in the book, too, that I thought was fascinating.

And it sort of kind of helps

solve the mystery of some of the instances where you have disciples or apostles, for example,

who were sort of known as being illiterate. And so how did they write, you know, this work? And you

talk about the role of secretaries and and uh even perhaps um schools who sort of

followed a particular apostle and their kind of school of thought so what role did that play

in terms of the actual writing down of some of these accounts?

Secretaries played a very important role. I would just kind of preface that by stating that we don't need secretaries to kind of make

this all possible and kind of save the reputation of the canon, right?

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