You're listening to the Bible for Normal People, the only God ordained podcast on the internet.

I'm Pete Ends.

And I'm Jared Bias.

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But today on the podcast, we have scholar, professor of Jewish studies at the University of Georgia,

Richard Elliott Friedman, and we're talking about who wrote the Bible.

So he wrote a book back 30 years ago of that title, who wrote the Bible, has been trying to

popularize the best and biblical scholarship every day since then.

So he's definitely a kindred spirit in our mission here at the Bible for Normal People.

We talk about things like source criticism, different sources, where the Bible came from.

A lot of things that we've touched on in different episodes, but we really zero in

and focus on it here with Richard Elliott Friedman.

So enjoy the episode. So when he has the the Levites stand up in Jerusalem,

I could picture this in 450 BC, and they read all this text and they say,

and this is the Torah of Moses. I don't picture some guy in the last girl saying,

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