Episode 36: The Why Question- With Jacob Wright

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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This week we're joined by Dr. Jacob Wright of Emory University. His new book Why the Bible Began leaves aside the questions of who wrote the Bible, what it is, when it was written, and how the Bible came to us, and instead focuses on the why. Why did the writings of this one small group of people survive and persist, when the records of much larger and more successful empires were often buried, forgotten, or lost to time? For early access to an ad-free version of the show, exclusive content, and an opportunity to support our work, please consider becoming a monthly patron at: https://www.patreon.com/DataOverDogma Follow us on the various social media places: https://www.facebook.com/DataOverDogmaPod https://www.twitter.com/data_over_dogma Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's something you learned in history class that you feel like wasn't the whole truth?
0:05.0	Better yet, what's something you didn't learn at all that was omitted completely?
0:09.0	That's what I like to call Redacted History.
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0:35.0	That's where the Bible really gets going in interesting ways.
0:39.0	It's in a certain sense, very real sense, all responses to what makes the people, what brings us together as a people, how do we survive, you know, what role does a kingdom play in all, how is that not everything? What do we do when that kingdom is
0:54.6	defeated and conquered? And the biblical project I think is just this magnificent
0:59.2	collaborative effort to prepare for that or to respond to it in very honest ways and also creative
1:07.6	ways.
1:08.6	Hey everybody, I'm Dan McClellan and I'm Dan Beecher and you are listening to the
1:16.3	Data Over Dogma podcast where we increase public access to the academic study of
1:20.9	the Bible and religion and we combat the spread of
1:23.7	misinformation about the same. How are things today Dan?
1:26.7	Things are good. We've got a great guest today hawking a book that I have found very interesting. Why don't you introduce him, Dan?
1:36.6	Yeah, so this is Jacob Wright. He is a professor of Hebrew Bible at the Canler School of Theology at Emory University down in Hotlana and welcome to the show
1:46.5	Jacob. Well it's nice to be here Dan and Dan and it's not too hot today it's actually like
1:52.1	maybe 45 50 degrees I guess that's
1:54.6	oh wow yeah right now it's 31 where I am so I imagine in Atlanta the people are
2:02.3	walking around in full on winter parkas at that temperature
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