Hear, O Israel!

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🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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It is one of the most important verses of the Hebrew Bible, and it's only six words! Well, six in Hebrew. In English, it's anywhere from nine to twelve words, depending on who's doing the translating. It's the Shema, a prayer from Deuteronomy still holy in Judaism. But why is it so important? What makes that one verse so special? And for the love of all that's holy- why is it so hard to translate? What exactly do those six Hebrew words mean? Then, we're heading back into the dark regions of the Apocrypha, and this time, it's the Letter of Jeremiah. What do we know about this text? Was it a real letter? Did Jeremiah actually write it? To whom? ---- For early access to an ad-free version of every episode of Data Over Dogma, exclusive content, and the 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 Have you ordered Dan McClellan's New York Times bestselling book ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Bible Says So⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ yet??? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.0	What's the Song of Songs all about?
0:33.6	Songs.
0:34.8	Oh, sex.
0:35.5	No, there you go, the hibbitty-dibbitty.
0:39.8	So we're going to go to Song of Songs 6.9. And... Thank you for that. That was a gift to me.
0:53.8	Hey, everybody. I'm Dan McClellan.
0:55.9	And I'm Dan Beecher.
0:57.2	And you're listening to the Data Over Dogma podcast, where we increase public access to the academic study of the Bible and religion, and we combat the spread of misinformation in a couple of pleasing baritone voices.
1:10.2	Isn't that correct, Dan? It's all good over here,
1:13.7	baby. Yeah, baby. I'm thinking of lines from, I'm going to get you sucker now. Oh, okay.
1:21.8	With Isaac Hayes. Neither of us have an Isaac Hayes voice. No, no, I'm not even going to try well today we got some
1:30.8	fun some fun show coming up we have our first segment our our chapter and verse is maybe should
1:39.1	just be called a verse not chapter and verse because it literally a verse, which you have assured me we have
1:47.6	enough to talk about just with a single verse. We could be talking about this for the rest of the
1:53.0	existence of our podcast. This verse, this is the verse when it comes to the Hebrew bible and um this is something that everybody knows about
2:03.7	but uh yeah this is deuteronomy six four all right also the main part of the shema
2:11.0	shma we're gonna we're gonna get super schma on this yes you're gonna shmah me now and believe me later. And then we're going to do a
2:22.7	segment that we're now calling, even though that we've done other parts that should have been in
2:28.4	this segment, but we're going to call it, is it canon? And we're going to be discussing,
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