Interview With Dr. Josh Bowen
Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman
Chris Huntley
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Many Jews and Christians today are uncomfortable with the views of slavery in the Bible; the practice is simply assumed, it is normally condoned, and it is never condemned. Even so, some Christian apologists argue that the Bible actively disapproves of slavery and was instrumental in opposing it in the modern era. But is that right?
In this episode I interview one of the premier experts on the question, Dr. Josh Bowen, who has written two books on the matter; in our discussion he explains what the Bible really says about slavery and how we can put it's statements, assumptions, and laws in its own context instead of thinking that it fits comfortably in ours.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman. The only show, where a six-time New York Times |
| 0:09.7 | bestselling author and world-renowned Bible scholar, uncovers the many fascinating, little-known |
| 0:15.1 | facts about the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the rise of Christianity. I'm your host, Megan Lewis. Let's begin. |
| 0:24.2 | I'd like to welcome you to this special edition of the Misquoting Jesus podcast. |
| 0:29.6 | This time, I will not be interviewed by Megan, Lewis. |
| 0:33.9 | I am going to be doing the interviewing myself, |
| 0:37.1 | and as it turns out, I'm going to be doing the interviewing myself. And as it turns out, I'm going to be interviewing |
| 0:39.6 | Megan Lewis's husband, Josh Bowen. He like Megan is an expert on the ancient Near East, |
| 0:47.1 | and he's especially an expert on slavery in the ancient world, including most importantly for |
| 0:52.6 | slavery in the Bible. And he's written two books on this. |
| 0:55.5 | And so we're going to be doing an episode on that, which I'm really, really interested in |
| 0:59.8 | for a number of reasons. |
| 1:00.8 | And as you'll see, it is a very, very interesting topic. |
| 1:03.5 | Before we get to that, I do want to make a special announcement of something that's |
| 1:08.1 | coming up very soon. |
| 1:09.6 | We have a course that I'm going to be doing |
| 1:12.4 | this coming weekend on Sunday, July 23rd. It'll be a four-lecture course that is called |
| 1:20.4 | Why I Am Not a Christian, how leaving the faith led to a life of more meaning and purpose. |
| 1:29.3 | This will be a personal autobiographical course that will also, though, be talking about problems with the New Testament, |
| 1:36.3 | contradictions and discrepancies and that kind of thing that you've, some of you have heard me talk about before, |
| 1:41.3 | but it's going to be talking about how these such issues were an issue |
| 1:46.3 | for me in terms of my personal faith. And so this will be about how I moved away from being |
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