S8 Ep893: Why Christians Need to Read the Apocrypha: Dr. Joey Dodson

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🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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What is the Apocrypha and what isn’t the Apocrypha? Is it a Catholic set of uninspired books? Books vital for understanding the New Testament? Should it be included in our Bibles? In our...Canon? New Testament scholar and Apocrypha expert Dr. Joey Dodson guides us through this important conversation with wisdom, wit, and cultural relevance. You’ll see what I mean.

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0:00.0	Hello friends welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw my guest today needs no introduction
0:04.8	He is the one and only doctor professor Joey Dodson aka my best friend. We studied together at Aberdeen University
0:12.9	15 years ago. I've been best friends ever since. He is a professor at Denver Theological Seminary
0:18.7	Would encourage you to check out Denver Seminary. It's one of my favorites and we'll talk about it at the end of the show
0:24.1	the the
0:25.8	The reason why I want to have Joey on the show is to talk about the apocrypha
0:29.8	I have
0:30.8	dabbled in
0:32.8	the apocrypha
0:34.4	Various times on this podcast, but I've never had a full-blown conversation about it
0:39.2	So I invited Joey who is an expert in the apocrypha to come on the show and tell us all about what the apocrypha is
0:45.2	What it isn't and why we as Protestant Christians should read and engage and learn from the
0:53.1	so-called apocrypha
0:55.1	If you'd like to support the show you can go to patreon.com forward slash theology in the raw
0:58.9	support to show for us little is five bucks a month all of the info is in the show notes all right without further
1:03.8	New let's get to know the one or only doctor Joey Dodson
1:23.2	All right Joey welcome back to theologin to raw. I don't know how many times you've been on but not not nearly enough
1:29.9	It's always a pleasure. Well, thanks for coming back on and we're going to talk about the significance and importance of
1:37.2	the apocrypha for understanding
1:40.0	Specifically, I guess new testament studies, although I guess it could help understand a bit of the latter Old Testament to some extent but
1:47.8	Yeah, tell tell us give us a basic introduction. What is the apocrypha? What isn't the apocrypha and then we can get into why
1:55.6	It's good for Christians to understand it and study it quite when I say Christians. I guess I mean Protestant Christians
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