The Bible had Editors? – Paradigm E3

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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How can a collection of ancient manuscripts written by numerous people over thousands of years tell one unified story? In this episode, Tim, Jon, and Carissa dive into how the Bible was written and how such a diverse collection of authors, literary styles, and themes can form one divinely inspired, unified story.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is John from Bible Project, and we are in the third episode in a series about
0:09.6	what kind of literature the Bible is.
0:12.2	We're calling this the paradigm series.
0:15.1	In the last episode we looked at the Orthodox view that the Bible is both human and divine.
0:21.6	Today, we're going to look at how the Bible is actually many different scrolls that
0:26.2	altogether tell one unified story.
0:29.8	So who wrote these scrolls and made them so elegantly tell one unified story?
0:35.4	Who wrote the Bible?
0:37.7	Now if you take a normal book, say like Moby Dick and you ask to wrote it, well that's
0:42.1	easy.
0:43.1	Herman Melville, it took a 18 months back in 1850.
0:46.4	Who wrote one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish?
0:49.8	Dr. Seuss.
0:50.8	Who wrote dark matter?
0:51.8	That's actually a pretty fun quantum sci-fi thriller by Blake Crouch.
0:55.7	This is easy, right?
0:56.9	So who wrote the scrolls we find in the Bible?
1:00.6	Yeah, so ancient literature in general, and then biblical literature as an example, has
1:05.0	the different kind of authorial history than how we imagine it today.
1:09.6	It's traditional literature.
1:11.1	It's community, traditional literature, which doesn't mean it was written by anybody and
1:15.2	everybody.
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