Usually we ask the question of how we got our Bible, but rarely consider the question of why

we got the Bible. Why did the various biblical authors commit their contributions to writing

and preservation.

We'll answer these questions and more and we'll look at a very controversial new book entitled

Why the Bible Begin An Alternate History of Scripture and its origins by Professor Jacob Wright of

Candler School Theology at Emory University. We'll discuss this with our

former colleague good friend Old Testament scholar Dr Mike Thigpin. I'm your host Scott Ray and I'm your co-host

Sean Macau. And this is Think Bivocally from Talbot School of Theology at

Biola University. Mike, great to have you with us. Thanks so much for taking on

this assignment.

I know this is a lengthy book to get through.

I'm not suggesting that our readers necessarily,

our listeners necessarily tackle this themselves,

but we want to give them, think a 35,000 foot view of the

really different approach to how we think about the Bible. So Mike thanks for

being on with us. Thanks for coming on to talk

about this controversial book. You're welcome. I'm happy to be with you all and

and happy to talk about this. I think it's an important topic. So why, maybe that's the first question. What makes this topic so important? Why is this the question of why the Bible began matter so much?

I think you've got two things that are happening.

One is when we ask the question why something's written,

we're really asking what the author or editors of a particular

work intended it for. So we're thinking about did they write it as a scientific treatise

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