I talked to an Apocrypha expert! (Dr. David DeSilva)
Dojo viewers, you're in for a TREAT! I got to sit down with my friend Dr. David DeSilva and pick his brain on everything from writing commentaries, to Christian misunderstandings of what 2nd Temple Jews actually believed, to the significance of each book in the Apocrypha (and a couple in the Pseudepigrapha!). David is one of the most prolific New Testament and Apocryphal scholars out there and an absolute JOY to talk to! I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed filming it!
Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:58 - What’s going on in Dr. DeSilva’s world since SBL
00:06:01 - SBL, ETS, and IBR…what’s the difference?
00:10:51 - How do you actually write a commentary?
00:19:16 - A REALLY good point about studying the Bible!
00:2201 - How Dr. DeSilva transitioned from Hebrews to Paul as a focus of study
00:25:26 - the Apocrypha and ancient Greco-Roman societal pressure
00:30:52 - Tobit
00:33:17 - Judith
00:35:48 - Greek Esther??
00:40:19 - Wisdom of Solomon and Romans & Wisdom of Ben Sirah (aka. Sirach) and Jesus
00:56:17 - Letter of Jeremiah & Baruch (and why they SHOULDN’T be grouped together!)
01:01:48 - Additions to Daniel (Susanna, Bel and the Dragon, etc.)
01:03:56 - The Prayer of Manasseh
01:08:08 - a quick word on Psalms of Solomon, 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and the apocryphal ‘canon’
01:13:48 - Esdras, Maccabees, and why there are SO MANY of each!
01:27:55 - the Catholic apocrypha vs. other apocrypha canons
01:31:37 - How you can study with David on a MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE SHIP!!
David’s books mentioned in this episode:
* “Honor, Patronage, Kinship, and Purity" by David deSilva - www.amazon.com/Honor-Patronag...
* Lexham Old Testament Apocrypha - tinyurl.com/mr3emtsm
* Introducing the Apocrypha - tinyurl.com/2mk3kxdv
* Unholy Allegiances - tinyurl.com/pj4srj33
Check out David’s blog at: apocryphalwritings.wordpress....
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For more info on Ashland Theological Seminary, where David teaches, head to: seminary.ashland.edu
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* Dr. Carmen Imes on Bearing God’s Name - • A Hebrew Bible scholar...
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Today's first reading in the Canadian Roman Catholic Sunday Liturgy, was from Sirach. We do use the Apocraphyl books liturgically in Catholicism and Orthodox!
@22grena
Ай бұрын
Catholics do not use the word Apocraphya. The correct word is deuterocanonical.
This is a very important interview and I hope it gets traffic. I presented on apocrypha today after receiving David’s book. In speaking to a class of Episcopal confirmands, the priest and I surveyed the canon and addressed the importance of knowing the history of 325 BCE-325 CE to shape the NT. I feel like the prose in the Maccabees could shape an episode of Game of Thrones. The Jewish portion in 2 Esdras contain proto trinitarian texts if accidentally when describing the arrival of the Son of Man from the sea, sent by God Almighty, with the Holy Spirit in the very next chapter, by a Jew writing after 70. Great interview thanks for this.
Nice interview. I suppose a mere hour and forty minutes is hardly enough time to explore so many books with much depth, so it might be interesting to revisit some of these Apocryphal texts with scholars (including David deSilva) in the future.
This was so amazing!! So useful in walking new interested readers through key Apocryphal/pseudoepigraphic writings. This made me think of the Apocrypha like the missing second course to a three course meal, where if all you’ve ever eaten is the first course (OT) and gone straight to the third course (NT), you miss out on the middle course that sets you up for thoroughly enjoying the third.
This was great. Dr. Desilva seems like a really grounded scholar. Fun to have some banter as well as opposed to just straight interviewing.
@DiscipleDojo
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, he's a blast to talk with!
I love deSilva’s writings & also love how relatable and humble he is in person.
Awesome! Listening to this while working out. I picked up the second edition of his "Introducing The Apocrypha" after your apocrypha video. Been cracking it open as I work my way through the books again. It is fascinating to hear how the environment around biblical scholarship and publication works. He sounds like a positivist historian starting with a historiography at 19:20
@BlessedFigTree
Жыл бұрын
1:10:15 lol, thank you.
So very informative and helpful!! Great interview, that DeSilva guy is pretty smart. 😉
@DiscipleDojo
Жыл бұрын
He knows a thing or two, I hear.
This was great! Thank you!
Ooooo. I'd love it if you had a guest who is a Josephus expert.
Enlightening and fun!
@DiscipleDojo
Жыл бұрын
That's exactly how I'd describe David! :-)
Really interesting. 3 years for a book - wow. Saying that the amount of work that went into it was amazing.
Great video James-Micheal.
@DiscipleDojo
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, man!
That cruise sounds amazing. Is it possible to join from Europe?
@DiscipleDojo
Жыл бұрын
I think so. Link is in the description.
Oh I found all the missing items, they are in the septuagint, not as additions but as original text.
Fantastic video, thank you so much! I am still confused though about the difference between apocripha and pseudoepigrapha... Can't an apocriphal book be written by a fake author and thus be regarded as pseudoepigrapha?
@DiscipleDojo
Жыл бұрын
Yes. But the Apochrypha refers to a specific collection of books (some of which were pseudepigraphical) that were part of some Churches' canon.
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FYI ETS = Evangelical Theological SOCIETY not Seminary. At 6:31 you said ETS is Evangelical Theological Seminary. I noticed it on other occasions in other videos too when describing the ETS meetings. Not a big deal of course. Thanks so much for the content. Really love the videos and interviews.
@DiscipleDojo
Жыл бұрын
Good catch! I think I'm just so used to ETS being the seminary here in Charlotte that it just slips out accidentally. But yes, it is the SOCIETY not the seminary!
I have an apocrypha that I refer to from time to time, but I noticed that the books are not all the same as what yall discussed , how do I know if the one I have is not accurate? I thought it was a reputable source, but now I am not certain.
@22grena
Ай бұрын
The authority of the Catholic Church
SBL = bookstore heaven
@DaviddeSilva
Жыл бұрын
The main reason I keep going. :)
I’m surprised he didn’t mention gordan fee Galatians commentary. He mention gordan fee and Galatians. Maybe it’s assumed he read his
where did you get the shirt?
@DiscipleDojo
Жыл бұрын
At the Charlotte campus bookstore
@storyofscripture
Жыл бұрын
@@DiscipleDojo oh man I may need you to get me one and send it to NYS lol
What about the book of enoch?
@GuideMyFeet
Ай бұрын
It seems to be consistently left out of the Apocrypha.
@GuideMyFeet
Ай бұрын
Same with Jasher and jubilees.
@DiscipleDojo
Ай бұрын
Enoch is part of the Pseudepigrapha, not the Apochrypha.
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SBL?.
@DiscipleDojo
Жыл бұрын
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Dudes! I loved the video, but the apocryphal books are part of the canon of the church.
@DiscipleDojo
Жыл бұрын
Which books and which church? ;-)
@dalecaldwell
Жыл бұрын
@@DiscipleDojo Ah, yes. The Anglicans have a longer list than the Romans, and the Eastern Orthodox and the Coots have slightly different lists. But the Church from before the here I! stand have included them, as you well know.
@cpnlsn88
9 ай бұрын
If we are honest the canon comes to us and is made at an earlier point in history. We don't revisit it in each generation. For both Testaments and for Christians and Jews doubts have been expressed about books included in the canon. Jerome came up against this when he chose to translate from Hebrew to Latin and expressed that those books not found in Hebrew but in the Greek (he coined the term Apocrypha) and Luther and the Church of England connected up with Jerome's opinion. Augustine favoured using the Greek Septuagint for the Old Testament which uncontroversially retains the Apocrypha. Jerome and Protestants translated from the Hebrew using the Masoretic Text but the earliest manuscripts for this are fairly late and in some cases the Septuagint can represent an alternative, possibly older reading. In any case the earliest Christians used the Greek Old Testament. Jerome went to enormous lengths to recover knowledge of Hebrew and access Hebrew manuscripts. I of course honour his discipleship and scholarship but I can see the wisdom of Augustine's view of continued reference to the Septuagint which was the earliest text used by Christians. The Apocrypha should be made available to believers if they want to read it. I agree with Martin Luther's view. They are useful and good to read.
@22grena
Ай бұрын
@@DiscipleDojo The Church funded by Christ: the Holy Catholic Church
Oh never thought to approach Hebrews with Honor and Shame, and Im an honor and shame guy. Nor patronage. Purity language and cult, inside-outside group language, sure... but not honor/shame.
@DaviddeSilva
Жыл бұрын
I wove a lot of this into my 2000 commentary, Perseverance in Gratitude (Eerdmans); you might also appreciate the "digest" of my dissertation that I released with Cascade in 2012, "The Letter to the Hebrews in Social-Scientific Perspective."
@DaviddeSilva
Жыл бұрын
The interview is over, but I'm still plugging my publications. :)
@joest.eggbenedictus1896
Жыл бұрын
@@DaviddeSilva @DaviddeSilva Oh excellent! Ive been out of the academy since moving from Atlanta to Florida in 2016, so the plugs help. While we are plugging, by the way, if you ever get over to my channel, and go to Bible Study playlist you'll see a mutlivideo study on Romans. Applied honor and shame for intro, and chs. 1 and 2. You might enjoy it or need it if suffering from insomnia.
So are you a part of the UMC? The denomination that supports ordaining LGBT and same sex marriage
@DiscipleDojo
Ай бұрын
Who are you asking?