A skilled interviewer lets the guest speak. Wonderful.

@oliverbanes5121

2 жыл бұрын

Not really.

@VSP4591

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder how is to take an interview to Bart Ehrman with a toddler in your arms. Bart use to say some complex facts and the toddler is playing with the micro. A real Wonder Woman. As Napoleon she could make 2 activities in the same time. How nice.

Always a pleasure to benefit from Ehrman's scholarship.

I hope all is well with Dr Josh!

Skip to 3:49 if you want to see the cute baby reaching for the mic.

It's not just creation and flood and babel tower that copied from babylon but also the patriarchal stories and mythos too as well as miraculous prophets of the Hebrew persuasion have babylonian and assyrian origins. The hebrews religious customs are babylonian in Origins and as well as some canaanite/palestinian influence too.

Great video

Fabulous interview. I wish it was longer. Love that u had one of ur lil ones there with u. So cute.

Megan isn’t the most engaging host…but she does have her hands full 🙂. As for Dr. Ehrman, I could listen to him all day, every day. I hope he lives to be 970.

Oh, fantastic! One of my favourite Biblical scholars on one of my favourite ancient history/religious text channels! What a shame it's not a full hour! {:-:-:}

@chewyjello1

2 жыл бұрын

An hour with Ehrman does not come cheap!

Clay tablets for the win!

Wonderful questions! And what a well behaved content baby. :)

Megan vs Aron Ra interviewing Dr. Ehrman. 🤔 World count slightly different. 😂

@stevem7945

2 жыл бұрын

Derek from MythVision also suffers from verbal diarrhoea

@JerryPenna

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevem7945 sometimes. He’s getting his voice! 😂

Genesis was inspired by the Sumerian's cosmogonic

Holy shit! There was a baby there that hold time.

Megan, you let that baby talk. Clearly something important needs to be said lol.

I love Dr. Ehrman's work, but I'll respectfully disagree with him on one point. Perhaps because I was raised in a religion-free home (we just never talked about it, like, ever), I might have an unrefined perspective, but the old testament is not a "great book". It's not even that good, from a literary perspective. At least the English translation I read was linguistically simplistic. Since the "morality" of most of the action is completely absent, trying to grasp how it could possibly guide a good life was nearly impossible. It often made no sense. After hearing for so long about the upright, morally incorruptible Abraham and then to read of his attempted murder (which was clearly his intent, regardless of how it turned out) of his own son was simply confusing. How is it somehow "righteous and good" to kill anyone to prove your love? And that god would ask him to do that and it's also considered a good thing? That's just a lesson from Abuse 101 as far as I'm concerned. That old dusty book of myths may unfortunately still be important in our world, but I think that makes it a mark of collective shame for those who believe and for those who encourage "tolerance" of the promotion of such ideas; but not in any way does that make it "great"...

@rennidenni7792

2 жыл бұрын

I have a similar background and I tend to agree. The moral lessons of the old testament are often bloody wretched. I think where Dr. Ehrman is coming from might have something to do with his being a scholar who has spent a lot of time with the text and has gained a fine eye for picking out the parts of it which are poetically beautiful. Also, dealing with texts in the original language is always more interesting. I know next to nothing about Hebrew, but I've studied Latin and Greek texts a bit and it does make things a lot more interesting. He might be thinking of it in a more linguistic term, but that's just a baseless guess.

@rennidenni7792

2 жыл бұрын

@Nomad of יהוה What? You're gonna have to dial back the unhinged word salad at least 70% before I know what you're saying.

@bellezavudd

2 жыл бұрын

@Nomad of יהוה Nomad of NINI do you always propose inane questions which you then proceed to give inane answers to ? Asking for an imaginary friend.

@bellezavudd

2 жыл бұрын

@Nomad of יהוה 'INANE' not "'INSANE" I wouldn't call you insane ...yet, I just met you. Well then carry on .

I hope there's not going to be math in this course. I'm pretty rusty in that area.

In the beginning,men created God in his own imaginations,then religions,scriptures,prophets and believers was born!!!😁🤣🤣

@truthgiverandfinder3246

2 жыл бұрын

Hebraic yes but Pagans no. The True Pagan Good Gods are Real They are The True Ones The Only Ones.

@joycesky5041

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely so true!

@davidsabillon5182

2 жыл бұрын

Perfection

@tonyxx4514

Жыл бұрын

cringe

If he's managed to find history in Genesis, well, kudos to him. But I'm expected elsewhere.

oh here were touched interesting points, for example, christian scholars would say that jews always were pretty accurate in copying their scrolls and got sort of error corretion method, based on "numbers" of letters, also 2 animals and 7 animals is not... REALLY a contradiction, since the further order is detailed description of previous one And if the flood really happened, some tribes could retain stories about this, convoluted, since tthis were just stories, and no relevation from god, this is why existence of flood stories can be used by christian apologets as a prove, that the flood did really happened

@xaayer

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure what you're arguing but if you read the end of Gen 6 and then the beginning of Get 7, you'll see it is repetitive instruction, not clarification. Then read the Atrahasis as well as the Epic of Gilgamesh and you'll see th threats that both Gen 6 and 7 take from these earlier stories.

@cicik57

2 жыл бұрын

@@xaayer ok i ll check it again if there is clear!!! reference from each of chapters to each of stories, if i understood you correctly.

@bozo5632

2 жыл бұрын

Apologists can harmonize absolutely anything. If Jesus sat on their lap and told them the Bible misquoted Him somewhere, they'd soon have a dozen mutually exclusive tricks for smoothing that over. It's not just apologists of course - everybody adjusts new evidence to fit their existing beliefs - but apologists are especially shameless.

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Obviously the original writer of the Epic of Gilgamesh was a time-travelling plagiarist.

Abraham knew noah and shem who became melchizedek.

Genesis at max 2309 years from Genesis 1.1 to 50.26 with joseph's death in Egypt or met'sryem as hebrews called it.

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