Old Testament Studies: An (Un)Academic Modern History
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This podcast brings Old Testament scholarship from the ivory towers of academia into the common language of every podcast listener. In each episode, I look at the life and academic contributions of one modern Old Testament scholar to understand how their ideas developed and show their impact on our understanding of the Old Testament.
Old Testament Studies: An (Un)Academic Modern History
2M ago
Lord Kames believed that societies became increasingly better and so the Old Testament is a relic of earlier, flawed culture and mythology but the creation of humans in Genesis was essentially true ..read more
Old Testament Studies: An (Un)Academic Modern History
3M ago
John Toland rejected traditional interpretations of the Bible and wanted modern scholars to use newer techniques to analyze meaning of the language and the placement of biblical books within the canon. He believed that both the Old and New Testaments taught the law of nature when they were interpreted properly ..read more
Old Testament Studies: An (Un)Academic Modern History
3M ago
Thomas Morgan called himself a Christian deist and argued that the Old Testament was political religion used to enslave the Israelite people and entirely at odds with true Christianity and the religion of nature ..read more
Old Testament Studies: An (Un)Academic Modern History
3M ago
Bossuet organized history into epochs and claimed that the Old Testament shows God's interaction with humanity and the devolvement of human culture that can only be rectified by divinely appointed monarchs ..read more
Old Testament Studies: An (Un)Academic Modern History
4M ago
William Stevens argued that Benjamin Kennicott was deceived by Jewish forgers and no variant manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible were legitimate and these forgeries were intended as a Trojan horse to infiltrate and destroy Christianity ..read more
Old Testament Studies: An (Un)Academic Modern History
5M ago
Bossuet organized history into epochs and claimed that the Old Testament shows God's interaction with humanity and the devolvement of human culture that can only be rectified by divinely appointed monarchs ..read more
Old Testament Studies: An (Un)Academic Modern History
5M ago
William Wotton argued that Chinese history was unreliable but the Old Testament explains the history of the world perfectly including the development of languages from the tower of Babel story in Genesis 11 ..read more
Old Testament Studies: An (Un)Academic Modern History
6M ago
William Jones compared the Old Testament to Hinduism and Persian poetry. He questioned whether Indian philosophy informed Moses and asserted the theological unity of Hebrew poetry with Persian poetry and other hymns to God ..read more
Old Testament Studies: An (Un)Academic Modern History
6M ago
John Hutchinson claimed that Hebrew was the language given by God and the words allow people to properly perceive the world and understand the deeper divine truths ..read more
Old Testament Studies: An (Un)Academic Modern History
7M ago
Samuel Clarke claimed that the Old Testament was written by idolaters, including Moses, and for idolaters, so it is no longer necessary after the pure, logical, spiritual teachings of Jesus in the New Testament ..read more