They got the argument from embarrassment wrong. Something that could embarrass the characters is included, and supports the claim that the text is accurate, because mere propaganda would always make the main character out to be heroic. NOT showing him heroic implies...reality. To her point, it sounds like she hasn't read Ehrman's book that covers that topic

Interesting but teaching evolution (whatever that means) in schools is indistinguishable from teaching religion. It's not science - it's unfalsifiable and based on huge leaps to fill in gaps. It has no credible explanation for the Cambrian explosion, for example. You're just teaching kids one religion over another and pretending it's not.

Henry evokes the dream of discovering an "Aramaic 1st century Thomas source". This is one puzzle in textual criticism: Why does there seem to be such a rejection of the existence of Aramaic texts, preferring instead to believe in the existence of uniquely oral Aramaic traditions? It's true that we have no Aramaic texts today with 1st century origins. But we do have extensive attestation from the apostolic fathers that a "Hebrew Gospel" existed, specifically an original Matthew.

Maybe Thomas just wrote what he himself heard Jesus say, as it says, and there was no oral tradition or copied from anybody.

Try this experiment with your students, say a class of some 15: give an a fairly complex, but very important 20 minute lecture. Then, a month later have each prepare a summary of it. You will undoubtedly find similarities (as each student recalls key points in the same way), differences (as each student interprets key points in their own understanding of them), and also evidences of how some students got together and compared notes (reaching a mini-consensus on certain points that other students chose to gloss over). Hence Mark, via Peter, Matthew, John, and Thomas, who each recalled what Jesus had said years after the fact, as they dictated to bilingual scribes - for the express purpose of evangelization aids in different regions. Gospel scrolls and parchments then got recopied by new generation scribes, with Markian, Johnian, and Thomine traditions flourishing. Apostolic authority

Is he a jevv?

😃 Thank you, Katie and Andrew! Fascinating chat as well as it's Religion For Breakfast companion video! 😃

I had been wondering about this. Thank you for such a great interview!

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9:00 This is such a cool discussion! - i've been curious about church vestments (largely because i think they look cool) for a bit, particularly their potential origins in the 2nd temple period, I'd love to know more about that topic or see an interview about it. I'm also delighted by the thought of a Disneyland branded Mickey Mouse mitre.

Never knew about the horned Moses.

oh cool a research pape- PAYWALL

5:30 maybe he was angry about the treatment or situation of the leper and had compassion on him?

TELL DRUZE FELLOW SAMARIAN GET BACK TO JEWISH BIBLE ONLY OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT !

Please make new video explain why druzes who are from samaritan cutheans are from JEWS levite lines and the hezbollah attacks them to attack levite lines who have cliams over libans AND THEY HAVE DEED TO LAND IN BIBLE GOD GAVE TO US LEVITES LINES THE LANDS AND SO HAMAS HEZBOLLAH ATTACKS DRUZES SO PLEASE TALK TO THE DRUZE GENTLEMENS PLEASE TO EXPLAIN HOW MANNASEH THAT MARRIED CUTHEANS IS WHAT UPSET EZRA NEHEMIAH AS DARIUS 3 APPOINTED CUTHEAN SAMARITAN GOVERNOR SANBALLOT AND HE DEMANDED THE SHILOH TEMPLE BE BUILT WHICH THEY ALL FOLLOWED JEWISH WAYS UNTIL CUTHEANS SANBALLOT UPSET THE HIGH PRIEST FAMILY BUT THAT YEARS LATER HUNDRED YEARS LATER JESUS LORD GOD did go out to samaria and try to save them he went to mannasehs woman at the well who was manassehs lines from levite high priest line and she recognized it was LORD GOD JESUS WHO CAME TO FILL THE PROMISE TO SAVE ALL PEOPLES AND INGRAFT THEM IN THROUGH FORGIVNESS SO LORD GOD CARED AND LOVED THE SAMARITAN PEOPLES SO THE SAMARITAN DRUZE OF THEM LATER SEPARATED OFF BRANCH THEN THE CALIPHATES GUYS ATTACKED TAKE OVER IMPOSED HARMS TO THEM AND NOW TODAY THE HEZBOLLAH HAMAS TERRORIST ATTACKING DRUZE FELLOWS AS THEY ARE REAL LEVITE ORIGINS AND THE HEZBOLLAH GUYS ALL SO ORIGINATES FROM SUCH AND HE IS EVIL THINKING IF HE KILLS THEN HE GET CLAIM SO HE TRIED TO ATTACK THE OTHERS JEWS AND DRUZE TO KILL CAUSE THEY WERE FROM HIGH PRIESTS LINES THIS IS WHY THEY GET TARGTED! THE FIVE POINT STARS RED GREEN ARE THE DIVIDED KINGDOMS IN EGYPT THEY COME FROM PAGAN EGYPT GODS COLOURS THAT DESIGNATE NORTH AND SOUTH KINGDOM OF EGYPT WHERE SAM EIS ON PALESTINE CAPHTORIM FLAGS RED GREEN WEST NILE COLOURS ON PALESTINE FLAGS THE BLACK WEST OF NILE WHITE NORTHWEST AND THIS WHER ETHE PALESTINES FLAGS ARE THE DRUZE ONES SHOW RED GREEN FLAGS EGYPT WITE BLUE ISRAEL JUDAH AND YELLOW WAS LEVITES EAST SIDE WHERE SUN RISES THE HIGH PRIEST LINES DO LIVE ON EAST SIDE CAMPS SO DRUZES ARE HAVING STAR FOR SUCH AND THEY NEED TO EXPLAIN HOW THEY WERE OF JEWS THROUGH MANNASEHS HIGH PRIEST LINES AND THEN THEY MARRIED SANBALLOTS CUTHEAN PAGAN DAUGHTER AND CAUSED TEH DIVIDE DURING DARIUS 3 REIGN SO THE FALSE MYTH THAT DRUZE WERE TH EPAGAN ISLAM NO THEY ARE NOT ! THE JETHRO MIDIANS ARE OF MOSES THEY WERE FROM ALSO HAGAR EGYPTIAN ISHMAELS LINES MARRIED TO MOSES THIS IS WHO THEY ARE You should make video about ezra nehemiah and sanballot fight when high priest son married sanballot daughter and caused divide so as to explain to children how the jewish high priest line became divided then lead to the explanation of after the 400 era through 300 to 165 the paganry where imposition to be pagan was and why the rebelled and why divides happened explain how when JESUS went to samaria the apostles separated from JESUS but HE GOD went to the woman at the well who talked to HIM GOD and RECOGNIZED HE WAS THE ONE THEY WAITED FOR THAT WAS OF HIGH PRIESTS LINES THE PESACH so HE went to SAMARITANS as they were HIS FAMILY the ones whose LEVITE HIGH PRIEST LINES EZRA NEHEMIAH KICKED OUT WHEN THE GUY MARRIED SANBALLOTS DAUGHTER paul l meir writes about it antiquities and of priest who fought in temple and divided and then after jonathan and jesus the earlier high priest that was in nehemiahs days and cuthean sanballot was sent by daruis 3 to govern and then the jaduaa brother manasseh married CUTHEANS and sanballot cuthean ways did divide again the high priest who already fought during bagoses eras and they are divide where samaritans cuthean mixed lines start and then samarians became druzes and other but cutheans josephus says are them mixes it all and then LATER by THE GOD JESUS ERA HE went to samaria to women at well who was the ancestor of MANNASEHS lines the levites as HE CAME TO SAVE THEM then HE offered slavation and restoration to unify through GOD to be as one people with healing and slavation through JESUS BLOOD ON CROSS AS KINSMAN REDEEMER as numbers says so HE WAS HIGH PRIEST LINE BETHLEHEM RAISES PESACH SHEEP ABIJAHS and HE WAS THE ONE HE tried to save samaritans and they are the ones who druzes came from and they were part of levites but also mixed with cutheans this is what samaritans were and the later imposition of islam on such futher changed druzes but they need to recall they were CALLED BY GOD YHVH HASHEM JESUS LORD GOD TO BE SAVED BY HIM

You should make video about ezra nehemiah and sanballot fight when high priest son married sanballot daughter and caused divide so as to explain to children how the jewish high priest line became divided then lead to the explanation of after the 400 era through 300 to 165 the paganry where imposition to be pagan was and why the rebelled and why divides happened explain how when JESUS went to samaria the apostles separated from JESUS but HE GOD went to the woman at the well who talked to HIM GOD and RECOGNIZED HE WAS THE ONE THEY WAITED FOR THAT WAS OF HIGH PRIESTS LINES THE PESACH so HE went to SAMARITANS as they were HIS FAMILY the ones whose LEVITE HIGH PRIEST LINES EZRA NEHEMIAH KICKED OUT WHEN THE GUY MARRIED SANBALLOTS DAUGHTER paul l meir writes about it antiquities and of priest who fought in temple and divided and then after jonathan and jesus the earlier high priest that was in nehemiahs days and cuthean sanballot was sent by daruis 3 to govern and then the jaduaa brother manasseh married CUTHEANS and sanballot cuthean ways did divide again the high priest who already fought during bagoses eras and they are divide where samaritans cuthean mixed lines start and then samarians became druzes and other but cutheans josephus says are them mixes it all and then LATER by THE GOD JESUS ERA HE went to samaria to women at well who was the ancestor of MANNASEHS lines the levites as HE CAME TO SAVE THEM then HE offered slavation and restoration to unify through GOD to be as one people with healing and slavation through JESUS BLOOD ON CROSS AS KINSMAN REDEEMER as numbers says so HE WAS HIGH PRIEST LINE BETHLEHEM RAISES PESACH SHEEP ABIJAHS and HE WAS THE ONE HE tried to save samaritans and they are the ones who druzes came from and they were part of levites but also mixed with cutheans this is what samaritans were and the later imposition of islam on such futher changed druzes but they need to recall they were CALLED BY GOD YHVH HASHEM JESUS LORD GOD TO BE SAVED BY HIM

I don't understand why the most problematic text is considered the most likely to be the original. Why can't literary sabotage or poor workmanship be the cause.

WTF? Why would you want to eradicate religion? That’s fucked up. You guys are fucked up.

What about whales? Their vocalizations have long been considered songs.

This recently came up among my Facebook friends: Is this correct? : From Naomi Wolf, Ph. D: “Okay, so I was challenged below: "Read the Bible! God gave the land of Israel to the Jewish people." So....I may get crucified for this but I have started to say it -- most recently (terrified, trembling) to warm welcome in a synagogue in LA: Actually if you read Genesis Exodus and Deuteronomy in Hebrew -- as I do -- you see that God did not "give" Israel to the Jews/Israelites. We as Jews are raised with the creed that "God gave us the land of Israel" in Genesis -- and that ethnically 'we are the chosen people." But actually -- and I could not believe my eyes when I saw this, I checked my reading with major scholars and they confirmed it -- actually God's "covenant" in Genesis, Exodus and Deuteronomy with the Jewish people is NOT ABOUT AN ETHNICITY AND NOT ABOUT A CONTRACT. IT IS ABOUT A WAY OF BEHAVING. Again and again in the "covenant" language He never says: "I will give you, ethnic Israelites, the land of Israel." Rather He says something far more radical - far more subversive -- far more Godlike in my view. He says: IF you visit those imprisoned...act mercifully to the widow and the orphan...welcome the stranger in your midst...tend the sick...do justice and love mercy ....and perform various other tasks...THEN YOU WILL BE MY PEOPLE AND THIS LAND WILL BE YOUR LAND. So "my people" is not ethnic -- it is transactional. We are God's people not by birth but by a way of behaving, that is ethical, kind and just. And we STOP being "God's people" when we are not ethical, kind and just. And ANYONE who is ethical, kind and just is, according to God in Genesis, "God's people." And the "contract" to "give" us Israel is conditional -- we can live in God's land IF we are "God's people" in this way -- just, merciful, compassionate. AND -- it never ever says, it is ONLY your land. Even when passages spell out geographical "boundaries" as if God does such a thing, it never says this is exclusively your land. It never says I will give this land JUST to you. Remember these were homeless nomads who had left slavery in Egypt and were wandering around in the desert; at most these passages say, settle here, but they do not say, settle here exclusively. Indeed again and again it talks about welcoming "zarim" -- translated as "strangers" but can also be translated as "people/tribes who are not you" -- in your midst. Blew my mind, hope it blows yours." - Dr. Naomi Wolf

Thousand thanks, Dr. Andrew Mark Henry, for your convincing proven facts about Buddhism's influence on ancient Greek philosophies. I always think along the lines you have presented. But could not do as you have done. Congratulation! The connected roots and branches of all religions should be diagrammed too. I hope you'll be able to make it in the future. :)

what guides their approach to shame i wonder? christianity has sin. i guess they'd say civil and criminal law?

What if all three synoptic gospels are written by the same person? I mean, maybe someone was written the first gospel, he published it, bat after some years, he changed his mind and he decided to re write it, and then he did it again after some time. It could explain a lot things and solve many problems.

This information makes me reflect on the hyper-religious black population in the United States when compared alongside the trauma of continental Africans that are exploited to convert to religion when calamity visits there homes and nations. American history records the plight of the formerly enslaved African in America as; traumatic, exploitative, marginalizing, detrimental and oppressive. In my opinion, this study appears to substance to the secondary religious capture of traumatize African Americans.

Ritual is not a human universal. The Amazonian Piraha don't have any religious ritual or concept of the supernatural.

Thank you very much for this. I have been waiting for years to find a doctor within the Druze religion, and today I finally found one. I truly resonate with Dr. Radwan. I am a Druze myself, holding a Bachelor's degree in the Science of Religion. I pursued this field out of self-reflection and a curiosity about my heritage and identity. Born in Denmark, I had limited exposure to the Druze community beyond my parents. Losing them a decade ago further distanced me from the religion, making me feel marginalized as an individual, as religion often serves as a pillar of community, belonging, and connection to one's heritage. So, thank you again for this. Is there a way to contact Dr. Radwan?

I get the hypothesis that Luke got the material formerly known as Q from Matthew , but where did Matthew get it from? Whatever you choose to call it, it is the putative words of Jesus from a source other than Mark.

This Satan why are y'all still here?

Salad dressing was born Julius Caesar died and built the sewer

44:31 "I've really enjoyed the chat." I've REALLY enjoyed it. What a great video and what a great guest, so knowledgeable of the NT depths and mysteries and such an engaging speaker. Thanks to both of you.

I didn't think I'd like the longer format, but I loved this

the way he says e c o n o m i c s

I am not an athiest, I am a Christian, and this video was refreshing and encouraging. Hearing people seeking relationship and belongingness. Good video.

This is more a twisted-Woke version of the Goths.

I know Dr. Wood isn't a behavioral ecologist or an ethologist, but I feel very surprised that, given his interests in psychology and evolutionary biology, that he's not more up to date on the literature regarding non-human communication. Just as a brief example, songbirds are a common study animal for the evolution of language, due to the complexities of their songs, male-female bonding and territory defense duets, and different dialects in different regions within the same species. Not to mention the commonality of mating dances across a variety of taxa, the famous humpback whale "pop songs", referential and multi-modal communication (most commonly in the form of predator alerts and specific vocalizations to refer to specific predators), or trance-like states that chimpanzees will apparently enter in to (either alone or as a group) when approaching certain environmental features (typically a waterfall). As a behavioral ecologist who has spent time in both ethology circles and psychology circles, it's both extremely common and extremely grating to continue hearing about the apparent "specialness" of humans in some aspect or other that "other animals don't do". The reality has been, and likely will continue to be, that the differences between humans and other animals is one of degree and not of kind. Just about everything that has been touted as "purely human", from tool use to laughing when having fun to sex for pleasure, has been found in some degree in other animals. I don't think this is an exception.

Dierdre!! I worked with her back in the day; what an exquisite soul. This is great; love this! John exalts MM - so if Martha was redacted in would be consistent with that Joanine MM bent. I am of the school that believes Mary of Bethany refers to MM. There are many reasons to interpret it this way. Luke also changes the anointing story drastically -- Luke was later than John, so I'd be interested in when the redactions of John to include Martha appear. I concur with this woman entirely, and thrilled by the textual research. John was controversial enough without having the heretical authority, MM, to be so very prominent. Go Elizabeth Schrader!!!

Good work!

Now I know where his PhD students got their podcast idea from

Why is Black Hebrew/Israelites forming? It seems made up to fit a need for certain people to be more special in God’s eye and no Jesus. ??

So Thomas is Boba Fett. Gets a minor role in the original, then much later on, gets his own book…

If the son of man or dwelth amongst man walkthrough the lands, the color of the avatar but it depends the land to inhabit, either citizenship or language to speak it remains a stronghold of its temple (Flesh).

Great interview. I’m new to this stuff, so I’ll let the scholars analyze the info here, and I’ll just add “Hey Now, cutie”

Hears the word of God? This is likely a reference to the ability to hear as "the beginning of the response of Jah (יענה) "john" and i think it reveals something about Mary's relationship with God even before the conception of Jesus.

This, again, is a parallel with John: The large fish harken back to why Jesus had a bed of coals prepared for the 153. The 153 vs the slew can be explained by the temple of Dagon and how many men and women were on the first floor vs how many were on the second floor. You must listen with an ear to hear. Begin with THERE were women THERE. And when youve determined the numbers, ask yourself how those numbers on each floor could vary so greatly. I think you will realize why there was a bed of coals. ( this has been an important passage to me for a different reason. The risen king of kings and Lord of Lords was making breakfast for fishermen. I should say had already made the breakfast.)

John is a Hebrew word that translates as "the beginning of the response of Jah." You can find the root in Proverbs translated as "the beginning of the response." Just add the yowd. All the gospels are titled according to Judaiic tradition. The titles were taken ftom the first words of the text and translated to Hebrew. Mark, Luke and John are obvious. Matthew is more difficult. It is built on את as θεου. מאת, μετθεου. Α beginning from God or with God? This also raises the question of John's description of "In the beginning was the Word and the word was with God," And the possibility that אלוהימ את might also be read אךוהי מאת, In effect, Jesus is the manifestation of God. He is the angel of his presence. Remember when Peter "passed on" through the iron gate and came to his."self?" This ia an ability of the sons of God, as is John outrunning the others to Christ's tomb. The women in prayer who were waiting for Peter expected first to see the angel of his presence. They were not speaking foolishly. They, too, were Sons of God. This knowledge might be beyond your ability right now. This has much to do with eyes to see and ears to hear given as we progress on the way. I think the ability to recognize accurate scripture by words and concepts that agree is a talent of those who have been granted this grace. You are young and beautiful. (Lol,) someday you will have traveled farther on the way of life and these graces come.

The woman caught in adultery would belong toJohn because it deals with who is qualified to judge. He who is without sin would be part of the mysteries of "the good part"--the "Sons of God," both male and female.

A thought that keeps me up at night is what if these lost documents were found by completely reckless people and destroyed forever before any archaeologists could come in

When the synoptic gospels are compared in their proper order the variations always show the same progression. Most obvious is the ship in a storm progressing farther across the sea before needing the help ofJesus because their faith has grown. And there is the increase in one's light. At first it is small and ultimately grows to shine out the window to be seen by others. A careful comparison shows this progress in every passage.

Thanks for another great video🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thank you.