Old Testament Studies: An (Un)Academic Modern History

About Old Testament Studies: An (Un)Academic Modern History

This podcast brings Old Testament scholarship from the ivory towers of academia into the common language of every podcast listener. I break down the technical conversations and methods of analyzing the Old Testament so that everyone can be involved in the academic conversations about what the Old Testament is, where it came from, and what its message is. 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.

Publisher

Nicholas J. Campbell

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Feb 2021

Latest episode

28 Nov 2022

Latest episodes

50 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Nov 2022

   Henry Home (Lord Kames)

   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.

2. 

   14 Nov 2022

   John Toland

   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.

3. 

   31 Oct 2022

   Thomas Morgan

   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.

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