The Bible Geek Podcast 20-013


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Sep 03 2020 76 mins   171
Is the dating of the gospels well established? How do we know Mark was written in 60-70 AD? Could it be MUCH later? Is the Pauline view that the wicked dead will not be resurrected unto judgment derived from the LXX (mis)translation of Psalm 1:5 ? In a recent Bible Geek episode, you used the phrase “weighed in the balance“ from the book of Daniel. The phrase brought to mind the weighing method used by Anubis to determine whether a person’s soul can go to paradise. Do you think the reference in Daniel harks back to Egyptian religion, or is it merely used as a common simile? What would Christianity look like today if Paul The Apostle, had never been born? Would Christianity even exist? Do you think Dr. Robert Eisenman believes that Jesus Christ was not a historical figure? Can you recommend any books that speak to the issue of the claim that the Catholic Church is God's Church from a free thought perspective? Was Paul's view that it was better not to marry part of a larger school of thought? Was celibacy seen as more spiritual or more pure? Was even marital sex viewed as sinful? Perhaps the reasons are more practical, such as lack of financial burden, freedom to travel, etc? What do you think of Daniel Boyarin’s revisionist understanding of the interaction between Jesus and Pharisees in Mark 7? What is the intended gender of the “Sun of righteousness” in Malachi 4:2?