This was a very interesting discussion, perfect for the interested but non specialist viewer. Another great guest.

The demon of "Which of you bastards am I gonna have to shiv to get the last slice of pizza"

Fun fact, the word firmament is still used in spanish(firmamento) mostly in poetic or classy texts... Like the song of the flag in argentina "salve argentina, bandera azul y blanca, jiron del cielo en donde imoera el sol... Yo te saludo, bandera de mi patria, el firmamento su color te dio"

Dr. Josh you do a pretty good Kent Hovind 👏 👏

This made for great listening while working on my dissertation. :) Funny you mention ancient aliens; I started learning Sumerian recently and can't help but think of a rocket ship each time I see the 'lugal' sign!

Love to see another interview with this scholar on demons and infection, especially apropos for what’s going on right now with the covid19 threat.

Fyi.. my bearded dragon is named Tiamat and my Blue Tongued Skink is Absu lol

I would love to take Dr. Konstantopoulos brain out for a date. This stream was magnificent and your chemistry was so great. Please have her back, so few make such "Dusty scholarship," so enjoyable.

Loving the cat. :D

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Eretz means both an area of land AND the earth. You can know by the context which meaning is intended. Earth is definitely intended in the flood story. It literally says that the water covered all the mountains under heaven. It was a worldwide flood.

Nothing she said in the portion talking about the picture brought up with the rings and triangles denotes a flat earth. I think that people are seriously reading there own preconceived ideas of the ancient people into the words they said. The picture denotes a globe more than a flat earth.

Didn’t expect an @Hbomberguy shoutout here! Amazing, I think he would love it 🥰

I really enjoyed this conversation!

The real content starts (slowly) at 3:35.

Your pronunciation of her last name is not that bad... The closest i got was "constant topless"

Are you saying that Adapa could use dragon speak, Fus Ro Da????

*Location of “Errata”?* They thought they had it right, but it turned out to be a mistake @15:30

44:21 *Eat dust for all eternity* Whoa! Is that the basis for part of the Genesis 3:14 curse on the serpent … “… you will eat dust all the days of your life”.?

Dr. Gina can't stop! 😁

Did you know that lugalbanda in the mountain cave describes a very similar "story" than the way some ocultist/hermetic orders use as a guide for their initiation? I wonder why...

Have you done any video on the break down of the Enuma Elsih? It seems to lead to the Zecharia Sitchin ideas of ancient astronauts. I cannot seem to find a single video that does the Enuma Elish justice to those who are just interested in human origins.

@ Digital Hammurabi , sorry I missed your life feed , AGAIN ( ikhre^ gu Ha^li ) , Question for Dr Gina : how do you now that ? how do you know what they wrote about was not what we think it was about ? in relation to their advanced science in times where impossible ( i.e ability to build batteries used as mobile power stations to gold plate utensils , e,t,c ) another thing : we do not have a word even today in Assyrian Aramaic words for cars , or trains so we use : Automable = cars , Machina = Train , Makina = Machine e.t.c so why did my Ancestors had words for flying machines such as S^u-s^ar ( a supreme flying craft ) . perhaps they did know earth was not flat , since all spherical data were imposed as disc clay for better use in study or record of spherical map on clay disc for shelving more data than actual spherical clay text , which we did have cylinder shaped seals , texts and even octagon shaped books . perhaps the word : four corners of the world, did not mean earth was flat , rather the four regions of earth ( as of East, West , North and South ) i.e : the Ziusudra account( the flood ) : the south storm rose like a battle from the corner of the world , it charged like like a battle ........e.t.c , I am curious to know your answers to my questions . thank you for your time and sharing your information .

On the Flood ... depends on which era. Ur/Eridu are now inland relative to 4,000 BCE. But during the last Ice Age, 15,000 BCE, land extended all the way to the Straight of Hormuz. There were hunter/gatherers living there.

What's Akkadian for "doobie"?

Shes such a dork and I love it

Haha Dr. Gina is adorable!

Neither the mention of a firmament nor the four corners of the earth are references to a flat earth. You don't magically get four corners by making the earth flat as they still say It's a flat circle, not square. And It's not even clear what the firmament was/is, but if it was something solid it could just as well encompass the whole sphere just like atmosphere does. It doesn't have to touch down in Antarctica lol. Moreover It's possible that the firmament is the radiation belt, or even more simply outerspace itself. It's not a word used anymore, but it has,a connotation of being something spread out and in context has some sort of force to divide waters. We all know that extra physical forces like gravity or the radiation belt exist, so there is no mention of a dome with the firmament. The Bible is not among the ancient texts that support a flat earth which makes me doubt the conclusion that other ancient civilizations did. Perhaps your misinterpreting the information like you are with the Bible.

Hehe. Funny to hear that joke from Die Hard. I often visit Helsinki. Josh and Megan if you ever visit Finland and go to Helsinki let me know. I would like to offer you drinks in my favorite bar. 25:57 Oh I know hbomberguy. Yeah, he's videos are really good for what I've seen. I may subscribe later. And I also see at least parallels to the racist ideas of past in those ancient alien beliefs. I read somewhere that when the ruins of ancient Zimbabwe were discovered, the German archaeologist back then imagined it could not have been build by black people and that a group of white people had traveled to Africa and build it. 49:35 Now I'm thinking of Steven Universe. I would love to have Dr Konstantopoulos return and compare how people back them dealt with demons to modern exorcism.

What is the firmament is my go-to question for people that claim there are no problems in the Bible. Also I love the second guest here ie professor mao

My pen is corroded for lack of slaughter.

Your Kent Hovind needs another spoonful of condescension 😂

This page got a Wikipedia context insertion about the Flat Earth, as though someone or somebot thought this advocated the idea, instead of studying the topic academically.

" This stuff is nuts! " Well, they went to school for a long time to know what they are saying is nuts. Scholarship is more than, a funny haircut, wack Indiana Jones costume and a history Channel camera recording. This is great.

Dr. Josh, @4:41 you said " That's a little condescending." Reminds me of a joke... In the 1863 an art theif who happened to be a midget was sentenced to life imprisonment. But midgets were so unusual in England in those times the prisons were not really designed for keeping people of unusually diminuative size. It was less than a month into his sentence when he found a way out. Early in the morning before the sun rose he slipped through a gap between two walls, climbed up a waterspout and toward the most outside fence. In a moment of pride, and knowing he would escape, just as the dawn broke, and as he climbed down the border fence, he shouted out to the gaurd in the tower now far away. "I have beaten you! I have defeated your great walls! Not a month could you keep me bound! I laugh at your high fences and I laugh at you!" And the gaurd sounded back... "That's a little con descending!" @48:45 or so: Levels of Heaven; The word "jasper" sharpened my ears. The Bible has it that the base color of the levels of Heaven are jasper in hue. The lower levels having a glow surrounding them which also is jasper in color. However, the uppermost part of Heaven, the Habitation of God, is described as having an emerald green "rainbow" round about it. I have searched my memory and for all your videos and for all my learning I do not know what color "lapis" is. Would it be some medium green? Now I'm going to go look it up.... nevermind answering. Yes, Doctor Josh, of course you are correct that peoples presuppositional and dogmatic beliefs cause a certain view. Pride also must be summated into that equation. What of a view that does not have these and other conflicts? My presuppositions approaching the text were clichê anti-theism. Neither religious persons nor secular scholars are purposely self-decieved. They have no choice. They have heard no suggestion of a view that permits anything else. This is where I am one strange beast. I expect no one to believe me without some thirty hours of me explaining. I'm happy to do that. Most just get frustrated, though I may be extra gentle toward all, and they simply drop out of the conversation. I am working toward improving my presentation but I am only about seven years old in this. I'll be practicing at Skylar's channel. Great presentation, this video. Thank you for your work.

Dr. Josh, Do you hold to anti-supernaturalism and the non-possibility of divine revelation as an ‘a priori’ in your studies, or is your position the result of evidential considerations? Also, this may not be the venue, but “if” God inspired Scripture and the biblical doctrine of inspiration was true, could God not move upon the prophet, utilize his language, and write something applicable to the immediate culture while also transcending the culture for the sake of future generations? Let me give an example where it would be clearly eisegetical to interpret a text in the NT, as you are doing here, by suggesting that “four pillars” or “four corners” means that the text is presupposing a flat earth. In Colossians, Paul refers to Christ as the “fullness” of the Deity incarnō. I’m sure you know that the term “fullness” has significant meaning within Gnosticism in referring to the divine emanations right down to Sophia, who in turn created the demiergos who created matter, which is evil. So, the “fullness” of the divine incarnis is a scandal to the gnostic mind. So, I am sure that Paul was not identifying Christ as the incarnation of all the divine beings of the Gnostic fullness. He simply used the term and poured in a different meaning as a polemic. I can come up with a number of examples to show that “similarity of language” does not mean “identity of concept” between cultures. This is why I think that guys like Heiser and Walton have taken the knowledge of ANE culture (which is helpful) too far in interpreting the biblical text. And so with Genesis, far from adopting the ANE cosmology it is actually a polemic against it. But, I would not be able to convince you, since you don’t think Moses wrote it -LOL! I would just like to hear more of your rationale. Since we came from a similar background and my scholarship pushed me to be more conservative and you lost your faith in Christianity. Peace

Do you know for a fact the earth is not flat, or the earth is a globe? We know and believe what has been taught to us. None of the pictures of the world are real, they are CGI's, before we make fun of the idea that the earth is flat, let's do some research. I do like your programs and I thank you for that.

Man I love Josh so much but he is a terrible speaker. This show could be reduced to 20 minutes if his brain was plugged in and his mouth was working. So much space between words, as if he doesn't even know what he is going to say. Especially in the beginning 15 or 20 minutes I'm like "FUCKING TALK MAN!!" And in this case, the guest is doing it too. This sounds like a support group for xanax addicts. I'm sorry, I just have to read your books. Because I definitely know you are wise.

Don’t often get a chance to sum things up in one word. CONDESCENDING. Ironic or perhaps even intentional you led with the word. Check your ego and run some tests; you seem smart, do your best.

No amount of degrees can make one funny. It's harder than it looks. Please leave jokes to funny people. Your lame jokes come across as arrogance. Play it straight and stick to the topic.

whats so funny lady... all your studies are based on what someone else wrote down or mapped, what about what wasn't written down or mapped.. now that's funny believing in what someone else did and thinking your an expert on it. LOL