A skilled interviewer lets the guest speak. Wonderful.

Always a pleasure to benefit from Ehrman's scholarship.

I hope all is well with Dr Josh!

Skip to 3:49 if you want to see the cute baby reaching for the mic.

It's not just creation and flood and babel tower that copied from babylon but also the patriarchal stories and mythos too as well as miraculous prophets of the Hebrew persuasion have babylonian and assyrian origins. The hebrews religious customs are babylonian in Origins and as well as some canaanite/palestinian influence too.

Great video

Clay tablets for the win!

Megan isn’t the most engaging host…but she does have her hands full 🙂. As for Dr. Ehrman, I could listen to him all day, every day. I hope he lives to be 970.

Fabulous interview. I wish it was longer. Love that u had one of ur lil ones there with u. So cute.

Oh, fantastic! One of my favourite Biblical scholars on one of my favourite ancient history/religious text channels! What a shame it's not a full hour! {:-:-:}

Megan vs Aron Ra interviewing Dr. Ehrman. 🤔 World count slightly different. 😂

Wonderful questions! And what a well behaved content baby. :)

Holy shit! There was a baby there that hold time.

Genesis was inspired by the Sumerian's cosmogonic

Megan, you let that baby talk. Clearly something important needs to be said lol.

I hope there's not going to be math in this course. I'm pretty rusty in that area.

In the beginning,men created God in his own imaginations,then religions,scriptures,prophets and believers was born!!!😁🤣🤣

I love Dr. Ehrman's work, but I'll respectfully disagree with him on one point. Perhaps because I was raised in a religion-free home (we just never talked about it, like, ever), I might have an unrefined perspective, but the old testament is not a "great book". It's not even that good, from a literary perspective. At least the English translation I read was linguistically simplistic. Since the "morality" of most of the action is completely absent, trying to grasp how it could possibly guide a good life was nearly impossible. It often made no sense. After hearing for so long about the upright, morally incorruptible Abraham and then to read of his attempted murder (which was clearly his intent, regardless of how it turned out) of his own son was simply confusing. How is it somehow "righteous and good" to kill anyone to prove your love? And that god would ask him to do that and it's also considered a good thing? That's just a lesson from Abuse 101 as far as I'm concerned. That old dusty book of myths may unfortunately still be important in our world, but I think that makes it a mark of collective shame for those who believe and for those who encourage "tolerance" of the promotion of such ideas; but not in any way does that make it "great"...

If he's managed to find history in Genesis, well, kudos to him. But I'm expected elsewhere.

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Obviously the original writer of the Epic of Gilgamesh was a time-travelling plagiarist.

oh here were touched interesting points, for example, christian scholars would say that jews always were pretty accurate in copying their scrolls and got sort of error corretion method, based on "numbers" of letters, also 2 animals and 7 animals is not... REALLY a contradiction, since the further order is detailed description of previous one And if the flood really happened, some tribes could retain stories about this, convoluted, since tthis were just stories, and no relevation from god, this is why existence of flood stories can be used by christian apologets as a prove, that the flood did really happened

Abraham knew noah and shem who became melchizedek.

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Genesis at max 2309 years from Genesis 1.1 to 50.26 with joseph's death in Egypt or met'sryem as hebrews called it.