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On Being with Krista Tippett

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A Brief History of Biblical Scholarship and Theology

When and how did you start heading towards a career in biblical scholarship and theology. How did that happen? Consciously, i was an exceedingly late bloomof i was a classics major at college. It never occurred to me to focus on religion or bible. When i was a young person, i wanted to be a librarian,. And isn't it right that you landed in berkeley, at the university of california and bazil in nineteen sixty eight? Is that right? Sixty seven. No, although probably nobody. Nobody emerged unscathed. But, but i actually went to jers am in nineteen sixty nine, largely because ber Berkeley was, youknow, i wanted...

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