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Episode 191: Pete & Jared - Creative Interpretation as Necessary

The Bible For Normal People

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The Devastation of the Temple Was Itas Itwas

The bible doesn't talk the same way as you'd find later in judaism. But these are adjustments and changes in theology, because the god of old has to have a connection to the people of the present. There's developments wwithin culture that then get read, scripture passages get read in light of second temple Judaism. This time period thoughts of the after life begin to develop more fully. Good people go here, bad people go there. That we don't find in the hebrew bible really, now. We find it now, because we read back into after these developments. You know, culture is not the enemy. Culture is a fact, yes, right? And

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