
Episode 210: Sidnie White Crawford - What You Really Need to Know about the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Bible For Normal People
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Isaiah and Jeremiah - Is the Book of Judaism in a Different Order?
In certain religious traditions, we're afraid of more diversity in the past. The most faithful or respectful way to handle the bible is to crystallize it and make no change. And that just hasn't always been the case. For scribes, it actually was part of respect, it was part of what this sacred responsibility was to pass it along,. That's a really nice phrase, jared's sacred responsibility. i think they felt that very strongly. Sometimes you do get a sense of the scribes working with the text and trying to not not perfect it because that would be wrong. They probably thought it was great that you could read and benefit from different forms of the sacred text and learn
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