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#27 Can I trust the Old Testament?

Ask NT Wright Anything

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The Myth of the Babylonian Exile

I suppose for a lot of people, it's having to contempt themselves with the fact that we can't literally get back there. It looks as though somebody probably at the time of the Babylonian exile has done a lot of editing. Does that mean it was made up from scratch then? Of course not. Ultimately, if you go that route, you would have Martin Luther be the author of The Letter to the Galatians because it was so important for him in the 16th century. But no actually, he's retrieving something much older. We've got two stuck in the 18th century and we need again to lighten up.

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