S3 Ep. 31 Biblical Studies 101 for Ex-Christadelphians with Steve

Today we’re chatting with Steve about one of his favorite topics, Biblical Studies! In this episode, we learn about the Bible from a former Christadelphian brother who left behind Christadelphian dogma for an open-minded scholarly approach to the Bible. In this episode, Dr. Steve reframes and explores many topics that we thought we knew about to see how context, translation, and history play a part in truly understanding the Bible. We learn that the Dead Sea Scrolls do *not* prove that the Bible hasn’t changed (like some of us were told), that the Bible underwent editing, redaction, and other changes throughout history (rather than being the perfect, unchangeable word of God), and that numerous passages in the Bible actually quote texts that are not found in the KJV Bible we read at all (and we never noticed?!) Steve’s expertise also brings about interesting discussion about the evolution of the doctrine of resurrection, the idea of atonement, whether God forbids homosexuality in Leviticus, and whether “Paul” actually wrote that women should be silent in the ecclesia. We also had fun exploring “sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll” in the Bible, reading “Solomon’s top ten pick-up lines”, and listening to Steve’s memory of a satirical prayer given at a Christadelphian ecclesia. Be warned, you’ll need to leave your Strongs Concordance at home for this episode, otherwise you’ll fail this class!      Listener discretion advised.    If you’re interested in coming on the podcast or have comments or questions, you can contact Zinnia at [email protected]   Resources and References:   Reading the Bible Again For the First Time by Marcus Borg   Grimms’ Fairy Tales   The Documentary Hypothesis   Who wrote the Bible? By Richard Elliot Friedman   Redaction Criticism    National Treasure   Pseudopigrapha   Catholic Bible   Orthodox Bible   Coptic Bible   Ethiopic Bible   Testament of Moses   Testament of the 12 patriarchs   The Wisdom of Solomon   Solomon's Top Ten Pick-Up Lines   3 books of Isaiah   Wisdom of Sirach/ Ben Sira   The Birmingham Amended Statement of Faith   Hapax legomenon (a word that occurs in only one place)   Apocryphon of Jannes and Jambres   Testament of Job    Strong’s concordance   The Book of Judith   Judith beheading Holofernes (Caravaggio)   Judith Slaying Holofernes (Artemisia Gentileschi)   The Talmud   Cult Bride: How I was Brainwashed- and How I Broke Free by Liz Cameron   Book of Enoch   Instagram video on pseudepigrapha    The Ancient Greeks and Quotation Marks   The Bible: Leviticus 18:22 & 20:13, James 5:11, Ezekiel 18:20,  2 Tim 3:16, Song of Solomon 1:9, Isaiah 26:19, Daniel 12:2, 1 Timothy 2:11-12, 1 Corinthians 11:2-16