The Bible Doesn't Say What You Think it Does
Joel Baden
2 Nov 2014
YouTube (20 min)
http://youtu.be/XS7LgbMr1m4Joel Baden (Professor of Hebrew Bible Yale University) spoke at the 2013 Nantucket Project.
Nearly 80 percent of all Americans think the Bible is either literally true or is the inspired word of God. And yet, most Americans have no idea what is actually in the Bible. So we have the paradoxical situation in which we as a culture "have invested the words of this book with amazing authority even when we don't know what these words are and what they mean."
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