Book · 1956 · Bible
Understanding the Old Testament
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The book that really was disturbing for me was the Old Testament because I started reading it very young and the things in it were supposed to accept as real.
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Maybe we could set up a time to go through the Old Testament you know one book at a time that'd be cool I be down for that.
In a way, it's the kind of it's the molten heart of what Christians call the Old Testament, it's it's literally the word of God.
If we read the Old Testament, are those fundamentally stories of cultural persistence? After all, Judaism is still with us, right? That's quite remarkable.
Tyler Cowen Conversations with Tyler · Jul 2020 I was reading the Bible, the Old Testament, the Torah, the Talmud, and all of these stuff.
So they're drawing on that ancient term and tradition from the Old Testament.
Stephen Dubner Freakonomics Radio · Jul 2014 Where and when it comes up
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Understanding the Old Testament by Bernhard W. Anderson is a comprehensive scholarly exploration of the historical, literary, and theological dimensions of the Hebrew Bible. The book and its subject matter generated diverse reflections across multiple podcasts. On The Ezra Klein Show, Patti Smith shared her personal, deeply disturbing experience of reading the Old Testament at a young age and struggling to accept its harrowing events as real. On Timcast IRL, Tim Pool considered the idea of systematically reading through the Old Testament book by book during a broader conversation on religious texts. On Conversations with Tyler, Tom Holland discussed the Old Testament as the molten heart of what Christians revere as the literal word of God, while Tyler Cowen later asked a guest whether its narratives fundamentally represent stories of cultural persistence, pointing to the remarkable survival of Judaism. On The Rubin Report, Faisal Saeed Al Mutar mentioned poring over the Old Testament alongside other religious texts during his early intellectual awakening. Finally, on Freakonomics Radio, Stephen Dubner referenced ancient traditions drawn from the Old Testament when examining modern religious practices like tithing. Across these discussions, the text served as a foundational reference point for exploring religious history, literary persistence, and personal spiritual development.
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Faisal Saeed Al Mutar my dad was like said like oh you can think for your and I I was like I was reading the Bible the Old Testam… 1
“my dad was like said like oh you can think for your and I I was like I was reading the Bible the Old Testament the Torah the talmud and all of these stuff and all a copy of the talmud in”
Patti Smith The book that really was disturbing for me was the Old Testament because I started reading it very young an… 1
“The book that really was disturbing for me was the Old Testament because I started reading it very young and the things in it were supposed to accept as real”
Stephen Dubner So they're drawing on that ancient term and tradition from the Old Testament. You hear it especially among… 1
“So they're drawing on that ancient term and tradition from the Old Testament. You hear it especially among Mormons”
Tim Pool maybe we could set up a time to go through the Old Testament you know one book at a time that'd be cool I b… 1
“maybe we could set up a time to go through the Old Testament you know one book at a time that'd be cool I be down for that”
Tom Holland um in a way it's the kind of it's the molten heart of what Christians call the Old Testament it's it's it's… 1
“um in a way it's the kind of it's the molten heart of what Christians call the Old Testament it's it's it's literally the word of God”
Tyler Cowen If we read the Old Testament, are those fundamentally stories of cultural persistence? After all, Judaism i… 1
“If we read the Old Testament, are those fundamentally stories of cultural persistence? After all, Judaism is still with us, right? That's quite remarkable. Uh wonderful that that's the case, but it seems to be a whole book about cultural persistence.”
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“So, when he was sworn in on September 21st, 1973, a family friend presented Kissinger with a copy of the Old Testament that had be been published in FTH in 1801 for him to be sworn in on.”
“my new version of the Old Testament is it's the Old Testament of the new the new one”