Old Testament Studies: An (Un)Academic Modern History

Nicholas J. Campbell
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Old Testament Studies: An (Un)Academic Modern History

This podcast brings Old Testament scholarship from the ivory towers of academia into the common language of every podcast listener. I break down the technical conversations and methods of analyzing the Old Testament so that everyone can be involved in the academic conversations about what the Old Testament is, where it came from, and what its message is. Each episode I look at the life and academic contributions of one modern Old Testament scholar to understand how their ideas developed and show their impact on our understanding of the Old Testament.

  1. Henry Home (Lord Kames)

    11/28/2022

    Henry Home (Lord Kames)

    Lord Kames believed that societies became increasingly better and so the Old Testament is a relic of earlier, flawed culture and mythology but the creation of humans in Genesis was essentially true.

    30 min
  2. John Toland

    11/14/2022

    John Toland

    John Toland rejected traditional interpretations of the Bible and wanted modern scholars to use newer techniques to analyze meaning of the language and the placement of biblical books within the canon. He believed that both the Old and New Testaments taught the law of nature when they were interpreted properly.

    24 min

  3. 10/31/2022

    Thomas Morgan

    Thomas Morgan called himself a Christian deist and argued that the Old Testament was political religion used to enslave the Israelite people and entirely at odds with true Christianity and the religion of nature.

    26 min

  4. 10/17/2022

    William Warburton

    William Warburton argued that the Old Testament does not talk about human immortality or the afterlife because the Israelites had a special divine provision where they received earthly rewards and punishments based upon their following of the law.

    38 min

  5. 10/03/2022

    William Stevens

    William Stevens argued that Benjamin Kennicott was deceived by Jewish forgers and no variant manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible were legitimate and these forgeries were intended as a Trojan horse to infiltrate and destroy Christianity.

    28 min
  6. Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet

    09/19/2022

    Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet

    Bossuet organized history into epochs and claimed that the Old Testament shows God's interaction with humanity and the devolvement of human culture that can only be rectified by divinely appointed monarchs.

    29 min
  7. William Wotton

    09/05/2022

    William Wotton

    William Wotton argued that Chinese history was unreliable but the Old Testament explains the history of the world perfectly including the development of languages from the tower of Babel story in Genesis 11.

    39 min
  8. Sir William Jones

    08/22/2022

    Sir William Jones

    William Jones compared the Old Testament to Hinduism and Persian poetry. He questioned whether Indian philosophy informed Moses and asserted the theological unity of Hebrew poetry with Persian poetry and other hymns to God.

    26 min
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This podcast brings Old Testament scholarship from the ivory towers of academia into the common language of every podcast listener. I break down the technical conversations and methods of analyzing the Old Testament so that everyone can be involved in the academic conversations about what the Old Testament is, where it came from, and what its message is. Each episode I look at the life and academic contributions of one modern Old Testament scholar to understand how their ideas developed and show their impact on our understanding of the Old Testament.

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