Uncovered: The Bible as Historical Document
You've probably heard of the Bible, maybe even own one or read one. Its typically thought of as a religious book, but at its core it is a collection of ancient primary manuscripts. In this podcast, we will examine the Bible from the perspective of a Historian, to examine its historicity and manuscript strength, to see if we can uncover why the founders of the United States thought this book held value for the construction of our civic system. This podcast is a follow-up series to "Unmoored: America Adrift in Historical Forgetfulness and Finding Our Way Back." That podcast was an examination of what has happened to the USA in the early 21st century. In that examination, it became clear that the US civic system, as originally designed, was based on a moral virtue foundation held in common. For the citizens at that time, the location for that foundation was the Bible. That makes sense when we realize the country was peopled mostly with Christians. The USA is not peopled mostly with Christians today in the early 21st century, so is the Christian faith even worth examining? Perhaps not, at least not at the civic level, but before we decide to jettison or reject what the Founders believed to be necessary, we should examine it. So, we will seek to uncover what is going on in the Bible and whether we can trust it as a historical document. Is what we read accurate as a historian considers primary source documents? Is it possible that the story it tells of a Savior God coming to rescue the humans remotely accurate?
Episodes
Carl and Matthew are back in the studio with this next, but new, podcast. This "episode 0" is an overview intro of the coming podcast. Episode 1 will come out in mid-September, with the following episodes coming weekly after that.
This podcast does have a link back to the first podcast, Unmoored as that podcast argued that the US founders believed that to make this governing idea work (“government of the people”), there had to b...
Welcome to Uncovered: The Bible as Historical Document. Episode One sets out to explain the overall concept of the podcast, giving you an overview of the journey to come. This podcast is a follow-up, a sort of "season two" behind my first podcast which was based on my doctoral research. That podcast, "Unmoored: America Adrift in Historical Forgetfulness and Finding Our Way Back" argued that for our USA founders a crucial piece of...
If we are going to examine the Bible as historical document, then its fair to spend time examining what exactly is history. And that of course links to the work that Historians do. In episode 1, we talked about whether or not I, Carl, am a Historian, so hopefully you did listen to the first episode (or go back to catch it). And I am equally as prone to say that I am a Professor (somewhat linking to how British Academics see the top...
In Episode 2 we examined the concept of what History is and what Historians do within the field in order to know the veracity of an event, person, or place. That concept is what is understood as historicity. Back in Episode 1, we explained that "fancy word" as determining how, or the quality of said event, person, or place as being real, not fiction...not a myth or legend.
So, in this episode we apply those same rules or tools fo...
Do you remember the bruhaha when Disney bought Star Wars? When they did, they declared the old Star Wars Expanded Universe as “Legends.” They couldn’t obviously destroy all of these old works but they could, and did, declare that NONE of those earlier works was “canon.” But what exactly does that mean? The word "canon" emerges from both Hebrew and Greek thought in which the word literally means "rule," as a ruler, something a pe...
Episode 5 continues the study of the Canon of the Bible. That concept "canon" is a term to describe what is and what is not officially part of X thing, such as "the Shakespeare canon" or "the Star Wars canon." Others may write or contribute things if they wish (so, like fan fiction), but those works are not usually part of the canon.
So last episode we examined the concept of "canon" for the Jewish Scripture (what Christians talk ...
In episode six, we dig even deeper into the process, or the concerns about, the canon of the New Testament. We saw in episode five that Christian leaders in the 2nd-4th century affirmed a specific list of writings that were consistently in use by the first Christian followers of the 1st century. It is fair, though, for us to challenge the fact that those leaders said "these are in the canon." Did they have any criteria? Were they...
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