Why The Bible Began | SHOCKING Evidence

Grab a copy of "Why The Bible Began" by Dr. Jacob L. Wright - amzn.to/3ufet2T "Hey guys, this is Jacob (Dr. Wright) . :) I'm really blown away by the reception! It's very encouraging! I'm also glad to know Derek now! If you'd like me to do Zoom sessions with your communities, I'm happy to do so. I put my heart and soul in this book, and I'm so glad people are finding it helpful. Please help me get the word out about in any way you can. And please drop a review on Amazon--I love to read them. All the proceeds go to Atlanta Mission. Please help them directly if you can! Thanks to you all, and thanks to you Derek. Let's do it again soon, dude, but get more into the weeds this time. :)

As someone who spent a lot of my life as a Jehovahs Witness and now have freed myself and become an atheist, I am so happy to see this information finally getting out to people. Definitely getting the book!

It is difficult to determine when a story began, because humans have been sharing stories around a campfire as long as there have been humans and campfires, and the stories keep being elaborated and changed over the generations.

Absolutely amazing stuff.. I may have left Christianity over a decade ago but I'm still fascinated with understanding more about how this religion came to be

This was an amazing interview, with Mr. Wright. I would love to see more of him. He made it all make sense. Thank you.

Derek is the hardest-working YouTuber with the best content, and this interview was no exception. Now I have to get the book too!

My copy is arriving in Scotland tomorrow! Between this and books like “God: An Anatomy”, my deconversion from evangelicalism must really be messing with online algorithms 😂. I still have these moments of wanting to both laugh and cry at the same time, when my brain sees the reality behind what I’d followed for decades as mystical truth that others couldn’t see. These texts as a way of dealing with economic/ military/ political defeat actually become more beautiful to me: I can put myself in that position. And it seriously helps me to hand them back to these contexts, thank the writers for the good stuff - we got great paintings & music from Bach, Handel, Palestrina etc and cool buildings that I love. They were gifted writers of poetry & story, and did the best they could in times of catastrophe: which Professor Wright helpfully points that we are in today on a cliff edge. With all the benefits we have, let’s together do better than this. I think this book will help me to do better in this world, and inwardly let some things go

Derek, you do such a BEAUTIFUL JOB of presenting religious historical facts. Thank YOU!

I just wanted to say thank you to both of you gentlemen. I’m a scientist at heart, so I look for answers to everything I can, and like it or not I want the truth. That’s why I appreciate MythVision. I certainly hope you both will do this again. Again thank you both, and best wishes to you and your family’s. ✌️🇺🇸

This is one of my favorite podcasts. The interviews are always informative, interesting, and enlightening. Thanks for all your hard work presenting this podcast.

The Ancient Israelites wrote the Tanak in order to give themselves a Cultural identity, just as all the other Nations around them had a Historical narrative from which they formed their Cultural identity. Egypt for example, had a very rich Cultural identity and had texts such as "The Pyramid Texts", "The Egyptian Book of the Dead", the "42 Laws of Maat Under Kemet Law", "The Book of the Opening of the Mouth" (a liturgy of Funerary Offerings), "The Burden of Isis" (Love Hymns to Isis), "The Story of the Book of Thoth", "The Wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus", just to name a few. So Israel needed something like this as well.

I spend most of my life with the Jehovah Witness after these years the true light started to shining thank you. I order this book to reed from tomorrow

Please bring this dude back for more, this was awesome. Grabbing the book!

Shocking evidence? What evidence? It could be a plausible narrative, but it's not an evidence.

I recognised the very obvious exile-and-return pattern in the Hebrew Scriptures when I was a teenager. It’s every single story of the first 11 chapters of Genesis. I was so proud of myself for figuring that out, though!

I sincerely appreciate Prof. Wright’s perspective on leadership’s storytelling to get people to unite. People do that. That was my own conclusion recently. When someone who is not your real leader and doesn’t even like you starts telling tales, that’s often just an invasion.

When I learned that the Exodus story of millions of Hebrew slaves was more likely a work of fiction I wondered if its purpose then was to be an origination story for a people, to give them a sense of identity and a space to belong in the world. Dr. Wright's research and insights profoundly delve right into that, levels deep. Thank you!

When one reads the Bible as if it is a serialized novel constructed by various editors, it is a bit like binge watching Once Upon a Time. It is very very entertaining, dramatic, full of violence, struggle, love and victory.

Spoiler Alert. Best part . We're not looking to offend anyone. If you are offended by this. Then maybe, you should grow up.

Thanks for making the works of these terrific scholars so accessible. I am now happily Yahweh-Free, due in great part to their diligent work.