Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins | Dr. Jacob L. Wright

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We appreciate you Jacob! And great guests ❤

I really like this interview with Dr. wright. His comments are very thoughtful and easy to understand. I wouldn’t mind seeing more of him in the future.

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I'm really enjoying this! Thanks so much Jacob, and Dr. Wright!

wow you can discern he has spend his time in Europe. Great scholar.

Well, I’m ready to start the final part, PART 4. It has been fun. I’m not ready to explain the book. I hope it will be discussed on the Internet’. It is unlikely I’ll ever attempt another book like this. But I hope to re-read this one. It has so much to say about literature as well as some archeological history. What would be interesting would be a time line with the historical points on the down side and the imagined points on the upside. This would show the Old Testament as the primary “historical” event compared to the verifiable events. Somewhere, around 5000 years ago it would all begin. Doggedly, underneath, this would coincide with 13.6 billion years ago.

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Great stuff !

Great interview, Jacob. Thank you ❤

The irony is that the Bible was precisely written in the great imperial and cosmopolitan centres of the ancient Near Eastern world — Babylon, Persepolis, Alexandria, etc. — and not in the Judaean periphery...

Loved it, Jacob.

That was a great interview with Dr Wright. He is very humble, knowledgeable, and believable.

Bro you just got yourself another subscriber, I really enjoyed the interview.

I am grateful to Jacob Wright for writing “Rebuilding Identity: The Nehemiah-Memoir and its Earliest Readers.” Without this book I would not have been able to reconstruct the Memoirs of Nehemiah. The early Hasmonean leaders of Judaea were not considered to be royalty. Jonathan Apphus, Simon Thassi, and John Hyrcanus were high priests, not kings. Judah Aristobulus was the first Hasmonean to become a king. There is evidence that the Hasmoneans claimed to be descendants of Aaron, Eleazar, Phinehas, and Zakok (see Ingrid Hjelm, Jerusalem's Rise to Sovereignty: Zion and Gerizim in Competition (London and New York: T&T Clark International, 2004), 266-67). Like the early Hasmoneans, according to the Jewish scriptures, the leaders of the Israelite nation at the time of the Exodus and the Conquest were military and religious leaders, not kings. If my theory that the early Hasmoneans and their supporters wrote the original version of the Torah and introduced Judaism is correct, the Hasmoneans certainly did attempt to legitimize themselves through the text. Archaeologists such as Oded Lipschits have concluded that the archaeological evidence contradicts the Bible's claim that mass numbers of Jews returned from the Babylonian exile. There was no dramatic increase in the population of Judah during the late sixth-century or in the fifth-century BCE. Bernard D. Muller demonstrated how the seventy sevens of the seventy week prophecy found in the book of Daniel occurred between the time when Cyrus supposedly issued a decree that the Jews could return in 539 BCE and 167 BCE. The truth is that there was no decree and no return from exile in the late sixth century BCE. It was a lie created so that the time period for the fulfillment of the seventy week prophecy could be shifted. The original seventy week prophecy was delivered by an angel to Nehemiah in 445 BCE. According to my reconstruction of the Memoirs of Nehemiah, on the fifteenth day of Nisan in the twenty-first year of Artaxerxes (April 16, 444 BCE), a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Benjamin to go and to rebuild Jerusalem. Thus the period of sixty-nine weeks of 360 day times began. It ended when Yeshua came to Jerusalem upon a donkey 173,880 days later (May 7, 33 CE). The seventieth week is yet to come. It was not a coincidence that the temple was desecrated in December of 168 BCE so that supporters of the Maccabean revolt could reinterpret the seventy week prophecy to have begun to be fulfilled shortly after Cyrus conquered Babylon in 539 BCE and claim that the time of the end was near. The Antichrist somehow orchestrated the events leading up to the Maccabean revolt. He inspired the Hasideans to adopt Judas Maccabaeus as their Messiah instead of Yeshua. The Antichrist also inspired the writing of the book of Daniel (which was very different from the versions of Daniel that we have today), and he later inspired the Hasmoneans and their supporters to create the Mosaic religion as a replacement for Christianity, which was the original religion of Israel. If the lie that a return from exile took place during the reign of Cyrus was invented in 167 BCE, all of the scriptures that speak of this return must have been written in 167 BCE or later. This includes Isaiah 40-66. I believe that the original version of Isaiah was written shortly after John Hyrcanus conquered Idumea in 112/111 BCE. Isaiah 34 and 63:1-6 are ex eventu prophecies concerning the defeat of the Edomites. These portions of Isaiah contain text adapted from the twelfth and seventeenth stanzas of the "Dramatic Prophecy" that I have reconstructed. The author of Isaiah also took texts from the Dramatic Prophecy having to do with Yeshua and transformed them into texts about the nation of Israel. Thus there is debate among Christians and adherents of Judaism concerning the interpretation of the so-called "servant songs." In my opinion, all of the Old Testament prophets are fictional characters except for possibly Joel who may have been the prophet who spoke the words of the Dramatic Prophecy.

25:10-25:19 i agree that Ruth is late. It makes more sense to place it in the time period of the Letter of “Jeremiah” than the time period of ezra.

Great interview. Also enjoyed learning about the roots of Jacob's interest in these topics

6:50-7:15 i completely agree. Genesis 37-50 was likely composed in the early hellenistic period using the Book of the Temple as a source, Genesis 47:13-26 was added during the reign of ptolemy l soter, and the Exodus 1:1-7 and 8b stitch was also added around that time. There was no direct connection between Genesis and Exodus before that time period except that both were deemed Mosaic texts by ezra. P.S.: This is the context in which we are to understand manetho, etc. Saying we don’t have a Moses tradition at all before manetho is ridiculous.

I've recently started this book. Seems pretty good so far.

In what class at Emory does Dr Wright touch upon these subjects?