Ep 86 | How Did We Get The Bible?

The Bible not only tells a story. It has a story—a long and winding history of how it was actually made. And like Jesus himself, the Bible's production backstory has divine and human dimensions. Both are vital! In this episode of the Deeper Bible Podcast, we hit on all this and more.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:47 - The Production of the Bible
03:00 - Bible's Historical Production
04:20 - Left and Right Wing Views
06:02 - Ancient Israel Oral Culture
08:24 - J-E-D-P Sources
10:00 - Pseudonymity in Writing
11:13 - Actualization of the Bible
12:33 - Bible's Relevance and Currentness
14:19 - Oral Traditions and Old Testament social classes
15:31 - Discovery of Dead Sea Scrolls
16:52 - Variations in Bible texts
18:03 - Importance of Dead Sea Scrolls
20:15 - Textual situation in Jesus' time
21:32 - Formation of Old Testament
24:07 - Transition to Jesus and Paul's era
25:12 - Jesus as oral teacher
26:34 - Paul's writings in New Testament and Synoptic Gospels
28:26 - Gospel authorship
29:39 - Dating of the New Testament writings and Emergence of the Christian canon
31:39 - Impact of the Vulgate translation
36:40 - The Bible's imperative to reach humans
39:04 - Importance of understanding translation philosophies
40:09 - God's word speaks through any translation
41:26 - Discussion on different translation philosophies
42:34 - Importance of Translations and Original Texts
43:59 - Benefits of Learning Greek and Hebrew
45:28 - Bono's Pilgrimage to Meet Eugene Peterson
48:33 - Outro