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Where Does the Hebrew Bible Mention Adam and Eve After Genesis? · The Joe Rogan Experience

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#2562 - Dan McClellan

Dan McClellan, PhD, is a biblical scholar, author, and co-host of the "Data Over Dogma" podcast.www.youtube.com/@dataoverdogmawww.youtube.com/@maklelanhttps://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/bible-says-so-9781250347466/www.maklelan.org Perplexity: Download the app or ask Perplexity anything at https://pplx.ai/rogan. Pre-order and get campaign early access!…

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  1. A large jar called a pithos, dated to about 800 BCE and found down near the Sinai Peninsula, carries an inscription over a drawing of a male deity and a… Full answer

  2. Scholars go to great lengths to situate the composition of texts in the Hebrew Bible or in the New Testament within whatever historical period makes the most… Full answer

  3. Jesus was already dead when the Gospels were written. Mark was probably written sixty-nine, seventy, or seventy-one-ish CE. Full answer

  4. Paul did not write every letter later collected under his name. Full answer

  5. Paul suggests even married folks should avoid sex because the higher law is to be celibate. Jesus was coming back so soon having a kid would be a waste of time. Full answer

  6. The oldest Sumerian lists have no flood story yet, even though several versions of Enuma Elish are known. Full answer

  7. Inscriptions in the Sinai from around 1700 to 1900 BCE take signs that look like Egyptian hieroglyphs and make each sign stand for a single sound, the first… Full answer

  8. Nobody speaks ancient Hebrew because ancient Hebrew is not a spoken language. Full answer

  9. Ancient people were conscious of the ever-present threat of chaos, particularly on the waters. The land was safe but the waters were dangerous. Full answer

  10. Shanidar 1's skull shows deformities that indicate profound deafness, probable blindness, and other disabilities. Full answer

  11. The latest find from China is being called Homo Juluensis, and the brain capacity is larger by twenty plus percent than ours. Full answer

  12. Numerous enormous natural disasters have already hit. Full answer

  13. Adam shows up at the start of a big genealogy in Chronicles. Eve does not appear again anywhere in the Hebrew Bible. Full answer

  14. King James Version verses are missing from modern translations of the New Testament, including the New International Version, sometimes joked about as the Not… Full answer

  15. A fingerprint on a tablet at the Bodleian libraries at University of Oxford creates a sense of presence because the fingerprint serves as a clear cue to human… Full answer

  16. Arad, in the southern Negev, is a desert place in the south of Judea. Full answer

  17. The Epic of Gilgamesh sends a traveler to find Utnapishtim, who survived the flood, so the flood has already happened in that epic. Full answer

  18. The Garma Gospels date to between the fourth and the sixth centuries CE. Full answer

  19. First Enoch contradicts itself because the stories about angels coming down get repeated a couple of different times as it is a collection of five different… Full answer

  20. Intuitive cognition governs perception by altering sensory input. The mind thinks it looks at an object in space. Full answer

  21. Cognitive science refers to decoupling and rationalization when intuitive cognition conflicts with reflective cognition. Full answer

  22. Alan Watts wrote a book in 1952 about the age of anxiety, and the description of how much the world was changing sounds like 2026. Full answer

  23. Allowing data to inform reconstruction prevents reducing everything to ideology or dogma. Full answer

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