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Grab a copy of "Why The Bible Began" by Dr. Jacob L. Wright - https://amzn.to/3ufet2T

Why did no other ancient society produce something like the Bible? That a tiny, out of the way community could have created a literary corpus so determinative for peoples across the globe seems improbable.

For Jacob Wright, the Bible is not only a testimony of survival, but also an unparalleled achievement in human history. Forged after Babylon's devastation of Jerusalem, it makes not victory but total humiliation the foundation of a new idea of belonging. Lamenting the destruction of their homeland, scribes who composed the Bible imagined a promise-filled past while reflecting deeply on abject failure. More than just religious scripture, the Bible began as a trailblazing blueprint for a new form of political community. Its response to catastrophe offers a powerful message of hope and restoration that is unique in the Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman worlds.

Wright's Bible is thus a social, political, and even economic roadmap - one that enabled a small and obscure community located on the periphery of leading civilizations and empires not just to come back from the brink, but ultimately to shape the world's destiny. The Bible speaks ultimately of being a united yet diverse people, and its pages present a manual of pragmatic survival strategies for communities confronting societal collapse.

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@MythVisionPodcast Creator 2 years ago (edited) Pinned

Grab a copy of "Why The Bible Began" by Dr. Jacob L. Wright - https://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. :)

@amandaaq8984 2 years ago

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!

@Peekaboo-Kitty 2 years ago

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.

@karenlankford8558 2 years ago

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.

@Nessa2Bea 2 years ago

This is the level of scholarship that we have come to expect from this channel, not speculation and warlike posturing. Great interview Derek and Dr. Wright. Would love to hear more about the Elephantine community. They have been a source of intrigue for me for some time.

@TheGoldenBear79 2 years ago

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. ✌️🇺🇸

@dusk_ene 2 years ago

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

@davashorb6116 2 years ago

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.

@Roberta_7777 2 years ago

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

@BlessYourHeart254 2 years ago

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

@benitocanales1 2 years ago

All my life my self been believing in the god of the Bible and Jesus now little by little I been questioning everything ! So I feel like I’m in a process of detoxing from all that teaching everything is new to me !

@bennyhinrichs 2 years ago

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

@soupbonep 2 years ago

This is fascinating stuff. I'm going to get this book. Dr. Wright is a great speaker too. I could listen to him all day. I have for years suspected that the gospels were all about politics and power and now Dr. Wright has enlightened us with the specifics and given real gravitas to my personal suspicions.

I really love the fact that Dr. Wright is a critical thinker and talks about people getting offended when they shouldn't.

@dieterbarkhoff1328 2 years ago (edited)

Wow!!!!!!!!!!! I was shall we say 'introduced' to Catholicism when my family arrived in Australia in 1956. My mother was a nominal catholic, my father a Lutheran. Till our ship crossed the Suez Canal in June 1956 luckily I had not once heard any mythology regarding the so-called bible. Unfortunately, my cousins who had arrived before us went to Catholic schools and I was brought up a so-called Catholic. I rejected it when I turned 14 and have spent my last 59 years comfortable with my rational objection. I do, however, correspond with one of my teachers, an eighty year old priest who is a biblical scholar and has had 50 or so books published. He is a wonderful human being and I totally respect him. However, I cannot come to terms with his acceptance of the validity, even the existence, of a man some beings called Christ, and I sometimes forward programs like this to him. He knows Bart Ehrman, and, of course disagrees with him. All I can say for sure is that I love this program, and this program with Herr Wright has been one of the best episodes of my life as a human being attempting to come to terms with why the Western world is so fucked and focused on nothing but war.

@beaker5538 2 years ago

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

@Mstrylowski 2 years ago

Please bring back Dr. Jacob L. Wright, this was so excellent.

@ineffableartistsmusic4109 4 months ago

Just picked up the audible. I very much enjoy this:)

@darkmattersproject2951 2 years ago (edited)

A fantastic discussion. This scholar came to the same conclusion I did. Unbelievable

@proffd972 2 years ago

Great chat. Great channel. I have learned a lot about what the Bible really does tell us. I enjoyed the Bible discussion and the open-minded question of the human experiment.

@tomlaflamme2118 2 years ago

Derrick, this is probably the most prolific interview you’ve had to date, people with die hard beliefs are sadly going to have consequences for their beliefs and actions,,, I see this coming and it is going to be disastrous

David reminds me of Jason and the Argonauts and Goliath is a one eyed cyclops