Bible Expert (likely Wesley Huff or a co-host closely involved with Biblical scholarship)

What do you think about flat earth? I don't know. I mean, I've been in an airplane in the sky, and I think I've seen the curve, but I don't know. You don't know. It's the windows. I'm not a scientist. Exactly. Don't make me say science-y things.

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So I study ancient scribes and how they produce and copy and disseminate manuscripts. So you're testing for efficacy of these ancient scribes. Yeah, different things. So, like, there's a field called textual criticism, which looks at the text of particular documents. Yeah. Because in the ancient world, we don't have any originals. Everything is a copy, no matter what it is.

So I study ancient scribes and how they produce and copy and disseminate manuscripts. So you're testing for efficacy of these ancient scribes. Yeah, different things. So, like, there's a field called textual criticism, which looks at the text of particular documents. Yeah. Because in the ancient world, we don't have any originals. Everything is a copy, no matter what it is.

So I study ancient scribes and how they produce and copy and disseminate manuscripts. So you're testing for efficacy of these ancient scribes. Yeah, different things. So, like, there's a field called textual criticism, which looks at the text of particular documents. Yeah. Because in the ancient world, we don't have any originals. Everything is a copy, no matter what it is.

And even if we found, quote-unquote, an original, I don't know how we'd verify it. Yeah, what makes something an original? The author writes it.

And even if we found, quote-unquote, an original, I don't know how we'd verify it. Yeah, what makes something an original? The author writes it.

And even if we found, quote-unquote, an original, I don't know how we'd verify it. Yeah, what makes something an original? The author writes it.

Well, like whatever, like say we find Plato's Republic and it was one that was written by him. Or like how would we verify that it was actually his? But everything we have are copies and most of them are like hundreds of years after because old things wear out. Yeah. And so textual criticism looks at the text and the copies and looks at internal and external factors and traces the original back.

Well, like whatever, like say we find Plato's Republic and it was one that was written by him. Or like how would we verify that it was actually his? But everything we have are copies and most of them are like hundreds of years after because old things wear out. Yeah. And so textual criticism looks at the text and the copies and looks at internal and external factors and traces the original back.

Well, like whatever, like say we find Plato's Republic and it was one that was written by him. Or like how would we verify that it was actually his? But everything we have are copies and most of them are like hundreds of years after because old things wear out. Yeah. And so textual criticism looks at the text and the copies and looks at internal and external factors and traces the original back.

Okay. Question. That's not what I do, but it's related.

Okay. Question. That's not what I do, but it's related.

Okay. Question. That's not what I do, but it's related.

And so how would you identify that? Because there are so many copies. The thing with the Bible is that you have so many copies, far more copies than you have of any other ancient document. Okay. Why is that? The Christians really wanted to copy it.

And so how would you identify that? Because there are so many copies. The thing with the Bible is that you have so many copies, far more copies than you have of any other ancient document. Okay. Why is that? The Christians really wanted to copy it.

And so how would you identify that? Because there are so many copies. The thing with the Bible is that you have so many copies, far more copies than you have of any other ancient document. Okay. Why is that? The Christians really wanted to copy it.

It's like, Oprah, you get a copy, you get a copy. Well, part of it was like the Christians were the, I mean, Muslims call us the people of the book, right? Christians and Jews, because we have a scripture and that's like central to what we believe. The belief system. Whereas that's not necessarily true for like other ancient religious practices. In fact, that's the argument.