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

war texts where it uses similar language in terms of like wipe them out leave none left kill the women the children the goats that kind of stuff and Copen argues that there's an aspect of cultural wartime hyperbole that exists in the same way that I would say like the Toronto Maple Leafs

murdered the montreal canadians right um there there's an aspect of if you didn't understand what i was talking about that that was i'm talking about hockey i'm talking about a team when i say murdered i don't mean like that they were like that we use these kind of phenomenological hyperbole in our language today um like you killed at your last set right like this kind of stuff makes sense

murdered the montreal canadians right um there there's an aspect of if you didn't understand what i was talking about that that was i'm talking about hockey i'm talking about a team when i say murdered i don't mean like that they were like that we use these kind of phenomenological hyperbole in our language today um like you killed at your last set right like this kind of stuff makes sense

murdered the montreal canadians right um there there's an aspect of if you didn't understand what i was talking about that that was i'm talking about hockey i'm talking about a team when i say murdered i don't mean like that they were like that we use these kind of phenomenological hyperbole in our language today um like you killed at your last set right like this kind of stuff makes sense

And so in these kind of ancient Near Eastern texts, you have these levels of hyperbole, which could mean kill everybody, but doesn't always mean that. And we can compare them with like Egyptian steles or like wartime inscriptions.

And so in these kind of ancient Near Eastern texts, you have these levels of hyperbole, which could mean kill everybody, but doesn't always mean that. And we can compare them with like Egyptian steles or like wartime inscriptions.

And so in these kind of ancient Near Eastern texts, you have these levels of hyperbole, which could mean kill everybody, but doesn't always mean that. And we can compare them with like Egyptian steles or like wartime inscriptions.

Right. No, we do get that in the sense of like when you read the book of Jonah in –

Right. No, we do get that in the sense of like when you read the book of Jonah in –

Right. No, we do get that in the sense of like when you read the book of Jonah in –

hebrew you get these like there's almost like a comedic play to it where when he does eventually get to nineveh which he doesn't want to go to because god says go to nineveh preach repentance he doesn't want to go so he tries to hike it in the other direction and when he eventually gets there it says that everybody repents even the cows

hebrew you get these like there's almost like a comedic play to it where when he does eventually get to nineveh which he doesn't want to go to because god says go to nineveh preach repentance he doesn't want to go so he tries to hike it in the other direction and when he eventually gets there it says that everybody repents even the cows

hebrew you get these like there's almost like a comedic play to it where when he does eventually get to nineveh which he doesn't want to go to because god says go to nineveh preach repentance he doesn't want to go so he tries to hike it in the other direction and when he eventually gets there it says that everybody repents even the cows

And it's like, it's hyperbolic where it's saying like, even the cows are sorry. Like that's how much they're repentant of what they've done. So you got stuff like that.

And it's like, it's hyperbolic where it's saying like, even the cows are sorry. Like that's how much they're repentant of what they've done. So you got stuff like that.

And it's like, it's hyperbolic where it's saying like, even the cows are sorry. Like that's how much they're repentant of what they've done. So you got stuff like that.

That's a really great question. I don't know if I have a good answer to that in a room full of comedians. I wish I had examples.

That's a really great question. I don't know if I have a good answer to that in a room full of comedians. I wish I had examples.

That's a really great question. I don't know if I have a good answer to that in a room full of comedians. I wish I had examples.

Elijah, go up bald head. And he sends the she bears after them to kill them. That's... i mean funny the foreskin thing is pretty good foreskin thing is pretty good yeah you have like record of that um when jesus is talking to the woman at the well and she's a samaritan so samaritans are like mongrel jews they've married with other tribes and so they um they uh