Gad Barnea

Right. So, yeah, so, I mean, that's, I'm not familiar actually with that book, but the Bible, the way I explain the Bible to my students and in general is, and I believe the correct way to look at the Bible is it's a battlefield of ideas.

and so like people often say well you you you you take the testimony of herodotus right and you you put more weight on what herodotus said about the history of of those those that period more over the bible so why do you trust herodotus more than the bible first of all i don't even with herodotus i'm extremely critical and i do not trust anything just blindly even if it's herodotus but there is a big difference between herodotus and the bible

and so like people often say well you you you you take the testimony of herodotus right and you you put more weight on what herodotus said about the history of of those those that period more over the bible so why do you trust herodotus more than the bible first of all i don't even with herodotus i'm extremely critical and i do not trust anything just blindly even if it's herodotus but there is a big difference between herodotus and the bible

and so like people often say well you you you you take the testimony of herodotus right and you you put more weight on what herodotus said about the history of of those those that period more over the bible so why do you trust herodotus more than the bible first of all i don't even with herodotus i'm extremely critical and i do not trust anything just blindly even if it's herodotus but there is a big difference between herodotus and the bible

the bible is a book that defined the identity of a people and of different sects within the jewish uh realm right so you had a lot of different sects competing for ideas you know the pharisees the sadducees the essenes etc you had all of these different sects competing for and the enochians and we have a lot of different sects competing for uh for ideas

the bible is a book that defined the identity of a people and of different sects within the jewish uh realm right so you had a lot of different sects competing for ideas you know the pharisees the sadducees the essenes etc you had all of these different sects competing for and the enochians and we have a lot of different sects competing for uh for ideas

the bible is a book that defined the identity of a people and of different sects within the jewish uh realm right so you had a lot of different sects competing for ideas you know the pharisees the sadducees the essenes etc you had all of these different sects competing for and the enochians and we have a lot of different sects competing for uh for ideas

And theological ideas, what is redemption, what is salvation, what are the end times, all of these different ideas competing against one another. No one's identity was defined by Herodotus. No one said, I'm a Herodotian. But people did define their identity by the Bible. So that's a completely different corpus. And the impact is completely different.

And theological ideas, what is redemption, what is salvation, what are the end times, all of these different ideas competing against one another. No one's identity was defined by Herodotus. No one said, I'm a Herodotian. But people did define their identity by the Bible. So that's a completely different corpus. And the impact is completely different.

And theological ideas, what is redemption, what is salvation, what are the end times, all of these different ideas competing against one another. No one's identity was defined by Herodotus. No one said, I'm a Herodotian. But people did define their identity by the Bible. So that's a completely different corpus. And the impact is completely different.

Now, the reason I say it's a battlefield is because the different redactions, different editions, different treatments that the Bible had to go through

Now, the reason I say it's a battlefield is because the different redactions, different editions, different treatments that the Bible had to go through

Now, the reason I say it's a battlefield is because the different redactions, different editions, different treatments that the Bible had to go through

um where different different ideologies competing against one another and you see that in in the text um you see things that are you know go to one direction and or the other another direction and the text in the text contains all of them and if not if the bible does not contain works that are that did not make it into the bible apocryphal texts do contain them okay so even the addition of the bible and eventually making the bible into a canonical work

um where different different ideologies competing against one another and you see that in in the text um you see things that are you know go to one direction and or the other another direction and the text in the text contains all of them and if not if the bible does not contain works that are that did not make it into the bible apocryphal texts do contain them okay so even the addition of the bible and eventually making the bible into a canonical work

um where different different ideologies competing against one another and you see that in in the text um you see things that are you know go to one direction and or the other another direction and the text in the text contains all of them and if not if the bible does not contain works that are that did not make it into the bible apocryphal texts do contain them okay so even the addition of the bible and eventually making the bible into a canonical work

that process also is ideological deciding which book would get in which book is not going to be in and things like that so the bible is truly a battlefield of ideas and i think that's part of the beauty of the of this work the fact that it is i mean the bible is a very beautiful work and regardless of of uh of religious um the religious perspective

that process also is ideological deciding which book would get in which book is not going to be in and things like that so the bible is truly a battlefield of ideas and i think that's part of the beauty of the of this work the fact that it is i mean the bible is a very beautiful work and regardless of of uh of religious um the religious perspective

that process also is ideological deciding which book would get in which book is not going to be in and things like that so the bible is truly a battlefield of ideas and i think that's part of the beauty of the of this work the fact that it is i mean the bible is a very beautiful work and regardless of of uh of religious um the religious perspective

And I think the main beauty of this book is its humanity. And what I mean by that is that the power of this text comes from geography. And what I mean by that is that it was written at the place which is, if you look at where Palestine is, where Israel is, where that plot of land is, in the map. You see it's the bridge between Asia, between Europe, Asia, and Africa.