Episode 47
Data > Dogma: A conversation with biblical scholar Dan McClellan
March 23rd, 2022
1 hr 14 mins 55 secs
About this Episode
Bible nerds unite! Nathan & Steve got to have a wonderful conversation with TikTok-famous Bible scholar Dan McClellan. Topics include the cognitive science of religion, the problem with univocality, the development of inerrancy, and… does God look like a cow?
- Dan’s TikTok account
- Dan’s dissertation: “The Cognitive Science of Religion and the Conceptualization of Deity in the Hebrew Bible”
- Identity Politics
- Data > Dogma Merch
- What is dogma?
- Book: “People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn
- The Documentary Hypothesis
- “Univocality”
- Marcion
- Psalm 137
- The Reformation
- The Enlightenment
- Logical Positivism
- Pete Enns
- Book: “The Bible Tells Me So” by Pete Enns
- Book: “How the Bible Works” by Pete Enns
- Book: “The Bible With Sources Revealed” by Richard Friedman
Earliest written parts of the Bible: