Hear, O Israel!

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Dan McClellan (1:00)

What's the Song of Songs all about?

Dan Beecher (1:03)

Songs. No, sex.

Dan McClellan (1:05)

No, there you go, the Hibbity Dibbity. So we're gonna go to Song of Songs 6-9. And...

Dan Beecher (1:12)

And... Thank you for that. That was a gage to me.

Dan McClellan (1:23)

Hey, everybody, I'm Dan McClellan.

Dan Beecher (1:25)

And I'm Dan Beecher.

Dan McClellan (1:27)

And you're listening to the Data Over Dogma podcast, where we increase public access to the academic study of the Bible and religion, and we combat the spread of misinformation in a couple of pleasing baritone voices. Isn't that correct, Dan?

Dan Beecher (1:42)

It's all good over here, baby.

Dan McClellan (1:44)

Yeah, baby. And I'm thinking of lines from I'm going to get you sucking now.

Dan Beecher (1:50)

Oh, OK.

Dan McClellan (1:51)

With Isaac Hayes.

Dan Beecher (1:54)

Neither of us have an Isaac Hayes voice.

Dan McClellan (1:56)

No, no, I'm not even going to try.

Dan Beecher (1:59)

Well, today we got some fun show coming up. We have our first segment, our chapter and verse is, maybe should just be called a verse, not chapter and verse, because it is literally a verse, which you have assured me we have enough to talk about just with a single verse.

Dan McClellan (2:20)

We could be talking about this for the rest of the existence of our podcast. This verse, this is the verse when it comes to the Hebrew Bible. And this is something that everybody knows about. But yeah, this is Deuteronomy 6.4.

Dan Beecher (2:37)

All right.

Dan McClellan (2:38)

Also the main part of the Shema.

Dan Beecher (2:41)

Shema, we're going to get super Shema on this.

Dan McClellan (2:44)

Yes, you're going to Shema me now and believe me later.

Dan Beecher (2:49)

And then we're going to do a segment that we're now calling, even though that we've done other parts that should have been in this segment, but we're going to call it, Is It Canon? And we're going to be discussing, what was it? The Letter of Jeremiah.

Dan McClellan (3:07)

The Letter of Jeremiah, yes. This quirky little letter that just seems like-

Dan Beecher (3:14)

Why isn't it an epistle? Why does Jeremiah have letters and not an epistle?

Dan McClellan (3:18)

Well, you know what? I bet if you went back into the King James version, in fact, while we're chatting, I'm going to pull it up. I bet you it says the epistle of Jeremiah in the table of contents. No, I'm not looking for a document that dates to 1611

Dan Beecher (3:32)

Wait, are you saying that the King James had this? Because I thought this is apocryphal. This is a... Did this make it into the King James?

Dan McClellan (3:40)

The King James version had the apocrypha for over 200 years.

Dan Beecher (3:46)

Oh, that's right, that's right. I remember now, I remember now.

Dan McClellan (3:50)

I was about to be like, do we need to do a show on this?

Dan Beecher (3:52)

No, look, I can't be held responsible for knowing all of the things that we've talked about on this show. I don't listen to the show.

Dan McClellan (4:01)

A little, and a little, I don't either, but a little behind the scenes, BTS, every week, not every week, most weeks, what happens is either the day before or the morning of recording the show, we text each other and go, oh, what are we gonna talk about? And frequently the next response is, have we talked about this? And we're like, I don't know, let's go look.

Dan Beecher (4:30)

And somebody will make a database for us because I started a database where we started this and then I did not keep it up. And now we have no way of searching. We have no way of knowing what we've talked about.