Is the KJV Crap?

Dan McClellan (0:00)

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Dan Beecher (0:56)

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Dan McClellan (2:40)

This is an anti-vaxxer. This is a COVID denier who prophesied that thousands of years prior to the arrival of COVID-19, that this was all going to happen. Hey, everybody. I'm Dan McClellan.

Dan Beecher (3:01)

And I'm Dan Beecher.

Dan McClellan (3:03)

And this is Data Over Dogma, where we increase public access to the academic study of the Bible and religion, and we combat the spread of misinformation about the same. How are things today, Dan?

Dan Beecher (3:14)

Things are good. Having a good time. You and I, we just recorded the after-party for this year's, or for this week's episode, and over on Patreon, if you want to get it. And we were talking about golf and talking about snowboarding, and now I kind of want to be outside, and I want to be hanging out in the world. But no, we're going to bring you a great show. So that is what we're going to do. And today, we're going to do a, we're going to start off with a twisted scripture, and we're going to talk about, this was one of our patrons' suggestions, actually, a few weeks ago. We're going to talk about things, that pesky KJV, the King James Version, and things that are maybe unique to that, and that it might not have gotten entirely correct. We're going to talk about it, unicorns. Don't worry about it, we'll get to all of it. And then, in the second half of the show, we're going to be heading over to, we're going to go to Philo, we're going to get to Origin.

It's going to be one of history's mysteries. We're going to be talking about...

What are we talking about?

Dan McClellan (4:34)

We're going to talk about why certain authors like to use the word for God, but without the definite article. And they meant something specific by it.

Dan Beecher (4:45)

Okay.

Dan McClellan (4:46)

Yes.

Dan Beecher (4:47)

I like it. Well, let's leave it mysterious like that. And we'll start the show with twisted scripture.

The scripture that got twisted, don't get it twisted, is the KJV.

Dan McClellan (5:05)

Yeah, so the whole Bible.

Dan Beecher (5:08)