It's a Jubilee!
Data Over Dogma
November 17, 2025
Its Jubilee time- and what are we celebrating? A no-longer-canonical book, I guess. Jubilees is a Second Temple rewrite of Genesis that reshapes creation stories, adds angelic narration, and updates the calendar to aaaaaalmost get the number of days in the year right.
Speakers Dan Beecher, Dan McClellan
TopicsSociety & CultureHistory
Dan Beecher (0:00)
You know, Dan, I don't know about you, but I have always had real trouble looking at my finances.
Dan McClellan (0:06)
Oh, don't get me started.
Dan Beecher (0:08)
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Dan McClellan (1:00)
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Dan Beecher (2:13)
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Dan McClellan (2:59)
Somebody listening to this is going to be like, Dan, you moron. Got him.
Dan Beecher (3:04)
We got him everybody. He didn't know which one it was.
Dan McClellan (3:14)
Hey everybody, I'm Dan McClellan.
Dan Beecher (3:15)
And I'm Dan Beecher.
Dan McClellan (3:17)
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 about the same. How are things today, Dan?
Dan Beecher (3:29)
Oh, it's been a long day for me. I had some family emergencies of the pet variety that were harrowing. It's been a harrowing day, but I'm...
Dan McClellan (3:44)
All... everything copacetic?
Dan Beecher (3:45)
Everything's okay. We've got a cat with significantly less hair now because the vet had to shave her and all sorts of crazy stuff. Anywho, other than that, things are great. So let's dive into some Bible stuff, shall we? Let's do it. Okay, so today on the show, we are going to... We're gonna first have a Is It Canon? We're gonna talk about a book that is canon, I understand.
Dan McClellan (4:13)
And an X-Man.
Dan Beecher (4:15)
Yes, it is.
Dan McClellan (4:16)
Just putting it out there.
Dan Beecher (4:17)
Oh, okay, there you go. So we'll get to Jubilees, and then in the second half of the show, we'll be asking ourselves, we'll be taking issue with a bunch of correlations. We're gonna correlate and see if it means everything and something and anything.
Dan McClellan (4:37)
Probably not.
Dan Beecher (4:39)
Probably not. But first, Is It Canon?
All right, so we said it, we're going, we're getting into Jubilees here, and that the word Jubilee is interesting. I myself attended the the Diamond Jubilee of Her Highness, the Queen of England, back in her days. I didn't attend it. I sat on the banks of the Thames and watched as the giant flotilla floated by, which sounds super exciting. The largest flotilla that has ever floated the Thames. It sounds very exciting until you realize it's just boats going slowly past you. One of which contained the Queen, who waved in my direction.
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