Is the Bible Historical? David Bokovoy Pt. 2 | Ep. 1876 (Remastered Classic)

David Bokovoy is back to apply higher criticism to Mormon scripture. Today's focus is the Old & New Testaments, which have been remastered from previous interviews 1019, 1020, and 1022.
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Chapters
00:03:00 David Bokovoy works at the Prison System
00:08:21 The order of how this episode is laid out
00:08:40 Old Testament assumptions
00:13:13 Calling the Bible a privileged text
00:19:02 How the Bible was constructed, it’s a library that took a 1,000 years to build
00:25:50 Problems with the book of Genesis
00:30:35 The Documentary Hypothesis
00:32:55 Hebrew did not exist at the time of Moses, historical Moses
00:40:55 Where did the story of Moses come from?
00:47:06 Where are the oldest sources of the Bible text? Dead Sea Scrolls
00:50:40 What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
00:54:00 The Documentary Hypothesis PJED relations
00:56:45 The floor story of Noah helps confirms the Documentary Hypothesis
01:06:55 Using the name Elohim
01:16:00 Talking about the D Source - Deuteronomy
01:22:35 Doublets in the Bible, different versions of the same thing
01:23:35 Anachronisms in the Old Testament
01:30:20 Was God racist in his Chosen people?
01:37:30 The Book of Mormon teaches people how to read scripture -that there are mistakes
01:50:00 The “restoration” of the Church
01:55:35 The problem of Elijah and Elias
01:56:50 Malachai and tithing in the Old Testament
02:08:36 Asherah in the Old Testament
02:14:35 The statements of homosexuality in the Old Testament
02:22:21 The New Testament
02:23:13 Historical Jesus Analysis
02:32:38 Joseph Smith restoring lost writings from the Book of John
02:41:00 Adam Clarke’s Commentary
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