Monotheism, Disbelief and the Hebrew Bible, with Francesca Stavrakopoulou
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- In the third interview in our series on ancient religious scepticism, Professor Tim Whitmarsh talks to Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou from the University of Exeter about monotheism and disbelief in the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament. They discuss how these slippery concepts might be seen to intersect with the historical events of the formative 'Persian period' (mid-6th to mid-4th century BCE), when Cyrus the Great allowed Jerusalem elites to return to their city after a period of exile in Babylon. Professor Stavrakopoulou explains how the issue of belief vs disbelief is a Christian, confessional notion that cannot be easily retrojected onto the world of the Hebrew bible - a world that was, we discover, animated by debates about the relative power and strength of different divine beings. And she goes on to sketch the polytheistic backdrop to early Judaism with reference to the intriguing storyline of the Book of Job, in which we find Yahweh at a council of deities to test the religious steadfastness of the book's unlucky protagonist....
My Professor and teacher for one of my modules. Love Exeter and its theology team. Best theology faculty in the world!
I attended a wedding recently. It was a religious ceremony at the church I attended as a child (I'm not longer religious). All I could think about during scripture readings and interpretations was possible responses that Dr. Francesca could have to completely falsify and question said text. (Dr. Francesca along with Dawkins, Krauss and the late Hitchens). I looked upon other attenders faces blindly and blissfully resonating with the readings and all I could do was think critically (to the best of my ability).
This woman is brilliant.
childish? i don't think so, what do you say about Christ giving Christians 'the Our Father' prayer and when he was dying on the Cross before he took his last breath he said "Father into your hands I commit my spirit." You need to acknowledge HIS statements plus God incarnating as a Man (Jesus) . Then you will realize she has a point! please watch her Doco 'the bibles buried secrets: did God have a wife?' and you will realize how Monotheism was invented out of fear after the sacking of the temple of Jerusalem and how the Canaanite slaves who were not yet Israelite's' were led out of Egypt by Moses under the guidance of the Pagan Male God El who became the God we know today as Yahweh! And how the Goddess became erased out of Israelite religion. Please do your research before criticizing a superb, progressive scholar like Prof Stavrakopoulou who liberated me from Christianity.
these insights are fascinating,since studying scolarship the bible opens up and def moves one away from fundamentalism
So I far I like what she presents. From what I've gathered and been taught religion and the concept of God started as way to deal with the stress of nature then it became a way to deal with social pressures and oppression of people and so this perpetual cycle of trying to create gods or religions to oppress the oppressor. I really enjoy the historical aspects of of it all.
I thought the Hebrew bible was written during the exile in Babylon, so just before the Persian liberation.
To bad the microphone was placed 6 feet away from their voices...poor audio...
Francesca Stavrakopoulou: very interesting vieuws on religion etc. Excellent in debates. Great mind.
Also: a greek goddess... :-) : Aphrodite :-)
Totally worth the watch.
The book of Job and a lot of surviving religions are based on the idea of supernatural wisdom in auto-dissonant texts (with vagueness, partial internally contradiction, and/or cliff-hangers).
Amazing clarity.... Thanks Francesca.... No wonder die hard "god concept" fans feel threatened..... I prefer Knowledge and Reality, wherever it leads me, instead of imaginary, capricious, judgmental beings designed by bronze-age individuals.....
Fascinating