What the Bible Really Says | Meet Bible Translator Dr. Dan McClellan | PROFOUNDLY Pointless

Intro: 00:00
What does the Bible Really Say: 00:44
What do we get Wrong about the Bible: 06:03
Translating the Bible: 11:04
How did the Bible come Together / Council of Nicaea: 13:46
What is Jesus' Real Name: 22:30
Was Jesus Married, Did Jesus Have any Siblings: 29:00
Bible Conspiracy Theories: 30:07
What does the Bible Say about Homosexuality: 32:23
Most Controversial Bible Verse: 40:55

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What the Bible Really Says According to a Bible Expert | Meet Dr. McClellan | Profoundly Pointless

[BobSmith-lbnc]

Long ago, when he was an active professor, Wilfred Griggs said that, if we could go back to ancient Egypt as time travelers, we would be amazed at how different it is from our scholarly reconstructions. It would revolutionize our understanding.

[bennybrewer]

Also, you're the best interviewer I've ever come across. Really great questions and you let the guest talk so much without interruption. Great job!

[tiburd]

Regarding child sacrifice (in the "controversy" section), there's also Ezekiel 20:25-26, "Moreover I gave them statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not have life; and I defiled them through their very gifts in making them offer by fire all their first-born, that I might horrify them; I did it that they might know that I am the Lord."

[rkn]

Great questions. Watch Data Over Dogma. Great show.

[tirtic]

This is some great content, I'm so glad to have found your channel ❤

[Humorless_Wokescold]

The part of the conversation about Jesus' name was very interesting. I grew up with the Spanish pronunciation of these names so the similarities between Joshua (Josué) and Jesus (Jesús) was kinda always there for me. Hearing Dr McClellan pronounce YESH-u knocked it all into place.

[marieschor-rutishauserphd]

How are you defining “What we generally think it says?”

[blusheep]

You should clarify that this is your assumption. The problem being that if you say we are off, orders of magnitude, then you are making a knowledge claim to what the authors original intent was but you begin by saying we aren't clear on what the authors original intent was.

So at best we can guess that there are many things we don't understand properly. That being said, I think its more to do with understanding the ancient cultural backdrop that the books are written in rather then the Documentary Hypothesis.

[sandlotscout]

Now get his Daddy on the show Michael Jones.

[bennybrewer]

Do you have a playlist with all your full interviews? I found one on your channel but it doesn't include this video or your Rainbolt one.

[KJDogluv]

He’s not a Bible translator but he’s an amazing scholar for sure

[ronaldharding]

Anything that anyone translates has to admit that their "translation" is an interpretation. There are many things--especially in the Hebrew text--that we have no idea what it says. Many's the scholar who tells you what the Revelation of John means when they don't understand the word, "Apoc rypha". A Gentile or a Modern Hebrew does not have the knowledge to grasp exactly what is meant, because the writing is written in the ancient literary genre of Hebrew apocryphal literature in which only a Hebrew from that time would understand. Even though it contains some OT reference to the eschaton, it is not a primarily eschatological treatise, but, rather, it is a comment on, a warning so to speak of the coming persecution by Trajan. John, one of the "sons of thunder", is a wizened old man who has seen his brother's head lopped off because of unrestained "thunder". He writes so that the Romans wont pick up on his meaning and come to lop off his head. He dies of old age. We really can't say exactly what the meaning is of the Revelation, yet, there are untold numbers who claim they do. Translation has to be described as interpretation given the problems that literary devices and complications in knowing exactly what is meant in idioms common to a people who use the common, spoken languages of the day to communicate their ideas. Only by studying the Hebrew and Greek Septuagint of the OT and the myriad Syriac, Aramaic, Greek, etc. versions of the NT which are extant (we don't have the autographs, so we dont know for sure what was original) can we approximate what is actually the true form (wotds) of the original. This, incidently, is, in my opinion, by design, so that men wouldn't worship the Book, as Muslims worship the Quran, but, rather, the God about whom the Bible is wrtten.

[benjamintrevino]

I was in the running to be the Messiah, but when I named Lake Titicaca, God took me off the short list.

[NullStaticVoid]

My expertise is more in the ral of Buddhism. But I see alot of similarity in how these are both faiths that came about in the Bronze age and were revised and fixed a few hundred years later.
One thing I find interesting in Buddhism is that there is an emphasis on numbers. 4 Noble truths, the refuges/jewels, the eightfold path.
What is strange is that every monk abbot tells me these numbers have no intrinsic meaning, they are just vestiges of the oral transmission phase of the texts.
But I look to Abrhamic texts and see similar patterns. How many things are there 3 of, or 40? It seems to me that bronze age semiliterate people are also going to be not sophisticated in terms of math. Numbers are more mysterious to them. It is normal that they accrue meanings.
I think we have lost this number meaning in both examples.
I dont mean some Dan Brown code. Just the way that certain words have second meanings. Either colloquial or maybe some spiritual truth that the number is shorthand for.
The "40" in Judaism/Christianity is puzzling, because you would think under Babylonian influence it would be something divisible by 12.

[longcastle]

Has there been a Paul as grifter interpretation of the text? Seriously.

[melissabrown]

This is why knowledge of the whole scripture is of most importance. In Exodus 22:29-30, It is NOT speaking of child sacrifice but of circumcision. The males were circumcised on the 8th day.
Much of this is so badly misinterpreted that it has been difficult to watch, but I always try to hear every side out, even when I strongly disagree with them.

[StorytimeJesus]

Jesus is a literary device. A Judean literary device.
Jesus son of Nun (Joshua), killed the king of Jerusalem, hung him on a tree, took the body down at evening, put the body in a cave, and piled rocks in front of the cave which remain "to this day." This was exactly 40 years after his spy message about the promised land was rejected by his own people, the Israelites, who attempted to stone him. Those Israelites wandered in the wilderness forty years so their children would inherit the promised land.
Jesus of Nazareth was killed, hung on a cross that proclaimed him king of the Jews. (3 times in Acts it is said Jesus was hung on a tree. Jesus was taken down at evening, put in a tomb (ancient royal Judean tombs were caves dug into the rock hillside), a large stone was rolled in front of the cave, and he rose on the third day.
These are several of over 100 instances of Mark using a previous Hebrew Bible Jesus in just 16 chapters. Mark was not the first writer to reuse a Jesus narrative. The Elijah-Elisha narrative reuses the Moses-Jesus narrative. Jeremiah-Jesus son of Jehozadak also reuses the Moses-Jesus narrative.
For example Jeremiah is rejected by his hometown of Anathoth at the beginning of his ministry, which lasted 40 years, whereupon Jerusalem was destroyed just as Jeremiah predicted. For his preaching he was arrested and put into a pit. later he was released and ended up "leading" Israelites into Egypt, where the remnant proclaim they will worship the Queen of heaven. This is an inversion of Moses leading the ISraelites out of Egypt, where they leave behind their old gods and worship only YHWH!
It is literature, folks! Enjoy it as it was meant to be enjoyed!

[Porkchop]

It is difficult to get past your Casey Kasem voice.

[jenniehudson]

It seems if we are going to adapt what the Bible means to make us feel more comfortable with it, we may as well just throw the whole thing out. It saddens me that this man is a member of faculty at BYU and is influencing LDS members to reject the scriptures in favor of the doctrine of men. Seems very blasphemous.

[bell]

Lol asking an athiest /agnostic to teach you about a spiritual book? Definitely pointless. Now I understand why you chose the channel name.