This episode we sort out why the translation half of the claim is simply false, and why the transmission half isn't just a live option but a demonstrable fact. Along the way: the black hole between when these texts were written and our earliest surviving manuscripts, and the uncomfortable discovery that your own memory works the same way.
Chapters:
0:00 The World's Longest Telephone Game
1:06 David Cross's Version
2:21 Translations of Translations?
3:36 Back to the Source Languages
4:41 Erasmus, Tyndale, and Luther
6:06 The Rare Exceptions
6:38 Transmission, Not Translation
7:05 Verses Modern Bibles Cut
7:45 Quoting the Church Fathers
8:57 Sinaiticus and Vaticanus
9:42 The Manuscript Black Hole
11:03 "Nothing Changed"?
11:46 Whole Chapters Added Later
12:49 The Hebrew Bible Is Worse
13:05 Jeremiah's Missing Sixth
13:59 Who Knew God's Name?
14:55 Isaiah Grew Over Time
15:55 Myth, Not History
17:18 The Book: God's Biography
17:40 Your Swiss Army God
18:55 The Accommodationism Dodge
21:34 Centuries of Oral Tradition
22:56 How Manuscripts Get Changed
23:26 Family Stories Drift Fast
24:15 False Memories and Bob's Burgers
25:36 Telephone Inside Your Head
26:45 Closing
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