Sunday , June 23 2024
Home / Mike Norman Economics / Joel Baden: The Bible Doesn’t Say What You Think it Does

Joel Baden: The Bible Doesn’t Say What You Think it Does

Summary:
There are two different creation stories in the Bible, and they are quite different to each other. Joel Baden believes that the people that put the Bible together deliberately wanted it to be ambiguous, so that meaning could be a matter of interpretation. Joel Baden (Professor of Hebrew Bible Yale University) spoke at the 2013 Nantucket Project. Nearly 80 percent of all Americans think the Bible is either literally true or is the inspired word of God. And yet, most Americans have no idea what is actually in the Bible. So we have the paradoxical situation in which we as a culture "have invested the words of this book with amazing authority even when we don't know what these words are and what they mean."[embedded content]https://youtu.be/XS7LgbMr1m4

Topics:
Mike Norman considers the following as important:

This could be interesting, too:

Eric Kramer writes Elections are about trust, blame, and identity.  Here’s how to use that against Trump.

NewDealdemocrat writes Housing permits and starts the lowest since 2020, units under construction also decline further, but no yellow caution flag yet

Angry Bear writes Biden should welcome their hatred

Bill Haskell writes Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Bill Takes on Private Equity Milking Hospitals

 There are two different creation stories in the Bible, and they are quite different to each other. Joel Baden believes that the people that put the Bible together deliberately wanted it to be ambiguous, so that meaning could be a matter of interpretation. 


Joel Baden (Professor of Hebrew Bible Yale University) spoke at the 2013 Nantucket Project. 


Nearly 80 percent of all Americans think the Bible is either literally true or is the inspired word of God. And yet, most Americans have no idea what is actually in the Bible. So we have the paradoxical situation in which we as a culture "have invested the words of this book with amazing authority even when we don't know what these words are and what they mean."




https://youtu.be/XS7LgbMr1m4


Mike Norman
Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *