## Link https://youtu.be/dOfzNa44fgg?si=QpVw1igmreAXcYej ## Clips ### J people and E people, and the Mesopotamia to Israel to Egypt to Israel to Diaspora to Israel pipeline start = 0:00 end = 4:02 ### The Exodus in history start = 4:02 end = 7:18 ### Biggest conference in this field was in San Diego start = 7:18 end = 7:47 ### It's always in a startup's interest to exaggerate your numbers start = 12:03 end = 13:03 ### I became a bible scholar for the money joke start = 14:35 end = 14:40 ### Thanks for clearing that up for us start = 14:40 end = 15:42 ### Whether you think it's history or fiction, J and E are tied for the oldest [that] on earth start = 16:28 end = 17:05 ### Was there an Exodus? There were, uh, what's the plural of Exodus? Exoditos. start = 20:15 end = 21:20 ### The names of god in the J source and E source, the two gods getting retconned into one start = 22:08 end = 24:31 ### El and Yahweh, the Yahweh character says yeah my name was different back then start = 24:31 end = 26:03 ### In the E source, humans refer to god as El but the Narrator never does start = 26:34 end = 27:14 ### The names and internal consistency between the sources start = 27:14 end = 29:33 ### The question is: Why would anybody do that? Why would 2 out of 3 authors of the original text say we didn't know the god guy's name until halfway through the story? start = 29:33 end = 35:18 ### The most commonly discussed thing in the torah is this tabernacle thing, and it's all in E and P, the Levite sources start = 36:18 end = 37:52 ### There's wine and beer but not hard liquor in the ancient near east start = 37:05 end = 38:08