## Link https://youtu.be/jX_vBZAczjY?si=n5KwEDt0EEOHk1jX ## Clips ### The Highest, the polytheistic backstory, and a confusing redacted verse that becomes one country per person start = 6:24 end = 7:28 ### In 1947, this goat makes the greatest archaeological discovery of the 20th century, the Dead Sea Scrolls start = 8:36 end = 12:08 ### The controversial verse that all the translations hid start = 9:00 end = 9:35 ### Yahweh as only the god of one country start = 9:00 end = 10:23 ### The greek text uses the term angels, which is usually what the translators do when they encounter the polytheism in the original start = 10:23 end = 13:02 ### Exodus 15, Song of the Sea, the English translations are exercises in hiding from what a text says start = 12:36 end = 13:35 ### Psalm 29 is another example start = 13:35 end = 14:45 ### Where did the other gods go - Psalm 82 + god is standing in the divine council, the council of El start = 14:45 end = 16:43 ### El criticizing the other gods for doing a bad job of godding lol start = 16:28 end = 16:40 ### El decides that all the other gods he put in charge of godding turned out to suck so he says they'll eventually die start = 16:40 end = 18:16 ### El is the god that gives the other gods one country each - good to know - if you want start your own country - get a god - we got the number one motherfucker of them all muahahah start = 18:16 end = 19:40 ### Why does god keep speaking in the plural, and how it reveals the essence of the babel story start = 20:48 end = 23:25 ### At least four major authors of the bible share this concept of the death of the gods start = 23:25 end = 28:53 ### When monotheism started to catch on, how do you tell your kids and how do you explain grandma lol start = 28:48 end = 30:44 ### Why didn't we notice this before, and the old line about how jews don't do theology start = 30:44 end = 35:10 ### Singular, Dual, and Plural like we have in Hebrew and Egyptian start = 39:12 end = 42:12 ### The winner, Yahweh, gets the girl, and Jews Christians and Muslims forgot about the polytheistic origins, especially giving up the female gods start = 49:36 end = 51:36 ### Deuteronomy 32, where Moses talks about how there used to be other gods at the beginning start = 58:28 end = 1:00:28 ### Some argue the first commandment is a polytheistic statement not a monotheistic one, the hebrew says You may have no other gods in my presence, or literally no other gods in my face start = 1:01:37 end = 1:03:37