Lies My Preacher Told Me: An Interview with Brent Strawn

Brent Strawn addresses ten common "lies" or mistruths about the Old Testament, from perceptions of God's personality (the "angry Old Testament God") to the relevance of the Old Testament for Christians.

Brent Strawn’s research focuses on ancient Near Eastern iconography, Israelite religion, biblical law, the Psalms, poetry, and Old Testament theology. He joined the Duke Divinity School faculty in 2019 and has a secondary appointment at the Duke University School of Law. Before that, he taught at Asbury Theological Seminary for three years and then, for eighteen years, at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, where he was the William Ragsdale Cannon Distinguished Professor of Old Testament. Strawn has published over two hundred articles, chapters in books, contributions to reference works, and reviews.

0:00 Welcome and Introduction
02:24 Who has been a great Bible teacher in your life?
7:30 The Common English Bible (CEB)
12:05 (Rick doesn't like the title of this new book...)
15:45 Christian "common sense" about the Bible is not always true
17:28 Data vs. accurate interpretation of the data
19:15 Is reading the OT "reading someone else's mail"?
25:00 Who was Marcion and why should we know about him?
30:35 "The OT is not spiritually enriching"
32:34 The OT version of history vs. the modern perspective
41:46 Is the OT permanently obsolete?
46:40 Does the OT and the NT have the same theology?
53:50 God's wrath
1:04:00 Isn't the Law an impossible burden to keep?

Some books by Brent Strawn:

Lies My Preacher told Me: An Honest Look at the Old Testament - https://amzn.to/3kcWvWh

The Old Testament: A Concise Introduction - https://amzn.to/3gcDNwH

The World around the Old Testament: The People and Places of the Ancient Near East - https://amzn.to/2WdzdqY

The Old Testament Is Dying: A Diagnosis and Recommended Treatment - https://amzn.to/2WaTE7z

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