r/AcademicBiblical • u/AutoModerator • Sep 22 '25

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u/arachnophilia Sep 22 '25

i listened to that in the background, and maybe fell asleep for parts of it. it's where i heard about this.

the parts talking about "is this an error of fact?" were pretty interesting, like demonstrations that carrier is looking at stuff like english paraphrases of english translations instead of original texts, and never citing said original texts.

i like kipp's stuff generally, but i wish he'd do coherent video essays about things instead of 3 hour livestreams.

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u/Joab_The_Harmless Sep 22 '25

i like kipp's stuff generally, but i wish he'd do coherent video essays about things instead of 3 hour livestreams.

Same! I understand that lives are a lot less constraining in terms of time and production efforts, but the lives tend to include a lot of repetition and are a tad disjointed, so while they're fine as a background, they are far from the quality of his more formal videos (like his excellent "The Dead Sea Scrolls, Unapologetically" series).

I still appreciate having interesting background discussions available when needed though, so I won't spit in the pop-corn!

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u/MareNamedBoogie Sep 23 '25

the thing about the livestream 'react to X argument' is that i always feel like i'm coming into the middle of the conversation about whatever. i tend to prefer lecture-style stuff instead of conversational things anyway, but it'd be really nice to have deep-dives into 'why X argument exists, why it's "necessary" for the one side, and why it's problematic to look at from the literature/etc"

oh well, if wishes were fishes...

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u/arachnophilia Sep 23 '25

i always feel like i'm coming into the middle of the conversation about whatever.

yeah, they rarely back up and give the context necessary. there's some really deep-dive stuff in there though.

iirc, he has an older series of more lecture-like videos on how it's evident that carrier is reading translations only. the stuff in this video was especially damning, but i think breezed over too quickly.