Data Over Dogma
by Daniel McClellan and Daniel Beecher
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No One Can See God and Live… Except These 74 Guys
No One Can See God and Live… Except These 74 Guys
About this podcast
This ain't your pastor's Bible podcast. This is a deep interrogation of the book, and we're bringing receipts. Bible scholar Dr. Dan McClellan and atheist podcaster Dan Beecher team up to discover what the Bible actually says, what it decidedly doesn't say (even if everyone thinks it does), and explore the history of the most popular book of all time.
Episodes
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- No One Can See God and Live… Except These 74 Guys · 1 h 7 minThis week, we're finally reading a chapter verse by verse, and Exodus 24 does not make it easy: in just 18 verses, Moses climbs a mountain, wanders off to write everything down…
- You Can't Out-Bible the Pope · 1 h 2 minPope Leo XIV called the death penalty "inadmissible," and the internet promptly told him to go read his Bible—the one that prescribes execution for everything from kidnapping to…
- How Lady Wisdom Became Flesh with Dustin Smith · 1 h 7 minIn the beginning was the Word, but what if the Word was Wisdom all along? This week we welcome Dustin Smith, New Testament scholar at Spartanburg Methodist College and host of…
- Hexegesis and Sexist Jesus? · 1 h 3 minIt's the most spookiest time of the year, so we're debuting a brand-new segment: Hexegesis! Did King James really slip "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" into Exodus…
- Noah's Ark: 100% Unconfirmed · 1 h 3 min · Episode 183The Daily Mail says the resting place of Noah's Ark has been "100% confirmed" on a hillside in Turkey, so we're lacing up our hiking boots to check the radar scans, the…
- Old Testament God Bad, New Testament God Good? · 1 h 1 minOpen an English Bible and you'll mostly see "God" and "Lord," but underneath is a whole divine vocabulary: El, Eloah, Elohim, the tetragrammaton, and a few choice insults…
- Dan Tells Dan About Tel Dan · 1 h 1 minThis week, Paul finally gets his day in court — several of them, actually, and he spends nearly all of them in custody. We're going chapter and verse through Acts 23 to 26…
- Vancepocalypse Now (and Paul's Spiritual Gifts) · 54 minThis week we're taking issue with a Vice President! JD Vance recently sat down with a very young podcaster to discuss his lifelong fascination with end-times prophecy, his…
- Help Meet, Not Help Yourself · 59 minThis week, we're taking issue with Mark Driscoll, who recently explained that a wife is a garden, a husband is the gardener, and — out loud, on purpose — that the finished result…
- You Starve ... Glory Be To God? · 1 h 4 minIn three days, the earth opens up and swallows a household whole, fire consumes 250 men, and a plague takes 14,700 more — and then the very next chapter expects us to be…
- Rod Almighty! · 60 minGet your mind out of the gutter — this week it's Aaron's rod, the staff that sprouted buds, blossoms, and ripe almonds overnight to settle once and for all who was in charge. But…
- The Grandfather of the Hebrew Bible (and What Is Zion?) · 1 h 2 minIn 1929, a farmer in French-occupied Syria hit a rock with his plow and accidentally uncovered the lost city of Ugarit — and with it, a library of Bronze Age tablets that has…
- 66 Books, 40 Authors, Zero Contradictions? · 1 h 3 minYou've seen the claim: 66 books, 40 authors, 1,500 years, three continents, three languages — and not one contradiction. This week we take that apologetic apart piece by piece…
- No Originals, No Mercy · 1 h 9 min · Episode 174There isn't a single surviving original manuscript for any book of the Bible, so how do scholars decide what the earliest recoverable text actually said? This week, it's a…
- Don't be a jerk...off? · 1 h 0 minThis week it's a "What's That?" double feature! First, we take on the Great Commission. Does Matthew 28 really command every believer to accost strangers on airplanes and by the…
- A Trickster God and the Worst Wedding Ever · 60 min · Episode 172This week, Christian nationalist Joel Webbin says the quiet part out loud: lie to voters about your theocratic goals until you've got the power to enact them. It's grotesque and…
- Lean Not on Your Own Understanding (and Other Conversation-Enders) · 1 h 3 min · Episode 171This week we're taking on the thought-stopping cliché to end all thought-stopping clichés: "trust in the Lord, and lean not on your own understanding." Is "reading with the Holy…
- Faith vs. Works vs. Chaos Monsters · 1 h 6 minThis week we crack open the Epistle of James — a letter that may claim to come from none other than James the brother of Jesus — and wade into one of Christianity's oldest…
- The Twelve Tribes of Israel (Give or Take) · 59 min · Episode 169This week the Dans try to count to twelve — and find that the number matters a lot more than the names. We dig into the twelve tribes of Israel: how Levi quietly drops out and…
- Moloch, Mormons, and Mike Lee · 1 h 0 min · Episode 168Senator Mike Lee keeps accusing his opponents of sacrificing children to Moloch, so this week we ask who — or what — Moloch actually was, why abortion and child sacrifice are not…
