Who wrote the Bible?: Enslaved people and the New Testament with Candida Moss (S3:E5)
“Once we accept biblical collaboration as fact and recognize its participants as oppressed human beings who nevertheless had agency, we are forced to confront a truth that can be unsettling to some readers of scripture: that the meaning of the Bible is fluid.”
Welcome to In Search Of, a podcast where we go in search of voices and perspectives that inform and expand a life of faith. In this episode, scholar of early Christianity, Candida Moss, discusses the most recent publication of ancient papyri and what they say about women’s history in Christianity. We also learn about her new book on the role played by enslaved workers in the creation of the New Testament. All this and more on this episode of In Search Of. A transcript of this episode can be found here.
For further searching, check out these links:
- Visit Candida’s website
- Read Candida’s Daily Beast column on the Oxyrhynchus papyri
- Preorder God’s Ghostwriters
- For more on the Oxyrhynchus papyri, listen to this previous episode of In Search Of with Elizabeth Schrader Polczer and Diana Butler Bass
- And for more information on Amy’s retreat, visit sagemountaininstitute.com
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- “Signs of Mary Magdalene in John 11” Amy Frykholm interviews Elizabeth Schrader Polczer (Nov 2023)
- The book of Exodus includes a story about reparations for slavery” by Matthew Schlimm (Jan 2022)
- “Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life wasn’t made for times like these” by Alejandra Oliva (May 2021)
- “Walking with Moses from slavery to liberation” by Brian Bantum (July 2020)
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