I've been a preacher for more than 30
years. I've studied and taught through

the book of Genesis many, many times
in churches all around the world

and I've trained pastors in the skills of
interpreting texts

and it's very clear they're not stories
about Gods.

They're stories about the powerful ones in
the bible.

And the sky people, the Anunarchi? 
in the Sumerian tablets

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[narrator] In 1896 eminent scholar 
Nathaniel Schmidt

was fired from his position
as Professor of Semitic languages

at Colgate University

For eleven years, this American University
had enjoyed Nathaniel Schmidt rendition ?

and Semitic Languages

He delivered numerous courses in Hebrew,
Aramaic, ? , Arabic , Syriac

and other ancient languages besides

In fact, Nathaniel Schmidt was one of 
America's leading scholars in the field

So why, after eleven years 
of outstanding achievement

was he tried for heresy,

and fired from ? in 1896?

Vowed about Christian and a baptist pastor

The authorities considered that his recent

theological papers had stroke at the

very roots of two world religions,

Christianity and Judaism