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

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

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

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

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

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

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[narrator] In 1896 eminent scholar 
Nathaniel Schmidt

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was fired from his position
as Professor of Semitic languages

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at Colgate University

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

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and Semitic Languages

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

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and other ancient languages besides

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

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So why, after eleven years 
of outstanding achievement

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was he tried for heresy,

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and fired from ? in 1896?

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Vowed about Christian and a baptist pastor

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The authorities considered that his recent

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theological papers had stroke at the

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very roots of two world religions,

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Christianity and Judaism