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Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.77,0:00:15.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,static noise effect
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.54,0:00:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been a preacher for more than 30\Nyears. I've studied and taught through
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.54,0:00:38.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the book of Genesis many, many times\Nin churches all around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.54,0:00:42.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I've trained pastors in the skills of\Ninterpreting texts
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.54,0:00:46.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's very clear they're not stories\Nabout Gods.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.32,0:00:49.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're stories about the powerful ones in\Nthe Bible.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.77,0:00:53.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the sky people, the Anunnakki \Nin the Sumerian tablets
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.83,0:01:08.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,static noise effect
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.60,0:01:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Narrator] In 1896 eminent scholar \NNathaniel Schmidt
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.52,0:01:18.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was fired from his position\Nas Professor of Semitic languages
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.96,0:01:21.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at Colgate University
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.68,0:01:26.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For eleven years, this American University\Nhad enjoyed Nathaniel Schmidt rendition ?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.74,0:01:28.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Semitic Languages
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.58,0:01:34.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He delivered numerous courses in Hebrew,\NAramaic, ? , Arabic , Syriac
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.12,0:01:37.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other ancient languages besides
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.42,0:01:42.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, Nathaniel Schmidt was one of \NAmerica's leading scholars in the field
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.38,0:01:46.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So why, after eleven years \Nof outstanding achievement
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.57,0:01:48.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was he tried for heresy,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.84,0:01:52.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fired from his tenure in 1896?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.33,0:01:56.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Though a devout Christian \Nand a Baptist pastor
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.08,0:01:58.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The authorities considered that his recent
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.53,0:02:01.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,theological papers had struck\Nat the very roots
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.37,0:02:03.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of two world religions
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.87,0:02:06.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christianity and Judaism.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.12,0:02:09.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What Nathaniel Schmidt had done wrong
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.66,0:02:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was read the Sumerian and Babylonian
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.76,0:02:16.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Assyrian text and notice\Nthat they were full
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.60,0:02:20.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of fascinating parallels.\NStories that occurred there
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.76,0:02:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that were uncannily similar to all \Nthe stories and begginings
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.48,0:02:26.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Bible.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.37,0:02:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stories like: Adam and Eve
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.06,0:02:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Fall , Cain and Abel
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.66,0:02:33.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Flood, the limiting of human life,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.96,0:02:36.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the event of the Tower of Babel,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.29,0:02:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Schmidt's work demonstrated
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.58,0:02:42.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Sumerian accounts
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.99,0:02:47.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those that follow it\Nfrom nearly 6000 years ago
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.74,0:02:50.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where in all probability \Nthe source of all those familiar ?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.99,0:02:52.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,biblical stories.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.94,0:02:55.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, that was a problem\Nin the 1890's
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.82,0:02:57.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because if you think about it
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.35,0:03:00.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Church was still r? from\Nthe after effects of
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.09,0:03:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Charles Darwin's \N"On the Origin of Species"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.87,0:03:04.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and its busy \Nputting together
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.77,0:03:06.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,new doctrinal basis
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.24,0:03:09.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and new doctrines \Nof biblical inherency
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.35,0:03:10.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to shore up the ship
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.71,0:03:12.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the idea that the Bible \N
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.56,0:03:15.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,might actually be based \Non somebody else's stories
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.71,0:03:18.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a bit of an embarrassment
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.48,0:03:19.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It shouldn't have been
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.58,0:03:22.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because Judaism \Nand Christianity
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.03,0:03:23.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both find their roots
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.78,0:03:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the story of a Sumerian family.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,