Daniel Boyarin

But that's different from looking at it as literature and understanding there to be symbolism and metaphors and all that stuff.

Yeah, you know, one of my colleagues back in my cloud days years ago, Rabbi Natan Margolid, who's a fabulous guy, was telling me years ago about his PhD dissertation that he wrote under Daniel Boyarin.

And it was on the rhetorical structures of, I can't remember if it was the Mishnah or the Mishnah and the Gemara, that were borrowed from Roman literature, sort of...

You know, sort of chiastic structures, the use of words repeated at different points in a passage to allow you to access a deeper meaning, a completely different meaning when you connect those dots.

In today's episode, I'm going to explain what the Two Powers heresy was and why it matters.

We're going to consider statements by Alan Segal, Daniel Boyarin, Michael Heiser, and Michael Jones of the Inspiring Philosophy channel.

Uh, we're going to see why so many Bible-believing Christians today are excited about an obscure ancient heresy mentioned in post-biblical Jewish literature.

You're going to learn why this subject matters and why it's worth your time to learn about it.

And so Segal is saying this idea of two powers existed in Judaism before that.

So it's a BC kind of thing.

Um, then you had Daniel Boyarin coming in in the year, I think it was, uh, 2004.

He said the following: "There is significant evidence, uncovered in large part by Segal, that in the first century many, perhaps most Jews, held a Binitarian doctrine of God." So that was a stupendous claim of Boyarin, i- which if true, would really just, uh, blow the lid off early high Christology.