Misquoting Moses with Joel Baden
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min · 3 segments
Who wrote the Hebrew Bible, when, and why? Why does it contain so many competing perspectives and why do scholars sometimes disagree about what its words originally meant? In Misquoting Moses, Yale…
Joel BadenHost
Megan KraegeHost
If you're a fan of Bart Ehrman's, you are probably wondering what the heck we're doing on Bart's channel.
This is Misquoting Moses, a new series exploring the Hebrew Bible, its history, its formation, and the world of ancient Israel that produced it.
I'm almost never going to tell you who an author was, in part because that's like, you know, what do you want me to do? Like Schmooly, who lives around the corner.
Is this text history? Is it not history? What did its original authors think that it was when they were writing it?
I think that any time you start by saying, let's ask a simple question, you're a liar.
Who wrote this anonymous text with all of these proverbs in it? Definitely Solomon.
as opposed to, you know, wise man number six, right? They were originally written to be put outside of courthouses, you see.
The Ten Commandments are a thing that I happen to be currently, like, kind of obsessed with.
If you're a fan of Bart Ehrman's, you are probably wondering what the heck we're doing on Bart's channel.
This is Misquoting Moses, a new series exploring the Hebrew Bible, its history, its formation, and the world of ancient Israel that produced it.
I'm almost never going to tell you who an author was, in part because that's like, you know, what do you want me to do? Like Schmooly, who lives around the corner.
Is this text history? Is it not history? What did its original authors think that it was when they were writing it?
I think that any time you start by saying, let's ask a simple question, you're a liar.
Who wrote this anonymous text with all of these proverbs in it? Definitely Solomon.
as opposed to, you know, wise man number six, right? They were originally written to be put outside of courthouses, you see.
The Ten Commandments are a thing that I happen to be currently, like, kind of obsessed with.
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