# Joel Baden

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Everything We Get Wrong About The Ten Commandments

What do we actually know about the Ten Commandments? Joel Baden joins Bible & Archaeology to explore how these famous laws appear in the Bible and why they became so central to later Jewish and Christian thought. From multiple versions in Exodus and Deuteronomy to their role in the story of Mount S…

Misquoting Moses Is Coming August 7

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 professor Joel Baden and co-host Megan Kraege explore the surprising history, authorship, translatio…

The Bible Doesn't Start the Way You Think | Inaugural Episode of "Misquoting Moses" with Joel Baden

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. You've heard that line a thousand times. But what if I told you it's not actually the first sentence of the Bible… that's a translation choice. And what if I told you Genesis actually tells the story of creation twice, in two different ways t…

Exodus Has Ten. But Deuteronomy's Commandments Are Older.

Moses climbs Mount Sinai, God hands him two stone tablets, and the Ten Commandments are born. That's the story many people grew up with. But here's the thing: the Bible actually gives us two different versions of the Ten Commandments, in two different books, and they don't quite match. So which one…

Is the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Historically Reliable?

The great flood of Noah. The walls of Jericho tumbling down. The ten plagues striking Egypt. The Red Sea splitting in two. These are some of the most famous biblical stories ever told — but did any of them actually happen the way the Bible describes? In this episode of Misquoting Moses, as Dr. Joel…

King David Killed His Way to the Throne

When you think of King David, images of the shepherd boy, the giant-slayer, and Israel's greatest king probably come to mind. That's the David people know. But strip away the Sunday school version, and the biblical text itself tells a very different, much darker story about how he actually rose to …

The Ten Commandments with Dr. Joel Baden

Dr. Joel Baden joins me to talk about the Ten Commandments! Find out why there are two versions, whether they were intended to be followed as laws, and what he thinks about the differences between the two. For more information about his ten-lecture course on the Ten Commandments, use this link: ht…

Fakes, Felonies, and the Museum of the Bible: Interview with Dr. Joel Baden

The Museum of the Bible has a reputation for housing fakes and looted objects; most recently, the institution was in the news for their forged Dead Sea Scrolls, the arrest of their consultant, Dr. Dirk Obbink, and the revelation that the famous "Gilgamesh Dream Tablet" housed in the museum was remo…

Dror Ben Ami: Carpenter vs. Plowman—Unlocking the Hebrew Metaphors Hidden in the Bible

What if everything you thought you knew about the Bible was built on a mistranslation—and the real meaning has been hiding in plain sight all along? Dror Ben Ami—author of The Vineyard and The Final Jubilee, and a scholar who studied Comparative Literature in both the USA and Israel—joins us for a…

‘Thou mayest’: A look at ‘East of Eden’

John Steinbeck considered East of Eden to be his magnum opus. And it’s now thought of as one of the great American novels. Netflix’s new seven-part limited series adaptation is created by and co-written by Zoe Kazan. Kazan’s grandfather, Elia Kazan, directed the classic big-screen adaptation starr…