Apocryphal Errors and the Church and Ancient Interpretation

About this episode

The episode discusses apocryphal historical errors in Church hymns and their impact on early Jewish and pagan interpretations of Christian biblical texts.

After following up with questions about some apocryphal historical errors that appear in Church hymns, we will turn our attention to early Jewish and pagan interpretation and how that impacted Christian biblical interpretation. "Galway" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Jeannie Constantinou

Topics covered

• apocryphal errors
• Church hymns
• early Jewish interpretation
• pagan interpretation
• Christian biblical interpretation

Keywords

• apocryphal
• Church hymns
• biblical interpretation
• Jewish interpretation
• pagan interpretation
• Christianity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ancient Faith Ministries, incompetech.com, Creative Commons

Books & works: Galway

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