Season
Season 3
Episode Number
99
Release Date
January 6, 2021
Tags
IsraelEgyptIdolatryBabylonRome
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Table of Contents
- Defining Common Knowledge
- Common Knowledge in the Bible
- What if this pattern exists across cultures?
- References and Footnotes
This is the third time that I am coming to you. On the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter shall be confirmed. 2 Corinthians 13:1 NASB
Defining Common Knowledge
- Anything you can find in 5 scholarly sources
- Anything you can safely assume the reader/listener already knows
- Not disputed
Common Knowledge in the Bible
Bible verses about 2 or 3 witnesses:
Biblical examples of God repeating something 2 or 3 times:
- Joseph interpreting dreams (Genesis 40)
- Pharaoh has 2 dreams about the famine (Genesis 41)
- 1 & 2 Chronicles contains much of the same information as 1 & 2 Kings
- Daniel and Revelation have much cross over
- The Gospels
What if this pattern exists across cultures?
And I have other sheep that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to My voice; and they will become one flock, with one shepherd.
The season we're talking about "Common Knowledge"
References and Footnotes
- "What is Common Knowledge?". Academic Integrity at MIT; visited January 2021
- Shona McCombes. "Common knowledge: to cite or not to cite?". Scribbr. August 26, 2019
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