Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Its Jubilee time- and what are we celebrating? A no-longer-canonical book, I guess. Jubilees is a Second Temple rewrite of Genesis that reshapes creation stories, adds angelic narration, and updates the calendar to aaaaaalmost get the number of days in the year right.
Then we tackle the viral claim that the Bible has 63,779 perfect cross-references. Does it prove divine authorship? Maybe! Ok, no. But we still have a lot of fun breaking it down. We look at how these “links” are created, where the argument collapses, and why the attractiveness of a chart doesn't mean it's actually useful.
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0:00 Intro
1:15 Is It Canon? Jubilees
3:12 What Is the Book of Jubilees?
4:02 Why Ethiopia Preserved Jubilees
5:10 Dead Sea Scrolls & Jubilees’ Importance
7:34 Jubilees as Rewritten Genesis
10:20 The 364-Day Calendar
13:49 Early Biblical Apologetics
14:59 Adam’s “One Day = 1000 Years”
19:06 Sodom Story Rewritten
22:03 Surprising Emphases in Jubilees
23:15 Who Really “Wrote” Jubilees?
24:23 Angel Mediator Tradition
26:02 Early Christian Use of Jubilees
29:24 Best Modern Translation
31:19 Taking Issue
32:40 The Viral Bible Cross-Reference Chart
33:59 The 63,779 Claim Explained
35:46 What Counts as a Cross-Reference
38:27 Why the Bible References Itself
39:24 Why the Chart Fails as Evidence
40:18 Judas Death Contradiction
47:14 Fake Qur’an Chart Debunked
48:29 Online Islamophobia Misinformation
Its Jubilee time- and what are we celebrating? A no-longer-canonical book, I guess. Jubilees is a Second Temple rewrite of Genesis that reshapes creation stories, adds angelic narration, and updates the calendar to aaaaaalmost get the number of days in the year right.
Then we tackle the viral claim that the Bible has 63,779 perfect cross-references. Does it prove divine authorship? Maybe! Ok, no. But we still have a lot of fun breaking it down. We look at how these “links” are created, where the argument collapses, and why the attractiveness of a chart doesn't mean it's actually useful.
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For early access to an ad-free version of every episode of Data Over Dogma, exclusive content, and the opportunity to support our work, please consider becoming a monthly patron at:
patreon.com/DataOverDogma
Follow us on the various social media places:
facebook.com/DataOverDogmaPod
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Have you ordered Dan McClellan's New York Times bestselling book The Bible Says So yet???
0:00 Intro
1:15 Is It Canon? Jubilees
3:12 What Is the Book of Jubilees?
4:02 Why Ethiopia Preserved Jubilees
5:10 Dead Sea Scrolls & Jubilees’ Importance
7:34 Jubilees as Rewritten Genesis
10:20 The 364-Day Calendar
13:49 Early Biblical Apologetics
14:59 Adam’s “One Day = 1000 Years”
19:06 Sodom Story Rewritten
22:03 Surprising Emphases in Jubilees
23:15 Who Really “Wrote” Jubilees?
24:23 Angel Mediator Tradition
26:02 Early Christian Use of Jubilees
29:24 Best Modern Translation
31:19 Taking Issue
32:40 The Viral Bible Cross-Reference Chart
33:59 The 63,779 Claim Explained
35:46 What Counts as a Cross-Reference
38:27 Why the Bible References Itself
39:24 Why the Chart Fails as Evidence
40:18 Judas Death Contradiction
47:14 Fake Qur’an Chart Debunked
48:29 Online Islamophobia Misinformation
