The Future Human with Mauro Biglino and Alex Gómez-Marín

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Alex Gómez-Marín, a physicist and neuroscientist who directs the Pari Center, talks with the Italian Bible translator Mauro Biglino. Biglino says he reads the Hebrew text as literally as he can, without allegory. On that reading, Elohim is a plural word for many individuals, and Yahweh is one of them. He goes through the burning bush, the ruach and the flying craft in Ezekiel, and says the Bible does not tell where the Elohim came from or where they are now. He offers the idea that Jesus could be the son of Gabriel and Mary, and says he lost his work with a Catholic publisher after he spoke in public. The second half is a question and answer session with the audience, with questions about Hebrew vowels, the Holy Spirit and Gnostic texts.

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Biglino says he reads the Hebrew Bible literally, and that he is not saying anything about whether God exists.
He says Elohim is plural, that nobody knows its exact meaning, and that he would leave it untranslated.
He says he counts at least 23 Elohim in the Bible, and that Yahweh is one of them.
He reads the ruach in Ezekiel as a flying machine and suggests chapters 1, 3, 8, 10 and 11.
He says the Bible does not tell where the Elohim came from or where they are now.
He says Jesus could be the son of Gabriel and Mary, and he stresses that this is a possibility only.
He says his Catholic publisher fired him after he began to speak in public, and he went on to publish on his own.