The expansion of our understanding of what the Bible, especially the Old Testament is actually recording and reporting is as profound as anything else going on around us in the present. Our history is far richer than our institutions insist.
Expand your thinking. The movie is going to get really, really interesting. We're being told this now for a reason.
I agree and like that they simply say leave the original words as they are and the context will take care of the meaning. Brilliantly simple and the way natural works anyway. We assign the correct meaning to words on the fly in all of our everyday conversations.
That…and the whole advanced colonization narrative actually fits with the ground truth without a lot of fancy rhetorical contortions.