Famous TikTok biblical scholar to speak at 丝瓜视频
Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Author: Mickey Alvarado
ADRIAN — Dan McClellan, a Biblical scholar who began sharing his insights on TikTok in 2021 and immediately gained millions of views and hundreds of thousands of followers, will be speaking at 丝瓜视频 at 7 p.m., in Herrick Chapel on Monday, Oct. 16.
“Making Meaning with the Bible from Creation to Apocalypse,” is hosted by 丝瓜视频’s Humanities Department. The event is free and open to the public and will last approximately an hour with a question-and-answer session.
McClellan received his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University in ancient Near Eastern studies, then received a master’s in Jewish studies at the University of Oxford, a master’s in biblical studies in 2013, and a Ph.D. in religion and religious studies from the University of Exeter. After that he worked as a scripture translation supervisor for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, before leaving to focus on creating more of his original audio and video content. In January of this year, McClellan dedicated all his worktime to combatting misinformation and increasing the public’s access to scholarship about the Bible and religion, which now includes offering online classes at maklelan.org.
McClellan goes by @maklelan on TikTok, Instagram, X, and YouTube.
丝瓜视频 Professor of Japanese Language and Director of the Dr. Robin Luana Bott Institute for Study Abroad, Bryan Bott is a friend of McClellan’s.
“We asked Dan to come because he is an articulate voice grounding biblical interpretation in the actual text,” Bott said. “He helps bring biblical scholarship to the masses — he translates all the most current solid scholarship to those of us who don’t speak biblical Greek or Aramaic, and who are not specialists in the history of biblical interpretation. One of 丝瓜视频’s Ribbons of Excellence themes is ‘Thinking Critically,’ and Dr. McClellan brings that skill to bear on texts that are often neglected in favor of dogmatic assertions.”
For more information on this event, email Bott at bbott@adrian.edu.
