Episodes

Learn about the gospel of Matthew and the unique way it tells the story of Jesus's life, using Mark as a primary source.

Learn about the earliest and most basic of the biblical gospels.

What is a gospel? Why are there four gospels in the Bible? Who wrote them? Learn a little introductory info. about the four books that open the New Testament.

Listen to a conversation about how to ease tensions between the Bible and science by acknowledging literary genre.

Compare and contrast the two Biblical creation stories, and let science weigh in on how the world was formed.

Learn about how the God Elohim filled the voids of the cosmos in three days and then took a day of rest. And, find out how long a "day" is.

Learn about the ancient "snow globe" conception of the cosmos and about how the God Elohim organized the watery chaos in three days.

The Garden of Eden story, continued.

The Garden of Eden like you've probably never heard about it before. Your Sunday school teacher didn't tell it quite right.

Discover the fact that your Bible contains two separate stories about creation.

An interview episode answering listener questions about the distinctions among history, legend and myth, the differences between northern and southern Israelite texts, and the basic questions confronting early "Christianities...

Learn about the history of the Jewish people after the death of Jesus and how the spin-off Christians began to shape a new faith and to write the New Testament.

Learn about the history of the Jewish people, the community who wrote the Bible, from the point at which the Roman Empire takes over Palestine and sets the stage for the life of Jesus. The intertestamental period unfolds betw...

Learn about the history of the Jewish people, from the conquest of Alexander to the Hasmonean Kingdom. The world changed for the Jews and for the entire world when east met west.

Learn about the history of the Jewish people, the community who wrote the Bible, from the destruction of their kingdoms, Israel and Judah, to the deportation of some of the people to Babylon, and then to the eventual restorat...

Learn about the history of the Jewish people, the community who wrote the Bible, during the time of their two kingdoms, Israel in the north and Judah in the south.

Learn about the history of the Jewish people, the community who wrote the Bible, from the beginning of Near Eastern Civilization to the confederation of Hebrew tribes.

An interview episode answering listener questions about how the Protestant Bible got to be the shortest one, how the earliest Christians didn't have a Bible yet, and whether Paul wrote his own letters.

Learn more about the word "inspired" as it applies to the Bible and how ancient Christians used the term. Gain some insight into the often cited passage from 2 Timothy in which the scripture is "God-breathed".

Maybe we shouldn't think of the Bible as a book. Books were invented after the Bible was written, and a compilation of books, literarily speaking, isn't really a book.

Learn more about where divisions of the Bible come from, including chapters and verses, and what the implications are for reading and using scripture.

Learn more information about the ancient languages in which the Bible was written long before a word of English was ever spoken.

Born out of frustration with Bible thumpers' misplaced confidence and the failure of scholarship to trickle down into the pews, The Bible Unthumped aims to bridge the gap in awareness. The Bible probably isn't what you were ...

The number of Bible books is not as definitive as you might think. A wider perspective leads to different ways of counting, depending on your tradition.