Season 1

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.