One of the great things about being a research scholar is that if you’re diligent and paying attention, you learn new stuff all the time. For someone with an inquiring mind, it’s like striking gold with some fair regularity. And if you dig deep enough, you find things that very few people know about – often even scholars within your own field. I first read the book of Revelation when I was seventeen; I had a college course on it two years later; and have studied it ever since. But it was not until a couple of years ago that I came to know something about the very oldest commentary we have on the book. Read by Petra Ortiz
Bart argues that Craig Evan's use of a passage from the Jewish philosopher Philo misreads its implications for Jesus's supposed removal from the cross....
Dr. Ehrman examines the historical evidence for the battles described in the book of Joshua. Read by John Paul Middlesworth
Jesus was almost certainly a Jewish apocalypticist, a view that Albert Schweitzer advanced in the early 20th century. Read by John Paul Middlesworth.