Latest Episodes

What Seminarians Learn About the Bible (Often to their surprise)
Another excerpt from Jesus, Interrupted, discussing the historical-critical approach to the bible taught in seminaries. Read by Mike Johnson.

Jesus Interrupted: My Most Thorough Explanation of Critical Scholarship on the New Testament
An excerpt from the first chapter of Bart's book: Jesus, Interrupted. Read by Mike Johnson.

How Many of Those Early Christians Could Read?
Read by Ken Teutsch.

The Quest for the Historical Paul: Sorting Through Our Sources (Part 2)
By Dr. James Tabor. Read by Ken Teutsch.

The Quest for the Historical Paul: Sorting Through Our Sources (Part 1). Guest Post by James Tabor
Ahead of the upcoming New Insights Into The New Testament conference, James Tabor offers a few thoughts on how scholars can start to uncover...

How Strikingly Few Early Churches Were There? How Amazingly Many Christian Letters?
How many Christian churches would there likely have been within the first century after Jesus' death? Bart considers various ways of analysing this question....