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 between the completion of the Old Testament and the beginnings of the New Testament. 

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 restoration of the Jews in their homeland under the Persians. 

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.