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A weekly podcast talk show having serious talks about the sacred book. Hosted by Peter Enns and Jared Byas.
Unknown Host hosts The Bible For Normal People, a christianity show with 421 episodes published.
![[Bible] Episode 334: Rony Kozman - The Weird Ways the NT Interprets the OT episode artwork](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/5524c562-9026-11f1-8a09-3f58e1c6df6f/image/0ae688906ba61bff4822750e364a0de1.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
In this week’s episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete and Jared talk with Rony Kozman about how the New Testament interprets the Hebrew Bible, and why the apostles’ approach to Scripture often looks very different
![[Bible] Episode 333: Nathan MacDonald - The Messy History of the Priesthood episode artwork](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/3b9fe514-7c93-11f1-a4b0-db86f65aee45/image/49514f6e7bfc760bf3980cc1dac0d97a.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
In this week’s episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete and Jared talk with Nathan MacDonald about the origins of Israel’s priesthood, the role of the Levites, and why the Bible’s accounts of priests are far more com
![[Bible] Episode 332: Pete Ruins Everything with Dale Allison episode artwork](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/a987c910-735c-11f1-8435-f37efbb85b5f/image/f3c75920ab0817e1a1bd71b1f2b99399.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
In this week’s episode of Pete Ruins Everything, Pete talks with Dale Allison about the strengths and limits of biblical scholarship. They explore what historical research can and cannot tell us about Jesus, the Bible, a
![[Bible] Episode 331 : Jared Byas - 10 Aha Moments in Biblical Scholarship: Part 2 episode artwork](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/521610e0-676a-11f1-a66f-07bf4bd9ee9d/image/31187c19b44a6a0dd3d60a8a7e357024.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
In this week’s episode of The Bible for Normal People, Jared continues his tour through the history of modern biblical scholarship, exploring five (or six) more “aha moments” that transformed how scholars understand the
![[Bible] Episode 330: Bruce Longenecker - The Vision of Galatians episode artwork](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/c3ae7f90-5abc-11f1-98a7-278cfb19fa62/image/f298e9eaf9efd5d340a2dec49e548a47.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
In this week’s episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete and Jared talk with Bruce Longenecker about Galatians, Paul’s understanding of the Torah, and the kind of community he believed the gospel creates. They explore
![[Faith] Episode 72: Roberto De La Noval & Jordan Wood - How the Early Church Read the Bible (Reissue from Bonus) episode artwork](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/97527180-554a-11f1-b75f-771ec2088450/image/7be402b9f8346204dd93d0df58e2522c.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
In this week’s episode of Faith for Normal People, Jared talks with Roberto de la Noval and Jordan Wood about the church fathers, the development of doctrine, and how early Christians approached the Bible. They explore h
![[Bible] Episode 329: Jared Byas - 10 Aha Moments in Biblical Scholarship: Part 1 episode artwork](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/b63a193e-5097-11f1-bb85-8bbc5ae78616/image/8c1acb3e5750511692c7a25e621a6645.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
In this week’s episode of The Bible for Normal People, Jared takes listeners on a tour through the history of modern biblical scholarship, tracing key “aha moments” that changed how scholars understand the Bible. From so
![[Bible] Episode 328: Vanessa Lovelace - Is Deuteronomy History? episode artwork](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/24b4f726-4c8d-11f1-9c43-6f2cb0cea4d7/image/f141c16cd09bfb715b1a44c859d70d8a.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
In this week’s episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete and Jared talk with Vanessa Lovelace about the Deuteronomistic history and why Deuteronomy plays such a central role in shaping Israel’s story. They explore how
![[Bible] Episode 327: Douglas Campbell - Ripping Up the Romans Road episode artwork](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/45811bf0-4725-11f1-86e0-b7fc7ce9ae45/image/76c3db30241a9467e3f23da1f452cd25.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
In this week’s episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete and Jared talk with Douglas Campbell about rethinking the “Romans Road” and what Paul is really doing in his letter to the Romans. They explore how common readi
![[Bible] Episode 326: Chris Keith - How do Scholars Reconstruct the "Historical Jesus?" episode artwork](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/f7ee83da-41a9-11f1-b786-ebb0ee53b5f1/image/f9f56399d608f3217f29225c487a23a9.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
In this week’s episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete and Jared talk with Chris Keith about the historical Jesus, and how scholars approach the gap between the Jesus of history and the Jesus of the Gospels. They ex
![[Bible] Episode 325: Pete Ruins Everything with Amy-Jill Levine episode artwork](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/e740b138-3c28-11f1-9cd3-0717ecc81a31/image/78e6c4f370d87ba8e65a2e4f0ad06af4.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
In this week’s episode of Pete Ruins Everything, Pete talks with Amy-Jill Levine about supersessionism and its impact on how Christians understand Judaism and the New Testament. They explore how ideas like “replacement t
![[Bible] Episode 324: Pete Enns & Jared Byas - A City on a Hill: A Ten Year Retrospective episode artwork](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/569a8ee0-369e-11f1-b708-07a3e81d7914/image/db64bdedfa04f6b7e7e9dbf853970533.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
In this week’s episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete and Jared reflect on ten years and over 400 episodes of the podcast, revisiting what they thought they were doing and what they now see more clearly in hindsigh
![[Bible] Episode 323: Andrew Tobolowsky- The Myth of the Twelve Tribes episode artwork](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/82539684-30f0-11f1-9462-37f56201df03/image/c1f1148d054eab83a2c1721117d6edc8.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
In this week’s episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete and Jared talk with Andrew Tobolowsky about what scholars mean by “myth” and how that idea applies to the Bible. They explore the origins of the 12 tribes of Is
![[Bible] Episode 322: Cynthia Shafer-Elliott - Where Archaeology Intersects with the Bible episode artwork](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/85e5f1f6-29f8-11f1-b83f-c3702266f990/image/7e5859dd033f22680947d9f8468fa36f.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
On this week’s episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete talks with archaeologist Cynthia Shafer-Elliott about what archaeology can—and can’t—tell us about the Bible. Cynthia explains how archaeologists excavate ancie
![[Bible] Episode 321: H. Daniel Zacharias and T. Christopher Hoklotubbe - Native American Biblical Interpretation episode artwork](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d7fcae2e-2630-11f1-bd6f-6bfa2ff801b9/image/3e6027a5a5c1381715271b1379d4c98a.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
In this week’s episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete and Jared talk with Chris Hoklotubbe and Danny Zacharias about biblical interpretation through an Indigenous American perspective. They explore how cultural ide
![[Bible] Episode 320: Pete Ruins Everything on Jeremiah episode artwork](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/ce43b1f8-208a-11f1-a42f-37106a15a213/image/4dadd2e5caf04797a97da04bf67cb9ba.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
In this episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete has another go at ruining something. This week, he’s unpacking the book of Jeremiah and its interlocking themes of anguish, confusion, and hope. Along the way, Pete pi
![[Bible] Episode 319: Matthew Vines - The Bible Isn't Against Gay Marriage episode artwork](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/7faf7636-1a8a-11f1-afca-1b475706cc50/image/e62c52b12c2037261dd9f1f04317517a.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
In this week’s episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete and Jared welcome back Season 1 favorite Matthew Vines to discuss how conversations about the Bible and same-sex relationships have shifted over the past decade
![[Bible] Episode 318: Mark S. Smith - The Many Gods of Israel episode artwork](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d7861e52-15bf-11f1-bf2d-53bf13705ea4/image/d053a5009dd4b559aac74d4c5e803b07.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
In this week’s episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete and Jared sit down with Mark S. Smith, a leading scholar of ancient Israelite religion, to explore the polytheistic background of Israel and the gradual emergen
![[Bible] Bonus Episode: Jennifer Garcia Bashaw & Aaron Higashi - Nobody “Just Reads” the Bible episode artwork](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/74268d2c-1396-11f1-b312-b7a31c108ee4/image/6f8a34652967d54115eab6378faf8e20.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
This is a teaser of our February 2026 bonus episode! In this episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete and Jared are joined by longtime friends of the podcast Jennifer Garcia Bashaw and Aaron Higashi for a lively conv
![[Faith] Episode 71: Jared Stacy - The Evangelical to Conspiracy Theory Pipeline episode artwork](https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/92925764-103a-11f1-b135-13a6c8b1b0fa/image/196bb53edfeab72521bc0b267c9aebc6.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress)
In this week’s episode of Faith for Normal People, Pete and Jared talk with theologian and ethicist Jared Stacy about the rise of conspiracy thinking, especially within American evangelicalism. Drawing on his research, J
Jordan Wood
democracyFIRST
1 appearance on this show
Jared Byas
author of Love Matters More
3 appearances on this show
Amy-Jill Levine
New Testament scholar, Jewish expert on the historical world of Jesus · Hartford International University
1 appearance on this show
Amy-Jill Levine
New Testament scholar, Jewish expert on the historical world of Jesus · Hartford International University
1 appearance on this show
Pete Enns
author
2 appearances on this show
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
archaeologist specializing in everyday domestic practices · Baylor University
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
associate professor of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament · Baylor University
1 appearance on this show
Jared Stacy
theologian and former pastor
1 appearance on this show
N.T. Wright
Reverend Dr.
1 appearance on this show
N.T. Wright
former Bishop of Durham
1 appearance on this show
Diana Butler Bass
author of Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks
1 appearance on this show
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