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Episode 175: Jodi Magness - The Jesus of Archaeology
9 augustus 2021 · 50 min
In this episode, Pete and Jared sit down with Jodi Magness to discuss what archaeology can teach us about Jesus in his Jewish context. And also - quiches, frittatas, and toilets. Oh my!
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Episode 174: Brian McLaren - The Four Stages of Faith
26 juli 2021 · 55 min
In this episode of The Bible for Normal People, Pete and Jared sit down with Brian McLaren to discuss stages of faith, the prevalence of doubt, and what paths to faith after doubt might look like.
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Episode 173: Cheryl B. Anderson - The Ethical Impact of Biblical Interpretation
12 juli 2021 · 47 min
Can biblical interpretation have an ethical impact? Our guest this week, Cheryl B. Anderson, combines her background as a practicing attorney with her Ph.D. in Biblical studies to create a compelling discussion on ethics, law, and how we read our Bible.
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Episode 172: Pete Enns - A Whole Different Way of Reading Genesis
28 juni 2021 · 53 min
In this episode, Pete looks at Genesis from an angle we’re guessing will be new to many of you. We’re going to focus on the big picture. What is Genesis as a whole about? For what purpose was it written? What is it doing? Those are the big questions we’re going after.
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Episode 171: Ted Lewis - The Origins of God
14 juni 2021 · 53 min
The word of the day is "complicated" and the nerd-o-meter is set to the max. Join us on this week's episode as Pete & Jared explore the messiness of history and the origins of Yahweh with Dr. Ted Lewis.
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Episode 170: Kristin Kobes Du Mez - A Modern Church History of Toxic Masculinity
7 juni 2021 · 45 min
Where did white Evangelical support for men like Donald Trump come from? Pete & Jared sit down with Kristin Kobes Du Mez to discuss toxic patterns of masculinity and patriarchy that have surfaced over the past seventy years in the white Evangelical church.
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Episode 169: Pete & Jared - The Bible and the "Problem of History"
31 mei 2021 · 50 min
What do you do when you notice something in the Bible that doesn’t pass the muster of historical research? In this episode, Pete & Jared discuss the problem of history found within the pages of the Bible and the implications of history on Christian life and faith.
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Episode 168: Xavier Pickett - When Did White Christian America Lose Its Mind? (REISSUE)
24 mei 2021 · 51 min
In this reissued episode, Pete & Jared converse with Xavier Pickett about ways in which the Bible and the church have been shaped by hundreds of years of systemic racism and white privilege.
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Episode 167: Joshua Harris - A Story of Public Deconstruction
17 mei 2021 · 42 min
On this episode, Joshua Harris discusses his public deconstruction and how he has wrestled with questions of accountability for harmful ideas while also making room for grace.
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Episode 166: Matthew Paul Turner - Teaching God to Our Kids
10 mei 2021 · 51 min
How should we talk to our kids about God and the Bible? On this episode, Matthew Paul Turner discusses the importance of allowing children the space to explore spirituality and ask questions about God.
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Episode 165: Stephanie Tait - Disability Theology is for Everyone
3 mei 2021 · 51 min
We invited Stephanie Tait to discuss the cultural lens of ableism and how disability theology shapes the way she views God and the Bible.
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Episode 164: Pete Enns - Where Did Our Bible Come From?
26 april 2021 · 56 min
On this episode, Pete talks about where our Bible comes from, its messy history, and what that means for us today.
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Episode 163: Tripp Fuller - Thinking About Jesus Today
19 april 2021 · 53 min
We brought in Tripp Fuller, host of the podcast Homebrewed Christianity, to share his perspective on the Jesus of history and the Christ of theology and its relevancy in our lives today.
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Episode 162: Jared & Sarah Byas - Parenting in a Faith Transition
12 april 2021 · 44 min
Wondering how Jared and his wife, Sarah, have navigated parenting amidst their transitions of faith? They cover what they tell their kids about Christianity, the Bible, and how their parenting is different because of it.
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Episode 161: Amanda Mbuvi - Finding Ourselves in the Stories of the Bible
5 april 2021 · 50 min
Why were the stories of the Bible written down? On this episode Amanda Mbuvi shares about how the Bible plays a role in identity formation and how that affects how we read it.
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Episode 160: Pete and Jared - The Risk of an "Errant" Bible
29 maart 2021 · 51 min
Why is Bible inerrancy so hard for people to give up? Pete and Jared dive into some possible explanations and take a look at the history of the belief that the Bible is inerrant.
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Episode 159: Richard Elliott Friedman - Who Wrote the Pentateuch?
22 maart 2021 · 50 min
We love a good discussion on the formation of the Bible. Listen in as we talk to scholar Richard Elliott Friedman about the various texts that make up the Hebrew Bible, what clues we have to date them, and what makes the Bible a unique work of writings.
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Episode 158: Maria Doerfler - Reading the Bible in Times of Crisis
15 maart 2021 · 50 min
There’s many difficult stories the Bible but one people struggle with the most are those dealing with the death of children. On this episode, we are joined by Maria Doerfler who shares rich perspectives on the stories of Jephthah’s daughter, the sacrifice of Isaac, and how people throughout history have interpreted them.
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Episode 157: Nadia Bolz-Weber - Being a Christian in the Messiness
8 maart 2021 · 57 min
We had a great conversation with Nadia Bolz-Weber about what is compelling about Christianity, why we all need to stop trying so hard, and what in the world there is to be hopeful about.
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Episode 156: Pete and Jared - Your Questions About Prayer, Marriage, White Jesus, an Angry God, and a Murky Bible
1 maart 2021 · 47 min
In this episode we are answering some of the most asked questions on our Ask Pete page. We get into a lot of topics like how other cultures interpret Jesus, how normal people can study the Bible on their own, and how we make meaning out of the Bible.
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Episode 155: Sarah Bessey - Why Bother Praying?
22 februari 2021 · 44 min
Praying can feel difficult during hard times and especially after a faith deconstruction. Sarah Bessey joins us on this episode of the podcast to talk about what inspired her to write a book on prayer and shares what has been helpful in her discovery of what it means to pray.
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Episode 154: Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Brettler - How Jews & Christians Read the Bible Differently
15 februari 2021 · 54 min
It shouldn’t be a surprise to us now that people can read the same text and walk away with vastly different meanings. On this episode of the podcast, we’re talking with Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Brettler who share some reasons why Jews and Christians use and understand the Bible in different ways.
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Episode 153: James Kugel - Shifting Perspectives on God in the Bible
8 februari 2021 · 56 min
James Kugel is back on the podcast sharing about how people during the biblical period understood God and how their views changed overtime. How does their understanding of God influence our understandings today?
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Episode 152: Pete Enns - What Makes Christianity Different?
1 februari 2021 · 53 min
We’re back with Season 5! On this episode, Pete shares what makes Christianity distinct for him. He discusses the beginning of the Jesus movement, explains how New Testament writers probably understood their faith, and how first century Christians made sense of Jesus’ crucifixion. Lees meer
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Episode 151: 2020 - Let's Not and Say We Did
14 december 2020 · 48 min
2020— What a year. We’re wrapping up the year and the fourth season of the podcast with a look back onto what we learned from this season and from the year as a whole.
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Episode 150: Christopher Rollston - Where Does Hebrew Come From?
7 december 2020 · 47 min
This episode features linguist and professor Christopher Rollston who helps us understand the importance of studying languages when it comes to dating and understanding the Bible. We talk about other ancient Near Eastern languages, biblical manuscripts, inscriptions, and more!
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Episode 149: Dan Koch - The End Times & American Christian Culture
30 november 2020 · 52 min
Many of us have encountered a type of Christianity that preaches an impending rapture and a call to repent of our sins as soon as possible. But where did that interpretation of Christianity come from? On this episode we ask psychology doctoral student Dan Koch what he’s learned from studying the movement and the history behind it.
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Episode 148: Pete Enns - Adam, Evangelicalism, & the Metanarrative of Evolution
23 november 2020 · 46 min
How has theology developed alongside the findings of science? On this episode, Pete is sharing his reflections on what quantum physics and the theory of evolution tell us about the Bible and how we should interpret it light of scientific findings.
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Episode 147: Benjamin D. Sommer - Does God Have a Body?
16 november 2020 · 1 uur 5 min
Benjamin D. Sommer is back on the podcast telling us all about his work on a biblical understanding of God’s body. He takes us through the history of thought on God’s body, the material God’s body is made out of, what God looks like, and how the Trinity actually has a lot of continuity with texts of the Hebrew Bible.
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Episode 146: Jared Byas - Rediscovering Jonah - Part 3
9 november 2020 · 40 min
Jared has been breaking down Jonah for us on his solo episodes this year and this is his last segment! He delves into what the over all message of Jonah is, what questions it leaves us with, and what it teaches us about the questions of ancient Israelites.
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Episode 145: Emilie Townes - The Wisdom of Hope
2 november 2020 · 45 min
We invited Emilie Townes on the podcast to talk about womanist ethics but our conversation morphed into so much more. We touched on the role of the Bible in ethics, the relevance of the Bible in our lives today, and why it is important to chose hope.
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Episode 144: Austen Hartke - The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians (REISSUE)
26 oktober 2020 · 48 min
In this reissued episode, Pete and Jared sit down with Austen Hartke to discuss what the Bible has to say about transgender people. They get into unexamined Bible passages, mysterious Hebrew words, and how to make your church a welcoming space for people with gender identities outside of the binary.
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Episode 143: Martha Himmelfarb - Second Temple Judaism & Apocalyptic Literature
19 oktober 2020 · 51 min
Getting into the Halloween spirit? Don’t miss this spooky episode talking about all things apocalypse in Second Temple Judaism! Our guest Martha Himmelfarb is an expert on the subject and she tells us all about the key features of apocalyptic literature, some theories on its popularity, and shares about some apocalyptic literature that didn’t make it into the Bible.
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Episode 142: Jared Byas - Rediscovering Jonah - Part 2
12 oktober 2020 · 35 min
This episode is the second installment of Jared’s deep dive (no pun intended) into the book of Jonah. In this episode, Jared gives us a taste of how rich this book is in metaphors and how a fuller understanding of the ancient Near East brings out the context of this book.
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Episode 141: John Franke - God Is On a Mission and So Can You
5 oktober 2020 · 53 min
John Franke joins the podcast to discussing his new book, Missional Theology. John shares some key components of missional theology and discusses how to overcome plurality, what evangelizing looks like through a missional lens, and why the church needs the world.
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BONUS Episode: Cynthia Shafer-Elliott - What Archaeologists Do & Why it Matters
1 oktober 2020 · 47 min
We are so excited about the Everyday Life in Ancient Israel class Cynthia is teaching for us we just had to reissue her podcast episode from back in season 2. Cynthia talks with Pete and Jared about what she does as an archaeologist, how it has informed her view of the Bible, her favorite finds, and more!
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Episode 140: Paula Fredriksen - When Christians Were Jews
28 september 2020 · 1 uur 1 min
What separated Judaism from the Christian movement during the Second Temple Period? In this episode, Paula Fredriksen breaks down the beginnings of the Jesus movement and how it came to flourish. She gets into what religion looked like in the broader culture, how religion was defined, and what clues people left behind for us to know these things.
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Episode 139: Pete Enns - You Have Questions, Pete Has Answers
21 september 2020 · 52 min
This episode of the podcast is filled with listener question from our Ask Pete and Jared page on the website. Pete answers questions about Job, ancient Egyptian letters, the world of biblical scholarship, shifting faith views, and much more!
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Episode 138: Pete & Jared - How Love Changes the Meaning of the Bible
14 september 2020 · 1 uur
What does it mean to “speak the truth in love?” On this episode we’re taking about Jared’s new book Love Matters More and what it should actually look like for Christians to interact with people they disagree with.
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Episode 137: James Kugel - Challenging Our Assumptions About the Bible
7 september 2020 · 57 min
Ancient interpreters made all sort of assumptions about the Bible much like we do today. What do their assumptions tell us about how to interpret the Bible today? James Kugel breaks down the function of the Bible throughout history and how it has changed from antiquity to today.
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Episode 136: Ariel Sabar - Telling the Truth About Jesus' Wife
24 augustus 2020 · 56 min
Just because someone claims to hold the truth doesn't mean they actually do. On this episode, investigative journalist Ariel Sabar tells us the fascinating story of how a Harvard professor was duped into believing she made a discovery that would turn the Christian world upside down. But as it turns out, truth is not always subjective.
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Episode 135: Gary Anderson - How the Bible Talks About Sin
10 augustus 2020 · 56 min
What is sin? It’s something we talk about often but rarely take the time to define. Gary Anderson has written a book on the subject so we brought him on the show to explain it to all us normal people. He sheds light on some common misconceptions and explains the history behind our modern understandings of sin.
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Episode 134: Ilia Delio - Grounding God in Evolution
27 juli 2020 · 1 uur 1 min
On this episode, Pete and Jared discuss the intersection of faith and science with scientist and theologian Ilia Delio. They get into why these two subjects have historically been at odds and why it holds us back to continue believing they actually are.
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Episode 133: Pete Enns - The Book of Job
13 juli 2020 · 55 min
What's the deal with Job? In this episode, Pete gives an overview of the book, pushes back on some readings you might have heard in the past, and points out some significant features that can help us better understand it.
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Episode 132: Joe Gordon - A Conversation About Inspiration
29 juni 2020 · 49 min
Joe Gordon is a professor at Johnson University in Tennessee. In this episode, we talk with him about his book Divine Scripture in Human Understanding. We discuss what it means for the Bible to be inspired and how that affects how we read and use the Bible.
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Episode 131: Pete & Jared - Did the Bible Get it Wrong?
15 juni 2020 · 57 min
We’re answering some listener questions from the Ask Pete page and answering the bigger question: Did the Bible get it wrong? We talk about the return of Jesus, David being a man after God’s own heart, and if there is a right or wrong way to read the Bible.
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Episode 130: Drew Hart - The Bible, Race, & White Supremacy (REISSUE)
8 juni 2020 · 47 min
We’re revisiting an episode from Season 1 in which Dr. Drew G. I. Hart shares about the Bible and white supremacy. We get into what exactly white supremacy is and how it has influenced how we read the Bible and our theology.
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Episode 129: Brooke Prentis - Reading the Bible Through Aboriginal Eyes
25 mei 2020 · 47 min
Brooke Prentis is an Aboriginal leader and CEO of a Christian organization in Australia called Common Grace. On this episode, she shares with us some Aboriginal perspectives on the Bible and how the Bible speaks to the injustices that Aboriginal people have faced and continue to face.
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Episode 128: Matthias Henze - The Bible & Second Temple Judaism
18 mei 2020 · 52 min
What happened during the time the writings of the Old Testament stopped and the New Testament writings began? People didn’t stop writing and what they wrote helps us better understand the context of the Bible. On this episode we talk with Dr. Matthias Henze who studies this in-between time period and he shares with us what he's learned about the world in which Jesus lived.
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Episode 127: Miguel De La Torre - Diverse Voices in Biblical Scholarship
11 mei 2020 · 54 min
Many of us believe that our interpretations of the Bible are generally the same as everyone else's. But does that make them good? On this podcast episode, we talk with Professor of Social Ethics and Latinx Studies, Miguel De La Torre about why we all need to examine where our biblical interpretations come from and why we need to diversify our understandings of the Bible.
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