The Bible For Normal People

A weekly podcast talk show having serious talks about the sacred book. Hosted by Peter Enns and Jared Byas.

Religion & Spirituality
Christianity
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Episode 145: Emilie Townes - The Wisdom of Hope
41 min
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Episode 144: Austen Hartke - The Bible & the Li...
44 min
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Episode 143: Martha Himmelfarb - Second Temple ...
47 min
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Episode 142: Jared Byas - Rediscovering Jonah -...
31 min
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Episode 141: John Franke - God Is On a Mission ...
50 min
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BONUS Episode: Cynthia Shafer-Elliott - What Ar...
46 min
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Episode 140: Paula Fredriksen - When Christians...
57 min
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Episode 139: Pete Enns - You Have Questions, Pe...
48 min
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Episode 138: Pete & Jared - How Love Changes th...
56 min
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Episode 137: James Kugel - Challenging Our Assu...
53 min
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Episode 136: Ariel Sabar - Telling the Truth Ab...
52 min
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Episode 135: Gary Anderson - How the Bible Talk...
53 min
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Episode 134: Ilia Delio - Grounding God in Evol...
58 min
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Episode 133: Pete Enns - The Book of Job
51 min
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Episode 132: Joe Gordon - A Conversation About ...
45 min
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Episode 131: Pete & Jared - Did the Bible Get i...
53 min
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Episode 130: Drew Hart - The Bible, Race, & Whi...
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.  Show Notes →   
43 min
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Episode 129: Brooke Prentis - Reading the Bibl...
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 h...
43 min
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Episode 128: Matthias Henze - The Bible & Seco...
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 He...
48 min
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Episode 127: Miguel De La Torre - Diverse Voic...
Many of us believe that our interpretations of the Bible are generally the same as everyone else's. But does that make them them good? On this podcast episode, we talk with Professor of Social Ethics and Latinx Studies, Miguel De La Torre about why we a...
50 min
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Episode 126: Kirsten Powers - The Journey To Grace
In this episode, Jared and Pete are joined by political correspondent Kirsten Powers, to talk about her journey of faith, her openness to the mystery of God, and how she’s learning to treat others with a higher level of grace.Show Notes → 
56 min
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Episode 125: Pete Enns - Big Ideas that Shaped ...
Biblical scholarship has grown a lot over the centuries but there are some ideas that are just so good they never go away! On this episode of the podcast, Pete looks at one of those foundational ideas: Julius Wellhausen’s documentary hypothesis. Wellhaus...
48 min
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Episode 124: Yii-Jan Lin - Immigration & the Bo...
Under the hood of America, we see an interesting history of using the book of Revelation to talk about immigration. Our guest, NT scholar Yii-Jan Lin walks us through the profound impact the book of Revelation has had on the US dialogue about people comi...
46 min
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Episode 123: Jared Byas - Rediscovering Jonah -...
In this episode Jared begins to tackle the book of Jonah by asking, “What kind of book is this?” as well as introducing the first chapter. Just because Jesus mentions Jonah does that mean we have to believe it’s historical? What is the historical context...
43 min
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Episode 122: Emerson Powery - The Bible as a So...
The writings of formerly enslaved people tell us a lot about how they viewed the Bible. We sat down with Professor Emerson Powery to talk about how the Bible was used around the institution of slavery and how it can be both a book of oppression and a boo...
46 min