Open the Old Testament and you run into a problem nobody warns you about. Israel is supposed to worship one God. Yet the text keeps naming others. Baal. Asherah. The...

Most people open the Old Testament and see 39 disconnected books. Dr. Carol Kaminski sees one story. A Cambridge-trained Old Testament scholar and the creator of the...

You have read these stories your whole life in English, and the entire time, something was missing. The first two words of the Bible echo each other. Names carry hidden...

What if the opening chapter of the Bible isn't telling you how God built the universe... but why he moved into it? Dr. John Walton has spent over four decades studying...

The Bible didn't drop out of the sky. It was written by real people, in real places, surrounded by some of the most powerful civilizations the ancient world ever...

Two swords forged in the land of the Philistines. Two kings. One throne. And a literary motif so intricate that scholars have been misreading it for generations. The...

What do we actually know about Jesus’ childhood? Not much. The canonical Gospels say surprisingly little about the birth and early life of Jesus. Matthew gives us only a...

The Old Testament was not written in a vacuum. It was written inside a world. A world of clay tablets and cuneiform, flood epics and creation myths, law codes carved...

Melchizedek appears just three times in the entire Bible. Twice in the Hebrew Bible. Once in the New Testament. And yet entire priesthoods, theological systems, and...

The Hebrew poets didn't write safe words. They stacked image on top of image, layered metaphor on metaphor, and built texts designed to hit you in the chest. But when...

What if almost everything you were taught about Old Testament purity laws was wrong? Most Christians hear "impurity" and immediately think sin. We've been taught that...

The Book of Revelation is one of the most debated, most misunderstood, and most avoided books in the entire Bible. But what if the key to unlocking it has been sitting...

Rome didn't just conquer Israel. It tried to become Israel. In this episode of the Dig In Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Katell Berthelot, one of the world's leading...

She is Jewish. She belongs to an Orthodox synagogue. She does not believe Jesus is the Messiah. And yet, Dr. Amy-Jill Levine became the first Jewish person in history to...

What did the world of Jesus actually look like? Not the sanitized version from paintings and Hollywood films, but the real, physical, tangible reality of first century...

He started his career growing tropical flowers in greenhouses in the Netherlands. Then he walked away from it all to chase a lifelong obsession with the Bible. Dr. Dirk...

A Bedouin shepherd throws a rock into a cave near the Dead Sea in 1947. He hears something shatter. Days later, he climbs inside and discovers scrolls that would change...

Buried in the writings of a first-century Jewish philosopher is a description of a community that most Christians have never heard of. A group of men and women living on...

Imagine hearing that the Messiah had arrived... and then finding out he was executed by Rome. For first-century Jews, this wasn't just disappointing. It was...

She's taught at Princeton for over two decades. She served as president of the largest professional organization of biblical scholars on the planet. The British Academy...

What if the way you've been reading Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John your entire life has caused you to miss the point? Dr. Jeannine Brown, David Price Professor of...

What if everything you thought you knew about how Jesus read the Bible was incomplete? In this eye-opening conversation, we sit down with Dr. Bruce Chilton, the Bernard...

Skeptics said synagogues didn't exist in Galilee during Jesus' lifetime. They were wrong. They said crucified victims were never buried. They were wrong. They said the...