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The creators of BibleProject have in-depth conversations about the Bible and theology. A companion podcast to BibleProject videos found at bibleproject.com

Episodes (51)

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The Worst, Best Place to Be in the Bible

September 01, 2025 47m Episode 487
The Wilderness E1 — This year, we are looking at themes that play a prominent role in the Exodus story. And today, we’re starting a new series on the theme of the wilderness. The wilderness is a...
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Did Jesus’ Death Have to Be a Gruesome Crucifixion?

August 25, 2025 55m Episode 486
Redemption Q+R (E12) — Is deliverance from evil spirits a redemption from the evil one over to God’s possession? Was God demanding a redemption payment through Jesus’ death? And are salvation and...
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Earlier Explorations of Redemption

August 18, 2025 50m Episode 485
Redemption Hyperlink Episode (E11) — There are so many themes in the Bible, from redemption to exile, to mountains and cities. In every series, we attempt to isolate and study one biblical theme. But...
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An Eternal Redemption

August 11, 2025 55m Episode 484
Redemption E10 — We’ve made it to the end of our series on redemption, where we’ll look at two last examples of redemption in the New Testament. When Jesus redeemed us from sin and death, did he pay a...
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The Power of Jesus Over Death

August 04, 2025 49m Episode 483
Redemption E9 — So far in the series, we’ve been talking about how redemption means being reclaimed—freed from slavery and returned to where we belong. But what are we enslaved to, and how does Jesus...
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Jesus’ Death as Redemption in Romans

July 28, 2025 58m Episode 482
Redemption E8 — Both in his public ministry and sacrificial death, Jesus redeems people from humanity’s cosmic “pharaohs,” the Satan, sin, and death. Jesus’ miracles show more clearly how this...
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How Does Jesus Redeem People?

July 21, 2025 50m Episode 481
Redemption E7 — When murmurs about the birth of the Messiah began spreading, 1st-century Jewish people already had very specific expectations of what his redemption would look like. He was to be a new...
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Redemption From Enemies and Death Itself

July 14, 2025 48m Episode 480
Redemption E6 — In the book of Psalms, the Hebrew words for “redemption” are often used to simply mean save, rescue, or release. This is especially true in the psalms of King David, who was never a...
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Yahweh the Redeemer in Isaiah

July 07, 2025 41m Episode 479
Redemption E5 — For many centuries, ancient Israel lived in the land of promise but consistently broke their covenant with Yahweh. The prophet Isaiah warned the people that their corruption and...
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If the Bible Was Written by Humans, Does that Change Its Reliability?

July 02, 2025 1h 2m Episode 478
How the Bible Was Formed Q+R (E5) — What is the relationship between the written word of the Bible and Jesus as the Word at the beginning of creation? How do we reconcile the Bible’s editing process...
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Ruth, Naomi, Boaz, and a Cosmic Redemption

June 30, 2025 1h 4m Episode 477
Redemption E4 — During a dark time in ancient Israel, idolatry, injustice, and death ruled the land and its people. In the midst of a famine, a destitute widow tragically loses her husband and adult...
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Redemption, Justice, and Cities of Refuge

June 23, 2025 47m Episode 476
Redemption E3 — So far in this series, we’ve explored the theme of redemption in the Eden story and in several stories in Exodus. In this episode, Jon and Tim look at how redemption language shows up...
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How Does Redemption Work in the Passover and Jubilee?

June 16, 2025 1h 1m Episode 475
Redemption E2 — Redemption involves a transfer of possession, and in the grand story of the Bible, humanity is under the possession of sin and death. But God’s plan is to snatch us back from death and...
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What Does Redemption Mean in the Bible?

June 09, 2025 48m Episode 474
Redemption E1 — Following our series on the Exodus Way, we’re going to explore a word that first shows up in the Exodus scroll, redemption. This word can mean lots of things: redeeming a coupon,...
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Pentecost and the Expected Unexpected Spirit (Re-Release)

June 04, 2025 35m Episode 473
The story of Pentecost in Acts 2 is brimming with rich imagery and hyperlinks from the Hebrew Bible. God’s Spirit dramatically fills a house of Jesus’ followers like a wind, and fire burns over the...
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How Did the New Testament Come to Be?

June 02, 2025 1h 8m Episode 472
How the Bible Was Formed E4 — In the last three episodes of this short series, we focused on the formation of the Hebrew Bible, or the Old Testament. We also talked about other works of literature...
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When Was the Hebrew Bible Finished?

May 26, 2025 1h 5m Episode 471
How the Bible Was Formed E3 — Today, most Bibles are a single book that’s easy to carry and flip through. But the Bible started as an assortment of scrolls, bound together into a collection. The...
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How Was the Hebrew Bible Written?

May 19, 2025 1h 3m Episode 470
How the Bible Was Formed E2 — The Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament, is a collection of 24 scrolls, passed down for generations, that tells the long, complicated story of ancient Israel. But who wrote...
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What Is the Deuterocanon or Apocrypha?

May 12, 2025 57m Episode 469
How the Bible Was Formed E1 — If you’ve ever compared a Protestant Bible to a Catholic Bible, you may notice some additional books in the Catholic Bible, such as Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, etc....
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How Are the Passover and Yom Kippur Lambs Connected?

May 05, 2025 1h 7m Episode 468
The Exodus Way Q+R (E14) — What birth imagery do we find in Exodus? Are there hyperlinks elsewhere in the Bible that connect to Pharaoh’s hardened heart? And is the circumcision story with Zipporah...
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The Seven Women Who Rescued Moses—and Israel

April 30, 2025 54m Episode 467
The Exodus Way E13 (Bonus Interview) — The exodus from Egypt was a foundational story for ancient Israel, but without a special group of seven often overlooked women, the exodus would have never...
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N.T. Wright Interview: Baptism and the Exodus Story

April 28, 2025 47m Episode 466
The Exodus Way E12 (Bonus Interview) — If we come to the New Testament without much knowledge of the Hebrew Bible, we may think that baptism is just something that John the Baptist made up and Jesus...
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Paul and the New Exodus People

April 21, 2025 44m Episode 465
The Exodus Way E11 — After Jesus’ death, resurrection, and ascension, his followers grew into a movement known simply as “The Way”—a new exodus people delivered from sin and death, following the...
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Followers of “The Way” in Acts

April 14, 2025 45m Episode 464
The Exodus story was core to the identity of ancient Israel. Inspired by the prophet Isaiah’s words, 1st-century Israelites were awaiting a new exodus, where a new Moses-like figure would deliver them...
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Jesus’ New Exodus at Passover

April 07, 2025 58m Episode 463
The Exodus Way E9 — All four gospel accounts build anticipation for Jesus to accomplish a new kind of exodus when he arrives in Jerusalem. But later in the gospel narratives, Jesus begins telling his...
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Jesus as the New Moses—and Much More

March 31, 2025 51m Episode 462
Before the arrival of Jesus, Israelites already viewed their current circumstances and hopes for God’s salvation through the lens of the Exodus. This is why the gospel authors tell the story of Jesus...
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Passover Psalms at the Last Supper

March 24, 2025 34m Episode 461
The Exodus Way E7 — In Mark 14, we’re told that Jesus and his disciples celebrated Passover and sang a hymn before going out to the garden of Gethsemane. So what hymn did they sing? Rabbinic tradition...
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Isaiah’s Promised New Exodus

March 17, 2025 59m Episode 460
The Exodus Way E6 — By the time of the prophet Isaiah, the Assyrian Empire had already exiled the northern kingdom of Israel. Isaiah prophesied that the southern kingdom of Judah would survive...
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The New Pharaohs of Joshua and Judges

March 10, 2025 49m Episode 459
The Exodus Way E5 — By the time we get to the scroll of Joshua, the Israelites are preparing to enter the land of promise. But we quickly discover a reverse Exodus happening in the narrative. The...
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Israel’s Deliverance and the Song of the Sea

March 03, 2025 46m Episode 458
The Exodus Way E4 — We’re tracing the narrative theme of Exodus in the Bible, and we’re finally ready to trace it in … Exodus! There are three main beats in this narrative theme: the road out of...
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How Did Israel End Up in Egypt?

February 24, 2025 58m Episode 457
The Exodus Way E3 — Before we get to the Exodus story, we must first ask a question: How and why did Israel end up enslaved in Egypt in the first place? Throughout the book of Genesis, the biblical...
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Exodus in the Creation and Flood Stories

February 17, 2025 45m Episode 456
The Exodus Way E2 — The main beats of the Exodus Way are the road out of slavery, the road through the wilderness, and the road into inheritance. These moments become a narrative theme that plays out...
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An Exodus-Shaped Reality

February 10, 2025 45m Episode 455
The Exodus Way E1 — Most followers of Jesus are familiar with three foundational biblical stories: the story of Jesus in the gospels, the creation story in Genesis, and the Exodus story. These...
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How Can We Live Out the Idea of the Mountain Now?

February 03, 2025 1h 0m Episode 454
The Mountain Q+R (E14) — Could the Tower of Babel be considered a man-made mountain? How does Yahweh asking Abraham to sacrifice Isaac on the mountain fit with his gracious character? And after...
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We’ve Been on This Mountain Before

January 27, 2025 49m Episode 453
The Mountain Hyperlink Episode (E13) — If you’ve been following along in our series on the mountain, you may have had moments where you thought, “I feel like I’ve heard this before.” And that’s...
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Jesus Opens the Way to the Cosmic Mountain

January 20, 2025 1h 4m Episode 452
The Mountain E12 — If Jesus’ role as the promised mountaintop intercessor was unclear from the mountain stories in the Gospels, the author of the letter to the Hebrews wants to make it explicit....
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Jesus on Seven Mountains in Matthew

January 13, 2025 55m Episode 451
The Mountain E11 — We’ve learned that mountains in the Hebrew Bible often become a space where Heaven and Earth overlap and human beings must choose between self-preservation or surrender and trust in...
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The Cosmic Mount Zion in Isaiah

January 06, 2025 53m Episode 450
The Mountain E10 — The prophet Isaiah depicts Mount Zion as a cosmic mountain where Heaven and Earth overlap and God’s blessings flow down to all of creation. But Isaiah also lived in the real...
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Looking Back at 2024 (And Celebrating Ten Years!)

December 30, 2024 47m Episode 449
In our final episode of 2024, Tim, Jon, and BibleProject CEO, Steve Atkinson, reflect on ten years of the project, all the resources we got to make and share this year, and the patrons who made it...
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Who May Dwell on God’s Holy Mountain?

December 23, 2024 1h 2m Episode 448
The Mountain E9 — The mountain theme shows up again and again in biblical narrative, but it’s also prominent in the Psalms. Particularly in Psalms 15-24, the biblical authors reflect on the traits of...
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Elijah’s Contrasting Mountain Tests

December 16, 2024 55m Episode 447
The Mountain E8 — On two different mountains, we witness mountain tests with two very different Elijahs. On Mount Carmel, he partners with God in challenging the false prophets of Baal, leading to the...
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What Went Wrong With Solomon on Mount Zion?

December 09, 2024 53m Episode 446
The Mountain E7 — After King David's failures, we hope that his son Solomon will fare better on the cosmic mountain of Mount Zion. And initially, he does! In a cosmic mountain moment when God offers...
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David, the Failed Intercessor on Mount Zion

December 02, 2024 51m Episode 445
The Mountain E6 — In 2 Samuel, David is crowned king of a unified Israel, and after choosing Jerusalem as his capital city, he brings the ark of the covenant to Mount Zion. It seems like things are...
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Moses, the Intercessor on Mount Sinai

November 25, 2024 1h 2m Episode 444
The Mountain E5 — Moses has a complicated identity. He's an Israelite, but he was raised in the house of Pharaoh. He was born in Egypt, but he flees to live in the wilderness with the Midianites. And...
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Noah and Abraham Surrender on the Mountain

November 18, 2024 55m Episode 443
The Mountain E4 — After the exile from the first cosmic mountain of Eden, humanity spirals into depravity and violence. God chooses to expedite their inevitable destruction through a catastrophic...
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How Can We Discern Who Is a True or False Prophet?

November 13, 2024 1h 15m Episode 442
Sermon on the Mount Q+R 5 (E39) – Should we judge abusive behavior in others? Do we need faith in Jesus and the Holy Spirit to be righteous? And how can we discern who is a true or false prophet? In...
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Is the Garden of Eden on a Mountain?

November 11, 2024 58m Episode 441
The Mountain E3 — The biblical authors portray Eden as a cosmic mountain—an overlapping Heaven and Earth space in God’s presence. Humans are placed on the Eden mountain and given a choice: Will they...
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A Mountain Rising From the Chaos Waters

November 04, 2024 38m Episode 440
The Mountain E2 — Ancient Israel’s neighbors believed that the world originated as a mountain rising up out of the chaos waters. The gods ruled from this great cosmic mountain, fighting battles with...
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What Do Mountains Represent in the Bible?

October 28, 2024 40m Episode 439
The Mountain E1 — What comes to mind when you think of mountains? Is it a strenuous climb or a feeling of smallness as you gaze on the majesty of nature? The biblical authors had similar connotations...
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Jesus as the Ultimate Gift (Re-Release)

October 21, 2024 56m Episode 438
How is God’s generosity meant to change us? In the Bible, God’s gifts are intended to bring about transformation in our lives. This generosity challenges our natural tendencies toward selfishness,...
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The Abraham Experiment (Re-Release)

October 14, 2024 1h 2m Episode 436
What happens when humans misuse the gifts God gives them? From Eve’s attitude toward the births of Cain and Seth, to the Tower of Babel, to Abraham’s response to the promised land, the stories in...

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Bible, Christianity, Jesus, Torah, theology, bible study, god, demons, spiritual beings, satan, angels, spirit, old testament, new testament, jon collins, tim mackie, Religion & Spirituality