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Footnote Famous - Conversations with the world's top scholars of the Bible and Christian origins
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66 minutes
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English
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27 episodes
since Aug. 8, 2025
episodic
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When was the New Testament actually published? Not written — published. Manuscript scholar David Trobisch, one of the editors of the Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament, argues it appeared as a single, carefully edited four-volume book in the second half of the 2nd century, about 150 years after Jesus…
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What is sin, where does it come from, and how does God fix it? Early Christians gave very different answers, and each answer produced a different Christianity. Historian Paula Fredriksen join…
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What is an apocalypse, really — and why do we keep reducing it to "the end of the world"? In this episode, I sit down with John J. Collins, one of the foremost scholars of ancient Judaism and Christian origins, to discuss his newest book, Apocalypticism as a Wor…
Over the first season of Footnote Famous I interviewed 22 Bible scholars, and I read every one of their books cover to cover before we spoke. Some of what I heard confirmed things I already suspected. Five ideas genuinely changed how I read the New Testament — and I haven't been able to stop thinki…
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Did the author of Luke's Gospel actually know the geography of first-century Palestine? In this interview, biblical scholar John Kloppenborg — my own PhD supervisor at the University of Toronto — breaks down the evidence that Luke's geography is full of errors, and explains…
In this interview, I sit down with biblical scholar Laura Nasrallah to discuss her book Archaeology and the Letters of Paul. We explore how archaeological evidence — from manumission inscriptions to ancient toilets — complicates our understanding of slavery, hospitality, grief, and ethnicity in Pau…
What if one of early Christianity's most mysterious documents has been hiding two completely different texts — side by side — for nearly 2,000 years?
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That's exactly what New Testament scholar Alan Garrow argues in his groundbreaking new book The Didache Discoveries. In thi…
Fake Bible Scholars Are Going Viral. Real Scholars Need to Step Up Child sacrifice, God's wife, & how Bible editors "fixed" them
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I sat down with Dan McClellan — one of the most followed actual biblical scholars online — to talk about how we got here, why it matter…
In this interview, I had the pleasure of speaking with Professor Teresa Morgan (Oxford) about her landmark book Roman Faith and Christian Faith: Pistis and Fides in the Early Roman Empire and Early Churches (2015).
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We explore how the Greek word pistis and Latin fides — both …
For John, Jesus divine. And makes his followers divineWhat does the Gospel of John actually claim about Jesus — and about everyone else?
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In this conversation, I sit down with Dr. Hugo Mendez (UNC Chapel Hill) to talk about his new book The Gospel of John: A New History (Oxford …
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