Episode 153 The Dead Sea Scrolls, Part 2 with Timothy Lim

About seventy years ago, the first of eleven caves was found containing scrolls from the first century BC to the first century AD. This is about the time the Jesus movement started. Today, and this is controversial, a 12th cave appears to have been found. More about this on another

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Episode 152 The Dead Sea Scrolls Part 1 with Timothy Lim

About seventy years ago, the first of eleven caves was found containing scrolls from the first century BC to the first century AD. This is about the time the Jesus movement started. Today, and this is controversial, a 12th cave appears to have been found. More about this on another

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Episode 151 Christ Among the Messiahs with Matthew Novenson

For many years some scholars have regarded the word “Christ” as just another name for Jesus in the earliest writings of the New Testament, namely, the letters of Paul. But Matthew makes a cogent case that the word “Christ” in Paul means “Messiah.”

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Episode 150 The Pseudepigrapha, Part 2 with Dan Gurtner

The Pseudepigrapha are a complicated set of texts which are often classified together, although they are very different. The term “Pseudepigrapha” means “falsely-written.” That is, written in the name of another.

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