Author - johnnyova

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...