Be a Guest on The Dig In Podcast
If you study the Bible, its languages or its world for a living, you can pitch yourself to be a guest on The Dig In Podcast. Johnny Ova gives every guest about an hour to make their case in full, then asks the follow-up a curious listener is waiting for.
- Dr. James VanderKamProfessor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
- Dr. Jodi MagnessEarly Judaism, UNC Chapel Hill
- Dr. Amy-Jill LevineUniversity Professor Emerita, Vanderbilt
- Dr. Edward GreensteinProfessor Emeritus of Bible, Bar-Ilan University
- Dr. Joshua BowenPh.D. in Assyriology, Johns Hopkins
- Dr. Dan McClellanOxford-trained biblical scholar
Who we
look for.
The Dig In talks to the people who study the text, the manuscripts and the dirt. The common thread is expertise you can show your work on, and the willingness to explain it to someone who has never opened a commentary.
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Biblical scholars
Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity. Bring the research you have published and the question it answers.
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Archaeologists
Excavators and field researchers who can explain what sites, inscriptions and material remains say about the world the Bible came from.
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Theologians
People who think hard about what the text means for faith, and can trace that thinking back through the text and its history.
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Historians
Specialists in the ancient Near East, Persia, the Hellenistic world and Rome who can put a passage back in its real setting.
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Authors
Writers with a book on the Bible or its world. A good book gives the hour a spine and gives listeners somewhere to go next.
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Believers and skeptics
The show is not a stage for one side. Confessional scholars, secular academics, skeptics and agnostics all get the floor to make their case.
Curious who has already been on? Browse the full guest list or the topics the show covers.
From pitch
to Monday.
Four steps. The conversation is the work, and the rest gives you room to make your argument.
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Step 01
Send the pitch
Use the pitch form on this page. Tell us who you are, what you have published, and the one question you most want to answer.
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Step 02
Johnny preps
When a pitch fits the show, Johnny builds his questions from your published work, so the hour starts where your research does.
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Step 03
Record remotely
About an hour on Riverside, joined from your own desk through a browser link. Long-form on purpose, so the context has room.
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Step 04
Release Monday
Your episode goes live on a Monday at 6:15 AM ET on YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify. At 4:30 PM ET that day, Johnny and Steve Ciatto break it down on Dig In Live.
Is your pitch
ready?
Tick what is true. The strongest pitches can say yes to all six.
Include your current role, your latest book or article, and the one question you want to answer on the show.
The guest pitch form is being added to this page. For now, get to know the show on YouTube and see how Johnny runs the hour.
Open the YouTube channelSee how
the hour runs.
The best pitches come from people who already know the show. Subscribe on YouTube, watch a recent conversation, and you will see exactly how much room each guest gets.
Prefer audio? Find the show on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.