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What if the way you've been reading Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John your entire life has caused you to miss the point? Dr. Jeannine Brown, David Price Professor of...
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What Are the Targums? The Ancient Aramaic Texts That Shaped How Jesus Read Scripture
What if everything you thought you knew about how Jesus read the Bible was incomplete? In this eye-opening conversation, we sit down with Dr. Bruce Chilton, the Bernard...
Skeptics said synagogues didn't exist in Galilee during Jesus' lifetime. They were wrong. They said crucified victims were never buried. They were wrong. They said the...
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The Female Apostles Your Pastor Never Told You About: Archaeological Evidence Reveals Women Actually Led Early Christianity
What if the women of the early church weren't silent observers but powerful leaders, patrons, and apostles whose stories have been hidden for 2,000 years? In this...
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The Bible Doesn’t Say Anything: Oxford Scholar Dr. Dan McClellan Exposes Biblical Misinformation
What happens when a biblical scholar with degrees from Oxford and Exeter decides to take on misinformation where it lives... on TikTok? Dr. Dan McClellan has built a...
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Women Leaders, Synagogue Heads, and the Founder of Christianity: What History Reveals About Jewish Women in Jesus’ Time
Everything we thought we knew about women in the Bible was shaped by centuries of erasure. In this groundbreaking episode, I sit down with Professor Tal Ilan, one of the...
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The Lost Mary: How the Church Erased Christianity’s First Founder w/ Dr. James Tabor
Mary is the best known, least known woman in history. Billions recognize her name, yet the actual Jewish woman behind the icons has been almost completely erased. In...
For over 50 years, Dr. Kent Hovind has been one of the most fearless defenders of biblical creation. A former high school science teacher turned full-time evangelist, Dr...
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When Revival is Real vs. Religious Hype: How to Discern Authentic Spiritual Awakening w/ Dr. Nathan Finn
When Revival is Real vs. Religious Hype: How to Discern Authentic Spiritual Awakening w/ Dr. Nathan Finn Churches across America grapple with a fundamental question: How...
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Before One God: How Ancient Israel Evolved from Canaanite Polytheism to Biblical Monotheism w/ Dr. John Day
What if everything you thought you knew about ancient Israel’s faith was just the beginning of the story? The revolutionary truth is that biblical monotheism...
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The Old Testament Reset: Why Ancient Scripture Still Speaks to Modern Faith w/ Dr. Geoff Harper
The Old Testament problem haunts every pastor’s sermon prep and every Bible study leader’s lesson plan. Most Christians know they should engage these ancient...
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The Kaleidoscope Cross: Why the Crucifixion Has More Than One Meaning w/ Pastor Brian Zahnd
What if everything you’ve been taught about the cross is true, but incomplete? For most Western Christians, the crucifixion has been reduced to a single...
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Children in Lamentations: Forgotten Voices of Biblical Suffering w/ Dr. Timothy Yap
When we think about the Book of Lamentations, most of us skip right past it. It’s uncomfortable, dark, and doesn’t fit neatly into our Sunday morning sermon...
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From Many Gods to One: How Ancient Israel’s Faith Revolutionized Religion w/ Dr. Michael Hundley
When you open your Hebrew Bible, you’re stepping into a world that looks radically different from what most modern Christians imagine. The ancient Near East...
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The Fall of Jerusalem: Understanding the Jewish Revolt That Changed History Forever w/ Dr. Guy McLean Rogers
When the Second Temple fell in 70 AD, it didn’t just mark the end of a building. It marked a seismic shift in both Jewish and Christian history that still...
When most Christians reach for the Book of Psalms, they’re looking for comfort, devotional inspiration, or the perfect verse to match their current emotional state...
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When God Speaks, Things Happen: How Speech Act Theory Transforms Biblical Understanding w/ Professor Steve Mann
What if everything you thought you knew about God’s words in Scripture was only scratching the surface? When we read phrases like “God said” or...
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Reimagining God: Why the Angry God Image Keeps Us From Christ w/ Dr. Bradley Jersak
The greatest barrier to faith isn’t doubt, it’s fear. For countless Christians, the image of an angry, punitive God creates a spiritual paralysis that...
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Mourner, Mother, Midwife: Re-imagining God’s Feminine Presence w/ Prof. Juliana Claassens
In this powerful episode of The Dig In Podcast, Pastor Johnny Ova sits down with Prof. Juliana Claassens, Old Testament scholar and author of Mourner, Mother, Midwife...
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The Fear of God: Emotion, Power, and Awe in the Old Testament w/ Prof. Bradley Cameron
What does it really mean to fear God? In this powerful episode, Johnny Ova sits down with Old Testament scholar Prof. Bradley Cameron to unpack one of the most...
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Protest and Praise: What the Lament Psalms Teach Us About Suffering w/ Dr William Morrow
Can you be faithful to God and still cry out in protest? Can you worship while you’re wounded? In this episode of The Dig In Podcast, Johnny Ova is joined by Dr. William...
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Old Testament Ethics, Isaiah, and the Moral Vision of Scripture with Dr. Iain Provan
In this episode of The Dig In Podcast, Johnny Ova sits down with Dr. Iain Provan, respected Old Testament scholar and author of Seriously Dangerous Religion, to explore...
How can ancient Hebrew manuscripts help us understand the Bible more clearly, and what do they reveal about the Messiah? In this episode of The Dig In Podcast, Pastor...
Dr. James Nogalski joins Pastor Johnny Ova on The Dig In Podcast to walk us through the Book of the Twelve, not as twelve random prophetic books, but as one unified...
