Dig In Topics
Every Dig In episode is filed under one of 12 topics, so you can follow a single question through every scholar who has taken it on. Pick a subject, search for a book of the Bible or a guest, and start with whichever episode pulls you in.
- 12Topics
- 56Episodes filed
- 56Different guests
Twelve topics.
One archive.
Showing 12 of 12 topics
Dead Sea Scrolls and the Lost Books
Enoch, Jubilees, the Targums, the gospels that never made the canon, and what the scrolls from Qumran say about the Messiah.
With Henze, Vanden Eykel, VanderKam + 2 moreOpen topic 4 episodesBiblical Archaeology
The sword motif in Saul's last battle, the dirt of Roman Galilee, and what excavations reveal about the world of the Gospels.
With McKinny, Berthelot, Magness + 1 moreOpen topic 2 episodesSatan and the Devil in the Bible
How the accuser in the heavenly court became the Devil of later tradition, traced through the texts themselves.
With Kelly, StokesOpen topic 5 episodesWomen in the Bible
Mary Magdalene, female apostles, synagogue leaders, ancient women mystics and the feminine images of God.
With Taylor, Cohick, Ilan + 2 moreOpen topic 4 episodesGenesis and Creation
Eden, the cosmic temple debate, one redemption story from Genesis to Chronicles, and the creation and evolution fight.
With Alexander, Kaminski, Walton + 1 moreOpen topic 6 episodesIsrael and the Ancient Near East
Babylon, Egypt and Assyria, and how Israel's faith in one God took shape among the gods of its neighbors.
With Averbeck, Lynch, Hays + 3 moreOpen topic 3 episodesJesus, Paul and the New Testament
Jesus as a first-century Jew, Paul's letters to real congregations, and reading the Gospels the way their first audience did.
With Levine, Gaventa, BrownOpen topic 2 episodesRevelation and the Fall of Jerusalem
Revelation read through the Old Testament, and the Jewish revolt against Rome that ended the Temple in AD 70.
With Beale, RogersOpen topic 11 episodesJob, Psalms and the Prophets
Job's ending, the lament psalms, Isaiah, the Book of the Twelve, Lamentations, and why God forgave David but rejected Saul.
With Anderson, Greenstein, Yap + 8 moreOpen topic 7 episodesBible Manuscripts and Translation
Who wrote the Bible down, what English loses from the Hebrew, the scribes behind Melchizedek, and rebuilding the Greek New Testament.
With Leuchter, Rendsburg, Cargill + 4 moreOpen topic 3 episodesTemple, Sacrifice and Purity
The Tabernacle, the sacrificial system, the purity laws, and what taking God's name in vain actually meant.
With MacDonald, Imes, KlawansOpen topic 4 episodesThe Character of God and the Cross
The angry-god image, the many meanings of the cross, the Old Testament's portrait of God, and real revival versus hype.
With Finn, Harper, Zahnd + 1 moreOpen topicNo topic matches that search yet. Try a book of the Bible, a period like Second Temple, or a guest's last name.
Where the
episodes are.
Episode counts per topic, straight from the archive. The bars follow your search above, and tapping a row filters the topic grid to that subject.
One home
per episode.
Each episode lives under one home topic, chosen by the main question it takes on. Dr. Edward Greenstein's case that Job never repented sits under Job, Psalms and the Prophets, even though his case leans just as hard on translating the Hebrew.
Real conversations wander, so the topics overlap at the edges. Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls turn up in the archaeology episodes, and the Temple runs through both Revelation episodes. Each topic page explains its subject in plain language, lists every episode filed there, answers the questions people ask most, and points you to its nearest neighbors.
Prefer to go by date? The full archive, searchable and sortable, is on the episodes page.
Browse every episode- 01Search a book of the BibleJob, Genesis, Revelation, Isaiah or Psalms all lead straight to their topic.
- 02Search a scholarType a guest's last name to find the topic their episode is filed under.
- 03Search a period or placeSecond Temple, Babylon, Qumran, Galilee and Rome all match.
- 04Start with the biggest shelfJob, Psalms and the Prophets holds the most episodes. The chart shows the rest.
Every topic
keeps growing.
A new conversation lands every Monday at 6:15 AM Eastern and joins one of these shelves. Subscribe on YouTube so the next one reaches you first, and so the show reaches more people asking the same questions.
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