Hey, everybody. I'm Tim Mackie, and this is my podcast, exploring my strange Bible. I am a card-carrying

Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you

have. On this podcast, I'm putting together the last 20 years worth of lectures and sermons where I've

been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites us into the mission

of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can all be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts and classes about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find all those resources at Bibleproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

All right, this is the third of a three-part series on the making of the Bible. I did this series

of lectures all in one night. It was a Friday night event at a church that I worked at for a number of years, and it was super fun to pack it all in together. But man, what a fire hose. So here, at least on this podcast, you get it in three different doses. This last episode is about the manuscript history of the New Testament, which is really

different than that of the Old Testament, just the way that the manuscript spread, the amount

of manuscripts and so on, and then also the history of manuscript discoveries, the history of

our English translations, beginning back before

the King James, but the effect of the King James and the modern debates about English

translations, so, so fascinating. So we'll talk about that, the manuscript history of the New

Testament, and then the second half of this lecture is going to talk about the process and the dynamics at work in the collection of the books of the Bible into holes, what Bible nerds call the canon with one end, C-A-N-C-A-N-O-N, not like pirate canons, but a canon meaning a collection, a measured collection.

So how did the collection process of the

biblical books take place? And again, I'll least give an overview of that. Hopefully, this

whole lecture series has been giving you some new categories to think about where the Bible

came from and what it is and what the implications of that are, well, we'll just

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