Hey everybody, I'm Tim McE 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 ten 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 be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

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

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

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

Alright, this is part two of a three part series about the making of the Bible.

If you haven't listened to the first lecture, this second one isn't going to make any sense at all

if you have not listened to lecture one.

So I highly recommend it.

And the second lecture is diving into some of the details of the manuscript history of the old

testament, which is fascinating and complicated all at the same time.

And also the second half of this lecture dives into the composition and writing of the

books of the New Testament and specifically looking within the books themselves of the

New Testament and how they give us clues and information about how they came into existence

and how they were written.

Again, this whole lecture is about helping set the foundation for understanding where

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