Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy 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 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.

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 manuscript history of the New Testament, and then the second half

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