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 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.

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 the Bible came from. That's like one of the first and main goals is to get the basic facts,

but two, that in light of where the Bible came from,

that ought to deepen and give us a much more rich sense of what the Bible is as a human word

through which God speaks to his people and how to hold the two of those together.

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