Welcome to this midweek episode of the Bible project podcast where we do interviews with scholars that have been influential to the work that we're doing here at the Bible project.

Yeah, every video that we make at the Bible project has been in the works for a long time and usually involves a large stack of books upstream of the creation process.

One of the biblical scholars that I actually have been reading and learning from pretty much since the beginning, all the way back since my first year to taking classes in biblical studies, is a scholar Scott McKnight, a scholar of New Testament studies, but also really interested in the Greek and Roman background cultural setting of the New Testament.

Jewish setting, he's a scholar of everything. He's amazing.

You might know him from his book, Jesus Creed.

Yes, that's right. But he's written a lot of stuff. Yeah, he's one of those authors who once you're over, like, 15 to 20 books.

You're doing it differently.

Well, over that. I've actually had a chance to meet him a time or two conferences or different things, but he ended up in town in Portland for an event.

And so when I found out, I asked him if he would come into the Bible project studio and if I could sit down with him.

So what I did actually was I went to my library and found every book of his that I own and then I've read.

And then I put them all in chronological order and spent an hour retracing my learning journey from that stack of books.

And what this interview is, is me sharing going through each book, what I learned from it.

But then I get to ask him why he wrote the book and what he cared about most in writing that book.

And it's kind of cool. It was a really fun conversation.

It was. You get into the mind of an author in a way that we don't typically get to talk about.

And Scott's just a really great humble and smart guy. It was a pleasure talking with him.

And so here's our conversation with Scott McKnight.

All right, Scott, welcome. Good to be with you.

So yes, we get to interview scholars that I'm reading and that I'm learning from time to time.

This is only the second time we had somebody be able to come here. So we're grateful.

Oh, good. You're here in town for some other things too. Yes, we're glad you came back.

I'm glad to be back in Portland. It's raining. That's what Portland should be.

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