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If you're a religious studies nerd with an irreverent sense of humor, you must must must listen to Robert M. Price's The Bible Geek and The Human Bible podcasts. The Bible Geek is a big, fat, juicy question-and-answer podcast with an emphasis on higher criticism of the Bible. The host is a former Baptist evangelical minister with 3 PhD's in New Testament scholarship, who eventually became an atheist and even a mythicist (i.e., he is not fully convinced of the historical existence of Jesus). However, he still holds a lot of respect for the Bible and doesn't really have an axe to grind other than to call out poor scholarship or bad apologetical arguments. He's also a more general geek and peppers the show with references to classic sci-fi and comics. BONUS: he does voices. Among other thing, he reads the voice of God in the Old Testament as Charlton Heston, and has started reading the voice of the Apostle Paul as Paul Lynde. He reads listener questions in terrible accents. It'll either drive you bonkers or you'll love it. He gets tons of questions so he generally has enough content to do a 90-minute or longer podcast two or three days a week, sometimes more. The Human Bible is more structured, designed to give a humanist introduction to the Bible for those who aren't as familiar. It's less freewheeling than The Bible Geek, and has distinct sections, like Up to Speed, a quick overview of topics the psalms or the Book of Job; Is That in the Bible? where people write in with questions about the Biblical basis for popular or doctrinal beliefs like hell, the Trinity, etc.
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Random Stranger posted:I wanted to check this out but it seems like the file distribution site he uses isn't there any more... Ugh it's just down right now, apparently. He uploads to ustream during the week so you can try looking for it there...
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Drunkboxer posted:What's a good place to start? For The Bible Geek, just go through the archive (whenever the maintenance is done on it) and scroll through until you see a show with a topic you're interested in. Recent episode synopses have minute:second indicators which is a great improvement.
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