Biblical studies

There's a lot to be discovered in each of the Gospels.

And I think this is actually for all the problems that modern biblical scholarship has given us.

I can say this because I'm a biblical scholar.

One of the great gifts that it has given us is the recovery of the individuality of each of the Gospels.

It was non-denominational, work at your own pace kind of deal, and basically set it up so that you take all these different classes and work at your own pace.

And then when you're done, you have, it was an unaccredited at the time, unaccredited master's in biblical studies.

And so Heiser's talking to him and he's like, if you guys have taken my biblical studies course, it counts for two of the credits for this and automatically bridges you into their program.

You can apply to them and they'll take you and have those credits apply for these particular courses.

And I was like, well, that's really cool, but I don't know if I'm up for school.

I don't know if anyone knows this.

It's The Death of Scripture and the Rise of Biblical Studies.

Tremendous book.

Again, Michael Legassi, you should look it up.

So to talk about how simple that is, but how really hard to understand and practice it is, I have Amy Peeler back on the show.

Amy is the Kenneth T. Wessner Chair in Biblical Studies and Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College.

She's talking from someplace on the road in Naperville, Illinois.

Amy, welcome back.

Wow.

That's Amy Peeler.

She's the Kenneth T. Wessner Chair in Biblical Studies and Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College in Illinois.

I'm grateful because she's been talking to us on the side of a road in Naperville, Illinois.

I've known you for a long time.

A lot of people in the church, I don't think they know that there is a world out there called biblical scholarship.

You might be surprised to find out that there are Protestants and Catholics and atheists who work in biblical scholarship.

And Matt is in that world as a faithful Latter-day Saint.

He is at the top of his class, you might say, in that world.

And that was just this morning.

Matt, you're doing a great, great work.

I hope I can be a Latter-day Saint that appreciates biblical scholarship rather than be threatened by it.

Today on the Digging Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Simeon Chevelle, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

He earned his Ph.D. in Biblical Studies at the Hebrew University and is the author of Oracular Law and Priestly Historiography in the Torah.

The book is the definitive study of the four Torah stories where Moses brings an unanswered case before Yahweh, which makes him the scholar to explain why the Bible delivers its laws through stories.

Now, it's time

It's worth talking about with other women who are pondering those same pains and asking those same questions.

So today I've invited Dr. Amy Peeler, the Kenneth T. Wessner Chair of Biblical Studies at Wheaton College.

an associate rector at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, to join me.

Dr. Peeler is the author of Women and the Gender of God, among other works, and can be found when she's not writing or working, hiking, doing CrossFit, and running marathons with her family.

But it was good, we had a double degree.

So I got a bachelor of, Science and Biblical Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Education.

So it was like a dual major program.

You're listening to The Story.

And, you know, as providence would have it, I met a cute young lady that I ended up marrying while I was there.

Right after we got married, I completed the Master's of Biblical Studies, the MABS is what it was called.

And continued on.

But while I was there, also, I had left the marketing agency that I was working in to do a summer ministry trip.

I fell in love with the kids.

I fell in love with the process.

And after I finished the Master's of Biblical Studies, I wanted to move into administration.

And so I started taking administration classes.

But as part of that, you have to study a language.

And I was a biblical studies minor because I've always had this interest in the Bible.

And so I just decided rather than study French or German or something like that for my B.A., I'll study a biblical language and that'll complement the biblical minor that I was doing.

And so I got the opportunity to study Hebrew with Martin Abeg because that fit my schedule and I've always been interested in the Old Testament.