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Footnote Famous

by C.J. Cornthwaite

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2.2 Paula Fredriksen - Paul, Origen, and Augustine Disagreed About Sin. Only 1 Won.

October 7, 2026 · 58 min

Get the book! https://amzn.to/4ybTkls (affiliate link) Watch this on YouTube - https://youtu.be/txVqkdQyv-E What is sin, where does it come from, and how does God fix it? Early Christians gave very different answers, and each answer…
2.1 John J. Collins - Apocalypticism as a Worldview

September 16, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

⁠Watch Episode on YouTube⁠ What is an apocalypse, really — and why do we keep reducing it to "the end of the world"? In this episode, I sit down with John J. Collins, one of the foremost scholars of ancient Judaism and Christian origins…
1.23 - Best of Season 1

August 7, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

Over the first season of Footnote Famous I interviewed 22 Bible scholars, and I read every one of their books cover to cover before we spoke. Some of what I heard confirmed things I already suspected. Five ideas genuinely changed how I…
1.22 - John Kloppenborg - Does Luke's Geography Expose His Methods

July 17, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

WATCH VIDEO OF INTERVIEW Did the author of Luke's Gospel actually know the geography of first-century Palestine? In this interview, biblical scholar John Kloppenborg — my own PhD supervisor at the University of Toronto — breaks down the…
1.21 - Laura Nasrallah - Archaeology and the Letters of Paul

July 3, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

In this interview, I sit down with biblical scholar Laura Nasrallah to discuss her book Archaeology and the Letters of Paul. We explore how archaeological evidence — from manumission inscriptions to ancient toilets — complicates our…

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1.20 - Alan Garrow - The Didache Discoveries

June 19, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

What if one of early Christianity's most mysterious documents has been hiding two completely different texts — side by side — for nearly 2,000 years? WATCH INTERVIEW LIVE HERE That's exactly what New Testament scholar Alan Garrow argues in…
1.19 Dan McClellan - The Bible Says So

June 5, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

Fake Bible Scholars Are Going Viral. Real Scholars Need to Step Up Child sacrifice, God's wife, & how Bible editors "fixed" them WATCH INTERVIEW HERE I sat down with Dan McClellan — one of the most followed actual biblical scholars online…
1.18 Teresa Morgan - Roman Faith and Christian Faith

May 22, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

In this interview, I had the pleasure of speaking with Professor Teresa Morgan (Oxford) about her landmark book Roman Faith and Christian Faith: Pistis and Fides in the Early Roman Empire and Early Churches (2015). ⁠WATCH INTERVIEW…
1.17 Hugo Méndez - The Gospel of John

May 8, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

For John, Jesus divine. And makes his followers divineWhat does the Gospel of John actually claim about Jesus — and about everyone else? WATCH INTERVIEW HERE In this conversation, I sit down with Dr. Hugo Mendez (UNC Chapel Hill) to talk…
1.16 Bart Ehrman - Jesus' Revolutionary Teaching

April 17, 2026 · 56 min

Bart Ehrman — one of the world's leading New Testament scholars and a self-described agnostic — makes a surprising argument: the West owes more to Jesus than it realizes. Not for salvation. Not for atonement. For something hiding in…
1.15 Markus Vinzent - Was a Resurrection a Fringe Early Christian Belief?

April 3, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

What if the resurrection wasn't the foundation of early Christianity — and most early Christians never even heard of it? Watch This Instead! That's exactly what New Testament scholar and historian Professor Marcus Vinzent argues in his…
1.14 Tucker Ferda - Did Jesus predict his second coming?

February 27, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

Did Jesus actually predict his own second coming — or did the early church invent it? I sat down with Dr. Tucker Ferda (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary) to talk about his book "Jesus and His Promised Second Coming: Jewish Eschatology and…