It Means What It Means

A podcast in which a guy with "some college" and a day job asks experts questions about biblical studies.

In 2011, I had the idea to start a podcast with a friend who had just been awarded his Master of Arts in Hebrew. The premise of the podcast was that he is a subject matter expert in biblical studies, and I am just a guy asking him questions in that field. Life conspired and that idea was forgotten until everyone was stuck in their homes in 2021.

At that time I realized that I was sending this same friend text messages with biblical studies questions more frequently than I had when my free time could be spent outside of my home. Over the last two years I have been trying to figure out how to make this podcast happen without an expert cohost. It turns out not being an expert makes it hard to find subject matter and corresponding experts. Furthermore, cold-calling experts takes time too.

I hope that this podcast and this site become a place for those of us who are not experts to have our questions answered about the many disciplines that feed into the larger heading of biblical studies. I am not a partisan of any theological tradition and aim to facilitate as many different points of view as possible. I’m a curious person who has had questions for the past twenty-five years and now I think I know how to get some of them answered.