Pete Enns — Old Testament Scholar · Eastern University · Ph.D. Harvard

About this voice

Pete Enns has a gift that is rarer than it sounds: the ability to take the Bible's difficulty seriously. Not paper over it, not explain it away, not pretend the hard parts aren't there — but sit with them, examine them, and let them do what they actually do to a person who pays attention. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard in Old Testament and has spent over twenty years teaching and writing about Scripture. He has also, by his own account, gotten into trouble for it. That's a good sign. His podcast and YouTube channel The Bible for Normal People — co-hosted with Jared Byas — is exactly what it sounds like: serious biblical scholarship made available to people who haven't spent years in seminary. They bring in scholars, theologians, and thinkers to talk about what the text actually says, what it meant to the people who first heard it, and what we do with all of that now. It's one of the best resources available for anyone who wants to read Scripture more deeply without being handed a predetermined conclusion.