“They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.”
How the Bible reached your hands — the languages it was written in, the people who died translating it, and how to choose a version.
Why each part of the Bible was written in its language, what is lost in translation, and the handful of words worth knowing to read Scripture better.
How the Bible travelled from Jerusalem to Alexandria to Rome to England, the theological battles fought over it, and the people who died to make it available.
The spectrum from word-for-word to thought-for-thought, an honest assessment of the major English versions, and how to choose for study, for reading and for giving away.
What manuscript variants actually are, why 400,000 of them is a good sign rather than a bad one, and how scholars decide what the original said.
What the deuterocanonical books are, why Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants differ, and how to discuss it without misrepresenting anyone.