The Bible
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Gary Gallagher on Lex Fridman Podcast (2026-07-28): mention
“…there’s a lot of fighting in the Bible, a lot of people killing other people in the Bi-…”
Gary Gallagher: American Civil War, Slavery, Lincoln, Grant & Lee | Lex Fridman Podcast #499
Luke Burgis on EconTalk (2026-06-08): mention
“…I read the Bible front to back for the first time in my life.…”
The Self, the Crowd, and Social Contagion (with Luke Burgis)
Luke Burgis on EconTalk (2026-06-08): mention
“…The title comes most explicitly from the Parable of the Lost Sheep in the Bible…”
The Self, the Crowd, and Social Contagion (with Luke Burgis)
David Reich on Dwarkesh Podcast (2026-05-08): mention
“…If you look at the Hebrew and Christian Bible, and you look at how much intelligence is valued…”
David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
Will MacAskill on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2026-04-22): mention
“…In the same way that humans can swear on the Bible.…”
Will MacAskill on why AI character matters even more than you think
Ada Palmer on Dwarkesh Podcast (2026-03-06): mention
“…You print your Bible. You have 300 Bibles.…”
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
Diarmaid Macculloch on Conversations with Tyler (2026-01-21): mention
“…all right, it's there in the Bible, but it is a profoundly unconvincing doctrine…”
Diarmaid MacCulloch on Christianity, Sex, and Unsettling Settled Facts (Ep. 268)
David Deutsch on EconTalk (2025-12-22): mention
“…had to swear on the Bible--on the New Testament.…”
Irving Finkel on Lex Fridman Podcast (2025-12-12): mention
“…So this was not only in the Epic of Gilgamesh, but it was also in the Book of Genesis.…”
Irving Finkel: Deciphering Secrets of Ancient Civilizations & Flood Myths | Lex Fridman Podcast #487
David Senra on The Tim Ferriss Show (2025-09-26): mention
“…The only thing my family read is the Bible…”
Norman Ohler on Lex Fridman Podcast (2025-09-19): mention
“…They examine in detail what the Bible says, and the Bible mentions in that passage…”
Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA | Lex Fridman Podcast #481
Oliver Anthony on Lex Fridman Podcast (2025-05-19): mention
“…there's this principle in the Bible about the more you have, the more you'll receive and the less you'll receive…”
Oliver Anthony: Country Music, Blue-Collar America, Fame, Money, and Pain | Lex Fridman Podcast #469
Ian Dunt on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2025-05-02): mention
“…It'll be like trying to answer all questions about Christianity to a two-minute timetable with a copy of the Bible in front of you.…”
Ian Dunt on why governments in Britain and elsewhere can’t get anything done – and how to fix it
Ross Douthat on EconTalk (2025-04-14): mention
“…It's why the entire Book of Job exists.…”
Seth Godin on The Tim Ferriss Show (2025-02-01): mention
“…This is not what happens with The Bible, because The Bible is part of a cultural thing that people keep coming back to over and over again…”
Seth Godin on Playing the Right Game and Strategy as a Superpower (#792)
Nan Yu on Lenny's Podcast (2025-01-30): mention
“…if you have a Bible, which they often have these really flimsy newsprint pages.…”
Linear’s secret to building beloved B2B products | Nan Yu (Head of Product)
Tyler Cowen on EconTalk (2024-11-25): mention
“…But also, consider the Book of Job.…”
Jon Batiste on The Tim Ferriss Show (2024-10-31): mention
“…“Be still and know,” which is from the Bible, “Be still and know that I am God.”…”
Jordan Peterson on Lex Fridman Podcast (2024-10-11): mention
“…Because Job is a good man. God himself admits it.…”
Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #448
Jordan Peterson on Lex Fridman Podcast (2024-10-11): mention
“…This is what job figures out in the midst of his suffering in the Book of Job…”
Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #448
Jordan Peterson on Lex Fridman Podcast (2024-10-11): mention
“…Like the Bible is actually a compilation of different characterizations of the divine…”
Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #448
Noland Arbaugh on Lex Fridman Podcast (2024-08-02): mention
“…There's a story in the Bible about Job, and I think it's a really, really popular story…”
Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #438
Bliss Chapman on Lex Fridman Podcast (2024-08-02): mention
“…Well, do you believe the Bible to be literally true?…”
Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #438
Diana Schaub on EconTalk (2024-07-15): mention
“…He takes us back to the Bible.…”
Diana Schaub on EconTalk (2024-07-15): mention
“…He had the Bible, he had Shakespeare, and he could count on his audience…”
Peter Thiel on Conversations with Tyler (2024-04-17): mention
“…it’s already in the book of Genesis, where it’s the story of Cain and Abel.…”
Peter Thiel on Conversations with Tyler (2024-04-17): mention
“…it is the book of Revelations, is the apocalypse because apocalypse in Greek means unveiling…”
Jonathan Haidt on Conversations with Tyler (2024-04-03): mention
“…Western civilization has always had the Bible as that in the last thousand years.…”
Jonathan Haidt on Adjusting to Smartphones and Social Media (Ep. 209)
Scott Glenn on The Tim Ferriss Show (2024-03-28): mention
“…Carbon dating says to the Bible, the Talmud, and the Koran, all of which get kind of close to the same date…”
Marilynne Robinson on Conversations with Tyler (2024-03-20): mention
“…in the Book of Revelation, what you have is this cyclical pattern of history…”
Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinist Thought, and Religion in America (Ep. 207)
Yann LeCun on Lex Fridman Podcast (2024-03-08): mention
“…because the first thing that people read was the Bible and realized that perhaps there was a different interpretation…”
Yann Lecun: Meta AI, Open Source, Limits of LLMs, AGI & the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #416
John Gray on Conversations with Tyler (2023-11-29): recommend
“…One of the key texts for me is two books: the Book of Genesis and the Book of Job…”
John Gray on Conversations with Tyler (2023-11-29): recommend
“…One of the key texts for me is two books: the Book of Genesis and the Book of Job…”
Tyler Cowen on EconTalk (2023-11-27): mention
“…if I can count the various individuals who wrote the Bible, they would be in the running…”
Tyler Cowen on EconTalk (2023-11-27): mention
“…Bible, and Homer would be next. Even though the quantity is low…”
Greg Lukianoff on Lex Fridman Podcast (2023-09-25): mention
“…Job is such a read and no way Job originally had that ending.…”
Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #397
Greg Lukianoff on Lex Fridman Podcast (2023-09-25): recommend
“…I think you should just to know, because such a touchstone in the way people talk about things…”
Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #397
Greg Lukianoff on Lex Fridman Podcast (2023-09-25): mention
“…I actually read the entire Bible this year just because I do stuff like that.…”
Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech | Lex Fridman Podcast #397
Walter Isaacson on Lex Fridman Podcast (2023-09-10): mention
“…This is way the good Lord does it in the Bible, has the best opening lead sentence ever…”
Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin | Lex Fridman Podcast #395
David Bentley Hart on Conversations with Tyler (2023-07-12): critique
“…Far more accurate, say, than a piece of rubbish like the New International Version…”
David Bentley Hart on Reason, Faith, and Diversity in Religious Thought (Ep. 184)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr on Lex Fridman Podcast (2023-07-06): mention
“…Whenever he was a home, we’d all get in the bed and he’d read us the Bible stories.…”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #388
George Hotz on Lex Fridman Podcast (2023-06-30): mention
“…I reread Genesis and just looked like… they give you some clues at the end of Genesis…”
George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387
Tom Holland on Conversations with Tyler (2023-03-22): mention
“…The thing about the Book of Revelation is that it was recognized by Christians themselves in antiquity as a highly dangerous book.…”
Tom Holland on History, Christianity, and the Value of the Countryside (Ep. 174)
Katherine Rundell on Conversations with Tyler (2023-01-11): mention
“…someone who was informed by the language of the King James Bible…”
John Coolidge Adams on Conversations with Tyler (2022-12-14): mention
“…Handel’s Messiah, which of course treats the same material, just comes from the Bible.…”
Jessica Todd Harper on EconTalk (2022-11-07): mention
“…I found I was really reminded of--in Genesis, before Genesis 3, so, before the fall…”
Bas Rutten on The Tim Ferriss Show (2022-09-19): mention
“…it's all these things from the Bible that you focus on…”
Bas Rutten on The Tim Ferriss Show (2022-09-19): mention
“…And once I read it in the Bible, somehow, boom, it clicked.…”
Leopoldo López on Conversations with Tyler (2022-07-27): mention
“…I read the Bible from Genesis to Apocalypse, and it was a really interesting experience to read the Bible in that way…”
Leopoldo López on Activism Under Autocratic Regimes (Ep. 155)
Donald Hoffman on The Tim Ferriss Show (2022-04-18): mention
“…I've read the Bible and it's a mixed bag.…”
Michio Kaku on The Tim Ferriss Show (2022-01-08): mention
“…so I read the Bible. I learned all the parables and all those stories…”
Eric Jacobus on EconTalk (2021-11-22): mention
“…the mark on Cain after Cain kills Abel in the Bible…”
David M. Rubenstein on Conversations with Tyler (2021-11-17): recommend
“…My favorite book of all, other than the ones I've written, I guess I would say is the Bible…”
David Rubenstein on Private Equity, Public Art, and Philanthropy (Ep. 136)
Sebastian Junger on The Tim Ferriss Show (2021-05-12): mention
“…Sometimes when atheists read the Bible, they see passages that seem to undermine…”
Agnes Callard on EconTalk (2021-05-10): mention
“…God gets angry in the Bible, right?…”
George Mumford on The Tim Ferriss Show (2021-04-16): recommend
“…And I said, “The Bible.” And I don’t know where that came from…”
Jordan Peterson on The Tim Ferriss Show (2021-03-03): mention
“…And our religious document is the Bible.…”
Jordan Peterson on Rules for Life, Psychedelics, The Bible, and Much More (#502)
Steven Pressfield on The Tim Ferriss Show (2021-02-28): mention
“…it’s a phrase from Genesis and it’s translated by Rabbi Finley…”
Mark Plotkin on The Tim Ferriss Show (2020-10-08): mention
“…Well, you know that Bible you read in church? I’m not a Christian.…”
Agnes Callard on EconTalk (2020-06-22): mention
“…In Genesis, you have this idea in the very beginning that human beings are created in the image of God…”
Agnes Callard on EconTalk (2020-06-22): mention
“…You start to see glimmerings of it I think really in the Bible, but it's not really fully…”
A.J. Jacobs on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-06-01): mention
“…I tried to follow all the rules of the Bible as literally as possible…”
A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing global problems as puzzles
A.J. Jacobs on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-06-01): mention
“…clothes made of two different kinds of fabrics, which is also in the Bible…”
A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing global problems as puzzles
A.J. Jacobs on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-06-01): mention
“…because the Bible has a lot about gratitude…”
A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing global problems as puzzles
A.J. Jacobs on 80,000 Hours Podcast (2020-06-01): critique
“…if you live by the Bible, your life will be better…”
A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing global problems as puzzles
Tyler Cowen on The Tim Ferriss Show (2020-05-10): recommend
“…usually I'll tell my non-religious friends they ought to go read the Bible.…”
Tyler Cowen on Rationality, COVID-19, Talismans, and Life on the Margins (#413)
Ross Douthat on Conversations with Tyler (2020-03-25): mention
“…Look, the Bible begins in a garden and ends in a city…”
Richard Turner on The Tim Ferriss Show (2020-03-15): mention
“…It was a verse in the Bible that says God created us in his image.…”
Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind (#411)
Karl Ove Knausgård on Conversations with Tyler (2019-05-08): mention
“…When I read the Bible, something that occurred to me was the physicality of the angels.…”
Karl Ove Knausgård on Conversations with Tyler (2019-05-08): mention
“…That’s the best part of the Bible: those very short stories.…”
Emily Wilson on Conversations with Tyler (2019-03-27): mention
“…I went through a very religious phase, and I read the Bible.…”
Peter Berkowitz on EconTalk (2018-12-10): mention
“…Take, for example, the First Book of Genesis.…”
Kevin McKenna on EconTalk (2018-10-18): mention
“…The second book that Solzhenitsyn takes, of course, is a copy of the Bible.…”
Kevin McKenna on Characters, Plot, and Themes of In the First Circle
Yoram Hazony on EconTalk (2018-09-03): mention
“…This is a distinction that actually we find going all the way back to the Bible.…”
A.J. Jacobs on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-06-20): mention
“…when I was researching the Bible, there's a line in the Bible where God says…”
Ricardo Semler on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-06-05): recommend
“…The Bible is a very interesting book to keep going back to to get a glimpse of humanity…”
Cory Booker on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-06-04): mention
“…The Bible's sitting next to me in my apartment.…”
Kevin Kelly on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-06-01): recommend
“…I think it’s very hard to read the Bible all the way through.…”
Kevin Kelly – AI, Virtual Reality, and The Inevitable (#164)
Ryan Flaherty on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-06-01): recommend
“…The Bible is a big one, but I'll give you an off-the-wall one…”
Agnes Callard on Conversations with Tyler (2018-04-11): mention
“…we read the Odyssey and Genesis and Plato…”
Jordan Peterson on EconTalk (2018-02-19): recommend
“…And the reason you need to read it is because our social system is essentially a story.…”
Jordan Peterson on EconTalk (2018-02-19): mention
“…Well, whatever that truth is, is in the Bible.…”
Walter Isaacson on The Tim Ferriss Show (2018-02-03): recommend
“…Everybody, of course, should be familiar with the Bible, which is a way of being taught…”
Rabbi David Wolpe on Conversations with Tyler (2017-02-15): mention
“…The beauty of the book of Genesis is, all through Genesis, brothers are fighting…”
Rabbi David Wolpe on Leadership, Religion, and Identity (Ep. 19 - Live at Sixth & I)
Yuval Harari on EconTalk (2015-10-19): mention
“…The answers are not in the Bible; they are not in the Quran; they are not in the Confucian Analects…”
Richard Fisher on EconTalk (2013-12-30): mention
“…the Catholic clergy that refuse to translate the Bible…”
Robert Skidelsky on EconTalk (2012-10-01): mention
“…Remember the Bible, when God expelled Adam from Paradise…”
Robert Skidelsky on Money, the Good Life, and How Much is Enough