Jeramiah Giehl
24 episodes
Armed with scholarly analysis, "Pulling The Thread Podcast" fearlessly dissects the New Testament, unveiling its human origins and challenging the myth of inspiration. Through textual criticism, it exposes the NT as products of later centuries, far removing its from the era of Jesus. Driven by a quest for Jewish reclamation, employing the historical-critical method, the podcast explores Second Temple Judaism, the Talmud & the Qumran community. Renowned scholars guide the journey, revealing Jesus in his authentic pre-Christian Jewish context, liberated from the constraints of Christian dogma! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pullingthethreadpodcast/support
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
A source-heavy conversation show for listeners tracing Jesus, Christianity, and Messianic belief through Jewish context and contested origins.
Pulling The Thread Podcast belongs on the Religion & Spirituality shelf for listeners interested in Jesus, Judaism, and disputed accounts of Christianity's origins.
You want your New Testament assumptions cross-examined at a very Jewish kitchen table.
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A source-heavy discussion of Paul, James, and how later Christian tradition was read back into early Christian sources.
Adam Green and the conversation around Paul and James make for a focused, text-driven episode about what later Christian writing does, and does not, tell us about the earliest material.
Church performance, deconstruction, and the machinery beneath both.
Apostate Anne's story moves from a Southern religious upbringing into marriage, church life, ministry, and the moment faith starts to feel less like devotion and more like performance.
A serious conversation about missionary targeting, Psalm 51, and repentance.
Rabbi Tovia Singer's interview is at its best when it explains how a personal clash with missionary outreach turned into a life of public response.
A steady account of leaving Messianic Judaism and learning to follow Jewish practice on its own terms.
This episode follows a move away from Messianic Judaism toward Jewish practice, and it does so through the small, telling details: Chabad Passover, Shabbat meals, Hebrew study, and the slow realization that Jesus no longer fit those rituals.
A steady interview that follows early doctrinal friction from Matthew into later arguments over interpretation and faith.
This part-one interview stays centered on the host's early friction with his Jehovah's Witness background. He talks through first objections to the New Testament around Matthew, where what he read did not line up with the Tanakh, and then moves into arguments with elders over…
Mark, Homer, and a Jesus made larger than life.
Dennis McDonald presents Mark as part of a larger argument about how the Gospels borrow from classical Greek poetry and reshape Jesus for a Jewish setting after the Jewish war.
Christian origins are treated as a historical and textual argument, with Paul, Marcion, and the Jewishness of Jesus under review.
Part two stays with Christian origins: what Christianity was before it became what it is, the historical-critical method, and its ancient roots.
A conversion story shaped by family history, worship music, and questions about healing.
Ben Wagonmaker's conversation traces a move out of a deeply Christian upbringing and into conversion, with the family history, Baptist schooling, worship music, and healing experiences that shaped it along the way.
Daily halacha, case by case.
Parsha questions carried into serious Torah argument.
This part two stays on Christian origins and how early Christianity took shape over time.
Richard Cortez returns for a follow-up conversation about Jesus, Judaism, and the later framing Christians often inherit.
Richard Cortes traces a path from a Jewish community in the Bronx to a messianic congregation and, eventually, to Judaism.
The host talks with Dr.
Ben Wagonmaker joins the host for a long conversation about how he moved from a very Christian upbringing into conversion to Judaism.
Richard Cortez continues the two-part conversation by tracing his move from Messianic leadership toward Judaism.
Paul is the starting point.
David LeBlanc interviews the guest in the second part of a two-part series.
David LeBlanc interviews the host in a long, two-part conversation.
David LeBlanc and Richard Cortez join the conversation, with the host drawing from his own past in the Messianic movement to frame the discussion.
David LeBlanc joins the show for a wide-ranging discussion about Christian origins, Judaism, and the theological errors the host sees in Christianity and Messianic Judaism.
Jeremiah sits down with former pastor Mark Peralta to trace his path through faith and away from it.
In a challenging interview, the host of Pulling The Thread debates the origins of Christianity with Adam Green, arguing that the New Testament is the result of a centuries-long Greco-Roman psychological operation that co-opted and inverted Jewish mystical traditions.
Host interviews Anne from the Apostate Mind podcast, a former pastor's wife who deconstructed from Christianity.
Rabbi Tovia Singer discusses Jewish perspectives on Christianity, critiquing missionary tactics, historical Jesus scholarship, and Pauline theology.