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Riding a wave of viral success from high-profile debates, biblical scholar Wes Huff will teach a new eight-part course on the Historical Reliability of the Bible through the Peterson Academy. Dr. Jordan Peterson announced the course — covering topics from canon formation to archaeological data and the historical Jesus — last week.

The apologist and biblical scholar Wes Huff has been recorded by Dr Jordan Peterson to teach a course on the Historical Reliability of the Bible for the Peterson Academy.

The platform, which Peterson describes as a “challenge to the legacy universities”, aims to provide a classical liberal arts education at a fraction of the cost of traditional universities.

The Canadian psychologist announced the new course on X, saying he was “pleased to announce” that his fellow Canadian would be teaching the eight-part lecture series. He also shared a trailer for the course, followed by Huff releasing the same trailer on his YouTube channel.

So, an update on our challenge to the legacy universities: @petersonacademy.

First and most immediate: we are pleased to announce the release of our latest course, the Historical Reliability of the Bible, taught by none other than the great @WesleyLHuff, whose popularity as a… pic.twitter.com/apLmsvpszk

— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) July 10, 2026

The Billy Graham of the 21st Century?

Wesley Huff rose to prominence in December 2024 after debating author Billy Carson on Christianity and the Bible. The debate has now been viewed four and a half million times on YouTube.

Huff’s performance in that dialogue led to a range of podcast and media opportunities around the world — including interviews on The Joe Rogan Experience, Piers Morgan Uncensored, and Andrew Schulz’s The Flagrant podcast.

Earlier this year, he was interviewed for nearly two and a half hours by Diary of a CEO host Steven Bartlett — a conversation The Daily Declaration reported on at the time.

In just four months, that episode has been viewed nearly five and a half million times on YouTube alone. Similarly, Huff’s more than three-hour long conversation with Joe Rogan has received nearly nine million YouTube views. Shorter clips from his Rogan episode have also received millions of views on the platform.

This spectacular reach has led some to speculate whether Huff could ultimately reach more people than the most successful evangelist of all time, fellow Baptist Billy Graham.

 

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Despite his expert status and impressive intellect, Huff is still studying for his doctorate.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from York University as well as a Master of Theological Studies from Tyndale University. He is currently completing his PhD in New Testament through Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto.

He is specialising in the history of ancient biblical manuscripts and holds a position as Vice President for the ministry Apologetics Canada.

According to the biography available on Huff’s website, he has held a “faculty position” with the Peterson Academy — presumably a reference to his provision of teaching for the “Historical Reliability of the Bible” course that Dr Peterson announced.

What Is the Peterson Academy?

In early May 2026, Huff sat down with Jordan Peterson’s daughter, Mikhaila Peterson Fuller, for a conversation about the historical evidence for the resurrection. Mikhaila also serves as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the Peterson Academy.

Dr Peterson’s post announcing Huff’s course came in early July, just two months after his daughter’s interview with Huff, suggesting that the conversation may have been a catalyst for the development of the new course.

Announced in 2023, the Peterson Academy is billed as an affordable classical liberal arts alternative to mainstream institutional university. According to the organisation’s website, students are taught “how to think, not what to think”.

It is being billed as a “global academy”, informed by a dedication to “intellectual freedom”, with courses taught by “distinguished professors from Harvard, Oxford, MIT, Cambridge, and other great institutions”.

The course library advertised more than eight-hundred hours of content on topics from psychology and mathematics to science and history. Course titles include “The Boy Crisis” by author and men’s advocate Dr Warren Farrell, “The Philosophy of Religion” by Cambridge philosopher Dr James Orr, “Evolutionary Inference” by evolutionary biologists Dr Heather Heying and Dr Bret Weinstein, and “The Greatest Leaders in History” by English historian Lord Andrew Roberts.

Other courses cover musical theory, globalisation, economics, educational philosophy, and nutrition, among many other topics.

According to the course page, Wes Huff’s lecture series will cover “the historical foundations of Scripture”:

“Together, we examine the evidence for the Bible’s reliability from the formation of the biblical canon to the textual history of the Old and New Testaments, as well as the archaeological discoveries that illuminate the biblical world. Along the way, Huff explains how the early church recognised the New Testament canon, traces the history of English Bible translation, and concludes by evaluating historical Jesus studies, showing how the cumulative historical evidence supports the Gospels as reliable eyewitness accounts of Jesus.”

The eight topics the course is set to include are:

1. Old Testament Canon,
2. New Testament Canon,
3. Textual History of the Old Testament,
4. Textual History of the New Testament,
5. The Archaeological Data,
6. Internal Evidence for the Bible,
7. The English Bible, and
8. The Historical Jesus.

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Image courtesy of the Peterson Academy.