Bible Study for Amateurs

Hey Jude 17-19! 26.05.2022 8:20 ↓

Jude attempts to keep the family together. 

Hey Jude 14-16! 19.05.2022 6:38 ↓

Jude quotes from 1 Enoch .

Hey Jude 11-13! 12.05.2022 8:40 ↓

Jude turns up the megaphone.

Hey Jude 8-10! 05.05.2022 8:29 ↓

What a dispute over Moses's body tells Jude's audience. 

Hey Jude 5-7! 28.04.2022 7:53 ↓

Three cautionary tales.

Hey Jude 3-4! 21.04.2022 7:23 ↓

Intruder alert! Intruder alert!

Hey Jude 1-2! 14.04.2022 8:19 ↓

The first of ten episodes looking at the NT epistle of Jude utilizing some of the tools from my amateur toolbox mentioned in episodes 11-20. 

An Amateur's Toolbox: The Oxford Bible Commentary 10.03.2022 6:23 ↓

Caution: do not throw in anger as it is a massive tome.

An Amateur's Toolbox: Women's Bible Commentary 03.03.2022 5:57 ↓

A commentary by women and about women but for everyone. 

An Amateur's Toolbox: The Fortress Commentary on the Bible 24.02.2022 7:01 ↓

Covers both testaments? Check. Well written? Check. Diverse voices. Check!!!

An Amateur's Toolbox: 'The New Testament' by Bart Ehrman 17.02.2022 6:44 ↓

Christians don't have a monopoly on writing introductions to the New Testament! 

An Amateur's Toolbox: 'The Old Testament' by Michael Coogan 10.02.2022 7:35 ↓

Michael Coogan is da man!

An Amateur's Toolbox: The Jewish Annotated New Testament 03.02.2022 5:42 ↓

The New Testament is a lot more Jewish than some give it credit for.

An Amateur's Toolbox: The Jewish Annotated Apocrypha 27.01.2022 8:07 ↓

Want to know more about the Apocrypha? Boy, do I have the book for you!

An Amateur's Toolbox: The Jewish Study Bible 20.01.2022 6:08 ↓

Yes, you need The Jewish Study Bible.

An Amateur's Toolbox: The New Oxford Annotated Bible 13.01.2022 5:37 ↓

The next item in this amateur's toolbox - The New Oxford Annotated Bible.

An Amateur's Toolbox: The HarperCollins Study Bible 06.01.2022 7:32 ↓

What belongs in every amateur exegete's toolbox? Let's take a look at my own, beginning with The HarperCollins Study Bible.

Is the Synoptics’ Three-Hour Darkness a Solar Eclipse? 18.11.2021 7:07 ↓

When Jesus died, the Gospel of Mark says that there was darkness over the world for three hours. What in the world happened?

Is the Atheist the Fool of Psalm 14:1? 11.11.2021 9:33 ↓

A look at an oft-misunderstood verse in the Bible.

God Said It, I Believe It, and That Settles It for Me 04.11.2021 7:44 ↓

Sometimes the Bible touches you. 

It's All Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic to Me 28.10.2021 7:48 ↓

Spoiler alert: the Bible wasn't written in English!

The Bible is Old 21.10.2021 6:03 ↓

Context, context, context!

Authorship Anonymous 14.10.2021 7:36 ↓

So many of the books of the Bible are anonymous. Why? 

Two Pivotal Moments 07.10.2021 9:03 ↓

586 BCE and 70 CE. Why are these dates important? 

Which Bible? 30.09.2021 7:05 ↓

People tend to speak of the Bible. But is there only one?