Naked Bible 023: The Bible’s Literary Context: The Legal Genre
In the last episode of our series on studying the Bible, we transitioned to an important area of study: learning to read the Bible in terms of the various types of literature found in its pages. Our f...
22 Jan 201515min
Naked Bible 022: Introducing Genres and Reading Bible Stories Like Fiction
In the past few episodes of the podcast series on learning how to really study your Bible, I’ve focused on the issue of how critical it is to take the Bible in its own context, not a context that is f...
22 Jan 201523min
Naked Bible 021: Taking the Bible’s Own Context Seriously, Part 6: Books for 2nd Temple & NT Study
In the last podcast, I recommended the best books and reference sources for understanding the religion and culture of the ANE for OT study. This episode wraps up my overview of taking the Bible’s own ...
22 Jan 201525min
Naked Bible 020: Taking the Bible’s Own Context Seriously, Part 5: Books for ANE and OT Study
We’ve talked in previous episodes about how the best way to understood the original context of the biblical writers is to immerse yourself in the worldview of the civilizations with which the biblical...
22 Jan 201523min
Naked Bible 019: Taking the Bible’s Own Context Seriously, Part 4: 2nd Temple Texts in Translation
The series on Bible study continues with the emphasis on interpreting the Bible in its own context. The context we’re discussing is the world of the ancient Near East (with respect to the OT) and the ...
22 Jan 201524min
Naked Bible 018: Taking the Bible’s Own Context Seriously, Part 3: ANE Texts in Translation
The last episode of the podcast dealt with the need to tap into the intellectual output of the ancient Mediterranean world — the Bible’s own context – in order to start thinking the thoughts of the bi...
22 Jan 201518min
Naked Bible 017: Taking the Bible’s Own Context Seriously
In this second episode of the series on Bible study, Dr. Heiser discusses what interpreting the Bible “in context” really means — taking the Bible’s own primitive context seriously. Rather than filter...
22 Jan 201528min
Naked Bible 016: Heiser’s Laws for Bible Study: Learning to Study the Bible, Part 1
This episode begins a series on learning how to engage the biblical text in ways that take you beyond merely reading the Bible. Dr. Heiser overviews a popular Naked Bible blog post (“Heiser’s Laws for...
22 Jan 201516min
