Jana Riess: From podcasts to YouTube channels to books, here’s my curated list of favorite (fun, even) companions for digging into the Bible in 2023.
Ancient Christians: An Introduction for Latter-day SaintsThis new book, published by Brigham Young University’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute, is an excellent resource for understanding the first-century world that gave rise to most of the New Testament. I was pleasantly surprised to see the book gently challenging or at least complicating the notion of a “great apostasy” that plunged the world into spiritual darkness.
The book’s opening pages also make clear why we can’t approach the New Testament assuming that everything about our modern church is a replica of the first-century church, and many of the subsequent chapters show key differences: We don’t include the public reading of Scripture in our worship services, as Jesus and the early Christians did; we do have an organized hierarchy of priesthood offices, which the earliest church did not.
Billed as “the only God-ordained podcast on the internet,” this smart, funny and irreverent show manages to entertain and teach at the same time. Most of the episodes feature biblical scholars Pete Enns and Jared Byas interviewing other experts about various aspects of the Bible, its history and its interpretation. Some recent New Testament-related episodes to check out include “
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