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Bible Field Guide

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Do you want to explore the rich literary landscapes of the Bible? We’ll be your Field Guide. Each episode will help you make sense of God's word by exploring a key cultural, historical, literary, or theological dimension of the Bible. We post a new Field Guide once a week to enrich your Bible Study. Check out our visual essays and explainer images on our instagram page: http://instagram.com/BibleFieldGuide Or you can see them on our website: http://www.BibleFieldGuides.com

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United States

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Do you want to explore the rich literary landscapes of the Bible? We’ll be your Field Guide. Each episode will help you make sense of God's word by exploring a key cultural, historical, literary, or theological dimension of the Bible. We post a new Field Guide once a week to enrich your Bible Study. Check out our visual essays and explainer images on our instagram page: http://instagram.com/BibleFieldGuide Or you can see them on our website: http://www.BibleFieldGuides.com

Language:

English


Episodes

Can Evolution and Genesis Be Friends? | An Interview with Dr. S. Joshua Swamidass

2/28/2020
https://pathology.wustl.edu/people/joshua-swamidass-md-phd/ (Dr. S. Joshua Swamidass) is a professor at Washington University, founder of the platform https://peacefulscience.org/author/swamidass/ (Peaceful Science), and author of a new book, https://peacefulscience.org/genealogical-adam-eve/ (The Genealogical Adam and Eve). We are excited to feature him in our first guest interview. In this episode, https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/patrick-miller/ (Patrick) asks Dr. Swamidass about...

Duration:00:43:26

Why “How did God make all this stuff?” is the wrong question

1/7/2020
As modern people, we can’t help but bring modern question to Genesis. But in doing so, we ask it questions it was never designed to answer. If we want to get the most out of Genesis, we must ask better questions… the questions it wants us to ask. Like the podcast? Bible Field Guide also combines images and short essays on https://www.instagram.com/biblefieldguide/ (Instagram) to help people visualize and internalize the historical, cultural, literary, and theological world of the Bible....

Duration:00:09:11

Debate

12/31/2019
Whoops again!

Duration:00:10:15

Thaddeus Williams Edit 1

12/24/2019
This is not for public consumption. Good job uncovering it, Sherlock.

Duration:00:08:01

Luke Goodrich Edit

12/17/2019
Not the final thing!

Duration:00:46:32

Os Guinness Final Proof

12/10/2019
Whooooopsies, you found me.

Duration:00:09:45

Religious Right Pt. 3 FINAL PROOF

12/2/2019
Ooooops. Not for you.

Duration:00:11:49

New Sermon

11/26/2019
Today we FINALLY start reading the actual Torah. There’s no better place to start than Genesis, and in this episode we give a sweeping overview of the entire book. Understanding the whole of Genesis, helps you to interpret the various parts. Like the podcast? Bible Field Guide also combines images and short essays on https://www.instagram.com/biblefieldguide/ (Instagram) to help people visualize and internalize the historical, cultural, literary, and theological world of the Bible. Check out...

Duration:00:08:42

Metaverse for Morons

11/20/2019
Final Edit

Duration:01:10:15

Torah & The White House: How Settings Work in the Torah | Torah | Bible Study

11/18/2019
It's easy to think that knowing the places of the Torah is little more than a geography listen. It is far more. In this episode, Patrick looks at how different settings work in the Torah, setting up our expectations and functioning as characters and archetypes. Like the podcast? Bible Field Guide also combines images and short essays on https://www.instagram.com/biblefieldguide/ (Instagram) to help people visualize and internalize the historical, cultural, literary, and theological world of...

Duration:00:13:24

The REAL story behind the Torah | Torah | Bible Study

11/18/2019
What’s the actually timeline of events recorded in the Torah? It’s easy to lose your place in this story, so this episode is dedicated to giving an overarching chronology of events in the Torah and how they correspond to different books. Like the podcast? Bible Field Guide also combines images and short essays on https://www.instagram.com/biblefieldguide/ (Instagram) to help people visualize and internalize the historical, cultural, literary, and theological world of the Bible. Check out our...

Duration:00:11:14

What is Torah? (And why its a different kind of series than Harry Potter) | Torah | Bible Study

11/4/2019
In this episode Patrick explores what kind of book it is by contrasting it to a modern book series like Harry Potter. We will see how our greatest difficulty grappling with its wild array of genres, telling one massive story, designed to shape a society. Like the podcast? Bible Field Guide also combines images and short essays on https://www.instagram.com/biblefieldguide/ (Instagram) to help people visualize and internalize the historical, cultural, literary, and theological world of the...

Duration:00:10:00

The debate: who really wrote the Torah? | Torah | Bible Study

10/28/2019
Knowing the author of a book or article changes how you read it. Whether you trust it. What you think it means. In this episode Patrick dives into one of the most challenging questions in modern biblical scholarship: who wrote the Torah? Was it Moses? Was it someone(s) else? When was it written? Like the podcast? Bible Field Guide also combines images and short essays on https://www.instagram.com/biblefieldguide/ (Instagram) to help people visualize and internalize the historical, cultural,...

Duration:00:16:08

Heaven on earth, Garden Mountains, and God’s mission in Torah | Torah | Bible Study

10/21/2019
In this episode Patrick explores the theme beating at the heart of the Torah: God’s mission to unite heaven and earth. We will explore how the Torah begins on a mountain garden where God dwells with humanity, and then traces his mission to recreate that reality through covenants in a world corrupted by human sin. Like the podcast? Bible Field Guide also combines images and short essays on https://www.instagram.com/biblefieldguide/ (Instagram) to help people visualize and internalize the...

Duration:00:12:13

Let’s Torah into Some Torah! | Torah | Bible Study

10/14/2019
In this episode Patrick introduces our FIRST series through the FIRST books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy – or as Jesus called it, “The Torah.” Unfortunately most of these books are neglected today. So let’s ask WHY we forget The Torah and WHY it is relevant today. Like the podcast? Bible Field Guide also combines images and short essays on https://www.instagram.com/biblefieldguide/ (Instagram) to help people visualize and internalize the historical,...

Duration:00:12:26

God's (Kingdom) Story Matters

10/7/2019
In this episode Patrick will look at the overarching story which Jesus made central to his whole mission: the kingdom of God. Today the Kingdom of God feels fuzzy. Is it in my heart? Is it the place I go when I do? Is it some great act in the future? Or is it something present through social action? Understanding the story helps yo answer these questions (and more). Like the podcast? Bible Field Guide also combines images and short essays on https://www.instagram.com/biblefieldguide/...

Duration:00:17:14

04 (Theological) Themes Matter | What’s a Bible Field Guide? | Bible Study

9/30/2019
In this episode Patrick explores why understanding the theological themes in a book is like putting on glasses that bring its central meanings into focus. Like the podcast? Bible Field Guide also combines images and short essays on https://www.instagram.com/biblefieldguide/ (Instagram) to help people visualize and internalize the historical, cultural, literary, and theological world of the Bible. Check out our https://www.instagram.com/biblefieldguide/ (Instagram) account for our latest...

Duration:00:12:25

03 Words Matter | What’s a Bible Field Guide? | Bible Study

9/23/2019
In this episode Patrick explores how understanding the literary structure and genre of a text will help you comprehend it’s meaning more easily and more faithfully. Like the podcast? Bible Field Guide also combines images and short essays on https://www.instagram.com/biblefieldguide/ (Instagram) to help people visualize and internalize the historical, cultural, literary, and theological world of the Bible. Check out our https://www.instagram.com/biblefieldguide/ (Instagram) account for our...

Duration:00:10:37

02 History Matters | What’s a Bible Field Guide? | Bible Study

9/16/2019
In this episode Patrick explores why understanding history in the Bible will transform meaningless names, places and events, into meaning-filled language. Like the podcast? Bible Field Guide also combines images and short essays on https://www.instagram.com/biblefieldguide/ (Instagram) to help people visualize and internalize the historical, cultural, literary, and theological world of the Bible. Check out our https://www.instagram.com/biblefieldguide/ (Instagram) account for our latest...

Duration:00:07:34

01 Culture Matters | What’s a Bible Field Guide? | Bible Study

9/9/2019
In this episode Patrick explores why understanding the culture behind the Bible makes it come alive…. and keeps us from misunderstanding what’s happening in its pages. Like the podcast? Bible Field Guide also combines images and short essays on https://www.instagram.com/biblefieldguide/ (Instagram) to help people visualize and internalize the historical, cultural, literary, and theological world of the Bible. Check out our https://www.instagram.com/biblefieldguide/ (Instagram) account for...

Duration:00:09:55