Hebrew Helps

Tim McNinch’s YouTube Channel contains, among other things, some good tutorials on basic biblical Hebrew.

Tim and Rachel’s latest collaboration is a dramatic presentation of the book of Ruth in Hebrew!

Biblical Research

TheTorah.com: A wonderful and accessible site, with some of the best Jewish biblical scholarship available online.

TheBibleProject.com: A visual storytelling approach to the Bible. They have some fairly good word studies and narrative overviews of biblical books. Plus, everything they do looks really cool!

What is FIRST READING?

First Reading is an audio podcast to help you preach with confidence from the Hebrew Bible. We equip you with relevant linguistic, historical, and literary background for each week’s Old Testament lesson (the “first reading”) as scheduled in the Revised Common Lectionary. With help from our guests—some of the best thinkers and teachers in modern biblical scholarship—each episode probes some of the central questions raised by the text, and offers a couple potential angles for preaching it.

We want to see a community of clergy and congregations who have formative access to both testaments of Scripture. Our hope is that this weekly resource can help encourage more preachers to craft sermons that open up the Old Testament to their congregations!