So as we approach the end of this winter, it is with great pleasure that we bring you our second issue of The Bible Project Quarterly. Tim had been breaking down individual books of the Bible for years in his teaching and in his existing Bible in five videos. So Tim and Jon teamed up with a few illustrators and began working on this ten-year plan to create a video for each book of the Bible.
He wanted the Read Scripture series to live on regardless of what happened to his ministries or The Bible Project. Monthly supporters received these posters, printed on this cool paper, as a special gift from The Bible Project. Those who have supported the Bible Project financially, with views and shares online and in prayer have made this happen and you continue to make this project possible.
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Read Scripture
Biggest Days of 2017
2017 in Review
We finished our fourth year as a project and
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While all of these numbers are exact, some charts are artistic representations and not intended to be exact. There's a lot of discussion and research going on in all of our videos, and we're making some of it available to listen to through our podcast. We noticed that many of you spend some quality time with us in your ears.
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When The Bible Project started, it was with
The Whole Story
I use the Read the Scriptures video series to introduce each book of the Bible as we read it so that people are able to more easily follow the overall story of Scripture. The elders and Pastor Matthew agreed that the Read the Scripture videos could be a great way to inspire a new interest and passion for the Bible, and they felt that this new focus, another paradigm of seeing the Bible as a unified story leading to Jesus can allow them to better understand Scripture. Pastor Matthew wanted his congregation to see the Bible as something they could understand, something that could change their lives, but he wasn't sure how to do that other than telling people to read it.
He wanted to use the Bible Project's resources to fully immerse the people in his church in the story of the Bible. The plan is to watch each Read Scripture video as they go through the Bible together. In 2016, I read and recorded the Bible aloud with my two sons according to the Bible Project's daily schedule.
It is wonderful to see Pastor Matthew and his congregation creatively using resources from The Bible Project, and it was exciting to speak with him and see how the church responded to this Scripture Reading experience. The congregation interacted with the Scriptures in a fresh way and identified with characters in the Bible more like them. The Bible became relevant to this group of people, and Pastor Matthew could see how their lives were being changed.
They plan to have a big Q&A session live on Facebook so they can get everyone involved and discuss some of the more difficult questions that inevitably come up when reading the Bible. It has fostered so many interesting conversations about the things of God and the Bible.
A lot of time and a lot of talent went into
Read Scripture Team
In the videos we made before Reading Scripture, our tendency was to add spectacular visuals that were unique to each video. Almost every other video in the series features some throwaway joke or pratfall or goofy expression to lighten the mood, but not that one. But the people in the Bible did not have that attitude, and neither do people in many parts of the world today, where there is nothing.
AH: I remember seeing one of the first versions of Romans and just being amazed at how clear and useful this medium was for communicating the arc of the book and the entire story. WHITE PAPER PLANNING THE BOOK OF TIM MACKIE AND MAC COOPER WORKING ON THE BOOK OF MATTHEW. Tim has done so much research on Ezekiel that he was able to provide even more guidance than usual, especially for the visualization of the enigmatic "chariot" that the prophet sees in the opening scene.
MC: It was always so much fun to see Tim light up when he saw a semi-final draft of the illustrations. As part of the show, actor Jason Nightingale performed the entire book from memory. He was so surprised to learn about the Read Scripture series and that there were videos about the Bible on the Internet.
In the end, every Sunday for the next few months we talked about RS videos at the farmers market. EP: A lot of people know about the coffee table book, but almost no one seems to realize that we also sell these posters as double bed sheets* so you can study the structure of the Bible while you drift off into a peaceful sleep.
The Art of Reading Biblical Narrative: Following the
Joseph is speaking of his brothers, but the author of Genesis wants us to think of every man from Genesis 3 onward who also "planned evil," only to redirect it to God's good purpose. He's actually just getting started, and that's exactly what we see in the opening story of Exodus. God's promise to multiply his family is happening and not everyone is happy about it.
This is the same divine mystery that was at work throughout Genesis and which culminated in the story of Joseph, isn't it. This pharaoh is the worst, most subhuman character in the biblical story so far, so his third and most heinous act of evil is met with God's third and most extraordinary response. The author of Genesis messed with your mind and tried to get you to see the hand of God at work even in the darkest moments of human failure and evil.
As you explore Exodus further, you can see how this theme is increasingly intensified in the epic showdown between God, Moses and Pharaoh. In the story of Exodus, this theme continues to be developed in the conflict between Pharaoh's hard heart and God's desire to save enslaved Israel. But these writers are not simply trying to turn you into an intellectual; they teach you how to read your life. When you see these patterns at work in the lives of these biblical characters, you begin to think in a new way about the patterns of your own failures and your own evil.
We are trained to reflect on the joys and pains of our lives and see God's faithfulness as the common thread that connects everything. It opens up the bold hope that even our failures will not determine God's purposes for us or for our world.
The Drama of Scripture
As you can see, the story of Joseph creates a seamless transition between the books of Genesis and Exodus by choosing the key words “good” and. As you develop an eye for these patterns and literary devices, your ability to understand the theological message of these stories will improve. It's often hard to understand what it all means, but this theme of "evil turned good" can really affect how you view the world.
Finding Our Place in the Biblical Story
From Eden to New Jerusalem
An Introduction to Biblical Theology
The Bible is an expertly crafted literary work, and its authors used subtle narrative techniques; the repetition of keywords and themes is one of the most important tools in their arsenal. As a trained and practicing journalist, in 1999, thanks to some well-timed coincidences, I took a professional left turn into the world of localization. For nearly twenty years, I have helped businesses and corporations communicate with people around the world.
If you sold American made motorcycles in Hungary, I made sure the mechanics in Budapest had Hungarian repair manuals in time for the new model year. If you hand-crafted kombucha in your garage in Oregon, I made sure your labels were collected in the increasingly serious and distinctive Canadian border. If you were to launch your online auction site in Vietnam, I had access to a professional brigade of translators, editors and engineers ready to translate your site and its 3.78 million words by the date you said it would be.
In the spring of 2017, I found myself between projects at the very moment I questioned how much real satisfaction I was getting from my admittedly fun and interesting profession.
Found in Translation
Translating our videos for a global audience
Late last year we tapped Donald Arney to lead our
Example: If I have pictures of cars in my material, which side of the car are the steering wheels depicted on? As a localization project manager, I spent my days guiding clients through the challenges and benefits of the translation process. That is when God would bring His kingdom and the rule of the Messiah over all nations (Jeremiah 30-33).
We are told that she is a symbol of centuries of Israel's covenant rebellion and that the other women with stork wings immediately took her to Babylon (so bizarre!). The first (chs. 9-11) describes the arrival of a humble messianic king riding a donkey into the new Jerusalem to establish God's kingdom over the nations. The priest Joshua is given a crown and is presented as a symbol of the future Messiah, who will also be a priest in the Kingdom of God.
However, Zechariah says, all this will only be fulfilled if the present generation is faithful to God and obeys the provisions of the covenant. All together, these three visions emphasize how the coming of the Messianic Kingdom is dependent on this generation becoming faithful to God. This leads to the conclusion of the dream visions with another challenge in Zechariah 7–8.
The city becomes a new Garden of Eden, with a river of living water flowing from the temple and bringing healing to all creation. The point seems to be that the future kingdom of the second half of the book will only come when God's people are faithful to the covenant, as the first half makes clear.
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