Podcasts are a great opportunity to learn while commuting. Here are my top five recommendations for academic podcasts. There’s something here for everyone, no matter where you are on your study journey.
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I’d be surprised if you’ve never heard of BibleProject before, but if you haven’t, congratulations for getting out of the coma and check out their videos, study notes, resource recommendations and posters here.
Since October 2015, every video that they’ve produced has come with the audio from the discussion between co-founders Tim and Jon. Since Tim has a PhD and Jon doesn’t, Jon helpfully asks questions that you might have asked and so this conversation is easy to listen to. Tim will quote resources when helpful which directs you where to go after they’ve stopped recording. Throughout each series, they generally give the opportunity to send in your questions for their response in an episode. Helpful for everyone from high school students through to pastors. When this downloads on a Monday afternoon, it always goes straight to the top of my queue.
Predominantly interviews with authors about their recent publication, this podcast is enjoyable to listen to. Keeping pastors in mind, sometimes when interviewing they will actually ask the interviewee what they hope that pastors will get out of their work. Each episode also comes with a recommendation for the most important recent book in biblical studies or theology. The hosts are enjoyable to listen to, making sure that even if the topic is out of left field you’ll still want to tune in.
This podcast has one big negative: the books that they review are generally quite good and so you might finish the episode your appetit whet ready to purchase a copy.
The conversation can get quite academic but I definitely recommend it for bible college students up through to pastors and academic staff.
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Predominantly interviews with authors about their recent publication, this podcast is enjoyable to listen to. Keeping pastors in mind, sometimes when interviewing they will actually ask the interviewee what they hope that pastors will get out of their work. Each episode also comes with a recommendation for the most important recent book in biblical studies or theology. The hosts are enjoyable to listen to, making sure that even if the topic is out of left field you’ll still want to tune in.
This podcast has one big negative: the books that they review are generally quite good and so you might finish the episode your appetit whet ready to purchase a copy.
The conversation can get quite academic but I definitely recommend it for bible college students up through to pastors and academic staff.
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I haven’t had a chance to listen to a lot of the episodes from Tool Talk as they don’t seem to post as consistently as both BibleProject and OnScript. In spite of this, the podcast is quite good, interviewing a variety of scholars and authors about a wide range of topics. I look forward to listening to more of these episodes as they are released.
The “+” Podcasts
These podcasts are too new to put them in the top 5 list at this time but these are at the front of the on-ramp.
What I’ve heard from these podcasts inspires interest for the episodes yet to come out.
Comment below what academic podcast you think I should check out and let me know how you go with checking out my recommendations.
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