The shelf
Whose shoulders
You can’t read the Bible with only a Bible. These are the teachers this project leans on — read them, and you’ll recognize the wells I keep drawing from.
Robert Alter
Kenneth Bailey
Rob Bell
Daniel Block
Darrell Bock
Bill Creasy
Michael Heiser
Abraham Joshua Heschel
C.S. Lewis
Tremper Longman III
Tim Mackie
Co-founder of BibleProject — start with the videos and podcast, free at bibleproject.com.
Gary Rendsburg
E. Randolph Richards & Brandon O’Brien
Sandra Richter
Richard Rohr
John Sailhamer
J.R.R. Tolkien
John Walton
Marvin Wilson
The rule of the house: swim in the tradition; don’t parrot the heroes.
When I lean on someone’s signature idea — Walton’s for-us-not-to-us, Heschel’s palace in time — I’ll say so by name. Otherwise I’m drawing from the ancient wells they all drew from. They don’t agree with each other about everything, which is exactly why I trust the ground they share.