Thanks for sharing. Blessings to you.

Thanks for this - Great reading recommendations.

Since you are so familiar with the Biblical texts and have such an interesting screen name (yhwh inspired?), I’m genuinely interested in what books or ideas most convinced you toward atheism. I ask in part because I personally struggle less with issues in the text itself and more in my own experiences. For example, I wonder why if there is a Holy Spirit that’s supposed to make me more like Jesus, why I’m still so often such a jerk.

Here's a 5min video that summarizes the story: https://bibleproject.com/explore/video/the-story-of-the-bible/

Good question and thanks for the feedback.

It's tough to be 100% consistent with a categorization due to the traditional order of books, but this scheme is generally based on genre rather than individual author. So of the works attributed to John, one is gospel/narrative, three are letters/epistles, and one is apocalyptic/prophetic, hence the three different colors. There are other helpful divisions (undisputed Pauline vs. disputed, major vs. minor prophets, etc.), so maybe it'd be good to offer some options in the color/genre breakdowns.

The earliest parts of the Hebrew Bible were written around 1500 BCE and the last parts by around 100 CE, but the "medieval" era is much later, usually considered around 500-1400 CE. So a more accurate critique would be something like "such a bronze/iron age mindset."

Also, as a sociologist myself, I'm interested in the secularization thesis (i.e. "religion is dying") that was once the dominate framework for understanding religious expression. However, scholars have shifted in their understanding of the role of religion in modern societies around the world. I might recommend a review like this https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199756384/obo-9780199756384-0073.xml

Statistically speaking, this is most likely to happen from mid-October to mid-November...

Most chronological reading plans put Job after the proto-history of Genesis 1-11. Here's what this plan does.

Well, if the overall message and trajectory of the Bible is true, then God cares about and values you whether you slack or not. Hope this tool lets you find something realistic and enjoyable instead of something feels like a duty.

A nice feature of this app is that you can turn off specific days, so if you prefer to have Tuesday and Thursday off, you can do that, or if you want weekends off, you can do that :)

The visualization is reading through in the traditional (Protestant) order, but the site lets you reorder in several different ways, including chronologically, using Hebrew order, OT/NT overlap, etc.

Indeed, the month of March is pretty rough, but it ends with a hint of hope.

I created a tool (biblereadingplangenerator.com) that let's you customize a Bible Reading Plan by choosing a length of time, a set of books, and a visualization method (calendar, list, and in this case, a circle). It uses standard Bible data, and this view uses Javascript to generate an SVG with rotated text where the genres of the text each have a color.
Here's the original link: 2023 Bible circle