I can let this cat out of the bag now.
In response to the numerous comments to my “should I be doing online teaching?” post, I’ve decided to bring back the podcast, though the form will be a bit different. I can sketch the basics here.
To make the long thought process short, a Naked Bible reader (Trey) with experience in podcasting has volunteered to help me revive the podcast. He’ll be helping with both format and logistics, as well as being a conversation partner. In the original podcast, the episodes were mostly scripted, that won’t be the case with Naked Bible Podcast 2.0. The plan is to do a weekly teaching session (I’m starting with the book of Acts). Trey will introduce the episode, I’ll do my thing, then we’ll chat a bit about the content. We will collect questions from listeners and, at various points, do episodes that are just Q & A.
These sessions will not be business-as-usual. They will not be sermons, nor will they sermonize. The emphasis is content (I want people to learn something). Consider your subscription to what you’ve heretofore experienced as Sunday School canceled. I will presuppose that listeners have the basics of the divine council and the divine council worldview. To that end, I’ve already made several PPT videos going through that material that will live on the site. Their purpose is for newcomers to watch before following the podcast. I’m going to jump into Acts and, basically, have you follow me as I read it and think about the text through my eyes. After Acts I will likely do Leviticus. It won’t be verse-by-verse, looking at minutiae. There will be no set format. I’m going to take sections / passages as they come and help you read them more intelligently (i.e., more like a biblical writer/reader would have processed the material). My guess is that each episode will be a half hour.
I’m busy creating a new website for the podcast. My webmaster (Joe) is helping there. We should be all set up with the first episode recorded and live by Feb 1. That’s the goal anyway.
There is also a new podcast coming on other stuff I’m interested in … stay tuned for news on that.
Yay!!! How exciting!!! Looking forward to it 🙂
Was wondering if this was coming back, looking forward to it.
There are so many good things to do on the internet. I hope to be able to listen to your podcast(s) Dr. Heiser.
Thanks! Hope you do.
I am going to go ahead and say “Yay!”. I miss the podcast and discussionsee about genre. I hope that the old podcasts will stay available and that you will give at least a cursory mention to these same topics in the new podcasts.
I’m sure that sort of thing will come up. I want to avoid the purely topical approach in favor of just moving through the text, landing wherever there’s something of interest.
I can’t wait. Feb 1 is also my birthday, so it will be a nice gift 🙂
>i.e., more like a biblical writer/reader would have processed the material
This is very interesting because of what you wrote on a comment you wrote to the previous post; But the reality is that ancient people were not all of one mind. We can’t say “ancients ALL thought XYZ about XYZ.” Would this not be the case with the readers as well? So when Ezra brought back the exiles and had his entourage explain to them the text, would this not be a sort of “filter” in how they understood the text? Doesn’t this mean that “traditions” are ultimately unavoidable?
I know you are not against tradition, just indifferent. But given that readers (even the ancient ones) are ultimately predisposed to certain biases, you are naturally always going to come up with varying interpretations that are slightly removed from what the author intended.
Short answer: yes. Ancient Israelites would have had a common intellectual framework (per-modern, pre-scientific, supernaturalist, etc.) but that of course doesn’t guarantee they all had precisely the same thoughts about XYZ. Same for the modern person (multitudes of subsets there, of course).
This is great news. I am very much looking forward to hearing this once it comes out. I have also wondered for some time if there are any other teaching podcasts you would recommend.
I don’t listen to any so I’m not much help there.
Bravo!
And it’s about time.
Biggest point of interest for me was the very first line:
I can let this cat out of the bag now.
Do you have more cats stuffed in a bag that need to be let out? IF so, now is as good a time as any.
J
I do – and no, it’s not. 🙂
All I can say is, “Hallelujah!”
Sweet. Will this be available on itunes on Feb 2?
it will be available via iTunes. I’m hoping to use the old iTunes feed. We’ll find out soon if that can be done. I’m presuming we’ll have other feeds as well.
Sounds great .Looking forward to it.
Can hardly wait. Thank you.
Will help to shorten waiting for the books to come out.
God bless.
Janina
This is great news, Dr. Mike, and I’m really looking forward to it. Many thanks to you and the others involved.
That’s awesome! Looking forward to it!
From the acts of the Holy Spirit to the acts of holiness. Sounds fun!
A book last year, and two new books and a podcast coming this year… This era might be called the Acts of Heiser!
Thought about deleting this comment (my wife would roll her eyes) but it’s funny enough to keep. 🙂
Sounds awesome Dr. Heiser! Might that be Trey Smith?
Thanks,
Rob
nope.
Yay!
What will the podcast feed be?
not sure yet – stay tuned.
Good news!
Can anyone tell me how to access the podcast on android? I can’t use itunes or podbean, and I don’t want to have to download it to my desktop and transfer it to my phone/tablet.
My assistant in this tells me he’ll be posting feeds for multiple access points and devices. I will pass on this note about the Android specifically.
Congratulations on your return! I think this is really a good idea as a platform for fleshing out Divine Council motifs as well as the inevitable surge of questions and dispute regarding your upcoming books. Our restless generation prefers to listen than read. And, I suppose it really is much easier to speak than write! Can’t wait!
Yes; that’s part of the thinking on my end.
Can’t wait! I really was hoping you’d do this!
This is terrific news. I couldn’t be happier! Thank you so much for your continued teaching and training. For a guy like me that never was able to make it to a real school and now is busy working and trying to raise a family and minister to others, your teaching and instruction are invaluable to me. Thanks again for continuing to stir us up. God Bless You Brother!
thanks – glad to hear that.
Oh happy day, thank you Mike. I’m looking forward to new audio material from you. I really enjoyed your interview on Canary Cry last month. Godspeed sir.
thanks – should be happening in a couple weeks.
Thank you for bringing this podcast back.
Best Regards
you’re welcome!