The Study

The Bible rewards sustained attention through study. The texts that shaped Jewish and Christian life and altered the course of world history are still evoking the same debates and still addressing the same depths of the human condition they always have.

Each week, The Study opens one passage from the Torah and one from the Christian canon. A reader who follows the full cycle will have moved through all five books of Moses, nearly the whole of the Christian canon, and weekly readings drawn from the wisdom and prophetic literature of the Hebrew Bible — each text read where it actually stands: inside the history, the geography, and the arguments of its moment. The thread running through both is the unfolding story of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. How each tradition reads that unfolding is a debate worth having — but it is not the subject of The Study. The text is.

A word to the Christian reader: the book of Acts and the epistles appear in the order scholars broadly agree they were written — not the order they occupy in the Bible. Each letter arrives at the point in the Acts narrative when it was most likely composed. The effect is that the arguments land in their original urgency rather than as settled doctrine.

The work is orientation, not instruction. The texts speak. The Study holds the door open.