The free external library that supplements the work on this site. Not a comprehensive list. The ones I actually return to. If a site is here, I have used it for real study, not just bookmarked it.
Free Courses & Education
BibleProject — Free animated videos and full classroom courses on the Bible’s literary structure, the meaning of key Hebrew and Greek words, and book-by-book overviews. If you have never used BibleProject, start with their videos on Genesis or the Bible’s design. The classroom courses are deeper than people realize.
AWKNG School of Theology — Free Heiser content lives here. Specifically, Unseen Realm 101 and Unseen Realm 102 taught by Heiser himself. If you have read The Unseen Realm and want the lectures, this is where they are.
Peterson Academy — Not free, but worth flagging. Pageau’s Symbolism and Christianity course is here, alongside humanities, philosophy, history, and psychology. The Pageau course is the single most useful course I have taken on how the symbolic logic of Scripture actually works.
YouTube — what I actually watch
BibleProject — The videos. Tim Mackie does the heavy lifting on literary and Hebrew analysis. I have watched some of these a dozen times.
BibleProject Podcast — Long-form discussions that go deeper than the videos. This is where the textual work actually happens.
Wes Huff — Manuscripts, textual reliability, ancient scribal culture, Dead Sea Scrolls. Huff is the best public communicator on manuscript evidence working right now.
Dr. Michael S. Heiser — Heiser’s archived channel. He passed in February 2023, but the lectures, sermons, and Q&As are still here and still essential.
FringePop321 — Heiser’s looser channel on ANE, divine council, and adjacent topics. Fun. Sometimes the comments section is a mess. Watch with discernment.
Logos Bible Study App — Tutorials. If you own Logos and are not getting full use out of it, the official channel will fix that faster than anything else.
Blogs & Newsletters
Independent writers working the same ground. No institution behind them, which is part of why they are worth reading.
Genesis Marks the Spot — Carey Griffel. Close to two hundred episodes on Genesis, the divine council, ancient Near Eastern literature, and Second Temple background, worked carefully and without flinching at the strange parts. Her own description is raiding the ivory tower of biblical theology without ransacking our faith, which is about right.
Erin J Rodriguez — The Old Testament inside the New, and how the connections actually run. Writes to put tools in a reader’s hands rather than hand down conclusions, which is the same thing this site is trying to do.
Free Bible Study Tools
If you do not own Logos and do not plan to, these three will take you far.
Blue Letter Bible — The free option I would start with. Direct access to Greek and Hebrew text with Strong’s numbers, multiple translations side by side, and an interlinear that works on a phone. If you are reading along with a Logos Field Notes post and want to verify a Greek term yourself, this is where to do it.
Bible Gateway — The widest translation library available free. Useful for comparing how different translations handle a difficult passage. The reading interface is clean.
Bible Hub — Parallel translations, lexicons, and verse-level study tools. Their interlinear is dense but useful once you get the hang of the layout.
Primary Source Manuscripts
The actual ancient documents. High-resolution digital images of texts that used to require a research library to see.
Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library — Run by the Israel Antiquities Authority. The Great Isaiah Scroll is here, fully zoomable. If you have ever wanted to look at a 2,000-year-old Hebrew manuscript with your own eyes, this is where you do it.
Codex Sinaiticus — The 4th-century Greek manuscript of the Christian Bible, fully digitized. One of the oldest complete manuscripts of the New Testament. You can read it letter by letter if you can read Greek, or just look at it and feel the weight of how the text was actually transmitted.
If something here serves you, that is gain.
