The Internet is a wonderful place to find Bible-related information. Here are a few of Saul’s favorite sites, though, and some information about what they offer.
Bible Gateway
The Bible of online Bibles. Virtually every major translation in virtually every imaginable language (with the notable exception of the NET Bible used here on SRTB) can be found, searched, indexed, downloaded, navigated, printed. An embarrassment of riches.
Greek Bible Study
If, like Saul, you know just enough Greek to be dangerous, this site is excellent. You can do Greek word studies, find other instances in the New Testament of the same Greek word, save your own translations, allow the site to remember all the declensions and verb forms, thereby telling you the proper taxonomy of everything.
The NET Bible
The one translation you can’t find at the Bible Gateway, but the one Saul will be reading aloud, so this is the place you want to go if you want to follow along with Saul or read ahead.
Bible Atlas.org
A picture is worth a thousand words, and I think that a map counts double. This site has lots of interesting research on the places whose names I struggle to pronounce every day. Reading this type of material can help to add depth and perspective to our understanding of these events, since we lack the everyday awareness of these places that would have been more commonplace among readers in biblical times.
Special thanks to one of our listeners, Anneliese, for passing along this resource.
The Daily Audio Bible
This daily Bible podcast is one of Saul’s favorite, and served as a portion of the inspiration behind SRTB. Brian, the Daily Audio Bible host, has been doing this for several years and is, in Saul’s opinion, excellent. Let no one ever think that Saul in any way impugns the work of Brian. Saul loves Brian, supports him, and prays for him.
Still, the 1st-century Middle East was big enough for both Paul and Apollos; American Idol is big enough for both Randy Jackson and Simon Cowell; and the internet is big enough for both Brian and Saul.
Listening to both podcasts would probably be a lot of Bible, but, then again, Brian and Saul go through the Bible in a different order, and will have differing takes on the same Scripture.
Different voices, different opinions, different music, different podcasts. Same Bible. Same God.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, is a great source of information about the Bible. I’m sure everyone can find something in every Bible-related article that he/she disagrees with. Still, I find that it is a great introduction to characters, writers, books, and so forth. It balances the historical, scholarly, and faith perspectives fairly well, and is generally corrected when any one perspective tries to take over. Sometimes compromise is good.
