Currently listening to season one of the Bema podcast, which walks the listener through Torah from a Hebrew/Eastern perspective. It’s an eye-opening and thought provoking experience, especially for a westerner.
As westerners, biblical text, especially the Old Testament can be uncomfortable, maddening, boring, etc. that’s because our western worldview and perspective handicaps our ability to digest the poetic and deeper meanings of the text.
These stories are Hebrew/Eastern stories written by Hebrew authors, for an ancient Hebrew audience. The first two episodes kind of lay the ground work, and the walk thru Torah starts w/ Genesis 1:1 in episode three.
It’s an enjoyable, and lighthearted show. Not preachy and quite different from any biblical interpretation most of us have probably experienced. I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I am (listened thru episode 11 so far, halfway thru the story of Jacob).
https://www.bemadiscipleship.com/episodes?season=1