The gospels have 89 chapters in all. At three chapters a day, you can read through the whole lot in a month. I’m going to do that this September. If anyone wants to join me, please do!
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who writes . You can catch up today without much hassle. Bible Gateway allows you to read any of 150 translations and is easy to read on a phone. What is stopping you? These are perhaps the most important books in the Western Canon. They are short, accessible, and wise. This is probably the biggest gap in most educated people’s reading, and these books could not be more important.For my part, I have been up before six most days reading Jonathan Swift, but I shall be catching up to join this Gospels read along later today.
If you do join, let us know about your reading experience in the comments.
I actually did this just a few weeks ago and even though I was already quite familiar with the gospels, found it a really worthwhile experience to read through all of them over a short period. I wrote about my take-aways here: https://open.substack.com/pub/dearpartisan/p/gospel
It was also interesting to observe the differences and similarities across the four authors and read about the origin theories behind the different accounts.
Can I give a shout out to the remarkable Literature and History podcast by Doug Metzger, https://literatureandhistory.com. He had ten wonderful episodes on the New Testament and early Christianity, out of hundreds of hours of episodes reaching from Gilgamesh to Late Antiquity and still ongoing.