Update - March 2016

Starting this month, I will make monthly posts on this blog about what I am doing behind the scenes.  I will share specifics on what I'm studying and how the videos are going.

I may also share some little tidbits on things that I am learning outside of this channel.

So...

History of the Septuagint
The next video is the History of the Septuagint.  The script is written and the video is prepared.  I just need to do some final review on the script and then record the audio.  I plan to post it this Friday!

Notable Differences Between the Masoretic and the Septuagint
This is the following video, the third video in this series on the Septuagint.  For it, I'm working on getting familiar with the books in the Septuagint that are not in the Protestant Bible.  This includes the books of the Maccabees, Tobit, Wisdom, Sirach, Judith, and others.

As I have read through the non-Protestant books, I have been making detailed notes to their historicity.  (For example, I'm absolutely floored as to how accurate 1 Maccabees is to our current understanding of that period in history!)  I have read all of them except: half of Sirach, half of Baruch, and all of 4 Maccabees.  (I'm not sure if I will study 4 Maccabees or not.  It wasn't exactly included in the Septuagint.)  Part of the reason I want to read them is to be familiar with them.  I'm sure that I will get some comments asking about these books or challenging me on them.  So I need to be familiar with them.  I certainly don't want to share something inaccurate either.

Jews Under Persia
As far as what I'm studying outside of this channel is this.  I'm currently teaching a class on Sunday mornings on the Jews Under Persia.  We are going through Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi in chronological order.  I plan to post a video on this chronological order sometime later this year.  It's incredible!  In that class, we've covered most of those books.  As we study them, I have written commentaries on each one.  All we have left is half of Nehemiah and Malachi.  Once I am done with this class, I can devote more time to this channel.

-Andrew