Ask HN: Best resources for appreciating the Bible for non religious folk?
I love literature and philosophy, I've found a couple great podcasts for appreciating Ecclesiastes and Book of Job from that standpoint:
(Ecclesiastes) https://www.verybadwizards.com/160
(Job) https://www.verybadwizards.com/171
I'm trying to find similar but for the remaining books. Most of the stuff I find when I google is very heavy handed religion, which isn't what I'm looking for. "Joseph and his brothers" by Thomas Mann. Here are a few excellent books worth considering: The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading, Meir Sternberg The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism, Berlin and Freedman Poet and Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes: A Literary-Cultural Approach to the Parables in Luke, Kenneth E. Bailey Robert Alter's translations of the Hebrew Bible have lots of interesting notes. The notes in the Oxford study bible are a good introduction. Lots of college courses cover this