If you haven't checked it out yet (or didn't know), I started a podcast series explaining where the New Testament comes from. I'm tracing it's origins all the way from a Jewish man speaking in Palestine 2,000 years ago to the book written in your language that you can hold in your hands today. 

The word “resurrection” was not something invented by Christians.  So, what did it mean, and why was it important?

I want to ask an important question, "Whose literal?"

If writing was a secondary form of communication, then the question we need to ask is, “Why were the Gospels written down at all?”  

Is it a problem that the Gospels were written so late? I argue that we have no reason to expect them to have been written before the mid to late 1st century. 

Why were people when Jesus lived sometimes buried twice, and why is this imagery used in the NT?  

What possible reason could Paul have to want to call himself the slave of Christ?  

When Paul told slaves to obey their masters, was he advocating slavery?  Or, was there something else going on?

The Disciples asked Jesus a question, and he said he didn't know the answer.  Isn't Jesus supposed to know everything?