Richard Bauckham’s new book is Who is God? Key Moments of Biblical Revelation (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2020). If someone asked you to talk to a group of university students about God, what passage of the Bible would you go to and why? If I could really only choose one passage, I think it would be the Prologue to the Gospel of John, because it so clearly relates the Old Testament’s portrayal of God to the incarnation. In my book, it features... Read more
I’ve recent recently noticed how Philo depicts Israel’s God as having two powers within himself, his creative and vitalizing power called “God” and his sovereign and regal power called “Lord.” For instance: Therefore the appellations already mentioned reveal the powers existing in the living God; for one title is that of Lord, according to which he governs; and the other is God, according to which he is beneficent. For which reason also, in the account of the creation of the... Read more
My dear friend and former Ridley Student Rachael Lopez is launching a faith-based magazine called Soul Tread with a great team of designers and writers. They have a Kickstarter to raise funds. What is more, if you donate $150, you can win a zoom session with N.T. Wright and Mike Bird where we’ll answer all your questions about Bible and Theology! Read more
The ancient historian Herodotus (ca. 484-425 BCE) observed two types of worship Heracles, as an Olympian god and as a deified mortal: “And further: those Greeks, I think, are most in the right, who have established and practice two worships of Heracles, sacrificing to one Heracles as to an immortal [athanatō], and calling him the Olympian, but to the other bringing offerings as to a dead hero [hērōi enagizousi]” (Hist. 2.44). Diodorus Siculus (ca. 90-30 BCE) referred to this bipartite... Read more
Some 15 years ago I was heralding the scholarly achievements of Markus Barth (son of Karl Barth). Seriously, his works on baptism, Lord’s Supper, resurrection, justification, Ephesians, Colossians, Jewish-Christian relationships, and pistis christou are work checking out. More recently, the Journal of Reformed Theology has published the proceedings of Princeton Theological Seminary’s Markus Barth conference: Remembering Markus Barth: A Biblical-Theological Existence An Introduction By: Philip G. Ziegler Pages: 167–168 The World of the Bible—Always Strange, Forever New Markus Barth as Teacher... Read more
I’m very happy to announce that we have launched a podcast to go with our book The New Testament in its World where I interview a star cast of eminent scholars on the New Testament and we hear from N.T. Wright on several subjects. In this podcast, Wright and I explore many of the topics covered in our book – questions about the purpose of the New Testament; the meaning of the resurrection; the life and ministry of Paul; what it... Read more
Christoph, your first book was Hidden Criticism? about the alleged counter-imperial ethos of the New Testament. Your latest volume is Paulus als Erzahler? Eine narratologische Perspektive auf die Paulusbriefe (English: Paul as Story-Teller: A Narratological Perspective on Paul’s Letters). What brought you to this topic? In some sense, I wanted to do something quite similar in both cases, namely to scrutinize very influential approaches to Pauline exegesis on a fundamental level. (Note the question marks in both titles). Moreover, both... Read more
Hi everyone, here is a zoom chat by Nijay Gupta and Mike Bird about all things Philippians. FYI, we wrote the Philippians commentary for the NCBC series. Read more
Bruce W. Longenecker, In Stone and Story: Early Christianity in the Roman World (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2020). Pp x + 292. $32.99. This colorful volume by Bruce Longenecker interrogates the material remains of ancient Pompeii – its inscriptions, graffiti, frescos, villas, tombs, and statues – to explain historical and cultural features of the Roman world with a view to plotting their relevance for understanding early Christianity and the New Testament. L. attempts to use Pompeii as a window... Read more
Okay, it’s been a bumper week for great podcasts by women and about women. Check out these three: CPX’s For the Love of God: Care in a time of COVID Justine Toh talks to Devi Abraham about the difficulties that working mums face under lockdown and why it is too much. The Two Cities: Women in the Academy In this all-women episode, Amber Bowen discusses the unique experiences of women in the theological academy, including the challenges that women have... Read more
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