Politics and Paul: Reviewing N.T. Wright’s Political Apostle – By Michael Thate
Michael Thate on N.T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God “There is […] an elusively expansive cultural revolution curled up, as if still
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N.T. Wright and the Lutheran-ness of Paul – By Douglas A. Campbell
Douglas A. Campbell on N.T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God N.T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God is the climactic study
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And now for something completely different: Brianology Comes of Age; or, What Have the Pythons Done for Us? – By Sarah Prime
Sarah Prime on the Life of Brian Conference at King’s College, London Monty Python’s controversial film comedy Life of Brian (1979) turned 35
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Many Roads Lead from Arimathea – By Ian Boxall
Ian Boxall on William John Lyons’ Joseph of Arimathea Whatever happened to Joseph of Arimathea? Appearing fleetingly in the gospel narratives of Jesus’s burial, he
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Hiding from the Fourth Gospel’s Tragic Reception History – By Ruth Sheridan
Ruth Sheridan in the Jew and Judean Forum Reinhartz raises the important question of how we ought to translate the Greek word Ioudaios in
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“Judean” and “Jew”, Jesus and Paul – Joan Taylor
Joan Taylor in the Jew and Judean Forum Bruce Malina — one of the most respected scholars of the social world of the New
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Concepts and Words – By Malcolm Lowe
Malcolm Lowe in the Jew and Judean Forum The contemporary debate over the use of “Judean” or “Jew” when translating ancient texts has its
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Anti-Judaism and Early Christianity
Paula Fredriksen on David Nirenberg’s Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition There were recurring moments, during those nightmarish first hours of 9/11, when a strangely
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The Ethical Vision in the Gospel and Letters of John – By Wendy E.S. North
Wendy E.S. North on eds. Jan G. van der Watt & Ruben Zimmermann’s Rethinking the Ethics of John We search the Gospel of John in
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Patristics†
David Lincicum on Bart Ehrman’s Forgery and Counterforgery When John Mearsheimer investigated lying in international politics, what he found surprised him. Conventional wisdom
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