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Religion
February 26, 2021
Dangerous Religious Ideas
The Deep Roots of Self-Critical Faith in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Rachel S. Mikva
Hosted by Yakir Englander
Dangerous Religious Ideas: The Deep Roots of Self-Critical Faith in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Beacon, 2020) reveals how faith traditions have always passed down tools for self-examination and debate, because …
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Christian Studies
February 19, 2021
Eating Together, Becoming One
Thomas O'Loughlin
Hosted by Ryan Shelton
In November 2015, Pope Francis made a call to theologians to explore whether Catholic practice ought to be amended to include Christians from different churches in full participation in the …
Biblical Studies
February 17, 2021
The Messianic Theology of the New Testament
Joshua W. Jipp
Hosted by Jonathan Wright
One of the earliest Christian confessions—that Jesus is Messiah and Lord—has long been recognized throughout the New Testament. Joshua Jipp shows that the New Testament is in fact built upon …
Literary Studies
January 28, 2021
Shibboleth
Judges, Derrida, Celan
Marc Redfield
Hosted by Britton Edelen
In this episode, I speak with Marc Redfield, professor of Comparative Literature, English, and German Studies at Brown University about his most recent work, Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan, published in 202 …
Australian and New Zealand Studies
January 27, 2021
The Bible in Australia
A Cultural History
Meredith Lake
Hosted by Bede Haines
The bible and Australian society! Meredith Lake's published a new 2020 edition of The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History (NewSouth Books, 2020). It's history and sociology and reflections on religion's role on the 'Great …
Islamic Studies
January 22, 2021
The Golden Calf Between Bible and Qur'an
Scripture, Polemic, and Exegesis from Late Antiquity to Islam
Michael E. Pregill
Hosted by Shehnaz Haqqani
In his exciting and thorough book, The Golden Calf between Bible and Qur'an: Scripture, Polemic, and Exegesis from Late Antiquity to Islam (Oxford, 2020), Michael Pregill explores the biblical and …
Biblical Studies
January 15, 2021
The Holy Spirit
Gregg Allison and Andreas J. Köstenberger
Hosted by Ashley Morales
The Holy Spirit: Theology for the People of God (B&H Academic, 2020) analyzes the Holy Spirit through the lens of both biblical and systematic theology. Dr. Gregg Allison and Dr. Andreas Köstenberger provide a comprehensive …
Biblical Studies
January 11, 2021
Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch
Roy E. Gane
Hosted by Michael Morales
For many years, the historical-critical quest for a reconstruction of the origin(s) and development of the Pentateuch or Hexateuch has been dominated by the documentary hypothesis, the heuristic power of …
Biblical Studies
December 21, 2020
Studying the New Testament Through Inscriptions
An Introduction
C. Burnett
Hosted by Jonathan Wright
Studying the New Testament Through Inscriptions (Hendrickson Publishers, 2020)through Inscriptions is an intuitive introduction to inscriptions from the Greco-Roman world. Inscriptions can help contextualize certain events associated with the New …
Biography
November 4, 2020
Christobiography
Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels
Craig Keener
Hosted by Jonathan Wright
Are the canonical Gospels historically reliable? The four canonical Gospels are ancient biographies, narratives of Jesus’s life. The authors of these Gospels were intentional in how they handled historical information …
Intellectual History
September 18, 2020
Unbinding Isaac
The Significance of the Akedah for Modern Jewish Thought
Aaron Koller
Hosted by David Gottlieb
In Unbinding Isaac: The Significance of the Akedah for Modern Jewish Thought (Jewish Publication Society, 2020), Aaron Koller, professor of Near Eastern and Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University, provides a …
Biblical Studies
September 18, 2020
Jesus and the Forces of Death
The Gospels' Portrayal of Ritual Impurity within First-Century Judaism
Matthew Thiessen
Hosted by Jonathan Wright
Although most people acknowledge that Jesus was a first-century Jew, interpreters of the Gospels often present him as opposed to Jewish law and customs—especially when considering his numerous encounters with …
Literary Studies
September 11, 2020
The Lexham English Septuagint
Ken M. Penner
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
On this episode of New Books in Christian Studies, we welcome Ken M. Penner, Professor of Religious Studies at St Francis Xavier University. After a career that has combined biblical …
Literary Studies
August 31, 2020
A History of the Bible
The Story of the World's Most Influential Book
John Barton
Hosted by Joshua Tham
John Barton is no stranger to Holy Scripture. Having spent much of his academic career as a chaplain and professor of theology at the University of Oxford, his latest book …
British Studies
August 27, 2020
The gloss and the text
William Perkins on interpreting Scripture with Scripture
Andrew S. Ballitch
Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Throughout the seventeenth century, and on both sides of the Atlantic, William Perkins exercised enormous influence on the ways in which protestants approached the reading of the Bible and thought …
Biblical Studies
August 21, 2020
The Ascension of Christ
Recovering a Neglected Doctrine
Patrick Schreiner
Hosted by Jonathan Wright
The good news of Jesus includes his life, death, resurrection, and future return—but what about his ascension? Though often neglected or misunderstood, the ascension is integral to the gospel. In …
African American Studies
August 5, 2020
Reimagining Hagar
Blackness and Bible
Nyasha Junior
Hosted by Kristian Petersen
Popular culture helps shape how audiences imagine Biblical personalities in our contemporary moment. For many, Warner Sallman’s portrait of Jesus fixes him as white, others envision Moses as Charlton Heston …
Gender Studies
July 15, 2020
Holiness and Transgression
Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth
Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel
Hosted by Rachel Adelman
In this interview, Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel discusses her first book, Holiness and Transgression Mothers of the Messiah in the Jewish Myth, with Rachel Adelman. Translated by Eugene Matansky and published …
Biblical Studies
July 14, 2020
Temple of Presence
5
Andrea L. Robinson
Hosted by Jonathan Wright
In Revelation 21–22, John offered a resplendent portrayal of a new Jerusalem without a temple, in which he seemed to reference the final chapters of Ezekiel. The puzzling issue for …
A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler
July 7, 2020
A Very Square Peg
The Slavonic Josephus
Dr. Brian Collins
Hosted by Brian Collins
In this episode, we focus on one of Eisler’s most controversial works, a reconstruction of the 1st-century Roman Jewish historian Josephus’ account of the events surrounding the death of Jesus …
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