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Biblical Studies
Interviews with scholars of the Bible about their new books.
November 17, 2024
In Search of Jonathan
In both modern fiction and the biblical texts of 1 Samuel 13-2 Samuel 1, the character of Jonathan serves as a key literary and theological figure. Th…
November 8, 2024
Delicious Prose
In Delicious Prose: Reading the Tale of Tobit with Food and Drink (Brill, 2018), Naomi S.S. Jacobs explores how the numerous references to food, drink…
October 24, 2024
The Prosperity of the Wicked
Does Job convincingly argue against a fixed system of just retribution by proclaiming the prosperity of the wicked, an argument that runs contrary to …
October 19, 2024
The Bible
A “wonderful…highly comprehensive” (John Barton, author of A History of the Bible) global history of the world’s best-known and most influential book …
October 16, 2024
The Animalising Affliction of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4
The Animalising Affliction of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4: Reading Across the Human-Animal Boundary (Bloomsbury, 2022) is a detailed investigation into…
October 1, 2024
Reformed Covenant Theology
Covenant shapes our life with God. In Reformed Covenant Theology: A Systematic Introduction (Lexham Academic, 2024), Harrison Perkins shows how Christ…
September 13, 2024
The Lord by Wisdom Founded the Earth
The foundation of the earth, its division from the heavens and the waters, God's provision of all of nature as well as human and animal life, God's re…
September 12, 2024
Reading Genesis
For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various hands, expressing different factional intere…
September 6, 2024
Sensing Salvation in the Gospel of John
Recent scholarship focused on the role of embodiment within cognition and communication reminds us that part of how we “know” is through our physical …
September 2, 2024
Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses
Ancient Christians and their non-Christian contemporaries lived in a world of 'magic.' Sometimes, they used curses as ritual objects to seek justice f…
August 27, 2024
Kohelet's Cocktail
Dive into the timeless wisdom of Ecclesiastes in Jay Garfinkel's groundbreaking work, Kohelet's Cocktail: Beyond the Pursuit of Happiness (Illuminated…
August 25, 2024
Trauma and Recovery in Early North African Christianity
Powerful religious elements for living in the aftermath of trauma are embedded within North African Christian hagiographies. The texts of (1) The Pass…
August 22, 2024
Job
The book of Job is challenging. Its Hebrew is often obscure, its length and subject matter are intimidating, and its meaning has been debated througho…
August 21, 2024
The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes
The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in 5 Minutes (Equinox Books, 2024), co-edited by Philippe Guillaume and Diana V. Edelman, is a digestible, concise…
August 18, 2024
The Countercultural Victory of 1 John in Greco-Roman Context
In The Countercultural Victory of 1 John in Greco-Roman Context: Conquering the World (T&T Clark, 2023), Ahreum Kim re-examines conquering language in…
August 14, 2024
Paul's Last Letter
The Second Epistle to Timothy is, by any standard, a remarkable document. Even as the apostle urges his friend and coworker hasten to Rome for a final…
August 13, 2024
The New Testament and the Theology of Trust
The New Testament and the Theology of Trust (Oxford UP, 2022) argues for the recovery of trust as a central theme in Christian theology, and offers th…
August 10, 2024
Shibboleth
In this episode, I speak with Marc Redfield, professor of Comparative Literature, English, and German Studies at Brown University about his most recen…
August 7, 2024
A History of the Hasmonean State
In A History of the Hasmonean State: Josephus and Beyond (T&T Clark, 2019), Kenneth Atkinson tells the exciting story of the nine decades of the Hasmo…
August 4, 2024
The Shepherd of Hermas
Written in Rome as a book with revelatory intentions, the early Christian work known as the Shepherd of Hermas flourished especially in the second, th…