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Christian Studies October 13, 2021

Covenant Theology

Biblical, Theological, and Historical Perspectives

Guy Prentiss Waters

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Covenant Theology: Biblical, Theological, and Historical Perspectives (Crossway Books, 2020) explores the biblical covenants and how they form the structure of the Bible and inform the Christian life. Featuring contributions …

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Christian Studies September 21, 2021

The Didache

Shawn J. Wilhite

Hosted by Crawford Gribben
Shawn Wilhite is author of this outstanding new commentary on one of the most important early Christian documents. We don't know who wrote the Didache, when it was written, or …
Biblical Studies September 1, 2021

Memoir of Moses

The Literary Creation of Covenantal Memory in Deuteronomy

A. J. Culp

Hosted by Michael Morales
Memory plays a central role in the book of Deuteronomy, meant to shape Israel’s life as a nation in the land. In Memoir of Moses: The Literary Creation of Covenantal …
Jewish Studies August 27, 2021

The Essential Talmud

Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz

Hosted by Michael Morales
The Talmud ‘is the central pillar supporting the entire spiritual and intellectual edifice of Jewish life’—so wrote Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz. Not only did Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz publish an English …
Jewish Studies August 10, 2021

Shadal on Leviticus

Samuel David Luzzatto's Interpretation of the Book of Vayikra

Samuel David Luzzatto

Hosted by Michael Morales
Samuel David Luzzatto (1800-1865), known by his Hebrew acronym Shadal, was the leading Italian Jewish scholar of the 19th century. A linguist, educator, and religious thinker, he devoted his talents …
Jewish Studies August 9, 2021

On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel

Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture

Mika Ahuvia

Hosted by Rachel Adelman
Angelic beings can be found throughout the Hebrew Bible, and by late antiquity the archangels Michael and Gabriel were as familiar as the patriarchs and matriarchs, guardian angels were as …
Jewish Studies August 4, 2021

Olam Ha-zeh V'olam Ha-ba

This World and the World to Come in Jewish Belief and Practice

Leonard J. Greenspoon

Hosted by Matthew Miller
Olam Ha-zeh V'olam Ha-ba: This World and the World to Come in Jewish Belief and Practice (Purdue UP, 2017), for which Professor Greenspoon served as the editor, explores Jewish notions …
Biblical Studies July 29, 2021

Jesus

The Incarnation of the Word

David C Mitchell

Hosted by Michael Morales
Did the prophets foretell a priestly Messiah? Who was the mysterious figure of Melchizedek? In his new book, Jesus: The Incarnation of the Word, David Mitchell uses exegetical acumen and his …
Christian Studies July 19, 2021

The Flesh of the Word

The Extra Calvinisticum from Zwingli to Early Orthodoxy

K. J. Drake

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
The extra Calvinisticum, that the eternal Son maintains his existence beyond the flesh during his earthly ministry and perpetually, divided the Lutheran and Reformed traditions during the Reformation. K. J …
Jewish Studies July 14, 2021

Samuel

The Making of the Monarchy, Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel

David Arnovitz

Hosted by Michael Morales
Samuel: The Making of the Monarchy, a volume of The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel with Koren Publishers, offers an innovative and refreshing approach to the Hebrew Bible. By fusing …
Jewish Studies July 14, 2021

Lamentations

Faith in a Turbulent World

Yael Ziegler

Hosted by Michael Morales
The Biblical book of Lamentations contains a whirlwind of emotional responses to tragedy and suffering—expressing anger, doubt, and confusion—and yet its central message is one of deep hope and trust …
Jewish Studies July 9, 2021

Jewish Bible Translations

Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress

Leonard Greenspoon

Hosted by Zalman Newfield
In his book Jewish Bible Translations: Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress (Jewish Publication Society, 2020), Leonard Greenspoon is the first to examine thoroughly Jewish Bible translations from the third century BCE to …
Christian Studies July 8, 2021

The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Nicaea

Young Richard Kim

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Every Sunday, Christians all over the world recite the Nicene Creed as a confession of faith. While most do not know the details of the controversy that led to its …
Christian Studies July 7, 2021

Font of Pardon and New Life

John Calvin and the Efficacy of Baptism

Lyle D Bierma

Hosted by Zachary McCulley
Lyle D. Bierma's Font of Pardon and New Life: John Calvin and the Efficacy of Baptism (Oxford UP, 2021) is a study of the historical development and impact of John …
Christian Studies July 6, 2021

The Nero-Antichrist

Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm

Shushma Malik

Hosted by Crawford Gribben
In The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm (Cambridge UP, 2020), Shushma Malik reconstructs the means by which the emperor Nero came to be identified with the New Testament's antichrist. Malik surveys …
Jewish Studies July 1, 2021

Ideas

Bereshit

Sina Kahen

Hosted by Makena Mezistrano
The Torah — the Bible — is Judaism’s crown. The ideas gleaned from it have improved and advanced human civilization. In the first two installments of his series, Ideas (202 …
Biblical Studies June 23, 2021

Luke's Jewish Eschatology

The National Restoration of Israel in Luke-Acts

Isaac W. Oliver

Hosted by Michael Morales
Does the author of Luke-Acts write off the Jewish people, or does his presentation demonstrate that hopes for the restoration of Israel were very much still alive within the early …
Christian Studies June 22, 2021

Duplex Regnum Christi

Christ's Twofold Kingdom in Reformed Theology

Jonathon D. Beeke

Hosted by Crawford Gribben
In Duplex Regnum Christi: Christ's Twofold Kingdom in Reformed Theology (Brill, 2020), Jonathon D. Beeke surveys the development of thinking among early modern Reformed theologians about the relationship between religion and …
Biblical Studies May 28, 2021

Earthquakes and Eschatology in the Gospel According to Matthew

Brian Carrier

Hosted by Michael Morales
In Earthquakes and Eschatology in the Gospel According to Matthew (Mohr Siebeck, 2020), Brian Carrier provides a comprehensive analysis of the role that seismic language plays within the Matthean Gospel narrative. After …
Jewish Studies May 17, 2021

The Erez Concise Guide Series

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

Hosted by Michael Morales
The Erez Series is comprised of the Concise Guides to the full gamut of Jewish thought, from the Torah to modern halakha (Jewish law) and Mahshava (Jewish philosophy). The late …