Thinking Biblically… and Beyond

Why was circumcision such a big deal for Paul and other early Christians? What implications, if any, does it have for modern Christians in today’s day and age? Why did circumcision not remain a central practice of Christians? Did Paul himself denounce the practice? We will explore these questions and more in this episode.

In this episode, we focus on education, literacy and textual production in the Greco-Roman world of the New Testament and how that context can help us dispel outdated conceptions and better understand the Bible as a whole.

In this episode we will tackle the specific texts that talk about slavery in the NT and how early Christianity shifted from a more egalitarian perspective to the much more troubling passages we find in the later texts of the New Testament.

In this episode, we’ll explore Paul’s letter to Philemon and the topic of slavery in the New Testament and Early Christianity

In this last part in our series on the Gospels, we’ll take a bigger picture view of some of the issues and implications we’ve covered and think through its relevance for today’s day and age

Where did the traditions and saying of Jesus that we find in the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) come from? In this episode, we’ll dive deeper into the scholarly theories about the gospel sources and what implications and questions these raise for our understanding on the formation of the New Testament and early Christianity.

In this new series on the Gospels, we’ll tackle questions of authorship and provenance and explore how we got the Gospels as they are today. This introductory episode will give an overview of these issues before diving deeper in part 2 of the series.

In this last installment of the Pastoral Epistles series, this episode explores the potential implications of authorship and the Pastorals and why these implications and the questions they raise are still important and worth talking and thinking about.

In this episode, we’ll focus on a few specific passages in the Pastorals that will help shed some light on their character and some of the issues related to their authorship and provenance.

In this inaugural episode of the Thinking Biblically podcast, we will introduce the Pastoral Epistles (1 & 2 Timothy, Titus) and why many scholars do not think the apostle Paul actually wrote them.