Category: Biblical Studies
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Women in Matthew’s Genealogy of Jesus with Dr. Jeannine Brown (Podcast)
Read more: Women in Matthew’s Genealogy of Jesus with Dr. Jeannine Brown (Podcast)In this episode we talk about the significance of the women mentioned in Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus. For this conversation, Dr. John Anthony Dunne and Brandon Hurlbert are joined by Dr. Jeannine Brown, Professor of New Testament at Bethel Seminary (St. Paul, MN), member of the NIV Translation Committee, and author of a few commentaries…
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Revelation Advent Sermon (Why The COVID-19 Vaccine Is Not The Mark of the Beast)
Read more: Revelation Advent Sermon (Why The COVID-19 Vaccine Is Not The Mark of the Beast)At my local church here in Minneapolis, Mill City Church, we’ve been reading through and preaching through the New Testament, and the plan was always to preach through Revelation for Advent. This was planned long before 2020 became the “apocalyptic” year that we all think of it as. At present, one of the particularly relevant…
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Women in 1 Corinthians with Dr. Lucy Peppiatt (Podcast)
Read more: Women in 1 Corinthians with Dr. Lucy Peppiatt (Podcast)Carrying on in our conversation on gender, we turn to discuss women in 1 Corinthians with particular attention given to the passage about head coverings in 1 Cor. 11 and women being silent in the church in 1 Cor. 14. In this episode, Dr. John Anthony Dunne, Brandon Hurlbert, and Dr. Logan Williams are joined…
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Paul & Masculinity Revisited with Dr. Valérie Nicolet (Podcast)
Read more: Paul & Masculinity Revisited with Dr. Valérie Nicolet (Podcast)In this episode, Amber Bowen, Dr. John Anthony Dunne, and Grace Emmett are joined by Dr. Valérie Nicolet, Associate Professor of New Testament at the Protestant Institute of Theology in Paris, to continue an earlier podcast conversation on Paul and masculinity. Our conversation begins with Paul’s self-presentation, esp. in Galatians, and then extends to address…
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Whiteness in Biblical Scholarship with Dr. Ekaputra Tupamahu (Podcast)
Read more: Whiteness in Biblical Scholarship with Dr. Ekaputra Tupamahu (Podcast)In this episode a group of team members from The Two Cities (Dr. John Anthony Dunne, Grace Emmett, Grace Sangalang Ng, Rev. Daniel Parham, Dr. Chris Porter, Dr. Logan Williams) are joined by Dr. Ekaputra Tupamahu, who is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Portland Seminary, to discuss his recent piece published with the Public…
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Paul & Masculinity with Grace Emmett (Podcast)
Read more: Paul & Masculinity with Grace Emmett (Podcast)Kicking off a discussion on gender in the Bible and how this syncs up the Western Church and broader culture, Amber Bowen, Dr. John Anthony Dunne, and Dr. Logan Williams chat with Grace Emmett, a PhD Candidate in New Testament at King’s College, London, who recently submitted a thesis entitled, “Becoming A Man: Unmanly/Manly Self-Presentation…
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The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife with Dr. Christian Askeland (Podcast)
Read more: The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife with Dr. Christian Askeland (Podcast)In 2012 there was global interest in a small Coptic fragment the size of a business card that records Jesus saying the words “my wife.” The fragment was presented to a group of scholars at a Coptology conference in Rome by Dr. Karen King of Harvard Divinity School, who herself had received it from a…
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My Essay with Dr. Lynn H. Cohick In New Book on Human Flourishing
Read more: My Essay with Dr. Lynn H. Cohick In New Book on Human FlourishingI had the privilege of participating in a symposium put on by the Oikonomia Network back in January 2019 in Dallas, TX. The proceedings from our respective biblical and theological colloquia have now been compiled into a brand new volume published by Wipf & Stock, in their Pickwick imprint, called Human Flourishing: Economic Wisdom For…
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Minding God’s Narrative
Read more: Minding God’s NarrativeThroughout this summer I’ve been noticing various social media posts that attempt to describe Jesus as transcending all nationalities and ethnicities. I’m guessing the point of these posts is that Jesus ought to be acknowledged as ‘above’ our current racial tensions. In these posts, Jesus is defined as a pan-global figure and therefore beyond any…
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The State of New Testament Studies
Read more: The State of New Testament StudiesThe State of New Testament Studies: A Survey of Recent Research Scot McKnight and Nijay K. Gupta, editors. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2019. 496 pages. With the fall 2020 semester right around the corner, getting up to speed with the immense area of New Testament studies might seem like a daunting task. Thankfully, Scot McKnight…