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Rereading Revelation with Professor Greg Carey (Podcast)
Read more: Rereading Revelation with Professor Greg Carey (Podcast)In this episode, we’re joined by Professor Greg Carey, who is Professor of New Testament at Lancaster Theology Seminary and Moravian Theological Seminary, and the author of the book that we’re discussing in this episode: Rereading Revelation: Theology, Ethics, and Resistance (published by Eerdmans). In our conversation we talk about the meaning of Revelation in…
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Immigration and Apocalypse with Dr. Yii-Jan Lin (Podcast)
Read more: Immigration and Apocalypse with Dr. Yii-Jan Lin (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Dr. Yii-Jan Lin, who is Associate Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School and the author of the forthcoming book, Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration (with Yale University Press). Over the course of our conversation we discuss the conflation of America with…
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Embedded Genres with Professor Jeannine Brown (Podcast)
Read more: Embedded Genres with Professor Jeannine Brown (Podcast)In this episode we’re joined by Professor Jeannine Brown, who is David Price Professor of Biblical Foundations at Bethel Seminary, a member of the NIV translation committee, and the author of a number of books on Hermeneutics and the Gospels as well as the book that we’re excited to discuss in this episode, Embedded Genres…
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Disaster Films & The Bible with Dr. Michelle Fletcher (podcast)
Read more: Disaster Films & The Bible with Dr. Michelle Fletcher (podcast)In this episode we turn from our series on Jesus films to discuss the intertextual relationship of Disaster Films and the Bible as an epilogue to our Summer series with Dr. Michelle Fletcher, who used film theory to analyze citations of the Hebrew Bible in Revelation in her book, Reading Revelation as Pastiche: Imitating the…
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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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Reading Other Peoples’ Mail
Read more: Reading Other Peoples’ MailReturning from the mailbox, you flip through the stack that is your recent prize. You begin the important task of separating the pertinent letters from the ones that will be quickly discarded without even being read. Postcards and invitations in one stack, ads in another; bills, the things you wish you could throw away, on…
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Review of An Ancient Commentary on the Book of Revelation: A Critical Edition of the Scholia in Apocalypsin by P. Tzamalikos
Read more: Review of An Ancient Commentary on the Book of Revelation: A Critical Edition of the Scholia in Apocalypsin by P. TzamalikosTzamalikos, P. An Ancient Commentary on the Book of Revelation: A Critical Edition of the Scholia in Apocalypsin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 464 + xix pages. £120. This beautiful folio volume contains the critical edition of a portion of Codex 573 of the Meteora monastery of Metamorphosis (also known as minuscule manuscripts 2329 and…
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From Premillennialism to Amillennialism And Back: An Eschatological Change of Mind
Read more: From Premillennialism to Amillennialism And Back: An Eschatological Change of MindNearly two years ago I wrote a post entitled, “Amillennialism: Rethinking and Critiquing my Eschatology After Five Years.” In that post I analyzed an earlier blog post I wrote back in 2007 called, “How I Became An Amillennialist.” Two years ago I concluded that I was still an Amillennialist, but I realized that many of…
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Let Christmas Continue
Read more: Let Christmas ContinueIt’s been 27 days since most American’s have begun the bell curve that is participation in Christmastide, and the participation in Advent, for those who chose to devotionally and/or liturgically relive the anticipation of the coming of Messiah. Yet now, the gift wrap is all torn asunder, and presents have all been revealed. The holiday…
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Why I don’t Believe in the “Rapture”
Read more: Why I don’t Believe in the “Rapture”I should admit from the outset that my own convictions concerning end-times events is pretty unformed. That being said, I have become unconvinced that what has become known as “the Rapture” is actually found in the Bible, at least in the way that I was taught growing up. In other words, I don’t believe that…