Interview with Richard Hays
Here’s a fascinating and thoughtful interview from Books and Culture with Richard Hays by Garrett Brown about his work, focusing on his study of the way the NT authors read the OT. Well worth your time! HT Nijay Gupta
A podcast on the ascension book
David Bryan, one of the editors, has done a podcast on the book on the ascension of Jesus in Luke-Acts to which I contributed, Ascent into Heaven in Luke-Acts. He talks a good deal about the topic and the wider context of the book—and says some very helpful things about his own contribution to the book. Just over 44 minutes long. Worth a listen.
Slides for my inaugural lecture, ‘Doing Theology Lukewise’, to download
Here in pdf format are the slides for my inaugural lecture ‘Doing Theology Lukewise: Luke as theologian and storyteller‘, which I deliver at 6 pm on Monday 15 May 2017. If you’re going to follow the lecture through the Facebook Live page, then please do download the slides to help you to follow the lecture. The Facebook Live link will be open around 6 pm on my Facebook page (Steve Walton). See you there! (And thanks to my friend Dr Conrad Gempf for the Continue reading →
Some recent writing and publishing from me
I had a quite spell away from on the blog in the Spring, partly because I’ve been writing and publishing quite a bit. Here’s a note of four that are out and available, and a couple of others that are forthcoming. More are in the pipeline, but I can’t tell you about those yet… Now available ‘Evil in Ephesus: Acts 19:8–40’ in Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity, ed. Chris Keith and Loren Stuckenbruck, WUNT II/417 Continue reading →
A new blog: Tyndale House Greek New Testament
Here’s the opening post of an interesting new blog which is appearing in the run-up to the publication of the free Tyndale House Greek New Testament. Dr Dirk Jongkind, a fine textual critic, has worked for some years on producing an edition of the Greek NT which can be made freely available without the copyright restrictions on other editions which currently exist. He and Dr Pete Williams, the other editor, are blogging about the process of producing this edition. I’ve had the privilege of Continue reading →