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15 September 2017

Slides from my updated talk ‘Acts as Biblical History?’

Here are the slides from my talk ‘Acts as Biblical History?’ given today at the colloquium on Luke-Acts and ancient historiography in Fribourg, Switzerland. This is being a very enjoyable experience! Acts as biblical history Fribourg slides

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11 September 2017

Sean Adams on the ‘Being Jewish, Writing Greek’ conference

This is a guest post by my good friend Dr Sean Adams, Lecturer in New Testament and Ancient Culture at the University of Glasgow (picture above), on the conference ‘Being Jewish, Writing Greek’ hosted recently by the University of Cambridge. I’m very grateful to Sean for his willingness to share this summary of what was clearly an excellent and highly stimulating...

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31 August 2017

Slides from my talk “Acts as Biblical History?”

Here are the slides (in pdf format) from my talk “Acts as Biblical History?” given in the Book of Acts seminar at the British New Testament Conference in Maynooth on Friday 1 September 2017.

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31 August 2017

Tips for conference “small talk”

Picture: the chapel at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth University Here’s a fine and interesting post about how to make “small talk” with speakers at conferences, just in time for the British New Testament Conference, which starts today in Maynooth, near Dublin!

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7 August 2017

Slides from my talk ‘Deciding about deciding’

Here are the slides from my 2017 Paradosis lecture at the Melbourne School of Theology, on ‘Deciding about deciding: Early Christian communal decision-making in Acts’. I was exploring how the earliest Christians made significant decisions, according to the book of Acts—strikingly, they do it communally, rather than a ‘CEO’ or ‘eldership’ model. Interestingly, Acts is one of the few places in the...

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19 May 2017

Full video of my inaugural lecture now online!

I’ve now been able, thanks to the techies at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, to make my full inaugural professorial lecture ‘Doing Theology Lukewise: Luke as Theologian and Storyteller’, with the slides inserted at appropriate points, available as a video. This is an improvement on the facebook live version, which doesn’t have the slides and which (because of a technical glitch)...

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