Conferences – ACTS and MORE—Steve Walton’s blog on New Testament Studies

20 November 2024

How do speakers in Acts preach from Scripture, and what can we learn from that?

Here is the handout for the paper I’m giving at the Institute for Biblical Research and Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology meeting in San Diego on Friday. The seminar is in the stream ‘Scripture and Church’, and is focused on what we can learn for our preaching from the way that the scriptural authors ‘preach’ Scripture. My paper looks...

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9 August 2024

Handout for my Graham Stanton Memorial Lecture, ‘“The God of Abraham, Isaac aand Jacob” (Acts 3:13)—Is That All? Learning about God from the Book of Acts’

I’m pleased to share the outline of my Graham Stanton Memorial Lecture, ‘“The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” (Acts 3:13)—Is That All? Learning about God from the Book of Acts’. I’ll be giving this during the British New Testament Society meeting in Glasgow, 22-24 August, and I’m making it available here as a Word file and here as a...

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22 June 2023

Writing to focus on your contribution

I’ve given a workshop on how to write your thesis so that you focus on your contribution to knowledge for our postgraduate research conference at Trinity College Bristol this week. Here are the slides from the workshop, which will give you a flavour of what I’ve talked about. One slide is a link to a Beatles’ song, so I’ve given...

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9 December 2022

Reflecting on SBL Denver 2022

I greatly enjoyed being in Denver a couple of weeks ago for the annual SBL meeting. It was a lovely opportunity to reconnect with people, many of whom I’d not seen in person for three years because of covid—I cannot recall a day when I have hugged so many people as the Friday! In particular, it was great to see...

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3 December 2022

Slides and handout on ‘Wealth and possessions according to Acts 11–28’ (my SBL paper)

I enjoyed contributing to to a seminar on ‘Wealth and Poverty in Luke-Acts, Revisited’ at the SBL annual meeting in Denver recently. I spoke on ‘Wealth and possessions according to Acts 11–28’, a neglected part of Luke-Acts in this discussion. Here are my slides from the talk, and here is the handout I made available through the SBL/AAR app (I...

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15 October 2022

Slides for my talks on Matthew

I’ve had a fun day with lay ministers and clergy from Blackburn (Anglican) diocese today, organised by my friend Amy White. Here, here and here are the three sets of slides from my input to the day, covering (i) an introduction to Matthew and how he orgnises his Gospel; (ii) listening to Matthew using Tom Wright’s four ‘louspeakers’ from his...

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