Speaking – 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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20 October 2024

Slides from a talk on Jude 17–25

I have never spoken on the letter of Jude before (the picture above is the text of the latter part of the letter in Codex Sinaiticus, one of our oldest full Greek manuscripts of the New Testament), so being asked to speak on the last section for Emmanuel Church, Loughborough was a new experience! Here are the slides from my...

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6 October 2024

Two lectures on Acts at EGST: slides and handouts

I have the privilege in the next two days (7 and 8 October) of giving two lectures about Acts at the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology in Addis Ababa. I’m very grateful for this opportunity. Below are links to the handouts and slides for both lectures. Monday: “‘The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob’ (Acts 3:13): Is That All?’ (this...

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12 September 2024

Handouts for my Gospels class in Morogoro, Tanzania

This page is primarily for my students in Morogoro, Tanzania, where I’m teaching the Gospels for the next little while. I shall share the handouts in English and (computer) Swahili here for you to download. This list will grow as the class progresses, so please keep visiting to pick up the handouts. Ukurasa huu kimsingi ni wa wanafunzi wangu wa...

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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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9 July 2024

Slides and video on the Spirit in Romans

I had the privilege of giving a public lecture at Melbourne School of Theology (MST) on ‘The Spirit in Romans: Source of Power and Pain for Christians’ recently. The edited video, which includes the slides, is above, on YouTube, thanks to colleagues at MST. I’m also pleased to share the slides from the talk here. Thoughts and questions are most...

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