29 October 2018 Making Sense of Luke—slides Here are the slides from my two talks on Luke’s Gospel at St John’s, Waterbeach on Sunday evening. Thanks to Paul Butler for his kind invitation and warm hospitality! Overview of Luke Luke 23 Categories Speaking Comment: 1
12 September 2018 Editio Critica Maior Acts: my ‘exegete’s view’ slides Here are the slides from my brief talk in the Book of Acts seminar session on the new Editio Critica Maior (major critical edition) of Acts at the British New Testament Conference last week. The whole session was fascinating with talks by four major textual critics including (from left to right) Dirk Jongkind (an editor of the Tyndale House Greek NT project), Tommy... Categories Articles and papers/Books and articles/Conferences/People/Research/Reviews/Speaking Comments: 0
22 May 2018 Two helpful recent productivity and writing posts Here are two recent posts which I’m finding helpful. The first is from patter (Professor Pat Thomson) about a new collection of short essays critiquing bad ideas about writing (which mostly seem to be US-based and derive from Strunk and White’s key book). Her summary is both clear and helpful (and a model of how to do so), and... Categories Articles and papers/Books and articles/Research/Reviews/Software/Speaking/Study/Writing Comments: 0
9 March 2018 Slides from my talk for the Healing and Exorcism conference I’m in Örebro, Sweden at a conference on ‘Healing and Exorcism in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity’. (The picture is one of the two amazing cakes we had for dessert at the dinner!) My paper is about why Paul silences the demonised slave girl in Philippi (Acts 16:16-18), and I connect it with the silencing of a demonised man... Categories Conferences/Research/Speaking/Study Comments: 0
4 March 2018 Slides from my talks at Waterbeach on Acts Here are slides from my two talks this evening (Sunday 4 March) at Waterbeach overviewing the book of Acts. Enjoy! Talk1 Talk2 Categories Speaking/Study/Uncategorized Comments: 0
17 February 2018 Slides from my talks on ‘Becoming and nurturing a more confident people of God’ Here are links to download the slides from my three main talks for the parish weekend away for St Andrew’s Church, Histon (near Cambridge—picture of their lovely building above), mainly for the St Andrew’s folk, but others are welcome to have them if interested. These aren’t ‘academic’ talks, but are me seeking to bring New Testament scholarship to bear on... Categories Conferences/Software/Speaking Comments: 0
