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

21 April 2021

The parables and the kingdom of God/heaven—slides

My friend Dr Svetlana Khobnya invited me to talk with her Jesus and the Gospels class at Nazarene Theological College, Manchester, about what the parables teach about the kingdom of God/heaven, and we did it this morning. This was fun! I was particularly struck in preparing by the concentration of ‘The kingdom of God/heaven is like…’ in Matthew and ‘To...

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10 April 2021

A two-part sermon on John 20:19-31

Here are links to my two-part sermon on John 20:19-31, the Gospel reading for the first Sunday after Easter (this year, 11 April). The passage is well-known for ‘doubting’ Thomas, but there’s a lot more there than that—and I’ve things to say about doubt and faith which I hope will be helpful. Part 1 is a little under 12 minutes,...

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29 March 2021

Elijah, Elisha, John and Jesus in Luke-Acts: slides

I’ve just had great fun in the two-day online seminar on the use of the Old Testament in the New, chaired by Professor Susan Docherty. Normally, this annual seminar happens in person at St Deiniol’s Library, Hawarden in North Wales, but this year it took place online. The seminar is engaged in a project in looking at how the New...

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27 March 2021

A two-part sermon on Mark 15:1-39—Mark’s account of the cross

Below are links to the two-part sermon I recorded for my church, All Saints Ealing (London) for this weekend (Sun 28 March). My excellent vicar, Rachel Marszalek, chose the passion reading from Mark 15:1-39 for this weekend, which is an option in the Anglican lectionary for Palm Sunday. Part 1 is about 13 mins and part 2 about 10 mins....

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24 March 2021

Eric Roseberry interviews me

Eric Roseberry hosts the podcast On Biblical Scholarship, and was kind enough to interview me about how I got into biblical scholarship, who my influences are, and lots else—here’s a link to the podcast. Thoughts welcome!

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25 February 2021

A review of Sean Adams’ Greek Genres and Jewish Authors

Sean A. Adams. Greek Genres and Jewish Authors: Negotiating Literary Culture in the Greco-Roman Era. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2020. xvii + 430 pp. $79.95. ISBN 978 1 4813 1291 2. This excellent study does exactly what it says it will do: explore the way Jewish authors used and adapted Greek genres of writing between 300 BC and AD 135....

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