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 November 2024

Why did Saul become Paul? Interview

I was recently interview by Dr Tony Watkins at Tyndale House, Cambridge about why Saul became Paul in the book of Acts, as part of their series of videos on biblical names. Here’s the link to the interview: it’s a touch under 30 minutes—enjoy! I’ve also published an online article on the Logos academic blog about this: you can find...

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19 November 2024

James Morgan interview on my Acts commentary

My friend Dr James Morgan, who teaches at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, has interviewed me about the first volume of my Acts commentary, which is now available in the USA, and will be available in the UK on 2 January 2025. Here’s the link to the YouTube video. Here’s what James says: In this episode of Life&Text, join...

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17 November 2024

2 Corinthians 9:6-15 — cheerful giving: video and slides

I had the privilege of speaking on 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 at Emmanuel Church, Loughborough today (17 November), bringing to a close a short series of talks about 2 Corinthians 8–9, where Paul appeals to the Corinthians about his collection for the church in Jerusalem and Judaea. Here’s a link to the slides from the talk. Thoughts and comments welcome!

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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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