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

2 January 2019

Review: Tom Wright, Paul: A Biography

I’ve just had my review of Tom Wright’s Paul: A Biography (London: SPCK/San Francisco: HarperOne, 2018) published in the excellent Review and Expositor. For those with online access to the journal, you can read the final version here. If you don’t have online access, by kind permission of the journal, you can read the accepted version here. This is a fun book!

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3 December 2018

An interview about my book The Urban World and the First Christians

Tavis Bohlinger of the Logos Academic blog recently interviewed David Gill, Paul Trebilco and me about our edited book The Urban World and the First Christians (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017), and combined the result with some fab photos of Corinth and Philippi taken by David Gill. The interview is here. The good news is that the book is now available electronically...

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20 November 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

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26 September 2018

Chris Green on the excellent Full Focus Planner

I could write my own enthusiastic review of Michael Hyatt’s Full Focus Planner, a planning/diary tool developed from his limpidly clear thinking on how to organise your life to achieve the things which are important (rather than trying to cram even more into the limited time you have)—but Chris Green has done such a good job that I refer you to...

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13 September 2018

Tavis Bohlinger on the British New Testament Conference

The excellent Tavis Bohlinger has shared his experience of the British New Testament Conference at St Mary’s University, Twickenham last week here. It’s a nice combination of the people he met, the papers he heard, and some lovely photos. Thanks! Has anyone else blogged about the conference and would like me to share their link? Please reply below.

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Review: Tom Wright, Paul: A Biography

An interview about my book The Urban World and the First Christians

More Bible reading notes on Luke—and a free offer again!

Making Sense of Luke—slides

Chris Green on the excellent Full Focus Planner

Tavis Bohlinger on the British New Testament Conference