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

8 September 2015

Engaging with Poverty in the Early Church and Today—don’t miss this conference at St Mary’s!

I’m very excited to announce the conference on ‘Engaging with Poverty in the Early Church and Today’ at St Mary’s University, Twickenham (London) on Friday 4 and Saturday 5 December 2015. The conference is being jointly sponsored by the Centre for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible at St Mary’s University, Tearfund and Caritas (Diocese of Westminster). Details and a link...

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7 September 2015

Congratulations, Andrew Lincoln, on your Festschrift!

Warm congratulations to Professor Andrew Lincoln on the presentation of his Festschrift at the British New Testament Conference in Edinburgh last week. It was a great delight to be present for the occasion, when Dr Lloyd Pietersen, one of the editors, presented the volume to him (see above). Conception, Reception, and the Spirit: Essays in Honor of Andrew T. Lincoln Edited...

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27 August 2015

Adelaide College of Divinity/Flinders University slides

Here are the Keynote slides from my Adelaide College of Divinity and Flinders University Annual Public Lecture yesterday evening in Adelaide on ‘Leadership, lifestyle and the book of Acts’. I’m very grateful to the faculty and staff of ACD, especially Dr Vicky Balabanski, for their kind invitation and hospitality. I aim here to look at what leadership looks like in Acts, arguing that the primary leadership to attend to...

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26 August 2015

Review: Con Campbell’s Advances in the Study of Greek

Constantine R. Campbell, Advances in the Study of Greek Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2015. ISBN 978-0-310-51595-1. $34.99; £18.99 [paper] or £12.99 [Kindle] on amazon.co.uk This is a belter of a book! In it Con Campbell manages to review and summarise huge amounts of recent scholarship in a form which will be accessible to those with some Greek. He thereby enables...

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12 August 2015

The ‘St Mary’s model’ for non-residential PhD work

My excellent colleague Professor Chris Keith has blogged about the development of our ‘St Mary’s model’ for PhD work in our Centre for the Social-scientific Study of the Bible, done at distance from our university, St Mary’s University, Twickenham. More details here in his blog post—do get in touch with me, Chris or our new colleague in New Testament, Professor...

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6 August 2015

University of Otago slides on ‘Leadership, lifestyle and the book of Acts’

Here are the Keynote slides from my talk this evening at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand on ‘Leadership, lifestyle and the book of Acts’. I’m very grateful to Professor Paul Trebilco for his kind invitation and hospitality. I aim here to look at what leadership looks like in Acts, arguing that the primary leadership to attend to is...

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