Centre for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible – ACTS and MORE—Steve Walton’s blog on New Testament Studies

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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15 March 2018

Conference summaries: Healing and Exorcism in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity

This is Rikard Roitto, me and Tommy Wasserman (left to right as you look) listening hard to a fascinating presentation by Anthony John Lappin of Maynooth on the moving of relics in the early Christian centuries during this conference last week in Örebro, Sweden. The organisers have now made a very helpful summary in English of this excellent conference available...

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3 October 2017

The Urban World and the First Christians

I’m delighted to be able to share with you the opening pages of our new book which has very recently appeared from Eerdmans. I had the honour of editing this book with my excellent colleagues Paul Trebilco (University of Otago, New Zealand) and David Gill (University of Suffolk). These pages include the contents, authors, and the introductory chapter, which summarises...

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15 September 2017

Slides from my updated talk ‘Acts as Biblical History?’

Here are the slides from my talk ‘Acts as Biblical History?’ given today at the colloquium on Luke-Acts and ancient historiography in Fribourg, Switzerland. This is being a very enjoyable experience! Acts as biblical history Fribourg slides

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19 May 2017

The new St Mary’s MA in Biblical Studies is open for applications

Have you heard about our exciting new MA in Biblical Studies at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, available from September this year, 2017. You can study full-time (one year) or part-time (up to three years). It’s ideal preparation for PhD work, or as ongoing ministerial development for those serving churches and within reach of our campus in west London. It’s taught...

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19 May 2017

Full video of my inaugural lecture now online!

I’ve now been able, thanks to the techies at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, to make my full inaugural professorial lecture ‘Doing Theology Lukewise: Luke as Theologian and Storyteller’, with the slides inserted at appropriate points, available as a video. This is an improvement on the facebook live version, which doesn’t have the slides and which (because of a technical glitch)...

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