New Testament Studies – Page 7 – ACTS and MORE—Steve Walton’s blog on New Testament Studies

4 August 2022

My new book: Reading Acts Theologically

I’m delighted to say that my new book is now available. It’s a ‘collected essays’ volume, bringing together thirteen essays about Acts that I’ve written over the last twenty years as I’ve worked on my Word Biblical Commentary on Acts. Most have been published elsewhere; two are published for the first time here. Alas, it’s not cheap in the hardback...

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5 July 2022

My paper about the significance of the authorship of Acts

A little while ago I put up the slides from my talk at the excellent conference on the pastoral implications of pseudepigrapha and anonymity in the New Testament, sponsored by the International Reference Library for Biblical Research, and held at the Lanier Theological Library in Houston, Texas. The organisers have now kindly made the video of my talk available (and...

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29 June 2022

My podcast interview with David Capes about the beginnings of Luke and Acts

While I was in Houston recently, Dr David Capes, Director of the (amazing) Lanier Theological Library, interviewed me for the Stone Chapel podcast about the prologues to Luke and Acts and the connections between the two books. Here’s a direct link to the podcast; it’s also available on Google, Apple, Spotify and other platforms—but do also look This was a...

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20 May 2022

Slides on the significance of the authorship of Acts for its interpretation

Here are the slides from the talk I gave today at a fascinating conference on Pastoral Implications of Pseudepigraphy and Anonymity in the New Testament at the Lanier Theological Library. Looking forward to lots more to come over the next two days. Thoughts and comments are welcome!

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15 March 2022

Updated slides on Galatians: Paul’s most urgent letter

I’m speaking again on Galatians, this time to the clergy of North Stowe deanery (just north of Cambridge), and have updated my slides a little. So here’s a link to the updated set, saved in pdf format. Thoughts and comments are very welcome!

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20 February 2022

Slides on Galatians: Paul’s most urgent letter

I have given two talks about Galatians for the gathering held at St John’s, Waterbeach, near Cambridge on Sunday 20 February. Here are the slides from that talk for anyone interested.