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Archive — 287 episodes
Jen Singletary – When Things Become Deities (in the ancient Near East)
Malcolm Foley – The Anti-Greed Gospel
Ervine Sheblazm – The Emotionally Healthy Paul
Brian Toews – Voices of the Sages
Carmen Imes – Becoming God’s Family
Marty Folsom – Karl Barth’s Doctrine of Creation
Ingrid Faro – Redeeming Eden
Mark Scarlata – Wine, Soil, and Salvation in Scripture
Paul Sloan – Jesus and the Law of Moses
Dru Johnson – Understanding Biblical Law (with surprise guest)
Cor Bennema – Imitation in Early Christianity
Brent Strawn – Shifting Imagery and Psalm 23 (In Parallel)
Matthew Novenson – Paul and Judaism at the End of History
Gregory Lee – The Essential City of God
Announcement! Upcoming Live Event with Gary Schnittjer
Timothy Brookins – Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Corinthians
John Behr – Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God
Blue Note Theology – Mark Glanville
Matt Lynch and Dru Johnson – Misunderstanding Sacrifice
Ann Jervis – Paul and Time
Michael Barber – The Historical Jesus and the Temple
Best Archaeological Finds of 2023 (pt 1)
Sandra Glahn – Nobody’s Mother (Live Event!)
Jason Staples – The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism
Carmen Imes – Being God’s Image
Kristine Garroway – Growing Up in Ancient Israel
Jenny Matheny – The Violence of Judges and Ruth’s Response
Lisa Powell – The Disabled God
Erin Raffety – From Inclusion to Justice
Matthew Novenson – Paul, Then and Now
Wolf Gruner – Jewish Resistance in Hitler’s Germany
Matt Lynch – Flood and Fury (on Old Testament Violence)
Stanley Porter and Bryan Dyer – Origins of New Testament Christology
Ted Smith – The End of Theological Education
Kyle Keimer – Hezekiah Prepares for War
Glenn Butner – Jesus the Refugee
David Moffitt – Rethinking the Atonement
Jonathan Lyonhart – Monothreeism (Trinity at the Pub)
Brent Strawn – The Incomparable God
Gary Schnittjer – Torah Story
Jerry Hwang – Contextualization and the Old Testament
Chris McKinny and Kyle Keimer – The Archaeology of Passion Week (Pt 3)
Chris McKinny and Kyle Keimer – The Archaeology of Passion Week (Pt 2)
Chris McKinny and Kyle Keimer – The Archaeology of Passion Week (Pt 1)
Ervine Sheblazm – A Life Living (a theological memoir)
Isaac Morales – The Bible and Baptism
Amy Balogh – Moses among the Idols
Michael Bird – Jesus Among the Gods
Collin Cornell – Divine Aggression (and other Old Testament matters)
Nijay Gupta – Tell Her Story: Women in the Early Church
Steven Nemes – Theological Authority in the Church
Caryn Reeder – The Samaritan Woman’s Story after #ChurchToo
Malka Z. Simkovich – Discovering Second Temple Literature
Han-luen Kantzer Komline – Augustine and Turning Points in Christian History
Andrew Byers – John and the Others
Patrick Schreiner – Political Gospel
Ian McFarland – The Word Made Flesh
Amy Peeler – Women and the Gender of God
Timothy Beal – When Time (for humanity) is Short
Katie Marcar – Divine Regeneration and Ethnic Mapping in 1 Peter
Angela Parker – If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I?
Marty Folsom – Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics for Everyone
Chris Seglenieks – Johannine Belief and Graeco-Roman Devotion
Christian Eberhart – The Sacrifice of Jesus
J. Richard Middleton – Abraham’s Silence
Mark Scarlata – The World of Leviticus
Paul Spilsbury – Understanding Josephus
Enoch Okode – Christ the Gift and the Giver
Aaron Sherwood – Romans
Bill Brown – Psalms in Dialogue amidst Disruption
Amy Cottrill – Uncovering Violence in Biblical Stories
Lisa Bowens – African American Readings of Paul
Michael Gorman – Romans in Pastoral and Theological Perspectives
Reed Carlson – Possession and the Spirit in the Hebrew Bible
Karen O’Donnell – The Dark Womb: Reconceiving Theology Through Reproductive Loss
Justus Geilhufe – Gnade als trinitarisches Sein
Old Testament Theology, Isaiah’s Metaphors, and Canaanite Genocide: A Conversation with Brittany Kim and Charlie Trimm
Ervine Sheblazm – Child Rearing with the Apostle Paul and the Book of Revelation
Iain Provan – On Reading the Bible Literally
David Artman – Grace Saves All: The Necessity of Christian Universalism
The Apostle’s Creed – Ben Myers and Natasha Kennedy
Munther Isaac – A Biblical and Palestinian Theology of the Land
Andrew Lawler – Beneath Jerusalem
Andy Abernethy – Discovering Isaiah
Douglas Harink – Resurrecting Justice
A Poem about Love and Death (Song 8:6-7) – Brent Strawn
Introducing In Parallel with Brent Strawn – Ecclesiastes 3
Chris Green – All Things Beautiful: An Aesthetic Christology
Charles Halton – A Human-Shaped God
Chris McKinny and Kyle Keimer – The History and Archaeology of Christmas (Part 1)
Vince Bantu – A Multitude of All Peoples (Live in San Antonio)
Carol Newsom – The Spirit Within Me
Thomas McCall – Analytic Christology and the Theological Interpretation of the New Testament
Two Updates
Gary Schnittjer – Old Testament Use of the Old Testament
Halloween OnCrypt Special! Death in Ancient Israel with Matt Suriano
Between Doubt and Dogmatism – Joshua McNall
Navigating Biblical Languages – Kevin Grasso
Matthew Lynch – Portraying Violence in the Hebrew Bible
Special Announcement! On Verse
Scot McKnight and Hans Boersma – Things I Wish You Knew
Robert Chao Romero – The Brown Church
Willie James Jennings –– After Whiteness
Beverly Gaventa – Pauline Theology
Dru Johnson – Biblical Philosophy
Sameer Yadav – Theology, Race, and the Mystical Tradition
Bruce Hindmarsh – The Spirit of Evangelicalism
Philip Ziegler – Militant Grace
Beth Felker Jones – Practicing Christian Doctrine
Lies My Preacher Told Me – Brent Strawn
Brittany Wilson – The Embodied God
Alister McGrath – Doctrine of Justification
Leopoldo Sánchez – Sculptor Spirit
Special Announcement!
Dominick Hernández – Pathways to Wisdom
Beth Allison Barr – The Making of Biblical Womanhood
Walter Brueggemann – Exodus and Liberation
(Biblical World) Mary Buck – Ugarit and the Bible
(Biblical World) Karnak and Egyptology – Mark Janzen
(Biblical World) Archaeology in the Time of Kings: Hezekiah’s Reform
Biblical World Podcast – Coming Soon!
Gene Green – Peter, The Lost Theologian
M. Daniel Carroll Rodas – The Bible and Borders
J. Todd Billings – The End of the Christian Life
Mari Joerstad – The Hebrew Bible and Environmental Ethics
Makoto Fujimura – Art + Faith: A Theology of Making
Ervine Sheblatzm – Paul’s Theology of Universalism
Julien C. H. Smith – Paul and the Good Life
Clinton Bailey – Bedouin Culture in the Bible
Bethany Sollereder – God, Evolution, and Animal Suffering
Andrew Rillera – Quotations, Atonement, and Wrath in Paul
Lucy Peppiatt – Paul on Women’s Subordination (1 Cor 11)
Matthew Thiessen – Jesus and the Forces of Death
Ben Witherington III & Jason Myers – Views on Paul
Jules Martinez-Olivieri – Christology, Liberation, Participation
Mark and Luke Glanville – Refuge Reimagined
Mike Bird & Scott Harrower – Trinity Without Hierarchy
Wil Gafney – Womanist Midrash
John Behr – Origen and the Early Church, Pt 2
John Behr – Origen and the Early Church, Pt 1
Garrick Allen – Manuscripts and All that other Stuff on the Page (Paratexts)
Jemar Tisby – The Color of Compromise
Jeremy Schipper – Black Samson
Richard Rice – The Future of Open Theism
Kevin Grasso – Christ-Faith in Paul’s Letters
Don J. Payne – Already Sanctified
Esau McCaulley – Reading While Black
Justo González – Prayer in the Early Church and Today
Chris Green – Sanctifying Interpretation
Erin Heim – Resurrection and the #metoo movement (part II)
A.J. Culp – Memoir of Moses
R. T. Mullins & Steven Nemes Debate Divine Simplicity
Jeannine Brown – The Gospels as Stories
Esther Acolatse – Powers, Principalities, and the Spirit
R. Alan Streett – Caesar and the Sacrament
Jackson W. – Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes
John Kincaid – Justification and Divine Sonship in Paul
Carmen Imes – Why Sinai Still Matters
Jaco Gericke – A Philosophical Theology of the Old Testament
Brant Pitre & Michael Barber – Paul, a New Covenant Jew
Joshua Farris – Theological Anthropology
Erin Heim with Dru Johnson – Resurrection and the #MeToo Movement (Part 1)
Christopher Hays – Isaiah and Assyria
Lincoln Harvey – Theology of Robert Jenson
Sandra Richter – Stewards of Eden
Nyasha Junior – Reimagining Hagar: Blackness and the Bible
Christian Hofreiter – Making Sense of Old Testament Genocide
Fleming Rutledge – A Fireside Chat on The Crucifixion, Advent, and Preaching
Ervine Sheblatzm – Feathers on the Nose: Paul’s Radical Pastoral Theology for the Non-Anthropic World
(Theology) Ian McFarland – The Word Made Flesh
Wave Nunnally – Israel, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Jeanette Hagen Pifer – Faith as Participation
Nijay Gupta – Paul and the Language of Faith
James Diamond – Jewish Theology Unbound
Daniel Pioske – How Did Biblical Writers Access The Past?
David Downs & Benjamin Lappenga – The Faithfulness of the Risen Christ
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott – Digging Up Israel’s Past
Dru Johnson interviews Matt Lynch
Willie Jennings – Race and Christian Theology
SBL Special Report! An Inbetwepisode
Michael Bird – The New Testament in Its World (with N. T. Wright)
Benjamin Sommer – Revelation and the Authority of the Bible
Larry Hurtado – Destroyer of the Gods
Josh McNall – The Mosaic of Atonement
Chris Tilling – Barth on Romans (Part 2)
Chris Tilling – Barth on Romans (Part 1)
Philip Ziegler – Militant Grace
Seth Heringer – Theology and History
Q&A – Matt Lynch and Matt Bates
Sharon Ketcham – Reciprocal Church
Joseph Gordon – Divine Scripture in Human Understanding
(Theology) Fr John Behr – Origen and the Early Church, Pt 2
(Theology) Fr John Behr – Origen and the Early Church, Pt1
Darren Sarisky – Reading the Bible Theologically
Dru Johnson – Human Rites
Jonathan Greer – Behind the Scenes of the Old Testament
Ellen Davis – Opening Israel’s Scriptures
Ryan O’Dowd—Wisdom Literature and Commentaries
Kelly Murphy – Rewriting Masculinity
(Theology) Ivan Satyavrata – Holy Spirit
Rafael Rodríguez – Jesus Darkly
Brent Strawn – The Bible is Not a Story
Daniel Hawk – The Violence of the Biblical God
Scott Harrower—God of All Comfort (Trinity & Horror)
Kyle Hughes – The Trinitarian Testimony of the Spirit
Sameer Yadav – Theology, Race, and the Mystical Tradition
Ervine Sheblatzm – Faultlines in the Horizon
Robert Alter—The Art of Bible Translation
Jeff McSwain – Simul Sanctification
Jon Levenson – Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel
(Theology) Michael Bruner – A Subversive Gospel
Michael Carasik – Medieval Jewish Commentary
Matthew Thomas – Paul’s ‘Works of the Law’
(Theology) Natalie Carnes – Image and Presence
Sandra Richter – Ecology and the Bible
Gender and Hermeneutics in Paul (Pt 2) – Lucy Peppiatt
Gender & Hermeneutics in Paul (Pt 1) – Michael Lakey
Beverly Gaventa – Reflections on Pauline Scholarship and Teaching
Christopher Seitz – The Elder Testament
Q&A Episode – October 2018
Joshua Berman – Inconsistency in the Torah
Douglas Groothuis – Walking through Twilight
Tim Mackie & Jon Collins – The Bible Project
Scot McKnight – Colossians and Philemon
Stephen Chester – Reading Paul with the Reformers
Marc Turnage – The Bible in its Ancient World
Susan Eastman – Paul and the Person
Matthias Henze – Mind the Gap (Jewish Writings Between the OT & NT)
Mary Katherine Hom – The Characterization of an Empire
Douglas Campbell – Paul: An Apostle’s Journey
Christian Hofreiter – Making Sense of Old Testament Genocide
Mark Scarlata – Exodus, Divine Presence, and Sabbath
Shawn Flynn – Children in Ancient Israel
Cynthia Long Westfall – Paul and Gender
Ervine Sheblatzm – Paul, Multiverse Theory, & the Inner Soul
Listener Q&D
Christopher Rollston – The Alleged Isaiah Seal Impression
Paul Trebilco – Outsiders and Insiders in the NT
Joshua W. Jipp – Saved by Faith and Hospitality
Carol Newsom – Creation, Anthropology, and Glass Beads
Lynn Cohick & Amy Brown Hughes – Christian Women in the Patristic World
Iain Provan – The Reformation and the Right Reading of Scripture
John Barclay – Paul and the Gift (Rebroadcast)
Elaine James – Song of Songs
!!Special Announcement!! & Short Interview Mix
John Walton – The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest
Blake Couey – Reading Isaiah’s Poetry
Michael Bird – Jesus the Eternal Son
Jonathan Pennington – The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing
Matthew Novenson – The Grammar of Messianism
Erin Heim — Adoption in Galatians and Romans
Thomas Jay Oord – The Uncontrolling Love of God
Gar Anderson – Paul’s New Perspective (1st Live Episode!)
Miryam Brand – Evil Within and Without
Listener Qs & Online Barbecue with Matt L. & Dru J.
J. Richard Middleton – A New Heaven and A New Earth
Greg Boyd – The Crucifixion of the Warrior God
Caryn Reeder – The Enemy in the Household
Dennis Venema and Scot McKnight – Adam and the Genome
Jeremiah Unterman—Justice for All
Matt & Matt – Listener Q&A + More
Brent Strawn – The Old Testament is Dying
Kevin Vanhoozer – Biblical Authority After Babel
Daniel Kirk – A Man Attested by God
Dru Johnson – Knowledge by Ritual
Fred Sanders – The Triune God
Oliver Crisp – The Word Enfleshed
Mary Katherine Hom – The Assyrians and the Old Testament
David Starling – Hermeneutics as Apprenticeship
Mark Smith – Where the Gods Are
Larry W. Hurtado – Destroyer of the Gods
Richard B. Hays – Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels
Chris Tilling – Talking New Testament Christology
Alison Joseph – Portrait of the Kings
David J. Downs – Alms
Jon Levenson – The Love of God
Crispin Fletcher-Louis — Jesus Monotheism, Volume 1
Brennan Breed – Nomadic Text
Joel Green – Conversion in Luke-Acts
Matthew R. Schlimm – This Strange and Sacred Scripture
Peter Enns – The Sin of Certainty
John M. G. Barclay – Paul and the Gift
Meghan Henning – Educating Early Christians Through the Rhetoric of Hell
Michael J. Gorman – Becoming the Gospel
David A. Lambert – How Repentance Became Biblical
Joshua Jipp – Christ is King
Munther Isaac – From Land to Lands