Thursday, November 11, 2010

NT Pod 44: What did Paul know about Jesus?

NT Pod 44 asks "What did Paul know about Jesus?" It is thirteen and a half minutes long.



NT Pod 44: What did Paul know about Jesus? (mp3)
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Key texts: 1 Cor. 7.10-11, 1 Cor. 9.3-6, 1 Cor. 9.14, 1 Cor. 11.23-26, 1 Cor. 15.5, 1 Thess. 4.15-17.

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Thursday, November 4, 2010

NT Pod 43: Were Paul's Ethics Distinctively Christian?

NT Pod 43 asks "Were Paul's Ethics Distinctively Christian?" It is eleven minutes long.



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Key texts: 1 Cor. 6.10-11; 1 Thess. 4.2-5; 1 Cor. 7.25-26, 29; 1 Thess. 3.13; 1 Cor. 10.23-24; Rom. 14.19; 1 Thess. 1.6; 1 Cor. 11.1; 1 Cor. 13; Rom. 13.9-10; Gal. 5.13-14; Gal. 5.22-26; 1 Cor. 6.15-26; Rom. 6.3, 12.

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Sunday, October 24, 2010

NT Pod 42: Did Paul think that Jesus was the Pre-existent Son of God?

NT Pod 42 asks "Did Paul think that Jesus was the Pre-existent Son of God?". It is ten and a half minutes long.



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Key texts: Phil. 2.5-11, 1 Cor. 8.6

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Monday, October 11, 2010

NT Pod 41: Was Paul the Founder of Christianity?

NT Pod 41 asks "Was Paul the Founder of Christianity?" It is nine and a half minutes long.



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Key texts: Romans 15.19, Galatians 1.11-12, Galatians 1.18-19, Galatians 2.1-10, Galatians 2.11-14, 1 Corinthians 15.1-5, Acts 11.26.

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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

NT Pod 40: "Teeth will be provided": the joke, the hoax, the story

NT Pod 40 discusses an amusing agraphon that turned out to be a hoax, and the joke that preceded it. It is just under ten minutes long.



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Key texts: Matt. 24.51

References:

Ehrman, Bart D., Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003): 69-70

Carlson, Stephen C., The Gospel Hoax: Morton Smith's Invention of Secret Mark (Waco, Tex: Baylor University Press, 2005): 17-19

Metzger, Bruce, "Literary Forgeries and Canonical Pseudepigrapha," JBL 91 (1972): 3-24

Coleman-Norton, Paul, "An Amusing Agraphon," CBQ 12 (1950): 439-49.

"Anecdotes", Annie Besant (ed.), Our Corner V (1885): 120.

"Under the Spreading Chesnut Tree," Everybody's Magazine XXIV (January-June 1911): 142.

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Monday, July 5, 2010

NT Pod 39: Fatigue in the Synoptics

NT Pod 39 discusses Fatigue in the Synoptic Gospels, an aspect of the Synoptic Problem. It is twelve minutes long.



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Key texts: Matt. 8.1-4 // Mark 1.40-45; Mark 6.14-29 // Matt 14.1-12; Mark 6.30-44 // Luke 9.10-17; Mark 4.1-20 // Luke 8.4-15; Matt. 10.11-14 // Luke 9.4-5; Matt 25.14-30 // Luke 19.11-27.

For a more detailed argument, see Mark Goodacre, "Fatigue in the Synoptics", New Testament Studies 44 (1998): 45-58

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Saturday, June 12, 2010

NT Pod 38: Who is the Beloved Disciple in John's Gospel?

NT Pod 38 asks "Who is the Beloved Disciple in John's Gospel?".  It is the one year anniversary episode.  It is just under twelve and a half minutes long.



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Key texts: John 19.26-27, John 19.35, John 21.24, John 13.23-25, John 18.15-18, John 21.20-23, Luke 22.8, Acts 3.1, Acts 12.2, Gal. 2.9, John 1.35-42

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