John W. Rogerson: The Forgiveness of Sins

September 5, 2018September 5, 2018 Deane Anthropology (the human), Biblical Studies Topics, Sin, Video John W Rogerson, Sin and forgiveness

Emeritus Professor John W. Rogerson (1935-2018) delivered the Lent Lectures 2018 on “The Forgiveness of Sin” between 21 February and 21 March 2018, at Beauchief Abbey, Sheffield.

Wednesday 21 February

Lecture 1 What it’s all about: Defining Sin and Forgiveness

Wednesday 28 February

Lecture 2 Sin and forgiveness in the Old Testament

Wednesday 7 March

Lecture 3 Sin and forgiveness in the teaching of Jesus

Wednesday 14 March

Lecture 4 Sin and forgiveness in Paul

Wednesday 21 March

Lecture 5. Sin and forgiveness: adjusting our theology and reinterpreting our liturgy

Ziony Zevit on The Fall: “Looking in on Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden”

March 12, 2014 Deane Anthropology (the human), Audio, Biblical Literature, Biblical Studies Topics, Church Fathers, Genesis, Pauline, Secondary, Sin, Torah Agudas Achim Congregation, Garden of Eden, Looking in on Adam and Eve, The Fall, Ziony Zevit

On November 10, 2011, Ziony Zevit delivered a lecture on the idea of “the Fall” to the Agudas Achim Congregation, Alexandria, Virginia. The lecture is available as an mp3 and on iTunes.

The idea of “the Fall” of humanity from divine grace as a result of original sin is deeply ingrained in both Jewish and Christian religious consciousness. Although the idea of the Fall is attested in Jewish writings of the first century BCE, the New Testament, and in Rabbinic texts, it is unknown in the Hebrew Bible.

This lecture looks in on Adam and Eve as they walk through the garden, eavesdrops on their reported conversations, and watches as God drives them out from Eden. Following in their footsteps, as portrayed in Genesis 2 – 4, and reading the biblical text very closely, it undertakes to respond to the following questions and discover why what we think we know is wrong: Why does the Hebrew Bible not consider what happened in the garden a Fall? Why did later thinkers come to think of what happened there as the Fall? And if not a Fall, what did happen there?

George B. Caird Lectures (1979-82)

January 13, 2014May 19, 2016 James Anthropology (the human), Atonement, Audio, Biblical Literature, Biblical Studies Topics, Body, Soul, Spirit, Gospels, Luke, Mark, Matthew, Methods and Approaches in Biblical Studies, Paul, Paul and the Law, Pauline, Romans, Secondary, Sin, Soteriology (salvation), Source and Redaction Criticism, Synoptic Gospels, Theology, Universities / Academia George B. Caird, Oxford University

Courtesy of Jeffrey B. Gibson and additional work by Matthew D. Montonini and Mark Goodacre “sixty-one of George B. Caird’s lectures on New Testament Theology were recorded from 1979-1982, at Oxford University, where Caird served as the Dean Ireland’s Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture until his untimely passing in 1984.” They are available as audio and links are given on Montonini’s blog, New Testament Perspectives. Caird’s lectures cover issues such as New Testament theology, Pauline theology, Romans, and the Synoptic Problem.

The Human Condition: The Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible – Thomas Römer’s 2013 Seminars at the Collège de France

January 12, 2014January 29, 2014 Deane Ancient Mesopotamian texts, Ancient Near East, Anthropology (the human), Biblical Literature, Genesis, Gilgamesh, Historical and Literary Contexts, Human-Animal Studies, Prophets, Sex, Marriage, Sin, Torah, Video, Violence, Wisdom

Videos of Thomas Römer’s 2013 seminars at the Collège de France, entitled The Human Condition: The Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible, are available at the Collège’s website, or for download at the links provided below (800mb+). The seminars have been overdubbed by an English translator.

Thomas Römer is Professor of Old Testament at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and the Collège de France, and author of many works, including Israels Väter (1990) on the Patriarchal traditions in the Pentateuch.

In these seminars, Römer discusses the question of the human condition, drawing on ancient Near Eastern texts such as the Epic of Gilgamesh and, especially, on biblical texts.

07 FEBRUARY 2013, 2:00 pm
Introduction: The Gilgamesh Epic Read as a Reflection on the Human Condition

14 FEBRUARY 2013, 2:00 pm
Man “Image of God” or “Sinner From The Very Beginning”?

21 FEBRUARY 2013, 2:00 pm
Divine Violence, Human Violence

28 FEBRUARY 2013, 2:00 pm
Diversity of Cultures and Languages

21 MARCH 2013, 2:00 pm
Friendship, Love, Sexuality 1/2

28 MARCH 2013, 2:00 pm
Friendship, Love, Sexuality 2/2

04 APRIL 2013, 2:00 pm
Man in the Face of Death

11 APRIL 2013, 2:00 pm
Individual Death and the End of the World – Is Man Able to Imagine an Absolute End?

Christopher Rowland on William Blake, Shaffer Lectures 2008

January 12, 2014 James Anthropology (the human), Arts, Biblical Studies Topics, Culture, Development of Christology, Economic, Marxist Criticism, Historical Jesus, Ideological Criticisms, Jesus, Jesus and the Law, Life Teachings Acts, Methods and Approaches in Biblical Studies, Politics, Reader Response Criticism, Reception History, Secondary, Sin, Video Christopher Rowland, Shaffer Lectures, William Blake, Yale Divinity School

Christopher Rowland’s Shaffer Lectures on William Blake (‘”From Impulse Not from Rules”: the Life, Character and Teaching of Jesus in Light of the Prophecy, Poetry and Art of William Blake’) at Yale Divinity School are available on YouTube.

Lecture 1 (October 14, 2008): William Blake on the Life and Teaching of Jesus