John W. Rogerson: The Kingdom of God

September 5, 2018 Deane Biblical Literature, Biblical Studies Topics, Gospels, Jesus, Life Teachings Acts, Video John W Rogerson, Kingdom of God

Emeritus Professor John W. Rogerson (1935-2018) delivered the Lent Lectures 2014 on “The Kingdom of God” between 12 March and 9 April 2014, at Beauchief Abbey, Sheffield.

Wednesday 12th March

Lecture 1: What is the Kingdom of God?

Wednesday 19th March
Lecture 2: The Kingship of God in the Old Testament

Wednesday 26th March
Lecture 3: The Kingdom of God in the preaching of Jesus

Wednesday 2nd April
Lecture 4: The Kingdom of God in Paul and John

Wednesday 9th April
Lecture 5: The Kingdom of God and Today’s Church

Amy-Jill Levine: Who Did They Say He Was? Jesus in Text and Context

May 23, 2015September 11, 2015 Deane Acts, Biblical Literature, Biblical Studies Topics, Gospels, Historical Jesus, Jesus, Life Teachings Acts, Secondary, Video Amy-Jill Levine, Who Did They Say He Was?

Professor Amy-Jill Levine (Vanderbilt University) delivered the lecture, “Who Did They Say He Was? Jesus in Text and Context” at Westminster Town Hall, Minneapolis, on March 31, 2015. Levine addresses the question of who Jesus was to the first-century Jews who heard him and sometimes followed him (and sometimes did not).

Biblical Studies Online Podcast 4: An Interview with Robert Myles and Michael Sandford

August 9, 2014 James Audio, Economic, Marxist Criticism, Economics, Gospels, Ideological Criticisms, Imperialism, Jesus, Life Teachings Acts, Matthew, Methods and Approaches in Biblical Studies, Politics, Race Postcolonial, Race, Postcolonial Criticism, Reception History, Universities / Academia, Zionism and Modern Israel class, homelessness, Marxist exegesis, Michael Sandford, poverty, Robert Myles

The latest Biblical Studies Online podcast is available on iTunes or, if iTunes isn’t your thing, available here.

James Crossley interviews Robert Myles, author of The Homeless Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2014), and Michael Sandford, author of Poverty, Wealth, and Empire: Jesus and Postcolonial Criticism (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2014). In addition to discussing their latest books, the interview covers issues of class, postcolonialism, and biblical scholarship.

Mark Goodacre on Myths of Mary and the Married Jesus

March 15, 2014 Deane Biblical Literature, Gospels, Jesus, Life Teachings Acts, Media, Reception History, Secondary, Video Da Vinci Code, Gospel of Jesus’ Wife, Jesus' wife, Mark Goodacre, Mary Magdalene, Myths of Mary and the married Jesus, popular culture, University of Birmingham, Wife of Jesus, women in Gospels

Professor Mark Goodacre delivers the second lecture in the Cadbury Lecture series 2013 at the University of Birmingham, “Myths of Mary and the married Jesus: how popular culture is affecting scholarship” (January 29, 2013).

From Jesus Christ Superstar to the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife, from the Last Temptation of Christ to the Da Vinci Code, this generation has seen a radical alteration in our perspectives on key characters in early Christianity. Mary Magdalene has been transformed from a repentant prostitute to the first apostle. Now she is even Jesus’ wife. But is Mary’s rehabilitation rooted in reassessments of the primary texts or is it a product of our own immersion in popular culture? What do we know about her Gospel, her tomb, her family? The real story of Mary’s rejuvenation is so mysterious that it leads us to question the identity of the woman we thought we knew.

Ernest Renan on Christian Origins

February 8, 2014February 8, 2014 James Disciples, Apostles, Electronic books, Gospels, Historical Jesus, Jesus, Life Teachings Acts, Paul, Pauline, Secondary Antichrist, Christian Origins, Ernest Renan

Seven volumes of Ernest Renan’s History of the Origins of Christianity are available online and for free download courtesy of ccel.org.

History of the Origins of Christianity. Book I. Life of Jesus

History of the Origins of Christianity. Book II. The Apostles

History of the Origins of Christianity. Book III. Saint Paul

History of the Origins of Christianity. Book IV. The Antichrist

History of the Origins of Christianity. Book V. The Gospels

History of the Origins of Christianity. Book VI. The Reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. (A.D. 117-161)

History of the Origins of Christianity. Book VII. Marcus-Aurelius

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Jésus et les origines du christianisme (1896)

January 25, 2014January 25, 2014 James Development of Christology, Economic, Marxist Criticism, Electronic books, God, Gospels, Historical Jesus, Ideological Criticisms, Jesus, Life Teachings Acts, Methods and Approaches in Biblical Studies, Polytheism and Monotheism, Secondary, Titles anarchism, Jésus et les origines du christianisme, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The French text of an early (and much overlooked) example of politically radical interpretations of the historical Jesus, earliest Christianity and related contexts, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), Jésus et les origines du christianisme (published 1896), is available here.

Richard Bauckham: Lectures on Jesus and the Gospels

January 18, 2014January 30, 2014 Deane Academic webpages, Audio, Biblical Literature, Biblical Studies Topics, Development of Christology, Disciples, Apostles, Ecology, Gospels, Historical Jesus, Jesus, John, Journal Articles Papers Chapters, Life Teachings Acts, Luke, Mark, Matthew, Non-canonical gospels, Revelation, Secondary, Universities / Academia, Video Richard Bauckham

Professor Richard Bauckham’s personal website provides the document files of several unpublished lectures and unpublished essays on Jesus and the Gospels. There are further links to audio and video files of a number of lectures and discussions on Jesus and the Gospels, with the audio of one lecture apiece on Revelation and ecology.

Bauckham is the author of several works on Jesus and the Gospels, including Jesus and the Eyewitnesses (2006). Until 2007 he was Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of St Andrews.

According to the phonetic system used by the Oxford English Dictionary, Bauckham is pronounced Borkem…. For readers in the UK it may help to say that Bauckham rhymes with Morecambe, the name of the great English comedian Eric Morecambe of the duo Morecambe and Wise.
– “How to pronounce the name BAUCKHAM“

Thomas Sheehan: Continuing Education Course on the Historical Jesus

January 18, 2014 Deane Biblical Literature, Gospels, Historical Jesus, Jesus, Life Teachings Acts, Online Courses, Online courses - Early Christianity / New Testament, Universities / Academia

Thomas Sheehan provides a 10-lecture short course, or continuing education course, on the historical Jesus, provided via the Stanford Continuing Studies Program (2007). Lectures from the course are available free on iTunes.

Who was the historical Jesus of Nazareth? What did he actually say and do, as contrasted with what early Christians (e.g., Paul and the Gospel writers) believed that he said and did? What did the man Jesus actually think of himself and of his mission, as contrasted with the messianic and even divine claims that the New Testament makes about him? In short, what are the differences—and continuities—between the Jesus who lived and died in history and the Christ who lives on in believers’ faith? Over the last four decades historical scholarship on Jesus and his times—whether conducted by Jews, Christians, or non-believers—has arrived at a strong consensus about what this undeniably historical figure (born ca. 4 BCE, died ca. 30 CE) said and did, and how he presented himself and his message to his Jewish audience. Often that historical evidence about Jesus does not easily dovetail with the traditional doctrines of Christianity. How then might one adjudicate those conflicting claims? This is a course about history, not about faith or theology. It will examine the best available literary and historical evidence about Jesus and his times and will discuss methodologies for interpreting that evidence, in order to help participants make their own judgments and draw their own conclusions.

	Name		Released	Price
1	Call Me Yeshua		3/30/07	Free	View In iTunes
2	Kingdom and Catastrophe		3/30/07	Free	View In iTunes
3	Left Behind		3/30/07	Free	View In iTunes
4	“Pealing” the Onion		3/30/07	Free	View In iTunes
5	Apocalypse Now		3/30/07	Free	View In iTunes
6	Words and Wonders		3/30/07	Free	View In iTunes
7	The Empire Unleashed		3/30/07	Free	View In iTunes
8	Crisis and Continuity	—	3/30/07	Free	View In iTunes
9	Apocalypse to Come		3/30/07	Free	View In iTunes
10	Resurrection	—	3/30/07	Free	View In iTunes
11	The Historical Jesus Course Syllabus		4/20/07	Free	View In iTunes

Philip Harland’s Podcasts on Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean

January 14, 2014 James 1 Enoch, Academic webpages, Ancient Israel and Judea, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient Near East, Apocalyptic, Apocalyptic, Audio, Biblical Literature, Biblical Studies Topics, Christian Prophecy, Church Fathers, Corinthians, Daniel, Dead Sea Scrolls Apocalyptic texts, Dead Sea Scrolls Historical texts, Death, Afterlife, Eschatology, Death, Afterlife, Netherworld, Development of Christology, Disciples, Apostles, Divine mediators (angels demons etc), Form, Oral, and Tradition Criticism, Galatians, Geography, Gnostic texts, God, Gospels, Hebrews, Hellenistic and Roman Judea, Historical and Literary Contexts, Historical Jesus, History and Stories, Israel and Judah, Jesus, Jewish Prophecy, John, Jubilees, Life Teachings Acts, Luke, Mark, Matthew, Methods and Approaches in Biblical Studies, Non-canonical gospels, Paul, Pauline, Prophecy and Prophets, Prophets, Revelation, Romans, Secondary, Soteriology (salvation), Source and Redaction Criticism, Synoptic Gospels, Thessalonians, Universities / Academia "Heresy", Apollo, Asklepios, Associations, Claros, Combat Myth, Corinth, Didyma, Docetic, E.P. Sanders, Ebionites, Emperor worship, Ephesus, Galatia, Galilee, Gospel of Mary, Gospel of Philip, John Dominic Crossan, Life of Adam and Eve, Lydia, Marcion, Melchizedek, Middle Platonism, Pergamum, Philip Harland, Phoenicia, Pseudo-Clement, Satan, Secret Book of John, Thessalonica, Wisdom of Jesus Christ, Women in Paul, Zoroastrianism

Philip Harland has an ongoing series of podcasts on a wide range of topics relating to religions of the ancient Mediterranean which are available here. These include:

Series 1: Paul and His Communities

Podcast 1.1 Paul in his own words

Podcast 1.2 The situation at Thessalonica

Podcast 1.3 Paul’s response to Jesus-followers at Thessalonica

Podcast 1.4: Paul and the followers of Jesus at Corinth, part 1

Podcast 1.5: Paul and the followers of Jesus at Corinth, part 2

Podcast 1.6: Paul and the followers of Jesus at Corinth, part 3

Podcast 1.7: Paul and the situation in Galatia

Podcast 1.8: Paul’s response to the Galatians

Podcast 1.9: Paul and the situation at Rome

Podcast 1.10: Paul’s response to the Romans

Podcast 1.11: Legacies of Paul – Women’s leadership, part 1

Podcast 1.12: Legacies of Paul – Women’s leadership, part 2

Series 2: Early Christian Portraits of Jesus

Podcast 2.1: Introduction to the Gospels as Portraits of Jesus

Podcast 2.2: Mark’s portrait of Jesus – Suffering Son, part 1

Podcast 2.3: Mark’s portrait of Jesus – Suffering Son, part 2

Podcast 2.4: Matthew’s portrait of Jesus – New Moses, part 1

Podcast 2.5: Matthew’s portrait of Jesus – New Moses, part 2

Podcast 2.6: Luke’s Portrait of Jesus – Prophet Elijah, part 1

Podcast 2.7: Luke’s Portrait of Jesus – Prophet Elijah, part 2

Podcast 2.8: John’s Portrait of Jesus – Son and Word, part 1

Podcast 2.9: John’s Portrait of Jesus – Son and Word, part 2

Podcast 2.10: Hebrews’ Portrait of Jesus – Highpriest Melchizedek, part 1

Podcast 2.11: Hebrews’ Portrait of Jesus – Highpriest Melchizedek, part 2

Series 3: Diversity in Early Christianity: “Heresies” and Struggles

Podcast 3.1: Introduction to Diversity – A Schism in John’s Community, part 1

Podcast 3.2: A Schism in John’s Community, part 2

Podcast 3.3: Docetic and Judaizing Opponents of Ignatius

Podcast 3.4: Docetic and Judaizing Opponents of Ignatius, part 2

Podcast 3.5: Diversity in Asia Minor – A Regional Case Study

Podcast 3.6: Sources for the Study of Diversity – Gnostic, Apocryphal, Patristic

Podcast 3.7: Jewish Followers of Jesus, part 1 – Ebionites

Podcast 3.8: Jewish Followers of Jesus, part 2 – Pseudo-Clement

Podcast 3.9: Marcionites and the Unknown God

Podcast 3.10 Introducing Gnostic Worldviews

Podcast 3.11: Secret Book of John, part 1 – The Spiritual Realm

Podcast 3.12: Secret Book of John, part 2 – Salvation from the Material Realm

Podcast 3.13: The Wisdom of Jesus Christ and Middle Platonism

Podcast 3.14: The Gospel of Philip, part 1 – Ideas of Salvation

Podcast 3.15: The Gospel of Philip, part 2 – Ritual Enactments of Salvation

Podcast 3.16: The Gospel of Mary – Secret Knowledge from the Ultimate Disciple

Series 4: Honouring the Gods in the Roman Empire: Asia Minor

Podcast 4.1: Introduction to Honouring the Gods

Podcast 4.2: A City and Its Patron Deity – Artemis of Ephesus

Podcast 4.3: Salvation from the Gods – Asklepios at Pergamum

Podcast 4.4: Messages from the Gods – Apollo at Claros and Didyma

Podcast 4.5: Justice from the Gods in Lydia

Podcast 4.6: Honouring the Emperors as Gods

Series 5: The Historical Jesus in Context

Podcast 5.1: Studying the Historical Jesus – Sources and Problems, part 1

Podcast 5.2: Studying the Historical Jesus – Sources and Problems, part 2

Podcast 5.3: Studying the Historical Jesus – Sources and Problems, part 3

Podcast 5.4: Scholarly Portraits of the Historical Jesus, part 1 – Crossan

Podcast 5.5: Scholarly Portraits of the Historical Jesus, part 2 – Sanders

Podcast 5.6: Jesus, Galilee, and Israelite History, part 1 – To the Second Temple

Podcast 5.7: Jesus, Galilee, and Israelite History, part 2 – To the Time of Jesus

Podcast 5.8: Jesus, the Galilean and Judean

Podcast 5.9: Jesus in the Context of Educated Groups and Leaders

Podcast 5.10: Jesus and his Mentor, John the Baptizer

Podcast 5.11: Jesus as Teacher, part 1 – Method and Content

Podcast 5.12: Jesus as Teacher, part 2 – Present or Future Kingdom?

Podcast 5.13: Jesus as Healer and Exorcist

Podcast 5.14: Jesus as Prophet

Podcast 5.15: Jesus as Messianic King?

Series 6: Associations in the Greco-Roman World

Podcast 6.1: Introduction to Associations in the Greco-Roman World

Podcast 6.2: Social, Religious, and Burial Activities of Associations

Podcast 6.3: Judean and Christian Groups as Associations

Podcast 6.4: Associations and Greco-Roman Society (The City)

Podcast 6.5: Associations and the Roman Empire

Podcast 6.6: Approaches to Studying Ethnic Associations and Identities

Podcast 6.7: Phoenician Immigrant Associations, part 1

Podcast 6.8: Phoenician Immigrant Associations, part 2

Podcast 6.9: Judean Immigrant Associations, part 1

Podcast 6.10: Judean Immigrant Associations, part 2

Podcast 6.11 Jesus Groups as Associations and Cultural Minorities, part 1

Podcast 6.12: Jesus Groups as Associations and Cultural Minorities, part 2

Podcast 6.13: Cultural Minority Associations and Ethnic Stereotypes, part 1

Podcast 6.14: Cultural Minority Associations and Ethnic Stereotypes, part 2

Series 7: Visions of the End: Origins of Judean Apocalypticism

Podcast 7.1: Visions of the End – What is Apocalypticism?

Podcast 7.2: Origins part 1 – Ancient Near Eastern Combat Myths

Podcast 7.3: Origins part 2 – Zoroastrian apocalypticism

Podcast 7.4: Origins part 3a – Israelite Prophets 1

Podcast 7.5: Origins part 3b – Israelite Prophets 2

Podcast 7.6: 1 Enoch – An Introduction to the Earliest Apocalypse

Podcast 7.7: 1 Enoch – Fallen Angels in Early Apocalypticism

Podcast 7.8: Introduction to Daniel’s Historical Apocalypse

Podcast 7.9: Daniel’s Visions as Veiled History

Series 8: A Cultural History of Satan – Personified Evil in Early Judaism and in Christianity

Podcast 8.1: A Cultural History of Satan – Predecessors of Satan from Mesopotamia

Podcast 8.2: Predecessors of Satan from Canaan and Israel

Podcast 8.3: Predecessors of Satan from Persia

Podcast 8.4: Other Predecessors of Satan from the Hebrew Bible

Podcast 8.5: Fallen Angels in 1 Enoch (ca. 225 BCE)

Podcast 8.6: Mastema in Jubilees and Beliar in the Dead Sea Scrolls (ca. 100 BCE)

Podcast 8.7: The Devil and Beelzebub in Early Biographies of Jesus (70-100 CE)

Podcast 8.8: Internal Functions of the Rhetoric of Satan in Paul and John (ca. 50-110 CE)

Podcast 8.9: A Satanic Empire in John’s Apocalypse (ca. 80-100 CE)

Podcast 8.10: Jealous Satan, the Image of God, and the Serpent in the Life of Adam and Eve

Podcast 8.11: The Jealous Creator and the Serpent of Wisdom in Gnosticism (2nd century CE)

Podcast 8.12: Satan’s Demons and the Greco-Roman Gods in the Church Fathers (2nd-3rd centuries CE)

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

Lecture 2 (October 15, 2008): Seeing the Christ: Imagining the Life and Teaching of Jesus in Images

Lecture 3 (October 16, 2008): Antinomiansm and Forgiveness of Sins: Perspectives on Neglected Themes in the Gospels and the New Testament

Sean Freyne on Galilee, Jesus and Christology, Shaffer Lectures 2010

January 12, 2014 James Development of Christology, Early Jewish writings, Economic, Marxist Criticism, Geography, Hellenistic and Roman Judea, Historical and Literary Contexts, Historical Jesus, Jesus, Josephus, Life Teachings Acts, Methods and Approaches in Biblical Studies, Social Scientific Criticism, Video Sean Freyne, Shaffer Lectures, Yale Divinity School

Sean Freyne’s Shaffer Lectures on Galilee, Jesus and Christology (2010) at Yale Divinity School are available on YouTube.

Lecture 1 (October 12, 2010): Galilee as Matrix for the Jesus Movement: Cultural and Socio-Economic Conditions

Lecture 2 (October 13, 2010): Locating Jesus in Galilee: Pitfalls and Challenges

Lecture 3 (October 14, 2010): Towards a Galilean Christology

J.D. Crossan’s UNI lecture on the historical Jesus (2000)

January 12, 2014 James Ancient Mediterranean, Early Jewish writings, Economic, Marxist Criticism, Hellenistic and Roman Judea, Historical and Literary Contexts, Historical Jesus, Ideological Criticisms, Jesus, Josephus, Life Teachings Acts, Methods and Approaches in Biblical Studies, Race, Postcolonial Criticism, Secondary, Social Scientific Criticism, Video John Dominic Crossan, UNI

The video of this UNI lecture is available on YouTube and looks at ways of reconstructing the historical Jesus, including issues of social context, imperialism, and responses to imperialism.

Why Study? University of Nottingham Video Series

January 12, 2014January 29, 2014 James Atonement, Biblical Literature, Church Fathers, Death, Resurrection, Ascension, Development of Christology, Disciples, Apostles, Early Christian writings, Early Jewish writings, Early Rabbinic writings, Ecclesiology (Christian Church), Form, Oral, and Tradition Criticism, Gospels, Hellenistic and Roman Judea, Historical and Literary Contexts, Historical Jesus, History and Stories, Institutions, Israel and Judah, James, Jesus, Jewish and Israelite Cult (worship), Life Teachings Acts, Methods and Approaches in Biblical Studies, Paul, Pauline, Prophecy and Prophets, Rabbinic writings, Reception History, Romans, Secondary, Soteriology (salvation), Temple, Theology, Universities / Academia, Video Carly Crouch, Henri Gagey, Holger Zellentin, Margaret Barker, Peter Watts, Richard Bell, Roland Deines, Tom O'Loughlin, University of Nottingham

The Why Study Theology and Religious Studies? series from the University of Nottingham contains various contributions from biblical studies. These include:

Why Study the Didache? with Tom O’Loughlin

Why Study Early Christianity? with Tom O’Loughlin

Why Study Orality? with Tom O’Loughlin

Why Study the Protoevangelium of James? with Tom O’Loughlin

Why Study Rabbinic Judaism? with Holger Zellentin

Why Study Rudolf Bultmann? with Henri Gagey

Why Study Paul’s Letter to the Romans? with Richard Bell

Why Study the Death of Jesus in Paul? with Richard Bell

Why Study St Paul and Israel? with Richard Bell

Why Study the Hebrew Bible? with Carly Crouch

Why Study Prophecy? with Carly Crouch

Why Study Biblical Warfare? with Carly Crouch

Why Study Jesus Christ? with Roland Deines

Why Study the Pharisees? with Roland Deines

Why Study James of Jerusalem? with Roland Deines

Why Study the Old Testament alongside the New? with Margaret Barker

Why Study Hebrew? with Peter Watts

John P. Meier on Jesus and the Law, Shaffer Lectures 2006

January 12, 2014 James Biblical Studies Topics, Form, Oral, and Tradition Criticism, Historical Jesus, Jesus, Jesus and the Law, Law/Torah, Life Teachings Acts, Methods and Approaches in Biblical Studies, Secondary, Sex, Marriage, Video John P. Meier, Shaffer Lectures, Yale Divinity School

John P. Meier’s Shaffer Lectures on Jesus and the Law (‘On the Danger of Making Jesus a Christian: a Test Case of Law and Morality’) at Yale Divinity School are available on YouTube.

Lecture 1 (October 10, 2006): The Jewish Jesus and Jewish Divorce

Lecture 2 (October 11, 2006): The Jewish Jesus and the Sabbath

Lecture 3 (October 12, 2006): The Jewish Jesus and the Purity Laws

John P. Meier on Jesus the Jew, Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society 2002

January 12, 2014 James Development of Christology, Form, Oral, and Tradition Criticism, Historical Jesus, Jesus, Life Teachings Acts, Methods and Approaches in Biblical Studies, Secondary Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society, John P. Meier

John P. Meier’s Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society (2002), ‘Jesus the Jew – but What Sort of Jew?’, is available on YouTube and uploaded by the University of California Television (UCTV).