How did religious institutions and practices affect the lives of women in the ancient Mediterranean? A discussion of Ross Shepard Kraemer's Her Share of the Blessings.توسط New Testament Review

What are the infancy gospels? A discussion of Ronald Hock's edition, translation, and commentary with Tony Burke.توسط New Testament Review

Who was responsible for Jesus' death? How do artistic adaptations of the gospel story represent Jesus' Jewish opposition?https://therevealer.org/crucifying-the-musical-christ/توسط New Testament Review

What is the relationship between Paul's Judaism and his faith in Christ? A discussion of James Dunn's "The New Perspective on Paul."توسط New Testament Review

What is the symbolic significance of gender in the Gospel according to Matthew? A review of Janice Capel Anderson's "Matthew: Gender and Reading."توسط New Testament Review

Did copyists intentionally change the text of the New Testament? A discussion of Bart D. Ehrman's Orthodox Corruption of Scripture.To register for the New Insights into the New Testament conference, use the following link: http://ntconference.org/توسط New Testament Review

What is the Syriac Bible? A discussion of Sebastian Brock's The Syriac Bible with Nathan Tilley.توسط New Testament Review

What made gnostics different from other Christians? And did it matter? A discussion of Elaine Pagels' 1979 monograph, The Gnostic Gospels.توسط New Testament Review

Did Paul self-censor his anti-imperial sentiments? A discussion of Laura Robinson's "Hidden Transcripts?: The Supposedly Self-Censoring Paul and Rome as Surveillance State in Modern Pauline Scholarship" (NTS 2021).توسط New Testament Review

Why do scholars ignore 1 Peter? A discussion with Shane Patrick Gormley of John H. Elliott's essay, "The Rehabilitation of an Exegetical Step-Child: 1 Peter in Recent Research." John H. Elliott, "The Rehabilitation of an Exegetical Step-Child: 1 Peter in Recent Research" Journal of Biblical Literature 95.2 (1976) 243-54.…

How did Matthew rewrite one of Mark's miracle stories? What is reaction criticism? A discussion of Günther Bornkamm's "The Stilling of the Storm in Matthew" (originally published as "Die Sturmstillung im Matthäus-Evangelium") with Ian Mills and Laura Robinson.توسط New Testament Review

What is the Eusebian Apparatus? How have readers throughout history navigated the four-fold gospel? A discussion of Harvey McArthur's "The Eusebian Sections and Canons" with Jeremiah Coogan.توسط New Testament Review

Did Paul become a Christian? What are conversion narratives for? A discussion of Paula Fredriksen's "Paul and Augustine: Conversion Narratives, Orthodox Traditions, and the Retrospective Self".توسط New Testament Review

What traditions about Jesus survive outside of the gospels? Did Jesus have a sense of humor? A discussion of Paul Coleman-Norton's "An Amusing Agraphon."توسط New Testament Review

What is Clement's Letter to Corinth? A discussion of Adolf von Harnack's A Letter of the Roman Church to the Corinthian Church from the Era of Domitian: 1 Clement.توسط New Testament Review

What is the Magnificat? Our fourth annual discussion of Raymond Brown's The Birth of the Messiah.توسط New Testament Review

What is the relationship between the gospel and the gospels? A discussion of Annette Yoshiko Reed's "Euangelion Orality, Textuality, and the Christian Truth in Irenaeus' Adversus Haereses" with Jeremiah Coogan.توسط New Testament Review

What kind of books are the gospels? How much do they tell us about the sequence of Jesus' life? A discussion of KL Schmidt's Der Rahmen der Geschichte Jesu with Brandon Massey.توسط New Testament Review

What does it mean to "become the righteousness of God" in 2 Corinthians 5:21?توسط New Testament Review

What does the "family" look like in the ancient world? Does Christianity reinforce or undermine traditional family roles?توسط New Testament Review

How did Christianity "triumph"? What made Christianity different from paganism? A discussion of James Rives' "Christian Expansion and Christian Ideology."توسط New Testament Review

Who were the Magi? The third annual New Testament Review Christmas episode. A discussion of yet another chapter from Raymond Brown's The Birth of the Messiah.توسط New Testament Review

How have Black Christians interpreted Paul on the topic of slavery? A discussion of Allen Dwight Callahan's "Brother Saul': An Ambivalent Witness to Freedom" from Onesimus, our Brother.توسط New Testament Review

Can letters, shopping lists, and receipts from antiquity help us to read the New Testament? A discussion of Adolf Deissmann's Light from the Ancient East.توسط New Testament Review

How can studying ancient notions of health inform our reading of the gospels? A discussion of Candida Moss' "The Man with the Flow of Power."Candida Moss, "The Man with the Flow of Power: Porous Bodies in Mark 5:25–34" Journal of Biblical Literature 129.3 (2010): 507-519.توسط New Testament Review

What is a scriptural canon for? A discussion of David Brakke's "Canon Formation and Social Conflict in Fourth-Century Egypt: Athanasius of Alexandria's Thirty-Ninth Festal Letter" published in HTR in 1994.توسط New Testament Review

What is Second Temple Judaism? How did Jews who were roughly contemporary with the earliest Christians interpret the Hebrew Bible to apply it to their changing situations? A discussion of Hindy Najman's Seconding Sinai.توسط New Testament Review

Did John know the Synoptic Gospels? A discussion of Percy Gardner-Smith's Saint John and the Synoptic Gospels with Mark Goodacre of the NT Pod.توسط New Testament Review

What is "sin" in Romans? Is it an abstraction for bad things people do or a cosmic force? Why does it matter? A discussion of Beverly Gaventa's "The Cosmic Power of Sin in Paul's Letter to the Romans: Toward a Widescreen Edition."توسط New Testament Review

Why does Matthew have "zombies" at Jesus' crucifixion? A discussion of Donald Senior's "The Death of Jesus and the Resurrection of the Holy Ones."توسط New Testament Review

How do historians treat sources, build arguments, and evaluate explanatory claims? How is that different from apologetics? A discussion of Lee Strobel's The Case for Christ.توسط New Testament Review

We're social distanced and self-quarantining... and that's just to finish our dissertations! Also, there's a pandemic. We asked you to tell us about your favorite pieces of New Testament scholarship.توسط New Testament Review

What is "Gnosticism"? A discussion of Michael Williams' Rethinking Gnosticism along with scholarship by Karen King, Christoph Markschies, and David Brakke.توسط New Testament Review

What role did envoys and emissaries play in Paul's ministry? What cultural conventions influenced early Christian talk about envoys? A discussion of Margaret M Mitchell's 1992 essay, "New Testament Envoys in the Context of Greco-Roman Diplomatic and Epistolary Conventions."توسط New Testament Review

Our second annual Christmas episode! Who was Quirinius? Was there a census? Where is Joseph from? Discussing Luke's nativity with Raymond Brown's The Birth of the Messiah.توسط New Testament Review

Are heresies always and everywhere secondary and subsidiary? How did the mainstream church of the fourth century achieve dominance? A discussion of Walter Bauer's Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity.توسط New Testament Review

Laura and Ian preview their papers for the annual Society of Biblical Literature conference.توسط New Testament Review

What is the "Righteousness of God" in Romans? A discussion of Richard Hay's 1980 article "Psalm 143 and the Logic of Romans 3" with Jon Depue.توسط New Testament Review

Did pagans read Christian scripture? A discussion of Ian Mills' first peer-reviewed publication.توسط New Testament Review

How did early Christians understand suffering -- their own and others? A discussion of Judith Perkins, The Suffering Self.توسط New Testament Review

For whom were Gospels written? A discussion of gospel audiences in light of Richard Bauckham's important article.توسط New Testament Review

Who was Marcion? How was the New Testament created? A critical discussion of Harnack's little book on Marcion.توسط New Testament Review

What did Jews expect of Gentiles? Was there a Jewish mission? Who were Paul's opponents in Galatia? A discussion of Paula Fredriksen's article and an introduction to "Paul within Judaism."توسط New Testament Review

How did the earliest Jesus followers understand their relationship to wider Judaism? Joel Marcus delivers his retirement lecture at Duke Divinity School on the "Parting of the Ways" between Judaism and Christianity.توسط New Testament Review

How does the Gospel of Mark end? There's more than one answer! A discussion of Burgon's The Last Twelve Verses of Mark for our Easter episode.توسط New Testament Review

Why were the Early Christians persecuted? A discussion of GEM de Ste Croix's work by the same name.توسط New Testament Review

Does Luke's use of Matthew require an implausible composition procedure? A discussion of Downing's influential argument for the two source theory.توسط New Testament Review

Is the Gospel of Luke history? Who is Theophilus? A discussion of Loveday Alexander's The Preface to Luke's Gospel.توسط New Testament Review

Were early Christians poor? How did economics influence early Christianity? A discussion of Wayne A Meeks' The First Urban Christiansتوسط New Testament Review

What is the point of genealogies in the gospels? Are there differences? Why? A special Christmas-themed discussion of a chapter from Raymond Brown's The Birth of the Messiah.توسط New Testament Review