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8 August 2018
Ethics of the Old Testament
So I was teaching a class in ethics the other day … stay with me! Ethics sounds boring or scary, ...
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23 January 2018
Looking back, looking forward
However, I must begin with a confession. Although I meant to write you a Christmas greeting in 2017, ...
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5 December 2017
Dr Jeanette Mathews at the recent SBL Annual Meeting
This Annual Meeting is one of the largest events of the year in the fields of biblical scholarship, ...
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30 November 2017
Like Lightning? Revisiting Luke 17:22–37 in Light of Recent Reinterpretations.
BY DR DAVID NEVILLE At the 2017 annual Society of Biblical Literature meeting in Boston, I presented ...
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6 September 2017
Acts 24:10-27 — The different ways to peace
Luke has written with a kind of a slant on how life goes on, with all the usual swirl of human ...
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23 August 2017
Acts 19:1-20 — Spiritually contested space
Paul finds in the Greek city of Ephesus a spiritual contested space. It’s a spiritual ...
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16 August 2017
Acts 16:25-40 — Politics, evangelism, redemption
How this passage has a great moment for political theology, for the logic of evangelism, and for God ...
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2 August 2017
John 9:1-17 — On blindness and the ability to truly see
For the first time in the Gospel, here Jesus himself doesn’t appear in the foreground. The events ...
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26 July 2017
John 7:14-31 — On tolerance and discernment
We all know by now that tolerance, and a deep acceptance of diversity, are the only ways we have to ...
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19 July 2017
John 5:31-47 — On testifying about Christ
The text speaks for itself as a straightforward apologia for the uniqueness of Christ, and for what ...
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14 July 2017
John 4:1-15 — On the woman at the well
A pivotal moment in Jesus' mission, as a woman becomes the bearer of good news to people who are not ...
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13 July 2017
On ageing, and ageing well
Ageing is so imperceptible. My family moved to Canberra three years ago. After that, I got up every ...
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