Jesus’‘parable’of the sheep and the goats in Matt 25.31–46 is very well known and widely misinterpreted. It forms one part of the extended teaching about ‘the end’distinctive to Matthew (compared with Mark and Luke). It is most commonly interpreted as an injunction to help the poor;most Christians (in the West at [...] This week saw the broadcast of the third and last of the series with Francesca Stavrakopoulou supposedly exposing the real meaning of the Bible and thus over-turning centuries of tradition. My reflections on the previous two episodes can be found here and here. In some ways this episode exhibited the same issues as the first [...] Last night was the second episode of the BBC’s The Bible’s Buried Secrets. Go here for my comments on the first programme. This one covered different areas,but for me was more disappointing. Once again,Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou (whom I will call FS for short) set up from the outset a sharp dichotomy between religious and [...] Last Wednesday saw the first of three programmes,‘The Bible’s Buried Secrets’,in which Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou of Exeter University looked at what archaeology tells us about the Old Testament. This first episode explored whether there was evidence for King David’s ‘empire.’ What did we learn? 1. Subjective Bible versus Objective History? From the opening, Stavrakopoulou and [...] Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart comment that there are two key skills in reading the Bible:the ability to see the big picture;and the ability to see the distinctive detail of each passage,in particular to recognise its genre. Here is my list of resources to help with the ‘big picture’side of things. [...] Here is a short article I have written for the new edition of Exploring the New Testament vol 2 giving an overview of critical methods. Critical methods in the study of the New Testament In order to help to answer some of the questions raised here,New Testament studies as a discipline has developed a [...] | ||
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