I have just returned from the a stimulating symposium in St Andrews on the Atonement in biblical texts and traditions. I heard expertly done main papers by Deborah Rooke, David Moffitt, David Wright, Martha Himmelfarb, Carol Newsom and Catrin Williams and many short papers with the latest research on everything from the precise meaning of… Read more »
Category: Glory (of God and Christology)
“On Angels, Men and Priests (Ben Sira, the Qumran Sabbath Songs and the Yom Kippur Avodah)” (A newly published article)
I have just received my copy of the papers from a conference in Zürich in 2015 dedicated to worship and angels in ancient Judaism and early Christianity (). I was invited to speak to the conference on the back of my 2002 book , in which I investigated the role of angels and human transformation… Read more »
On Pauline Christology and the Glory of Israel’s Messiah
In my last post I offered a few thoughts on Joshua Jipp’s new book . I’ve enjoyed reading Joshua’s work ever since I came across his insightful and well written book on . (I have particularly benefited from his article on Paul’s Areopagus speech in Acts 17—published in the Journal of Biblical Literature vol. 131… Read more »