I have just received my copy of the proceedings of a conference on Enoch literature and contemporary theology at the University of Gloucestershire, for which I provided an essay on the Similitudes of Enoch (). The Similitudes of Enoch (1 Enoch 37–71) is one of the most difficult and contentious of the texts that scholars… Read more »
Category: Priesthood and Christology
N. T. Wright and Israel’s Representative Messiah
I’m getting ready to speak at a symposium on the theme of Divine Sonship at St Andrews (Scotland). My paper tackles a question raised by N. T. (Tom) Wright’s work on Paul and offers new evidence to support one of Tom’s more controversial claims.[1] Wright thinks (as a growing number now do) that when Paul uses the… Read more »
LXX Isaiah 40:2: “O Priests, speak to the heart of Jerusalem”
In a fine paper by Dr Alison Salvesen at the Oxford OT Seminar yesterday there was mention of a passage in the Septuagint (Greek translation of the OT) that I had not seen before. It says: O Priests, speak to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, because her humiliation has been fulfilled, her sin has been released,… Read more »