2.32 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing: 2018 Christmas Special
My Christmas special tells the story of Christmas as related by the gospel of Luke. With lots of canticles and shepherds. My forthcoming Epiphany special relates the gospel of Matthew's version of the...
16 Dec 201843min
2.31 The Many Names of Jesus
King of the Jews, Saviour, Son of Man, God, Son of God, Messiah and Christos, and Lord. The New Testament has many titles for Jesus. Let's investigate them.
2 Dec 201829min
2.30 John's Gospel of Knowledge
The gospel of John reads nothing like the other gospels. John defines Jesus as a cosmological figure, not the man adopted by God at his baptism that the other gospels talk about. John has a quite diff...
18 Nov 201836min
2.29 The Gospels of Matthew and Luke
The gospel of Matthew is the most Jewish of the gospels. He insists that his readers must follow Jewish law. Yet his gospel contains the infamous blood cry. Matthew's community might have been Jews wh...
28 Okt 201831min
2.28 The Gospels of Mark and Matthew
Mark is the earliest, shortest, and least popular gospel. We don't know if Mark was a Jew or a gentile. Mark's audience is assailed by the powers that be. He has an especial dislike of the Pharisees. ...
7 Okt 201834min
2.27 What We Know About the Life of Jesus
Our earliest pagan sources for the life of Jesus - the historians Josephus, Tacitus, and Suetonius - tell us almost nothing about Jesus. The letters of St Paul are uninformative, as are rabbinic sourc...
16 Sep 201834min
2.26 Christianity's Earliest Witness: Paul Writes to the Thessalonians
Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians is the earliest surviving document of Christianity. I drop in on the Thessalonian Jesus-club to discover how a pagan newcomer would have reacted to the club an...
26 Aug 201832min
2.25 Quest for the Historical Jesus
Keynote ep: Since the Enlightenment, three great academic attempts have been made to make sense of the life of Jesus: the first, second, and third quests for the historical Jesus. I follow the Third Q...
5 Aug 201835min
