Ilker Mimiroglu – Ancient Lystra

Episode: In this on-location episode, Chris McKinny interviews Steven Notley about identifying and exploring the ancient city of Bethsaida/Julias. This is a crossover episode with OnScript and the new In Context […] The post Steve Notley – Locating Bethsaida, the Last Lost City of the New Testament first appeared on OnScript.

Episode: Excavations have begun at the New Testament site of Lystra! In this episode, Jason Borges talks with Prof. Ilker Mimiroglu, the lead Turkish archaeologist at Lystra, about the city’s history and […] The post Ilker Mimiroglu – Ancient Lystra first appeared on OnScript.

Episode: In this episode, Kyle chats with Libby Backfish and Cynthia Shafer-Elliott about bringing archaeology and theology into conversation—the topic of their recent book, Grounded Theology in the Hebrew Bible: Exploring the […] The post Libby Backfish and Cynthia Shafer-Elliott – Grounded Theology first appeared on OnScript.

Episode: Amy, Jules, and Matt get together to talk about their current work on Gregory of Nyssa (Amy), global theology (Jules), and Isaiah (Matt). Matt sounds like he’s in a […] The post Amy, Jules, and Matt Talk Theology and Biblical Studies first appeared on OnScript.

Episode: Jonathan Lyonhart joins the podcast to discuss his fictional-philosophical exploration of the life of Moses. Somehow Moses manages to climb each major branch of the philosophical tree in this creative […] The post Jonathan Lyonhart – Zeus Was an Atheist first appeared on OnScript.

Episode: In this episode co-host Amy Brown Hughes nerds out with fellow historical theologian J. Warren Smith about what it would be like if a bunch of early Christian theologians hung […] The post J. Warren Smith – Early Christian Theology first appeared on OnScript.

Episode: Is redemption the Bible’s “big story”? Is salvation THE goal of Scripture’s narrative? Are “story” and “narrative” even helpful ways of conceptualizing the whole Bible? Cornell would answer (a qualified) […] The post Collin Cornell – God Draws Near first appeared on OnScript.

Episode: In this second part of a two-part episode, Kevin Vanhoozer is interviewed by Matthew Bates, along with his Northern Seminary students, as part of a “live” classroom event. Over […] The post Kevin Vanhoozer – Mere Christian Hermeneutics (Part 2) first appeared on OnScript.

Episode: In this first part of a two-part episode, Kevin Vanhoozer is interviewed by Matthew Bates, along with his Northern Seminary students, as part of a “live” classroom event. Over […] The post Kevin Vanhoozer – Mere Christian Hermeneutics (Part 1) first appeared on OnScript.

Episode: We all understand that statues were considered divine in the ancient Near East. But what about a god’s sword, or concepts about a god? Could they also be divine? […] The post Jen Singletary – When Things Become Deities (in the ancient Near East) first appeared on OnScript.