45. Raymond Brown, The Birth of the Messiah (Part 4)

Did Paul become a Christian? What are conversion narratives for? A discussion of Paula Fredriksen's "Paul and Augustine: Conversion Narratives, Orthodox Traditions, and the Retrospective Self".

What traditions about Jesus survive outside of the gospels? Did Jesus have a sense of humor? A discussion of Paul Coleman-Norton's "An Amusing Agraphon."

What is Clement's Letter to Corinth? A discussion of Adolf von Harnack's A Letter of the Roman Church to the Corinthian Church from the Era of Domitian: 1 Clement.

What is the Magnificat? Our fourth annual discussion of Raymond Brown's The Birth of the Messiah.

What is the relationship between the gospel and the gospels? A discussion of Annette Yoshiko Reed's "Euangelion Orality, Textuality, and the Christian Truth in Irenaeus' Adversus Haereses" with Jeremiah Coogan.

What kind of books are the gospels? How much do they tell us about the sequence of Jesus' life? A discussion of KL Schmidt's Der Rahmen der Geschichte Jesu with Brandon Massey.

What does it mean to "become the righteousness of God" in 2 Corinthians 5:21?

What does the "family" look like in the ancient world? Does Christianity reinforce or undermine traditional family roles?

How did Christianity "triumph"? What made Christianity different from paganism? A discussion of James Rives' "Christian Expansion and Christian Ideology."

Who were the Magi? The third annual New Testament Review Christmas episode. A discussion of yet another chapter from Raymond Brown's The Birth of the Messiah.