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Carmen Imes - Why Sinai Still Matters

Episode: Carmen Imes has been on a podcast tour, and we're thrilled that she joined us for this episode to discuss her book Bearing God's Name: Why Sinai Still Matters. We discuss the often misunderstood prohibition on taking God's name in vain, the relevance of Sinai for Christians, and much more.

Guest: Dr. Carmen Imes is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Prairie College in Alberta. She's the author of Bearing YHWH’s Name at Sinai: A Re-Examination of the Name Command of the Decalogue (Eisenbrauns). Her book Bearing God’s Name: Why Sinai Still Matters (IVP) is a distillation of her academic volume for a lay audience. Her forthcoming book is Reading the Psalms with Augustine and Friends. Carmen is an active member of the Evangelical Theological Society, the Institute for Biblical Research, and the Society of Biblical Literature. Although she enjoys hanging out with other Bible geeks at conferences, her passion is to help the Bible come alive for laypeople. Carmen blogs at www.carmenjoyimes.blogspot.com and writes regularly for The Well, InterVarsity’s blog for women in the academy and professions. She enjoys speaking in church settings and for retreats and other events.

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Jaco Gericke - A Philosophical Theology of the Old Testament

Episode: How should we read the Old Testament? Is there only one valid interpretation or a plurality of interpretations? If the latter, then how do we maintain intellectual humility and find valid methods for addressing the texts of Scripture? For a first-ever joint episode with the Center for Hebraic Thought, Dru talks to Dr. Jaco Gericke of North-West University, South Africa about his journey to philosophical theology, and some of his current research, particularly his recent book, A Philosophical Theology of the Old Testament: A historical, experimental, comparative and analytic perspective. Along the way, they discuss atheism, the necessity of bringing a philosophical perspective to biblical studies, developing reliable methods for reading Scripture, and even some terrible jokes.

Guest: Jaco Gericke is Associate Research Professor of Theology and Philosophy at North-West University, South Africa. He is also the author of What is a God?: Philosophical Perspectives on Divine Essence in the Hebrew Bible (Bloomsbury) and The Hebrew Bible and Philosophy of Religion (SBL Press).

Event: A socially-distanced live (outdoor) event at Nashotah House Theological Seminary on July 21st. More info HERE.

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Shownotes:

• 1:18 Introducing Dr. Jaco Gericke and his research
• 8:06 Why Dr. Gericke doesn’t like to call himself an atheist and why he still studies the Old Testament
• 13:41 The difficult with the terms “biblical theology” and “philosophical theology”
• 24:55 The necessity of humility and openness to a plurality of interpretations for understanding scripture
• 30:06 James Barr and the renewed philology movement
• 35:20 Ways to do philosophical theology in the Old Testament
• 46:32 How philosophical theology prevents us from reading our own philosophical categories into the text
• 50:43 Speed Round

Brant Pitre & Michael Barber - Paul, a New Covenant Jew

Episode: Who was Paul? How might we understand him as a Jew? What type of Jew was he? How do our answers impact our interpretation of Paul’s theology of justification, Christology, the death of Christ, and more besides? In this episode, Matthew Bates and Chris Tilling talk to two of the co-authors of the new book, Paul, a New Covenant Jew: Rethinking Pauline Theology, by Brant Pitre, Michael P. Barber and John A. Kincaid (Eerdmans, 2019). After presenting a case for thinking about Paul as a new covenant Jew, the authors discuss Paul and apocalyptic, Pauline Christology, the cross and atonement theology, justification through divine sonship and the Lord’s Supper. Sparkling with fresh insights, this book contributes to numerous debates in exciting ways. This is, as one reviewer put it, “Paul the pop-up book”!

Guests: A future episode with Chris Tilling will include an interview with John Kincaid, particularly his chapter on justification. In this episode, Matt and Chris talk to Michael Barber and Brant Pitre. Michael is Associate Professor of Scripture & Theology at the Augustine Institute in Denver, CO. Brant Pitre, (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame). Brant Pitre is Professor of Sacred Scripture at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans and Distinguished Research Professor of Sacred Scripture at the Augustine Institute. He is the author of numerous books, including Jesus, the Tribulation, and the End of the Exile (Baker Academic, 2005), Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist (Image Books, 2011), Jesus the Bridegroom (Image Books, 2014), Jesus and the Last Supper (Eerdmans, 2015), and The Case for Jesus (Image Books, 2016).

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