Dec 8, 2023
An Interview with Rabbi Evan Moffic
Rabbi Evan Moffic, senior rabbi at a vibrant Reform Jewish congregation in northern Illinois, thinks Christians can understand Jesus’s words and works better – and Jews and Christians can understand each other better -- by considering the Jewish world of Jesus more fully. In this...
Nov 1, 2023
An interview with Dr. Susan M. (Elli) Elliott
In answer to a listener’s question about how attitudes toward
singleness evolved in Christianity, Dr. Elliott draws on her
knowledge of family legislation that Caesar Augustus inflicted on
the Romans well before Jesus’s ministry. Followers of Jesus often
followed the...
Oct 4, 2023
An interview with Dr. Deborah Saxon. Martyrdom in antiquity was often a painful choice. The dual powers of religion and politics made those decisions complex, but also caused a search for identity. Christians had to determine whether they would live under Roman systems, by Christian faithfulness, or by imagining a...
Sep 6, 2023
An interview with Dr. James McGrath
Professor James McGrath explains why you should read ancient texts outside the Bible. A knowledge of apocryphal and other noncanonical texts give more background to biblical writings. The meaning of canon itself becomes clearer in the context of the many cousin-like texts that relate...
Aug 2, 2023
An Interview with Dr. Jeremiah Coogan
Dr. Jeremiah Coogan, a scholar of ancient manuscripts, explains the significance of the recent discovery of an ancient palimpsest. That’s an ancient writing found underneath other writing that had covered it. The object we’re discussing contains the Old Syriac translation...