Paul and the Slave/Slavery Motif

Many struggle with understanding exactly what Paul means when he talks about our being slaves and freedmen. This is often because they assume a singular and consistent usage of the motif in Paul's writing, and indeed in the New Testament as a whole. However, is this the case? In this episode we explore the multivocal use of the motif in the Pauline corpus.


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Paul's Use of Hosea in Romans 9:25-26

In this episode we explore the way that Paul references Hosea in Romans 9:25-26.

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Is Jeremiah 18 the OT Text Behind Paul’s Use of the Potter/Clay Motif in Romans 9:19-24?

A common Provisionist reading of Paul's use of the Potter/Clay Motif in Romans 9 relies on their assumption that the conceptual background to which Paul alludes to is that of Jeremiah 18. In this episode I explore far more plausible backgrounds for Paul's use of the PCM.



For the text version:
Is Jeremiah 18 the OT Text Behind Paul’s Use of the Potter/Clay Motif in Romans 9:19-24?

Miracle as Parable in Mark 8:22-26

In this episode I present a paper that I completed for a Masters level course on the Gospels. In this paper, I analyze the miracle of the two-part healing of the blind man found in Mark 8:22-26 from a literary and contextual framework and examine what role this parable may play in the broader "spiritual healing" theme found running through Mark's gospel.

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Pericope Adulterae in the Gospel of John

In this episode, I review the reasons why nearly all scholars do not think that the story of the woman caught in adultery (the Pericope Adulterae) is authentic to John's Gospel and why it should not be included in the New Testament.

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(Oh and sorry but I'm not the best sound editor. There was a weird clicking noise randomly through the episode and so I know enough to remove it... but then it makes me sound very tinny and mechanical throughout. But that was less distracting than random minutes of a very fact clicking noise...)