Helen Bond: the Historical Jesus & his Female Disciples

Dr. Helen K. Bond is Professor of Christian Origins & Head of the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. She returns to the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation tackling topics from members of the HBC online Lent group, Jesus De/Constructed. In our chat we discuss…

* what is the difference between the historical Jesus and the Christ of faith?

* how does a historical Jesus scholar do their work?

* the cultural/social/political/religious matrix of the historical Jesus

* the role of honor and shame in Jesus’ culture

* the entanglement of religion and politics

* what is the scholarly consensus around the historical Jesus?

* the political potency of Pilate’s pagan foreign troops in town for the Passover

* what does it mean for Jesus to be an Apocalyptic Jewish figure?

* it’s the end of the world, but what do “end” and “world” mean?

* how did the ancient world understand religion, divinity, and god-talk?

* how should we understand the titles of Jesus in the NT and his historical self-consciousness?

* what does it mean for Jesus to be the Christ?

* why does Paul say so little about the historical Jesus?

* what occasioned the composition of the Gospels?

* you should listen to Helen’s first visit to the podcast…the First Biography of Jesus… PS it is the Gospel of Mark

* how does seeing the Gospels as biographies change the way we read them?

* go get Helen’s new book Women Remembered: Jesus’ Female Disciples

* the role and status of women in the early church

* how the transitions within the early church brought back the patriarchy

* Tertullian and the Montanists

* Helen’s favorite female followers of Jesus

* was Jesus a feminist?

* what do we know about Mary, the mother of Jesus?

* the historical Jesus’ brother James

* the cross & resurrection

Don’t forget to join Tripp & Diana this Lent for an open online class – Jesus De/constructed! Details here.

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