The latest episode of the NT Pod is all about what is involved in a historical approach to the New Testament.

It is just over ten minutes long. Feel free to leave your comments below.

NT Pod Episode 21: A Historical Approach to the New Testament (mp3)

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Episode 20 of the NT Pod asks When Was Jesus Born?

It is eleven and a half minutes long. Feel free to leave your comments below.

NT Pod Episode 20: When Was Jesus Born? (mp3)

Key texts: Matthew 2:1; Matthew 2:19; Matthew 2:22; Luke 2:1-2; Luke 3.1-2; Luke 3:23.

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Episode 19 of the NT Pod asks "Was Jesus Born in Bethlehem?"

It is a little over ten minutes long. Feel free to leave your comments below.

NT Pod Episode 19: Was Jesus Born in Bethlehem? (mp3)

Programme Notes (NT Blog)

Key texts: Matthew 2:1-12; Luke 2:1-20; John 7:40-43; Micah 5:2

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Episode 18 of the NT Pod asks "Was Jesus Really a Carpenter?"

It is eleven minutes long. Feel free to leave your comments below.

NT Pod Episode 18: Was Jesus a Carpenter? (mp3)

Key texts: Mark 6.3; Matthew 13.55; Infancy Gospel of Thomas 11/13; Justin Martyr, Dialogue 88.

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NT Pod 17 is about Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus. Was it really "on the Damascus Road"? Does Paul himself say this? And is it right to call it a "conversion"? Or should it be described as a "call"?

It is twelve minutes long. Feel free to leave your comments below.

NT Pod Episode 17: Paul's Conversion on the Damascus Road (mp3)

Key texts: Acts 9.1-19; Acts 22.1-23; Acts 26.12-23; Luke 10.25-37; Luke 24.13-34; Acts 8.26-40; Galatians 1.11-20; 1 Corinthians 15.8-11.

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Episode 16 of the NT Pod discusses the length of Jesus' public ministry.

It is 11 or so minutes long. Feel free to leave your comments below.

NT Pod Episode 16: Did Jesus' Ministry Last Three Years? (mp3)

Key texts: Luke 3:1-2; Mark 6:39; John 2:13; John 6:4; John 11:55; John 12:1.

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Episode 15 introduces the Gospel of Thomas and looks at the discovery of fragments of this Gospel in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, in 1897 and 1903, by Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt.

It is twelve minutes long. Feel free to leave your comments below.

NT Pod Episode 15: The Gospel of Thomas: First Glimpse (mp3)

Programme Notes are on the NT Blog.

Key texts: Gospel of Thomas Incipit, 1, 26, 28, 31; Luke 6:41-42; Luke 4:24.

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Episode 14 of the NT Pod discusses early controversies over whether or not Paul should be described as "apostle".

It is twelve minutes long. Feel free to leave your comments below.

NT Pod Episode 14: Paul as Apostle: The Controversy (mp3)

Key texts: 1 Cor. 9:1-2; 1 Cor. 15:1-11; Gal. 1:1; 1 Cor. 1:1; 2 Cor. 1:1; Rom. 11:13; 2 Cor. 12:12; Acts 1:21-26; Acts 9; Acts 14:4 and 14.

Brief Programme Notes (NT Blog)

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Episode 13 of the NT Pod discusses Mary Magdalene, the First Woman Apostle.

It is twelve minutes long. Feel free to leave your comments below.

NT Pod Episode 13: Mary Magdalene: The First Woman Apostle (mp3)

Key texts featuring Mary Magdalene: Luke 8:1-3; Mark 15:40-41; Mark 15:47; Mark 16:1-8; Matt. 28:1-10; John 20:1-18.

Key texts not about Mary Magdalene: Luke 7:36-50; Mark 14:3-9 // Matt. 26:6-13; John 7:53-8.11.

Key texts on "apostle": Acts 1:21-26; 1 Cor. 9:1; 1 Cor. 15:3-11.

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Episode 12 of the NT Pod discusses Junia: the First Woman Apostle?

It is just over eight minutes long. Feel free to leave your comments below.

NT Pod Episode 12: Junia: the First Woman Apostle? (mp3)

Key texts: Romans 16:7.

Programme Notes (NT Blog); additional note (NT Blog)

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