NT Pod 122: How did Paul die?

NT Pod 122 asks "How did Paul die?" It is eleven minutes and 40 seconds long. 

NT Pod 122: How did Paul die? (audio, mp3)

Video version is here (YouTube)

Key texts (in the order that they are mentioned): Acts 21-28; Acts 7; Acts 20.17-38; 2 Tim. 4.6-7; 2 Tim. 1.17; Martyrdom of Paul; 1 Clement 5.5-6; Phil. 1.15-19; Acts 21.27; Acts 24.19; Acts 20.30

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NT Pod 121: Why did Paul write Romans?

NT Pod 121 asks "Why did Paul write the epistle to the Romans?" It is 17 minutes long.

NT Pod 121: Why did Paul write the epistle to the Romans?  (mp3)

Video version link will be here soon. 

Key texts (in the order in which they are cited in the podcast): Rom. 15.23-24, 2 Cor. 3.1-4, Rom. 16, Rom. 14-15, Rom. 15.26, Rom. 15.30-32, Rom. 15.15-16.

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NT Pod 120: Why did Paul write letters?

NT Pod 120 asks "Why did Paul write letters?" It is 12 minutes long.

NT Pod 120: Why did Paul write letters? (mp3)

Video version (YouTube) is here. 

Key texts: 2 Cor. 11.28, 2 Cor. 13.7, 1 Thess. 3.5-8, 2 Cor. 10.9-11, 2 Cor. 13.9-10, Gal. 4.19-20

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NT Pod 119: How often did Paul go to Jerusalem?

NT Pod 119 looks at a famous issue in Pauline chronology. There are five visits to Jerusalem in Acts, but only three in Paul. How do we explain this?

NT Pod 119: How often did Paul go to Jerusalem? (audio version, mp3)

Video version (YouTube)

Key texts: Acts 9, Acts 11.25-30, Acts 15, Acts 18.22, Acts 21-26; Galatians 1.15-20, Galatians 2, Rom. 15.25-32. 

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NT Pod 118: Can we trust Luke's Portrait of Paul in Acts?

NT Pod 118 discusses the portrait of Paul in Acts of the Apostles. It is 13 minutes long.

NT Pod 118: Can we trust Luke's Portrait of Paul in Acts? (mp3)

Video Version here.   

Key texts: Acts 14.4, 14; Gal. 1.1; 1 Cor. 9.1-2; 2 Cor. 11.5; 1 Cor 15.3-10; Acts 24.17; 1 Cor. 16.1-4; 2 Cor. 9.1-5; Rom. 15.26-27

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NT Pod 117: How could Paul have been a Pharisee?

NT Pod 117 asks "How could Paul have been a Pharisee?" It is just under 13 minutes long.

NT Pod 117: How could Paul have been a Pharisee? (mp3)

 Paul describes himself as a Pharisee in Philippians 3.5, and this is echoed in Acts of the Apostles. What does this mean for Paul's biography, and how does it help us to rethink some of our prejudices about Pharisees and Pharisaism?

 Key texts: Phil. 4.3-6, Matt. 23, Luke 7.36-50, Luke 16.14, Acts 5.34, Acts 22.3, Acts 23.6, Acts 26.5

Video version here.

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NT Pod 116: Was Paul Converted on the Damascus Road?

NT Pod 116 asks, "Was Paul converted on the Damascus Road?" It is 14 minutes and 41 seconds long.

NT Pod 116: Was Paul Converted on the Damascus Road? (audio only; mp3)

The video version is here (YouTube). 

Key texts (in the order in which they appear): 1 Cor. 15.1-10; Gal. 1.15-16; Acts 9.1-23; Gal. 1.1; 1 Cor. 9.1-2; Gal. 1.16b-17; Luke 2.1-40; Luke 10.25-37; Luke 15.11-32; Luke 9.51--19.44; Luke 24.13-35; Acts 9.1-23; Acts 22.6-16; Acts 26.12-18.

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NT Pod 115: The Hypothesis of the Gospels

NT Pod 115 is a conversation with Ian Mills about his new book The Hypothesis of the Gospels: Narrative Traditions in Hellenistic Reading Culture (Fortress, 2025). 

NT Pod 115: The Hypothesis of the Gospels (mp3)

The video version is here (YouTube)

We refer to the following books, articles and podcasts in this show: 

Ian Mills, The Hypothesis of the Gospels [Amazon; note: this is an affiliate link; Fortress Press link]

NT Review Podcast (co-hosted by Ian Mills) [Apple] [Spotify]

Loveday Alexander, The Preface to Luke's Gospel (SNTSMS 78, Cambridge University Press, 2005)  [Amazon; note: this is an affiliate link]

Francis Watson, An Apostolic Gospel: The "Epistula Apostolorum" in Literary Context (Cambridge University Press, 2022) [Amazon; note: this is an affiliate link]

Annette Yoshiko Reed, “EUAGGELION: Orality, Textuality, and the Christian Truth in Irenaeus’ Adversus Haereses”,” Vigiliae Christianae 56, no. 1 (2002): 11–46

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NT Pod 114: Is Luke a Historian?

NT Pod 114 asks, "Is Luke a Historian?" It is just over 14 minutes long.

NT Pod 114: Is Luke a Historian? (mp3)

Key texts: Luke 1.1-4, 1.5, 2.1-2, 3.1-2, 4.16-30, 5.1-11, 7.36-50.

The video version is here. 

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NT Pod 113: Does John have a Messianic Secret?

NT Pod 113 asks whether John's Gospel has a "Messianic Secret" like the one in Mark. It is just under 13 minutes long.

NT Pod 113: Does John have a Messianic Secret? (mp3)

You can access the video version of this podcast here. 

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NT Pod 112: What is Redaction Criticism?

NT Pod 112 discusses Redaction Criticism of the Gospels. It is 16 minutes long.

NT Pod 112: What is Redaction Criticism? (mp3)

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NT Pod 111: Did John Know the Synoptic Gospels?

NT Pod 111 attempts to answer the question, "Did John know the Synoptic Gospels?" It is just under 12 minutes long. 

NT Pod 111: Did John Know the Synoptic Gospels? (mp3)

There is a video version of this podcast here. 

This podcast references my new book. Details here:

The Fourth Synoptic Gospel (Amazon)

The Fourth Synoptic Gospel (Eerdmans)

Key texts: TBC.

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NT Pod 110: Writing, Rewriting, and Knowledge: John and the Synoptics with James Barker

NT Pod 110 is a conversation between me and James Barker. It is just under an hour long.

NT Pod 110: Writing, Re-writing, and Knowledge: John and the Synoptics (mp3)

In this podcast, we discuss our books, out now from Eerdmans:

James Barker, Writing and Rewriting the Gospels: John and the Synoptics (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2025) [Buy from Eerdmans; buy at Amazon]

Mark Goodacre, The Fourth Synoptic Gospel: John's Knowledge of the Synoptics (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2025) [Buy from Eerdmans; buy at Amazon]

You can watch a video version of this conversation over on my Youtube Channel.

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Lots More NT Pod Shorts

Since my last post here, on July 30, I have posted nine more NT Pod Shorts on my YouTube Channel. I have realized that posting every link here is going to be a bit too time-consuming, not least given that I will be posting three or four each week. So if you'd like to watch my NT Pod Shorts, please subscribe to my YouTube channel (@podacre). 

I am also uploading them to other social media -- Twitter, Facebook, BlueSky, TikTok, Instagram -- links on the right. 

I am also continuing to record the longer format NT Pod episodes, and I'll release them really soon. 

In future, I will use this site solely to publish the fresh episodes of the longer format. 

Thanks so much for your support!

More Shorts: Triple Tradition; Double Tradition; Marcan Priority

I've uploaded three more NT Pod Shorts on the Synoptic Problem:

What is the "triple tradition"? 

What is the "double tradition"?

Was Mark the First Gospel? 

These are all on my Youtube Channel. If you like it, please subscribe and "like" so that I can grow the channel, i.e. produce more videos. 

I am also uploading them to TikTok and to other social media. 

NT Pod Shorts: What is the Synoptic Problem?

My next Short goes back to the beginning and asks "What is the Synoptic Problem?"

NT Pod Shorts: Why is Q so Appealing?

I'm trying something new: NT Pod Shorts. These are short (less than three minute) videos about topics connected with the podcast, and the first few are going to be focused on the Synoptic Problem. Here is the first:

The topic is: Why is Q so Appealing?

NT Pod 109: The Last Supper (2025)

In NT Pod 109, Mark goes to the movies! This is a review of The Last Supper (2025), and it is almost 29 minutes long.

NT Pod 109: The Last Supper (mp3)

Key texts: Feeding of the Five Thousand (Matt. 14.13-21 // Mark 6.31-44 // Mark 6.31-44 // Luke 9.10-17 // John 6.1-15); Gospel Passion and Resurrection Narratives (Matthew 21-28; Mark 11-16; Luke 19-24; John 13-21).

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NT Pod 108: The Jesus / Joshua Problem

NT Pod 108 continues the series on Bible translation (see also NT Pod 104: The Synoptic Translation Problem, NT Pod 105: What is Translation Inertia?, and NT Pod 107: Why Do We Translate New Testament Names the Way We Do?) and discusses the different ways we translate Jesus's name depending on whether we are looking at the Old Testament or the New: 

NT Pod 108: The Jesus / Joshua Problem (mp3)

Key texts (in the order in which they appear):

Col. 4.11

Matt. 27.16-17

Luke 3.29

Acts 7.45

Heb. 4.8-10

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NT Pod 107: Why Do We Translate New Testament Names the Way We Do?

NT Pod 107 continues the series on Bible translation (see also NT Pod 104: The Synoptic Translation Problem and NT Pod 105: What is Translation Inertia?), focusing on the phenomenon of translating exactly the same name one way if it is an Old Testament character and another way if it is a New Testament character. The examples discussed are Jacob and James, and Judas and Jude: 

NT Pod 107: Why Do We Translate New Testament Names the Way We Do? (mp3)

Key texts (in order of mention in the episode):

1 Cor. 1.12, 3.22, 9.5, 15.5

Gal. 1.18, 2.7, 2.9, 11, 14

John 1.41-2

Luke 6.16

Acts 1.13

Jude 1

Mark 6.3 // Matt. 13.55

Matt. 1.2-17

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