NT Pod 46: Was Jesus Born in a Stable?

NT Pod 46 asks "Was Jesus born in a stable?". It is about eleven minutes long.



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Key texts: Matthew 2.11 and especially Luke 2.7, but also texts from the rest of Matthew 2 and Luke 2. See also the Protevangelium of James 18-20.

The podcast mentions Stephen C. Carlson, “The Accommodations of Joseph and Mary in Bethlehem: Κατάλυμα in Luke 2.7,” New Testament Studies 56 (2010): 326-342, reproduced here.

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NT Pod 45: What did Paul think about the Future of Israel?

NT Pod 45 asks "What was Paul's view of the Future of Israel?" It is just under 13 minutes long.



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Key texts: Romans 9-11

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NT Pod 44: What did Paul know about Jesus?

NT Pod 44 asks "What did Paul know about Jesus?" It is thirteen and a half minutes long.



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Key texts: 1 Cor. 7.10-11, 1 Cor. 9.3-6, 1 Cor. 9.14, 1 Cor. 11.23-26, 1 Cor. 15.5, 1 Thess. 4.15-17.

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NT Pod 43: Were Paul's Ethics Distinctively Christian?

NT Pod 43 asks "Were Paul's Ethics Distinctively Christian?" It is eleven minutes long.



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Key texts: 1 Cor. 6.10-11; 1 Thess. 4.2-5; 1 Cor. 7.25-26, 29; 1 Thess. 3.13; 1 Cor. 10.23-24; Rom. 14.19; 1 Thess. 1.6; 1 Cor. 11.1; 1 Cor. 13; Rom. 13.9-10; Gal. 5.13-14; Gal. 5.22-26; 1 Cor. 6.15-26; Rom. 6.3, 12.

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NT Pod 42: Did Paul think that Jesus was the Pre-existent Son of God?

NT Pod 42 asks "Did Paul think that Jesus was the Pre-existent Son of God?". It is ten and a half minutes long.



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Key texts: Phil. 2.5-11, 1 Cor. 8.6

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NT Pod 41: Was Paul the Founder of Christianity?

NT Pod 41 asks "Was Paul the Founder of Christianity?" It is nine and a half minutes long.



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Key texts: Romans 15.19, Galatians 1.11-12, Galatians 1.18-19, Galatians 2.1-10, Galatians 2.11-14, 1 Corinthians 15.1-5, Acts 11.26.

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NT Pod 40: "Teeth will be provided": the joke, the hoax, the story

NT Pod 40 discusses an amusing agraphon that turned out to be a hoax, and the joke that preceded it. It is just under ten minutes long.



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Key texts: Matt. 24.51

References:

Ehrman, Bart D., Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003): 69-70

Carlson, Stephen C., The Gospel Hoax: Morton Smith's Invention of Secret Mark (Waco, Tex: Baylor University Press, 2005): 17-19

Metzger, Bruce, "Literary Forgeries and Canonical Pseudepigrapha," JBL 91 (1972): 3-24

Coleman-Norton, Paul, "An Amusing Agraphon," CBQ 12 (1950): 439-49.

"Anecdotes", Annie Besant (ed.), Our Corner V (1885): 120.

"Under the Spreading Chesnut Tree," Everybody's Magazine XXIV (January-June 1911): 142.

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