Dr. Marianne Meye Thompson is George Eldon Ladd Professor of New Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary. In this video, she discusses what the New Testament indicates about Jesus in relationship to human flourishing. The presentation is a project of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture.
Laura Nasrallah, professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School, gives a brief taste of a course she offers as she discusses the Apostle Paul’s letters and why she decided to study early Christianity.
Excellent lecture available in audio of Adela Yarbro Collins on women prophets in Early Christianity. Collins is Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale University Divinity School.
Dr. Vanessa Lovelace is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible is interviewed about her work by Empowering Voices.
Dr. Susan Eastman is Associate Research Professor of New Testament at Duke University Divinity School. Below is a video presentation of her paper on “Second-Personal Knowledge of Divine Action: A View from the Apostle Paul.” Of the paper she writes:
In this paper I shall argue that we know and recognize the presence of God in the same ways that we know and recognize other human beings as different from ourselves and yet personally engaged with us. Knowledge of divine action is not primarily inward, private, esoteric, ineffable and other-worldly but interpersonal, embodied, and embedded in communal interaction. Such an argument requires two subsidiary arguments: first, concerning the sources of our capacity for thought, including the knowledge of self and others; and second, concerning the mode of knowing and experiencing God’s action. For the first argument it will be important to clarify two contrasting approaches to infant development and problems of mind in psychology and philosophy – a first- or third-personal approach starting with the self, and a second-personal approach starting with relationship. These approaches may also be discerned in different presumptions about what constitutes the knowledge and experience of divine action, or “spiritual experience”. For the second half of my argument concerning the mode of knowing God, I will draw on the writings of the apostle Paul, in whom one finds a second-personal understanding and expression of knowing and being known by God in relationship with other people through the Spirit indwelling the community of faith.
Her presentation begins at the 16:45 mark.
This video is the last of three in a series of lectures on biblical prophecy presented by Dr. Ellen F. Davis. Part III is “Abraham and the Origins of Intercessory Prayer.” The lecture discusses the importance of bold intercession and obedience in the context of intimate relationship with God. Davis is Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke University Divinity School.
This video is the second of three in a series of lectures on biblical prophecy presented by Dr. Ellen F. Davis. Part II is “Destroyers of the Earth: A Prophetic Critique of Empire.” The lecture examines the book of Revelation and the prophetic challenge to empire. Davis is Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke University Divinity School.
Watch Part I and Part III.
This video is the first of three in a series of lectures on biblical prophecy presented by Dr. Ellen F. Davis. Part I is “A Prophetic Perspective.” The lecture draws from themes in her new book Biblical Prophecy: Perspectives for Christian Theology, Discipleship, and Ministry. She begins with five features of a prophetic perspective and how it informs Christian thought and practice. Davis is Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke University Divinity School.
Dr. Amy-Jill Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, and Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School and College of Arts and Sciences. In this extended interview she recounts how she became interested in studying Jesus and the New Testament, as well as the value of Christians and Jews appreciating the Jewish roots of Christianity.
Dr. Anathea Portier-Young is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Duke University Divinity School. She has studied and taught on the subject of violence in the Old Testament, as well as published on Jewish responses to violence in the Second Temple Period (Apocalypse Against Empire Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism). In this brief video Portier-Young explores the possibility of finding meaning in biblical depictions of war and lament, including for today’s soldiers who seek healing from the trauma of modern day conflict.