Dr. Rebekah Eklund is Assistant Professor of Theology at Loyola University Maryland. Her most recent publication is Jesus Wept: The Significance of Jesus’ Laments in the New Testament.
Category Archives: Video
Amy-Jill Levine on Who Did They Say Jesus Was?
Amy-Jill Levine presents on “Who Did They Say He Was? Jesus in Text and Context” at Westminster Town Hall, Minneapolis (March 31, 2015). The lecture explores how first century Jews perceived Jesus. Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and College of Arts and Sciences.
Gale Yee on Poverty in Ancient Israel and Today
Dr. Gale Yee is Nancy W. King Professor of Biblical Studies at Episcopal Divinity School. Recently, she delivered the 2015 Runcie Lecture at the Graduate Theological Foundation. The lecture is entitled, “From the Bottom Up: Poverty and Inequality in Ancient Israel and Today.”
Nyasha Junior on Micah 3
Dr. Nyasha Junior is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the Howard University School of Divinity.
Paula Gooder on Academics and Ministry
Dr. Paula Gooder is Theologian in Residence at Bible Society and a writer and lecturer in Biblical Studies. She holds a D.Phil. from Oxford.
Mariam Kamell on her Epistle of James Course
Dr. Mariam J. Kamell is Assistant Professor of New Testament Studies at Regent College in Vancouver, BC.
Marianne Meye Thompson on Christ and Human Flourishing
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 on the Letters of Paul
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.
Vanessa Lovelace Discusses Biblical Scholarship
Dr. Vanessa Lovelace is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible is interviewed about her work by Empowering Voices.
Susan Eastman on the Apostle Paul and Knowledge of Divine Action
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.