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Christian Humanist Profiles 286: Bruce Chilton on Berenice
Some ancient lives start with core texts and move out from there. The canonical gospels are obvious, as are Caesar’s Gallic Wars and Augustine’s...
Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 285: Bruce Chilton and Aramaic Jesus
The gospel of John relates a memorable detail of the crucifixion of Jesus that doesn’t appear in the synoptic gospels: fixed to Jesus’s cross...
Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 284: Beverly Gaventa
I always think I know what Romans is about, and then I reread Romans. I don’t fault the Reformed for fixating on the formulas...
Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 283: Chelsea Yarborough
In the sixteenth century, Desiderius Erasmus revolutionized homiletics by bringing the insights of Ciceronian and later humanist rhetoric to bear on preaching, and historians...
Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 282: Volker Leppin
Talk to an American Protestant about her spiritual life, and you’re as likely as not to hear about reading a printed Bible, usually in...
Christian Humanist Profiles 281: Sean Keilen
For Americans, in the twenty-first century, the first association between Shakespeare and schools is obvious: we read Shakespeare in school. Whether we’re thinking of...