

OnScript
Matthew Bates, Matthew Lynch, Erin Heim, Dru Johnson, Amy Brown Hughes, & Chris Tilling
Bringing you engaging conversations on Bible and theology (hosted by biblical scholars and theologians).
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Sep 1, 2022 • 1h 4min
Marty Folsom – Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics for Everyone
Episode: In this episode Chris Tilling interviews Marty Folsom about his new book, Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics for Everyone (Zondervan Academic). What is it about Barth’s Church Dogmatics that is […]
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Aug 25, 2022 • 49min
Chris Seglenieks – Johannine Belief and Graeco-Roman Devotion
Episode: In this episode, Dru Johnson talks with Australian scholar Christopher Seglenieks about why Greco-Roman devotion practices must be included in discussions about “faith” and “belief” in the Johannine corpus. […]
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Aug 11, 2022 • 59min
Christian Eberhart – The Sacrifice of Jesus
Episode: What was the sacrifice of Jesus for the NT Jewish authors? A barbaric execution? A violent bloodletting of a scapegoat? Christian Eberhart claims that the NT authors did not conceive […]
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Aug 4, 2022 • 58min
J. Richard Middleton – Abraham’s Silence
Episode: Richard Middleton thinks that Abraham should’ve talked back to God when he asked him to sacrifice his son. Today we discuss lament, the example of Job, and Abraham as a […]
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Jul 26, 2022 • 1h 2min
Mark Scarlata – The World of Leviticus
Episode: Leviticus might be the only book in the Bible that many Christians will openly and casually admit that they do not like (or, it’s their “least favorite). Dru Johnson […]
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Jul 8, 2022 • 55min
Paul Spilsbury – Understanding Josephus
Episode: Paul Spilsbury knew Josephus personally … or at least he’s spent so much time with him that it’s almost as if he did. In this episode we talk about Josephus’ writings, […]
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Jun 30, 2022 • 58min
Enoch Okode – Christ the Gift and the Giver
Episode: If you’ve appreciated John Barclay’s monumental work on grace, Paul and the Gift, then you’ll be delighted to see how Enoch Okode’s work presses beyond Barclay into new territory. […]
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Jun 23, 2022 • 56min
Aaron Sherwood – Romans
Episode: Matt discusses Aaron’s whopping huge Romans commentary, discussing the book’s rhetorical aims and literary flow, the troubling “hardening” of Israel in Rom 9-11, and why the real deal is in […]
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Jun 2, 2022 • 1h 2min
Bill Brown – Psalms in Dialogue amidst Disruption
Episode: These are times of deep division and disruption. Saying so is almost as obvious as saying, “The sky is blue.” But finding a way to dialogue through division and disruption […]
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May 26, 2022 • 53min
Amy Cottrill – Uncovering Violence in Biblical Stories
Episode: What happens to us as we read violent stories in the Bible? How do violent stories form us ethically? Amy Cottrill discusses everything from overly violent stories, to places where […]
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