Here is the video of the Erasmus Lecture I gave at Westmont College on February 9, 2011. I haven’t watched it yet, so I am not sure of the quality but it seems to come across well enough. My thanks to Westmont College and Tremper Longman III for inviting me to give this lecture.
For the last several weeks I have been blogging at BioLogos on the story of Cain and how early interpreters handled some of the ambiguities in that story. The overall purpose of that series is to encourage hermeneutical self-awareness as interpreters today try to read that story well. I normally link my BioLogos posts weekly, but, hey….I’ve [...]
My post today at BioLogos draws an analogy between Jesus’ use of parables and an artist’s attempt to engage the whole person through vivid imagery, symbolism, and metaphor rather than a simple appeal to the intellect. Some things are so important they cannot be left to reside in the life of the mind, but must be [...]
I am speaking tonight at Philadelphia Biblical University at 7:00 on “How Scripture is Shaped by Culture.” Let’s see if the weather decides to hold up. It’s been a rough one thus far.
