A Jewish recension of a Syriac collection of Aesop’s Fables sheds important light on s... more A Jewish recension of a Syriac collection of Aesop’s Fables sheds important light on several aspects of literary interaction between writers of Syriac and dialects of Jewish Aramaic in the second half of the first millennium, CE. Along with Targum Proverbs and a handful of other texts, it attests to interaction between Jews and Syriac Christians in the literary sphere. Its mixed dialect further informs on the context of the Syriac text’s assimilation into Jewish literature. The Jewish recension is also important as another witness to the Syriac text.
This paper is a reading of Mark's account of the basileia tou Theou proclaimed by Jesus in the wi... more This paper is a reading of Mark's account of the basileia tou Theou proclaimed by Jesus in the wider context of Herodian and Roman politics. I argue that since basileia is NOT used of or by Rome in the first two centuries, a more nuanced postcolonial approach is needed to map Mark's critique of the powers.
At the conservative if not fundamentalist end of almost every Christian denomination in the Engli... more At the conservative if not fundamentalist end of almost every Christian denomination in the English-speaking world, there are believers who profess that their faith is still shaped primarily by the Authorised Version (KJV). This essay laments that in some important respects concerning Paul's letters this is no longer true, and explores what it is that we have all lost in the process. When it comes to the foundational truths of the 'faith of Jesus' and the reconciliatory understanding of 'atonement' in Paul, unfortunately the legacy of the KJV has long since been forgotten, and evangelical theology is the poorer for it.
A Jewish recension of a Syriac collection of Aesop’s Fables sheds important light on s... more A Jewish recension of a Syriac collection of Aesop’s Fables sheds important light on several aspects of literary interaction between writers of Syriac and dialects of Jewish Aramaic in the second half of the first millennium, CE. Along with Targum Proverbs and a handful of other texts, it attests to interaction between Jews and Syriac Christians in the literary sphere. Its mixed dialect further informs on the context of the Syriac text’s assimilation into Jewish literature. The Jewish recension is also important as another witness to the Syriac text.
This paper is a reading of Mark's account of the basileia tou Theou proclaimed by Jesus in the wi... more This paper is a reading of Mark's account of the basileia tou Theou proclaimed by Jesus in the wider context of Herodian and Roman politics. I argue that since basileia is NOT used of or by Rome in the first two centuries, a more nuanced postcolonial approach is needed to map Mark's critique of the powers.
At the conservative if not fundamentalist end of almost every Christian denomination in the Engli... more At the conservative if not fundamentalist end of almost every Christian denomination in the English-speaking world, there are believers who profess that their faith is still shaped primarily by the Authorised Version (KJV). This essay laments that in some important respects concerning Paul's letters this is no longer true, and explores what it is that we have all lost in the process. When it comes to the foundational truths of the 'faith of Jesus' and the reconciliatory understanding of 'atonement' in Paul, unfortunately the legacy of the KJV has long since been forgotten, and evangelical theology is the poorer for it.
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