Hermeneutics Seminar of Brit NT Conference (programme)

I am getting excited about the British New Testament Conference (Aberdeen, this year)- always a fun time and usually some very good papers.  The seminars and paper abstracts are steadily streaming in.  Today the programme for the Hermeneutics seminar is up.  Of three sessions, one is combined with the Paul group.  The other two sessions [...]

British NT Conference paper accepted

The paper will be given in the Hermeneutics seminar (my second year giving a paper there).
Here is the title and abstract:
Mirroring-Reading Paraenesis and Moral Discourses in an Ancient Letter: Sexual Immorality in Romans and 1 Thessalonians as Test-cases
Over twenty years ago, Prof. John M.G. Barclay wrote a seminal article (JSNT 31: 73-93) on the important [...]

Brevard Childs’ Canonical Reading of Paul (Part 2)

By the aid of Mr. Shepherd in PART 1, we were able to get a taste of what Childs is all about.  Now, I (Nijay) would like to dip into his The Church’s Guide for Reading Paul: The Canonical Shaping of the Pauline Corpus [Eerdmans, 2008] book to explore how he reads the great apostle.
Childs [...]