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Best podcasts about Carol A Newsom

Latest podcast episodes about Carol A Newsom

Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons

In the aftermath of Jesus' death and resurrection, Jesus offers comfort and presence to his disciples. He continues to remind them he has not come to establish a nation state, rather that the disciples would be the ones to carry forward Jesus' mission. Requirements for this include more waiting, receiving the power of the Holy Spirit. Devotion to prayer may be what will prepare them for what's next. But that isn't here yet. They must prepare themselves to be led by the Holy Spirit. Sermon begins at minute marker 4:58Acts 1.1-14ResourcesBibleWorm podcast Episode 535 Waiting for the Spirit She Reads Truth podcast Episode 96 Acts Week 1 with Christine Caine Working Preacher Narrative Lectionary podcast 579: You Shall Be My Witnesses Believers Church Bible Commentary: Acts, by Chalmer E. Faw The Women's Bible Commentary, Carol A Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe editors Image: by Eran Menashri on UnsplashHymn: Voices Together 366 Although Our Lord Has Left Us. Text: Fred Kaan (England), © 1972, 1997 Hope Publishing Co. Music: Melchior Vulpius (present-day Germany), Ein schön geistlich Gesangbuch, 1609. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons
Costly Extravagant Love

Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2024 25:09


Jesus lives an increasingly life of truth-telling to civic and religious authorities. All the while he enfolds the marginalized and oppressed into a just and merciful embrace of care and love, calling disciples to do the same. Up to his impending death disciples cannot grasp what this will cost him. A woman enacting honor and love provides Jesus' followers, then and now, with an example of unbridled recognition of who Jesus is. What is imprinted on our being? How can we break alabaster jars to display open and prepared hearts?Sermon begins at minute marker 5:09Mark 12.13-17, 14.3-9ResourcesBibleWorm podcasts: 528 The Parable of the Tenants, and 531 The Triumphal Entry and the Anointing at Bethany  Image by vicky_photographies from PixabayBelievers Church Bible Commentary: Mark, by Timothy J Gaddert, editors Elmer A Martens and Willard M Swartley; Herald Press, Scottdale PA 2001 Women's Bible Commentary, Third Edition: Revised and Updated, editors by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, Jacqueline E. Lapsley; Westminster John Knox, 2012  Hymn: Voices Together 320, My Song is Love Unknown. Music: John N. Ireland (England), Songs of Praise, 1925 Text: Samuel Crossman (England), The Young Man's Meditations, or some few Sacred Poems..., 1664; rev. Hymns for Today's Church.  Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons
Learn to Know to Love to Honor/Protect

Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2023 25:27


Place-based watershed discipleship and the spiritual practice of reverence deepen our experience of kinship with all creation. Pastor Megan shares stories of learning to know mountains, learning to know neighbors and neighborhood, and learning to know our foremothers in the faith. To get more specific: she learns to love the contours of the Olympic Mountain range, the many neighbors who walk along 125th in Lake City, and the tent-making mother of teachers in Acts, Priscilla. In each of these cases, learning to know more fully nurtures loving more deeply, which may lead us to both honor and labor to protect all of our kin.Sermon begins at minute marker 6:03 Acts 18:24-27 ResourcesKnow Your Mothers project, by Cara Quinn: https://knowyourmothers.com/ “Know Your Mothers project returns after hiatus,” published in The Christian Century, May 4, 2022, from Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service.“Reverence vs. Faith”, Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Podcast, with Sarah Augustine and Sheri Hostetler, Season 1, Episode 5, August 2021. “We won't protect places we don't love. We can't love places we don't know. And we don't know places we haven't learned,” adapted from Baba Dioum, Senegalese environmentalistElizabeth Person, map artist & designer: https://elizabethperson.com/ A Woman's Lectionary for the Whole Church (Year W): A Multi-Gospel Single-Year Lectionary, Wilda C. Gafney, Church Publishing Incorporated (2021).The Women's Lectionary: Preaching the Women of the Bible Throughout the Year, Ashley M. Wilcox, Westminster John Knox Press (2021).Willie James Jennings, Commentary on Acts, Westminster John Knox Press (2017).Women's Bible Commentary, eds. Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe, Westminster John Knox Press (1992).Image: Pastor Megan doing “office hours” in the alcove, taken by Dave SloneckerHymn: Voices Together, 115, Praise Be to God. Text: Nobuaki Hananoka, 1980. Music: Japanese traditional. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons
Belonging to a True Word

Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2022 14:18


The scene in Jerusalem during this time of Passover is fraught, and occupying imperial power is tenuous. Crowds travel all across the Judean landscape to convene in Jerusalem for an annual pilgrimage in which they retell a story of their ancestors finding liberation from oppressors. The contemporary oppressive overlords tremble at the prospect that the power of the people may rise up against them. It's in this context that Jesus is tried by Pilate. The wheels of imperial self-interested violence cycles churn away - keeping everyone afraid of everything all the time. According to John's gospel, Jesus has come as a True Word that stands in opposition to the siren voice of the bandit leading his violent and scattered revolt. Nothing could be more threatening to the occupying imperial powers than an embodied TRUE word of belonging and nonviolent resistance.Sermon begins at minute 3:14John 18:28-40Pilate Judgment, detail from a 15th century icon (public domain)Hymn: Ah, Holy Jesus, VT 330 Words and Music - ©PD Public Domain Music: Johann Crüger; Text: Johann HeermannBibleworm podcast: Episode 334 – What Is Truth, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.Willard M Swartley, JOHN: Believers Church Bible Commentary, Herald Press (2013).Women's Bible Commentary, eds. Carol A Newsom and Sharon H Ringe, Westminster John Knox Press (1992).The Queer Bible Commentary, eds. Deryn Guest, Robert E Goss, Mona West, Thomas Bohache, SCM Press (2006).Francis J Moloney, S.D.B., The Gospel of John, Sacra Pagina Series Vol. 4, The Liturgical Press (1998).

Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons
“Munching Jesus' Flesh”

Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2022 26:36


To be frank: John is a bit extra. John's gospel will take anything that Jesus says or does in Matthew, Mark, or Luke, and turn the dial all the way up to “whaaaat?!” Following the feeding of way-more-than-5000 with 5 barley loaves and 2 dried fish, Jesus begins his discourse with “I AM the bread of life.” Which sounds positively quaint by the time he gets to the rather graphic proclamation that only those who munch on his flesh have life in them; that those who munch on his flesh will have eternal life. What can it possibly have meant then or now to munch on Jesus' flesh? Sermon begins at minute 7:25Scripture: John 6.35-59 Image: memeHymn: VT 480 I Am the Bread of Life  Contributors: Sr. Suzanne Toolan Tune: © 1966, 1970, 1986, 1993, 2005, GIA Publications, Inc. Text: © 1966, 1970, 1986, 1993, 2005, GIA Publications, Inc.Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.Resources:Bibleworm podcast: Episode 327 – The Bread of Life, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.Willard M Swartley, JOHN: Believers Church Bible Commentary, Herald Press (2013).Women's Bible Commentary, eds. Carol A Newsom and Sharon H Ringe, Westminster John Knox Press (1992).The Queer Bible Commentary, eds. Deryn Guest, Robert E Goss, Mona West, Thomas Bohache, SCM Press (2006).Francis J Moloney, S.D.B., The Gospel of John, Sacra Pagina Series Vol. 4, The Liturgical Press (1998

Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons
A Jewish Man & Samaritan Woman Walk Into a Bar…

Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2022 23:39


Okay, they don't precisely “walk into a bar”, but they do meet at their local “watering hole”... the well… literally a hole with water in it. Ha! Do I have your attention yet?! Two people like them are NOT supposed to interact at all, but these two beloved humans conspire to cross religio-socio-cultural boundaries to encounter one another: human to human. Neither do they shy away from the most pressing theological dispute that fuels the sometimes violent antagonism between their respective peoples. The Samaritan woman (anonymous) dives right into the thorns with the Jewish man (Jesus), and by the end of it all she goes to her people with 1) an invitation: “Come and see…”, and 2) an open question “Could this man be…?” Stick around through all the noticings in this gorgeous story, and be treated to a “biblical experiment in decolonization,” thanks to the compassionate heart and imaginative mind of one baptized with the waters of Shoal Lake 40 in Treaty 1 territory, Canada.Sermon begins at minute 7:41John 4:1-42Image: JESUS MAFA. Jesus and the Samaritan Woman, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48282 [retrieved January 31, 2022]. Original source: http://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr (contact page: https://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr/contact). Note on JESUS MAFA (Vie de Jesus Mafa): French Catholic missionary François Vidil worked with Mafa Christian communities in Northern Cameroon in the 1970s to create a set of 63 paintings depicting the life of Jesus as if they'd taken place in a Cameroonian village.Hymn: VT 536, I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say. Contributors: Ralph Vaughan Williams, ICEL  Tune: Music: traditional English melody, arr. By Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 © Oxford University Press, London. Text: Text: Horatius Bonar, 1806-1889.  Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reservedBibleworm podcast: Episode 324 – The Woman at the Well, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.JOHN: Believers Church Bible Commentary, by Willard M Swartley, Herald Press (2013).Women's Bible Commentary, eds. Carol A Newsom and Sharon H Ringe, Westminster John Knox Press (1992).“Stolen Waters, Thirsty People,” Susanne Guenther Loewen, from Unsettling the Word: Biblical Experiments in Decolonization, ed. Steve Heinrichs, Mennonite Church Canada (2018), 220-221.

The TLDR Bible Show
Episode Six: Nahum

The TLDR Bible Show

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2020 33:33


Billy & Liz somehow manage to make jokes and have a good, hope-filled conversation even as they discuss what's gotta be the worst book of the Bible. (Don't worry— We'll keep a running list of contenders!) Further Reading Bruce C. Birch, Walter Brueggemann, Terence E. Fretheim, and David L. Petersen. A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005. Michael Carden. “Malachi.” In The Queer Bible Commentary, edited by Deryn Guest, Robert E Goss, Mona West, Thomas Bohache, 481-484. London: SCM Press, 2006. Julia M. O'Brien. Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004. Women's Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, Jacquline E. Lapsley, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2012. New Oxford Annotated Bible. Edited by Michael Coogan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Audre Lorde, “The Master's Tool Will Never Dismantle the Master's House.” --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tldrbible/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tldrbible/support

The TLDR Bible Show
Episode Five: Habakkuk

The TLDR Bible Show

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2020 40:07


Billy and Liz get super passive aggressive this episode as we debate the importance of historical context. Listen in and tally up the number of times we say “I love that for you…” Further Reading Bruce C. Birch, Walter Brueggemann, Terence E. Fretheim, and David L. Petersen. A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005. Julia M. O'Brien. Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004. William Cavanaugh, “Killing for the Telephone Company: Why the Nation-State is not the Keeper of the Common Good.” Beverly Harrison. Making the Connections: Essays in Feminist Social Ethics. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986. New Oxford Annotated Bible. Edited by Michael Coogan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Women's Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, Jacquline E. Lapsley, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2012. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tldrbible/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tldrbible/support

The TLDR Bible Show
Episode Four: Zephaniah

The TLDR Bible Show

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2020 31:14


According to Zephaniah... God is ANGRY! Listen in as we discuss all kinds of Judgement, and the dangers of nationalism. Further Reading: Bruce C. Birch, Walter Brueggemann, Terence E. Fretheim, and David L. Petersen. A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005. Michael Carden. “Zephaniah.” In The Queer Bible Commentary, edited by Deryn Guest, Robert E Goss, Mona West, Thomas Bohache. London: SCM Press, 2006. Christine Hays. “Literary Prophecy: Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, and Habbakuk.” Lecture, Yale Divinity School: https://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-145/lecture-18 Julia M. O'Brien. Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004. Julia M. O'Brien. “Zechariah.” In Women's Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, Jacquline E. Lapsley. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2012. Mark Boda. Haggai, Zechariah: The NIV Application Commentary, Book 9. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004. New Oxford Annotated Bible. Edited by Michael Coogan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tldrbible/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tldrbible/support

The TLDR Bible Show
Episode Three: Haggai

The TLDR Bible Show

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2020 33:36


In this episode, we discuss the book of Haggai— where Bobby from Queer Eye rebuilds the Temple in Jerusalem (if Bobby were really into hierarchies that disenfranchise minority communities). Tell us what you think about the conversation and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, & Facebook @tldrbible. Further Reading: Bruce C. Birch, Walter Brueggemann, Terence E. Fretheim, and David L. Petersen. A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005. Julia M. O'Brien. Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004. Julia M. O'Brien. “Haggai.” In Women's Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, Jacquline E. Lapsley, 342-345. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2012. Mark Boda. Haggai, Zechariah: The NIV Application Commentary, Book 9. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004. New Oxford Annotated Bible. Edited by Michael Coogan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tldrbible/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tldrbible/support

The TLDR Bible Show
Episode Two: Zechariah

The TLDR Bible Show

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2020 26:55


In this episode, we discuss the book of Zechariah: Flying scrolls, colorful horses, baskets full of women, and so much more. Tell us what you think about the conversation! Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, & Facebook. Special thanks to Charlie Kluttz for our amazing new theme song. Learn more about Charlie and his work by contacting him at charlie@yadkinarts.org. Co-hosted by Elizabeth Pruchnicki (she/hers) and Rev. Billy Kluttz (he/him). References: Bruce C. Birch, Walter Brueggemann, Terence E. Fretheim, and David L. Petersen. A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005. Christine Hays. “Visions of the End: Daniel, and Apocalyptic Literature.” Lecture, Yale Divinity School: https://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-145/lecture-23 Julia M. O'Brien. Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004. Julia M. O'Brien. “Zechariah.” In Women's Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, Jacquline E. Lapsley, 346-349. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2012. Mark Boda. Haggai, Zechariah: The NIV Application Commentary, Book 9. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004. New Oxford Annotated Bible. Edited by Michael Coogan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tldrbible/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tldrbible/support

The TLDR Bible Show
Episode One: Malachi

The TLDR Bible Show

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2020 31:51


In this episode, we discuss the book of Malachi: Anger, sacrifice, divorce, and more. Tell us what you think about the conversation! Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, & Facebook @tldrbible. Co-hosted by Elizabeth Pruchnicki (she/hers) and Rev. Billy Kluttz (he/him). References: Ingrid E. Lilly. “Malachi.” In Women's Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, Jacquline E. Lapsley, 350-353. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2012. New Oxford Annotated Bible. Edited by Michael Coogan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Stacy Davis. Haggai and Malachi. Edited by Barbara E. Reid and Carol J. Dempsey. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2015. Julia M. O'Brien. Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2004. Michael Carden. “Malachi.” In The Queer Bible Commentary, edited by Deryn Guest, Robert E Goss, Mona West, Thomas Bohache, 481-484. London: SCM Press, 2006. Lillian Daniels “Spiritual But Not Religious Please Stop Boring Me,” Huffpost. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/spiritual-but-not-religio_b_959216 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tldrbible/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tldrbible/support

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62X - Response | Chris Blumhofer

FULLER curated

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2019 18:02


Chris Blumhofer, visiting assistant professor of New Testament, poses the question of how Carol A. Newsom’s lectures inform our reading of the New Testament, and particularly the Pauline epistles.

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62 - Constructing Landscape of Interiority in Second Temple Judaism | Carol A. Newsom

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2019 51:05


Carol A. Newsom, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old Testament at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, explores how cultural practices and resources shape a society’s concepts of self, focusing particularly on the function of introspection in the Second Temple period.

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62X - Response | Siang-Yang Tan

FULLER curated

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2019 15:36


Siang-Yang Tan, professor of psychology, responds to Carol A. Newsom’s lecture by considering the ideas of self through the lenses of psychotherapy and Eastern contemplative traditions.

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61X - Response | Kyong-Jin Lee

FULLER curated

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2019 13:12


Kyong-Jin Lee, associate professor of Old Testament, responds to Carol A. Newsom’s lecture, considering how modern beliefs of the self shape societies.

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61 - When the Problem is Not What You’ve Done but Who You Are: The Changing Focus of Atonement | Carol Newsom

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2019 50:54


Carol A. Newsom, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old Testament at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, speaks about the shifting understanding of sinfulness and moral agency during Israel’s Second Temple period.

What Lies Beyond
7. The Three Feminines That Time Forgot: Eve, Lilith, and Pandora

What Lies Beyond

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2016 41:41


Join Campbell in discovering the hidden meaning of the Genesis story of Eve. Meet Eve's hidden sisters - the other first women created in Western religion: Lilith and Pandora! Show Note Resources and Recommended Reading: Eve: A Biography by Pamela Norris, The Hebrew Goddess by Raphael Patai, The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of An Image by Jules Ashford and Anne Baring, The Five Books Of Moses by Robert Alter, Women's Bible Commentary, Edited by Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley, The Stolen Light of Women by C.C. Campbell   Join us at www.cwhatliesbeyond.com, or on Facebook or Tweet us @cwhatliesbeyond What Lies Beyond is produced and copyrighted by Anu Esoteric Media The voice of What Lies Beyond is C.C. Campbell, author of The Stolen Light of Women; you can learned more about her at www.cccampbell.org    

Prophetic Voices
COSMOS - God's Creation and the Care of the Earth

Prophetic Voices

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2015 100:51


When Candler was founded a century ago, the world still seemed vast. New technologies seemed to offer a future of unlimited progress. Now we understand how the unintended consequences of our actions threaten the very systems that support life on this planet. Reflecting on the threats to the environment in biblical and theological terms offers insights into who we are, what our covenantal responsibilities are, and how we can ground hope even as we face an uncertain future. Speaker: Carol A. Newsom, Candler School of Theology, "Understanding and Hope in a Time of Climate Change: A Conversation with the Bible" Panelist: Sally G. Bingham, Interfaith Power and Light and the Regeneration Project, "Love God, Heal Earth" Panelist: Norman Wirzba, Duke Divinity School, "Why Theological Education Needs Ecological Wisdom" Moderator: Jonathan Strom, Candler School of Theology

Cannon Chapel Sermons - Cannon Chapel Sermons
4_2_15 Carol_Newsom's Sermon

Cannon Chapel Sermons - Cannon Chapel Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2015 10:05


04/02/2015. Dr. Carol A. Newsom, Director, Graduate Div. of Religion & C. H. Candler Professor of Old Testament, delivers the sermon. Scripture reading: John 13: 1-8, 12-17, 34-35.

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Carol Newsom's Chapel Sermon 04_22_14

Cannon Chapel Sermons - Cannon Chapel Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2014 16:15


4/22/2014. Sermon by Dr. Carol A. Newsom, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old Testament, Director, Grad. Division of Religion. Service of word and table. Easter Week. Scripture reading: John 20:19-31.

Ancient & Late Antique Near East Lecture Series
Demons and Evil Angels in Early Judaism

Ancient & Late Antique Near East Lecture Series

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2013 48:45


Although classical Israelite religion has very little to say about demons and other evil forces, but popular religion took it for granted that evil demons existed, haunting desert ruins and sometimes preying on people. In the late Persian and Hellenistic periods (4th—2nd centuries BCE) speculation about these types of figures proliferates. Incantations against demons, protective amulets, and practices of exorcism are all attested. Mythic accounts of the origin of evil spirits are developed, and the names and occasionally even the appearance of the demons are described. This talk will examine the origins and functions of speculation on demonic forces in early Judaism, a worldview with profound and lasting cultural effects. Although rabbinic Judaism largely rejected it, this worldview strongly shaped Christian religious beliefs. And while modernist Christians do not take the mythology of evil spirits literally, variations on these beliefs remain common among conservative evangelical and Pentecostal Christians throughout the world. Carol A. Newsom is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old Testament at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. She has written seven books and scores of articles, book chapters, translations, encyclopedia articles, and reviews. She has received several prestigious research fellowships, including grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Henry Luce Foundation, and has won several awards for excellence in teaching and mentoring. She recently served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature and is a senior fellow at Emory University's Center for the Study of Law and Religion.