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Ask NT Wright Anything

#120 New Testament Q&A: Pharisees, contradictions & oral tradition

Ask NT Wright Anything

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History, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Tom answers listener questions on the New Testament. Were the Pharisees all bad? How do we reconcile the different Gospel endings about where the disciples stayed after the resurrection? Is the oral tradition, before the Gospels were written down, reliable?• More shows, free eBook & newsletter: https://premierunbelievable.com• For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live• For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training-and-events• Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow• Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the show where you get to ask the questions of New Testament historian

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pastor and former bishop of Durham Tom Wright and brought you in partnership with SBCK

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and N.T. Wright online. I'm Justin. I'm the host of the show and we bring you a whole

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range of shows from premier unbelievable these days. I'll tell you about some of them in

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a moment. Today Tom's answering listen a questions on the New Testament where the Pharisees

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all bad. How do we reconcile the different gospel endings in the Bible and is the oral

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tradition before the gospels were written down actually reliable? Thanks Osiris who got

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in touch to leave a review saying I listened to this podcast on a regular basis. Now I agree

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with many things but disagree with many things too. I find it refreshing and intellectually

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challenging listening to other points of view especially on social issues that I don't

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necessarily agree with. Well that's what we like Osiris thank you for leaving that review.

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Challenging each other is an important part of how we grow isn't it? If you want more

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thinking challenging faith do go to our website premier unbelievable.com we keep adding

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now new articles all the time new videos and new shows too it's a really exciting time

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with those too you can find it all from premier unbelievable.com for now into today's show.

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Well today on the show we're talking about your new Testament questions last week we had

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a podcast devoted to some questions around the Old Testament its historicity certain confusing

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passages well today we're looking at some of the questions you have around Pharisees

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gospel endings or all tradition and that sort of thing so this is very much Tom's home

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tough so I'm looking forward to hearing what Tom has to say on some of these questions.

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