#212 The New Testament in its World with special guest and co-author Mike Bird (Classic)

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🗓️ 28 March 2024

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Today's episode features a special guest - renowned Australian Bible scholar, co-authored and friend of Tom's, Mike Bird. Together, they delve into their groundbreaking collaborative work, "The New Testament in its World: An introduction to the history, literature, and theology of the first Christians" which both combines and unpacks years of Tom's major study into this seminal volume. For more books written by Tom Wright and Mike Bird • Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies (2024) https://shorturl.at/cwzBP • The New Testament in its World (2019) https://shorturl.at/BGLOX This episode originally aired on 6 Nov 2019 • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/courses • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to this replay of Ask NT Write Anything, where we go back into the archives to bring you the best of the thought and theology of Tom Wright, answering questions submitted by you, the listener.
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0:22.9	ebooks. That's premier unbelievable.com. And now for today's replay of Ask Entryte Anything
0:30.2	Anything.
0:34.7	The Ask Entryrite Anything podcast.
0:44.9	Well, welcome back to the podcast and a bit of a different one today because I'm joined by, as usual, Tom Wright here in the studio, but also joined on the line today
0:56.1	by Mike Bird, who has co-authored with Tom. So first of all, welcome back Tom to the studio.
1:03.1	Great to have you with me. Good to be with you. And welcome for the first time to the, we never had a
1:07.6	guest actually on the Ask Entry Anything podcast. So this is a first for us as well, Mike, but good to have you joining us today.
1:14.5	All the way from Melbourne, I think.
1:16.6	Yep, good-day from Melbourne.
1:18.5	And condolences to all my English friends for how the rugby went.
1:22.7	It's too bad, isn't it?
1:23.6	But at least we got rid of you Australians in the earlier round.
1:26.6	Yeah. isn't it but at least we got rid of you Australians in the earlier round yeah we we managed to sort
1:28.4	out the men from the boys early on didn't we um anyway um without any further rugby references
1:35.0	because i'm not sure rugby existed in first century um but um we're going to be talking about the new
1:41.0	testament in its world thank you very much for for coming on the line to join us for this edition of the show, Mike.
1:46.5	Just how long have you guys known each other is my first question. Tom, do you remember?
1:52.2	That's a good question. Mike may have a better memory than me, but I would say 10 or 15 years. Is that right, Mike?
1:57.4	I think it'd be like between 10 and 10 and 15 years. I remember I wrote a, in 2007, I wrote a little book on Paul called Paul and the
2:05.5	Saving Righteousness of God, which had an excurses at the end trying to defend Tom against
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