750: #750 - A Theology Geek in Youth Pastor’s Clothing: A Conversation with Dr. Joey Dodson
Theology in the Raw
Theology in the Raw
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🗓️ 29 July 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
On episode #747 of Theology in the Raw Preston has a conversation with Joey Dodson. Joey is Preston’s best friend and the two of them are a recipe for disaster. In this podcast, Joey and Preston talk about the historical context of the Bible, fascinating parallels between Greco-Roman culture and the New Testament, and a botched prank toward some Scottish Jr. High girls while they were (mature?) Ph.D. students.
Joey is associate professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary. He completed his PhD (with Preston) at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and also studied at the University of Tübingen, Germany. His wife, Sadie, was his elementary school sweetheart, and they have five children: Mattie Mae, Kinobi, Cheetoh, Iain, and Caspian. He loves speaking at churches, conferences, camps and retreats as well as hiking, reading, watching sports and hanging out with Preston of course.
Joey’s a nerd, who has written a number of articles for academic journals such as Novum Testamentum, Catholic Biblical Quarterly and the Journal for Jewish Studies as well as essays in various volumes such as Paul and the Apocalyptic Imagination, and Reading Romans in Context. He is the author of A Little Book for New Bible Scholars with E. Randolph Richards, and The 'Powers' of Personification: Rhetorical Purpose in the 'Book of Wisdom' and the Letter to the Romans. He is the editor of Paul and the Second Century with Michael F. Bird; Paul and Seneca in Dialogue with David E. Briones; Paul and his Greco-Roman Philosophical Tradition with Andrew W. Pitts; and Paul and the Giants of Philosophy with David E. Briones.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello theology and the raw listeners thanks for joining me on this extra extra |
| 0:05.1 | extra special show I have on the podcast today my best friend Dr. Joey |
| 0:12.3 | Dodson. |
| 0:13.2 | If you know anything about me, |
| 0:14.6 | you might have heard about Dr. Joey Dodson. |
| 0:16.9 | We go way back. |
| 0:17.8 | We met at Aberdeen University, where we were both doing PhDs in New Testament studies and as you will see from this |
| 0:27.2 | podcast or I should say as you will hear from this podcast where I guess we're not the typical kind of PhD-ish scholarly types. |
| 0:37.0 | And you're going to hear some stories about why that is. |
| 0:40.0 | But I just, I'm so excited for this episode Joey is super brilliant. He's super funny and he just makes |
| 0:50.0 | the Bible exciting. You're gonna hear all kinds of stuff in this episode about the |
| 0:55.9 | context of the Bible, about lots of parallel stories that you know from the Bible and |
| 1:07.0 | about parallel stories that existed all across the ancient world |
| 1:09.8 | that resonate with some of the biblical stories.'re gonna be stretched you're gonna be |
| 1:14.0 | challenged you're gonna laugh you're gonna cry I think you're gonna really enjoy this |
| 1:19.2 | episode I had such a wonderful time catching up with my good friend Joey Dodson so please give it up for |
| 1:23.9 | Dr. Joey Dodson. All right, I'm here with my best friend Joey Dodson. Joey, yeah, thanks for being on this show. |
| 1:49.0 | I can't believe that I rarely, I think you believe it on the show like once is that correct once or twice right |
| 1:55.8 | I'm sorry man. |
| 1:56.8 | It's okay I don't feel like I'm very good at podcast anyway so it's awesome. |
| 2:01.8 | So I've got a video of you and I haven't seen you in several months you look a like |
| 2:06.4 | super skinny and in shape even working out or drinking your green smoothies or what? |
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