A Conversation with N.T. Wright

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Russell Moore

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🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In this episode of Signposts, I am joined by renowned author and scholar, N.T. Wright. One of the world’s leading Bible scholars, Wright is the chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews. He is also an Anglican bishop and bestselling author. Among his many award-winning works are Simply Good News, Simply Jesus, Simply Christian, Surprised by Hope, How God Became King, Scripture and the Authority of God, Surprised by Scripture, and The Case for the Psalms. He is also the author of the recent translation of the New Testament, The Kingdom New Testament, and the widely acclaimed series, Christian Origins and the Question of God. In this episode, we discuss a range of topics including his new book, The New Testament in Its World, which he co-authored with Michael F. Bird. Be sure to subscribe to Signposts to get new episodes as they are released. The post A Conversation with N.T. Wright appeared first on Russell Moore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.0	dot o'rg. Hello this is Russell Moore and you're listening to sign posts and I've been looking forward to this conversation for quite some time.
0:55.0	I have in front of me a copy of the new book, brand new, by N. T. Wright and Michael Bird
1:01.5	called The New Testament in its world.
1:03.5	An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology
1:06.1	of the First Christians.
1:07.8	You know, a lot of books come in here.
1:10.3	This is one of the unusual books where two copies had come in because I had ordered one pre-ordered one a long time ago on Amazon and one came in from the publisher
1:19.2	And two of my colleagues were kind of arguing about who would get the other copy because there was a lot of
1:25.9	excitement about this. It's a beautiful book and really, really helpful. Professor Wright,
1:32.2	I wanted to ask you, I noticed the first thing when I opened the book in one
1:36.6	of the endorsements from Craig Blomberg, it said this book is partly a cliff's notes of N.T. writes the New Testament and the people of God.
1:47.3	And I thought it's not often that a 988 page volume would be called a
1:53.0	cliff note.
1:54.0	What is the mission of this volume?
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