Helen Bond: the Historical Jesus & his Female Disciples

Homebrewed Christianity

Dr. Tripp Fuller | Theologian, Philosopher, Minister

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.6 • 613 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Dr. Helen K. Bond is Professor of Christian Origins & Head of the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. She returns to the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation tackling topics from members of the HBC online Lent group, Jesus De/Constructed. In our chat we discuss… what is the difference between the historical Jesus and the Christ of faith? how does a historical Jesus scholar do their work? the cultural/social/political/religious matrix of the historical Jesus the role of honor and shame in Jesus’ culture the entanglement of religion and politics what is the scholarly consensus around the historical Jesus? the political potency of Pilate’s pagan foreign troops in town for the Passover what does it mean for Jesus to be an Apocalyptic Jewish figure? it’s the end of the world, but what do “end” and “world” mean? how did the ancient world understand religion, divinity, and god-talk? how should we understand the titles of Jesus in the NT and his historical self-consciousness? what does it mean for Jesus to be the Christ? why does Paul say so little about the historical Jesus? what occasioned the composition of the Gospels? you should listen to Helen’s first visit to the podcast…the First Biography of Jesus… PS it is the Gospel of Mark how does seeing the Gospels as biographies change the way we read them? go get Helen’s new book Women Remembered: Jesus’ Female Disciples the role and status of women in the early church how the transitions within the early church brought back the patriarchy Tertullian and the Montanists Helen’s favorite female followers of Jesus was Jesus a feminist? what do we know about Mary, the mother of Jesus? the historical Jesus’ brother James the cross & resurrection Don’t forget to join Tripp & Diana this Lent for an open online class – Jesus De/constructed! Details here. Follow the podcast, drop a review, or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, yeah, what is up theology nerds? This is Tripp, and you're listening to Homebrewed Christianity.
0:14.4	And today on the podcast, we have a return visit from the one and only Helen Bond, professor of Christian origins,
0:22.0	head of the School of Divinity here at the University of Edinburgh.
0:25.9	And we have ourselves a good old time.
0:28.9	That's right.
0:29.6	I had a giant stack of topics that individuals of our current pop-up reading group,
0:35.6	Jesus Deconstructed.com, sent in and I said, let me get some of my
0:40.1	Bible nerd friends. And here's one, Helen Bond. We talk about the historical Jesus. What is it?
0:46.3	And how does a historian figure anything out about the historical Jesus? We talk about the
0:50.7	apocalyptic nature of the early church. What were the titles of Jesus? What did they
0:55.1	mean in their context? And how did Jesus even understand himself in his relationship to God?
0:59.5	What about the patriarchy? Was Jesus a feminist? Why did he get killed anyway? What's the deal with
1:05.8	nonviolent resistance? You know in Jesus. Look, there are so many other topics we get to, including the resurrection.
1:12.8	So enjoy it, check it out.
1:14.9	If you want to catch this, a bunch of other stuff around Jesus, head over to
1:18.6	Jesus Deconstructed.com.
1:20.6	You can still sign up, get access to everything that's been a part of the ongoing
1:24.7	class with Diana Butler Bass and friends.
1:28.7	Now, dear listeners, before we hop in, I just want to give some shoutouts to the newest members
1:35.4	of the Homebrewd Christianity Community.
1:38.3	That's right, these are people that went to Homebrewd Community.com signed up.
1:42.0	They donate each month, make this possible, Get access to the Homebrew Facebook group
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