Hey everyone. Welcome to the OnScript podcast. This is Matt Lynch. Happy New Year to all of you from those of us here at OnScript. I hope that you've had a really nice holiday season and that you're well rested for the coming year. Um, apologies for the sound quality of this. I'm recording right on to my laptop using my laptop microphone because I'm on holiday right now and didn't bring anything else with me. But yeah, that's how it is. And I hope that you are looking forward to another good year

with OnScript too. We've got some exciting new developments, which I've mentioned in previous

episodes, including the fact that we've got a new theology stream on the podcast.

And Amy Brown-Hughes has joined us as our newest co-host, and you'll hear that episode in about two weeks.

And we're also still bringing you the every other week biblical studies podcast.

So we're not diminishing that side of things.

We're adding on this new

theology stream. For this episode, we've got a rebroadcast of an old one, so bear with the

sound quality on that as well. The interviewee is John Barkley on his book, Paul in the Gift.

As we've interviewed different guests, they've consistently said that John Barkley's Paul in the Gift. As we've interviewed different guests, they've

consistently said that John Barclay's Paul and the Gift is one of, if not the most significant

book in biblical studies, at least for New Testament studies, focused people in the last 50 years.

So it's well worth reading and hearing John talk about this book.

And maybe you can make it a resolution in this new year to work your way through his monumental book.

It's a rich read and will reward reading.

If you want to see scholarship at its best, read that book.

Okay, so without further ado, enjoy Paul and the Gift. John M. G. Barclay is Lightfoot

Professor of Divinity at Durham University in England, one of the most highly regarded

professorships in the theological world, a post which John has held since 2003. Previously, he was

a professor at Glasgow University, and it served as a lecturer at the University of Cambridge.

John's previous research work has been both wide-ranging and field-shaping.

John's early work on Galatians, obeying the truth, 1988, is a classic study among Pauline scholars,

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