Oh, yeah, what is up, theology nerds?

This is Tripp.

And you're listening to Homebrewed Christianity.

Since the year of 2008, we've been bringing you audiological goodness interviews with scholars in the ivory tower and popping it right

into your earbud.

And today, returning to the podcast, is John Dominique Crossing.

Legendary New Testament scholar, leader in the historical Jesus research and friend of the podcast, friend of the podcast,

we're here answering a whole bunch of questions that people, like you, dear listeners,

send in around the Bible. We're going to go through a host of different questions looking at,

say, the relationship of Jesus and Paul historically, their shared connections and tensions in resistance to imperial power in Rome.

We'll also be discussing how a historian thinks about the historical Jesus.

And what's the relationship between the historical intellectual quest for understanding this figure, the context, the history, the community, and those who wrestle with

confessional commitments about the person of Jesus. What did it even mean the concept of the Messiah

in Jesus' historical context? How was and wasn't it applied to him? How did it shape his own

self-understanding, his self-consciousness before the one he calls

Abba? You see, there's tons, tons of super nerdy Bible questions sent in. We tackle them, right? And

this is, it's kind of thrilling. But we want you to know right up here at front that if you enjoy

hanging out with Dom, and especially, let's say you have a reading group a discussion group

a small group um sunday school class or whatnot and you are looking for something exciting to do

as we head towards Easter we are in the middle of producing four video lectures full of visually

rich uh images uh historical images art and such to explore the different Easter

stories, Easter stories from the East and the West parts of the church, and then how to think

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