Naked Bible 028: The Bible’s Literary Context: The Comedic Genre and the New Testament

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 22 January 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This episode of the Naked Bible podcast features Dr. Heiser's interview with his friend Dr. Sam Lamerson about the use of the comedic genre in the New Testament. Dr. Lamerson is Professor of New Testament at Knox Theological Seminary in Fort Lauderdale, FL. He has a specific research interest in the comedic genre in ancient Greek literature. The book referenced by Dr. Sam Lamerson in his interview with Mike was Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale, by Frederick Buechner.

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0:00.0	Here are the links to your naked viral podcast.
0:26.7	Welcome to another episode of the naked Bible podcast. We're going to be continuing with our
0:38.6	series on studying scripture in its own context and specifically its own
0:43.6	literary contexts. With this episode we're going to shift gears a little bit
0:48.9	though. I'm going to be conducting an interview. Stop 321. This past week I was
0:58.8	fortunate to have a friend in town, Dr. Sam Lamerson from Knox Theological
1:03.8	Seminary in Florida. And I interviewed Sam about genre study. Sam specifically
1:11.6	has an interest in the comedic genre which may surprise you as far as being
1:16.1	related to the study of the New Testament but that's why I wanted to
1:19.3	interview him. A little bit more about Sam. He has his PhD from Trinity International
1:24.2	University formerly known as Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. That's in
1:29.0	Deerfield, Illinois near Chicago. And he also has over 15 years of pastoral
1:35.5	experience. He's currently in addition to his professorship duties. An
1:39.7	associate pastor at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. He was the interim
1:45.8	morning preaching and teaching pastor during the illness of Dr. D. James Kennedy.
1:51.1	Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church of course was Dr. Kennedy's Church. Sam did
1:56.0	that for many months. Perhaps even close to a year before that church called
2:02.4	its new pastor. So Sam has a lot of pastoral experience. He's good at making
2:07.3	things simple. And so I wanted to interview him as part of our Naked Bible
2:12.8	Podcast series. So what you'll hear next is my interview with Dr. Sam Lamerson.
2:19.0	I'm here with Professor Sam Lamerson of Knox Theological Seminary. Sam teaches
2:25.7	New Testament at Knox and he's a friend of mine. So I thought since we had
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