What Was the First Century Church Actually Like?: Dr. Nijay Gupta

Theology in the Raw

Preston Sprinkle

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Dr. Nijay Gupta (DPhil, University of Durham) is a professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary and has written several academic books including A Beginner’s Guide to New Testament Studies, Paul and the Language of Faith, 15 New Testament Words of Life, and Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church. He has co-edited The State of New Testament Studies, Dictionary of Paul and His Letters (2nd ed.), and The State of Pauline Studies. He's also the author of the recent book Strange Religion: How the First Christians Were Weird, Dangerous, and Compelling, which forms the basis for our conversation. Exiles In Babylon Conference: https://theologyintheraw.com/exiles24/ Support Theology in the Raw through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theologyintheraw

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology and around my guest today is my good friend at Dr. knee J Gupta, who is a professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary. He got his doctorate in New Testament at University of Durham. He's written several academic books,
0:13.2	including a Beginners Guide to New Testament Studies,
0:16.5	Paul and the Language of Faith, 15 New Testament words of life
0:20.7	to and tell her story how women led taught and ministered in early church.
0:25.6	His recent book is this one right here, Strange Religion, how the first Christians were weird,
0:32.2	dangerous and compelling.
0:34.3	It's a book that I actually endorsed.
0:36.4	Yeah, it's an excellent book and DJ is just a sharp, sharp thinker.
0:39.5	He's a man of the church.
0:40.7	He's also a very, as I like to say a very responsible academic
0:45.8	biblical scholar and he merges those two very well so please welcome back to the
0:50.1	show that you wonder only Dr. Nijay Kuketah.
0:53.0	All right, Welcome back to Theology and Ron, EJ.
1:04.0	How are you doing this fine morning?
1:06.8	I'm doing great.
1:08.4	We're excited.
1:09.0	I was mentioning to you offline that we
1:11.6	Northern Seminary recently hired Matt Bates so we're super excited to have him join us so yeah living the dream.
1:17.8	Now you you teach at Northern Seminary in Chicago, but you've never lived in Chicago right like you do
1:24.0	do you do this all over now yeah early my career you might remember this I
1:29.8	bounced around from job to job. I lived in Ohio, Seattle, Philadelphia, New York, and then I landed kind of a long-term job in Oregon at George Fox University, Portland Seminary. And then when Northern came knocking,
1:44.6	we were wanting to stay settled in Portland.
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