Hey friends welcome back to another episode of theology in the Ram I guess today is Dr Miguel Echavaria who has a PhD from the Southern Baptist theological seminary he serves as associate professor of New Testament and Greek at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in

Wake Forest.

And he's the author of several books including The Future Inheritance of Land in the

Paul and the Pauline Epistles.

Forty questions about the Apostle Paul and his most

recently released book Engaging the New Testament a short introduction for students

administrators which is the topic of our conversation. So Miguel emphasizes the canonical context of the arrangement of the New Testament

and why and teases out why the canonical context of these books is actually important for

understanding their message. The fact that Matthew is placed first in the

forefold Gospels is important. The fact that it's Galatians,

Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians is important. Hebrew is coming at the end of the

Pauline letters is important anyway. That's the topic of our very fascinating

conversations so crack open your new testament folks and get ready for a deep

dive and welcome to the show for the first time that the one and only Dr. Miguel

at Chabodya.

I'm going to be.

All right, Miguel, thanks so much to being a guest on theology in the Ra.

Tell us, I guess, first, how did you get interested and really passionate about the new test? Well, biblical studies as a whole, but the new test.

Well, biblical studies as a whole,

but the New Testament in particular.

Yeah, actually, so during my master's degree,

studied at Dallas Seminary, We had a really good faculty there in New Testament. People like Buse

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