Category Archives: Early Christianity

Insights from N.T. Wright’s Inaugural Lecture: Imagining the Kingdom of God

By David Larsen | Published: October 27, 2011
Last night I had the opportunity to listen to Professor Tom Wright (a.k.a. N.T. Wright) give his Inaugural Lecture as Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity here at the University of St Andrews. Professor Wright has actually been at the university a year now and has previously given major public addresses here, but I guess this [...]
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Heavenly Ascents News

By David Larsen | Published: March 28, 2011
Just wanted to give you a brief update of some things I’ve been doing lately. I posted (a couple of weeks back now) some material over at The Millennial Star about the reforms of King Josiah and the Deuteronomists and how these reforms may have affected the theological themes found in the Old Testament we [...]
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Did Jesus Deny the Possibility of Heavenly Ascents? (John 3:13)

By David Larsen | Published: February 15, 2011
If so, then maybe I should change the name of my blog!! A few people have been asking me whether I plan to do regular posts on New Testament Sunday School topics, as I had been doing with the OT.  I would have to say that my tentative answer is either “maybe” or “probably not.” [...]
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On the Twelfth Day of Christmas: Epiphany

By David Larsen | Published: January 6, 2011
I think some of us Western “low church” Christians (speaking for myself, at least) have always wondered what the “twelve days” of Christmas were all about. I admit that I used to think it must be referring to the twelve days leading up to Christmas. Well, lo, and behold, it is actually the twelve days [...]
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“With Letters of Light”: Festschrift for Rachel Elior

By David Larsen | Published: December 4, 2010
In the first post that I put up with notes from SBL, I mentioned that a Festschrift in honor of Rachel Elior was presented to her at a gathering of the Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism group. The volume was edited by Daphna Arbel and my former Marquette professor, Andrei Orlov.  You can check it [...]
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SBL Annual Meeting 2010: Biblical Studies Conference in the Buckle of the Bible Belt

By David Larsen | Published: November 26, 2010
I arrived home Wednesday night from the 2010 Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting held in Atlanta, Georgia.  This year’s conference was an especially good one, in my experience, at least. I still look back with fondness on my first national SBL meeting in San Diego — the setting alone is hard to beat. However, [...]
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Professor Jim Davila on Christology: Son of God and Son of Man

By David Larsen | Published: November 3, 2010
The title of this post may be somewhat misleading, as what I am posting here is actually Professor Davila’s brief response to Mark D. Roberts’ recent blog posts on Christology at Beliefnet.com.  However, although not extensive in length, his comments are insightful and I thought they’d be interesting to post here.  Following Davila’s comments, I [...]
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Kevin Christensen on Margaret Barker’s Research

By David Larsen | Published: August 30, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned in a post on ancient Israelite religious reforms that Kevin Christensen had written a lot on that subject, but that the site that I was used to going to for links to his articles seemed to have some broken links. I was just recently made aware that all the [...]
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