The third day of the symposium was only a half day, and revolved around three plenary sessions. Reinhard Kratz opened the morning with an in depth paper looking at the parallels between 4Q246 and the Old Testament backgrounds that it presumes and envelops. This paper expanded and explored aspects of…
Day two of the St Andrews Symposium started with a bang, as Michael Peppard presented a strong argument for the need of Christological research to engage with the pervasive imperial cult, rather than merely focusing on the Jewish origins. To put Peppard’s perspective on the imperial cult in his own…
This morning Qantas had the temerity (ok it was automated) to remind me that its only a little over a month before I will be heading to the UK for a pair of conferences, one at St Andrews in Scotland and the other at St Mary’s Twickenham down in London….
