Substack's Offerings This Week
A busy week for Kris and me. I will be speaking Wednesday night in a church in San Antonio about Revelation for the Rest of Us, and then a Friday-Sunday SBL event will be wall-to-wall interactions and conversations and presentations. I’m giving a paper to the Pastoral Epistles section at IBR. I hope by then I will have a copy of my new commentary in hand. (Author copies have not yet arrived.) We love the Riverwalk in San Antonio.
Monday we finish off the wonderful series on a theology of good works, one rooted in Bible and especially Reformation and Protestant theology.
Tuesday we have a special guest post by Laura Tarro. She talks about unicorns. That’s all I will say here.
Wednesday we turn to trauma and the very real importance of hypervigilance that turns people’s inner trauma systems onto “On” that have a hard time being slowed down. Join us.
Thursday we look at the major themes in Holly Carey’s wonderful new book Women Who Do.
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On Wednesday, can you include the effect the continuing trauma of Roman occupation would likely have had on the population, and in particular, how various groups such as Pharisees, Saducees, Zealots, etc. might be a reaction to that trauma? (Maybe this is what you are doing anyway, or part of it.). And comment on how Jesus' ministry interacted with/responded to that trauma? Thanks.