Tyndale House Podcast
Tyndale House, Cambridge, brings you insights from high-level Bible research to help you understand the Bible more and explore reasons why it can be trusted.
Episodes
24 episodes
Edit Interview 4: Christopher Ash on the Psalms, Part 2
In this episode, Tony continues his conversation with writer-in-residence, Christopher Ash, on his new four-volume commentary on the Psalms. They discuss how Christ would have prayed the Psalms during his earthly life, the structure of the 5 bo...
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28:54
Interview 4: Christopher Ash on the Psalms, Part 1
In this episode, Tony interviews our writer-in-residence, Christopher Ash, on his new 4 volume commentary on the Psalms. Christopher shares how he came to write the commentary, the importance of the psalms, and why he thinks that the Psalms are...
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27:08
Interview 3: Ahreum Kim on the cultural context of 1 John
In this episode Tony Watkins sits down with biblical scholar, Ahreum Kim, who has been a reader at Tyndale House on and off since 2019 when she came here during her MPhil. She has since completed her PhD which focused on the letter of 1 John an...
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25:47
S3E7 Ancient Names – Why did kings in the Old Testament change their names?
In this episode, Tony, James, and Caleb continue discussing name changes in the Bible, but this time with a focus on throne names. They look first at how kings in the ancient world often changed their name when they became king, before then foc...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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28:14
S3E6: What's the significance of name changes in the Bible?
Please note: This episode contains a mention of birth trauma within the biblical narrativeIn this episode, Tony, James, and Caleb discuss name changes in the patriarchal narratives. They look at how common it was for names to be changed...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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31:34
S3E5 Who are the kings mentioned in Genesis 14?
In this episode, Tony sits down with James and Caleb again to look at the names of the foreign kings mentioned in Genesis 14 and to see how they fit in with what we know of those places from extra-biblical sources. At 10:44 Caleb s...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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42:34
S3E4 Ancient Names – What do the names of Jacob's sons mean? PART 2
Content warning: please note this episode contains a brief mention of rape within the biblical narrative, as well as a comment about birth trauma in the Ancient World. In this episode, Tony Watkins continues working through the bib...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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32:39
S3E3 Ancient Names – What do the names of Jacob's sons mean? PART 1
In this episode, Tony Watkins digs into the names of Jacob’s sons with Caleb Howard and James Bejon, who are both working on the Tyndale House Old Testament project. Starting at Genesis 29 they work through the biblical narrative of the son...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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26:44
S3E2 Ancient Names – Naming practices at birth
Episode 2 of our podcast series on Ancient Names.In this episode, Tony, George, and Caleb discuss naming practices from the Bible and the ancient world and compare them with practices today.Please note: at 17:34 Tony Watkins says...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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33:15
S3E1 Ancient Names – Why are names important?
This new series takes a deep dive into names in the Bible with the help of members of our Old Testament team. In this first episode, Tony Watkins speaks to Dr Caleb Howard and Dr George Heath-Whyte, both members of our Old Testamen...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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28:07
Interview 2: What's the context of 1 Corinthians 7? with Barry Danylak
In this interview Tony Watkins, Fellow for Public Engagement at Tyndale House, interviews Barry Danylak, Executive Director of SEE Global, about his new book, Paul and Secular Singleness in 1 Corinthians 7. Barry shares about the...
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28:52
S2E5 Names & Lists – Making sense of the Old Testament
In this episode Dr Andrew Ollerton is joined by James Bejon to talk about lists, names and genealogies in the Old Testament. Andrew and James take a look at Judges chapters 10 and 12 to talk about messy families, the significance of Biblical na...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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41:50
S2E4 Violence & Horror – How do we read Judges 19?
In this episode Dr Andrew Ollerton is joined by the Revd Dr Helen Paynter to look at horror and violence in the Old Testament. Helen walks us through one of the Old Testament’s “Texts of Terror”—the notorious 19th chapter of the book of Judges ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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46:57
S2E3 Law & Instruction – How do we read Deuteronomy?
In this episode Dr Andrew Ollerton is joined by Dr Daniel Block to look at Old Testament law and instruction. This episode’s text is Deuteronomy Chapter 27 and the instruction to set up the stones on Mount Ebal, as Daniel demonstrates how even ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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43:00
S2E2 Poetry & Allegory – How do we read Song of Songs?
In this episode Dr Andrew Ollerton is joined by Dr Ros Clarke to talk about how we read poetry and allegory in the Old Testament. We focus in on Chapter 5 of the Song of Songs as Ros helps us to unpack some of the richness and beauty of Old Tes...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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45:32
S2E1 Stories & Strangeness – Taking the Old Testament seriously
In this second series Dr Andrew Ollerton meets with academics and researchers from the Tyndale House network to discuss how they approach the Old Testament and wrestle with its trickier passages. Each episode focuses in on a different text from...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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34:30
Interview 1: The Tyndale House Principal
This episode is one of a number of standalone episodes we will be doing where we will interview readers, staff and visiting scholars at Tyndale House as well as scholars who we have links with. We will hear about the research they are doing and...
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Episode 8
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27:48
S1E7 Trusting the Gospels - End of series roundtable discussion
In this final episode Dr Peter J Williams, Dr Dirk Jongkind and Dr Chee-Chiew Lee join us again for a final roundtable discussion with Dr Andrew Ollerton to discuss together how they each read the gospels and how academic scholarship can raise ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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25:39
S1E6 Taking risks in the Gospel of John - Dr Chee-Chiew Lee pt2
In this episode Dr Andrew Ollerton and Dr Chee-Chiew Lee delve further into her research into persecution and what it means to take risks in the Gospel of John. Dr Chee-Chiew Lee is Associate Professor in New Testament and Senior Direct...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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26:21
S1E5 Reading the Gospels - Dr Chee-Chiew Lee pt1
In this episode Dr Andrew Ollerton speaks to Dr Chee-Chiew Lee about the experience of reading the four different Gospel perspectives. Dr Chee-Chiew Lee is Associate Professor in New Testament and Senior Director of Programme Developmen...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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25:31
S1E4 Can we have confidence in the manuscripts? - Dr Dirk Jongkind pt2
In this episode Dr Andrew Ollerton and Dr Dirk Jongkind ask whether we can have confidence to trust the Gospel manuscripts and how the Gospel accounts have been passed on to the present day. Dr Dirk Jongkind is probably best-known as ed...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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24:31
S1E3 The written Gospels – Dr Dirk Jongkind pt1
In this episode Dr Andrew Ollerton speaks to Dr Dirk Jongkind about the process through which the Gospels were preserved and came to be written down. Dr Dirk Jongkind is probably best-known as editor of the Tyndale House Greek New Testa...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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23:39
S1E2 Trusting the Gospels – Dr Peter J Williams pt2
In this episode Dr Andrew Ollerton and Dr Peter J Williams continue their discussion of the credibility of the four Gospels. Who were the Gospel authors and can we trust their testimonies?Dr Peter J Williams is Principal of Tyndale Hous...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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25:17
S1E1 Trusting the Gospels – Dr Peter J Williams pt1
In this episode Dr Andrew Ollerton and Dr Peter J Williams discuss how we gauge trustworthiness in everyday life and how we approach the question of the credibility of the four Gospels.Dr Peter J Williams is Principal of Tyndale House. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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25:51