Monday, November 09, 2009

Bibledex: 1 Timothy

The latest Bibledex video from the University of Nottingham's Theology and Religious Studies department is on 1 Timothy. It's four and a half minutes' long and crystal clear. It mainly features a certain Emily Gathergood, a very good and engaging speaker.



One suggestion: it would be good to have some on-screen credits for the people featured in the Bibledex videos.
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8 comments:

  1. Joe Weaks9 November 2009 at 15:57

    Mark,
    The Bibledex website has a page introducing each of the featured scholars.

    http://www.bibledex.com/team/theologians.html

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  2. Mark Goodacre9 November 2009 at 16:08

    Thanks, Joe. Adjusted accordingly.

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  3. AKMA9 November 2009 at 16:19

    Joe and you beat me to it — it looks like your scholar is Emily Gathergood.

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  4. Mark Goodacre9 November 2009 at 16:28

    I like the name. Simon Gathercole, she and I ought to edit a book together and then it would be "Gathercole, Goodacre and Gathergood".

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  5. Richard Fellows10 November 2009 at 01:41

    I'm a little shocked that there was no discussion of the authorship of 1 Tim. Surely Paul did not write it.

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  6. Anonymous10 November 2009 at 13:52

    I was as taken aback as Richard in how breezily 1 Timothy is attributed to Paul without the slightest acknowledgment of the disputed attestation. It kind of leaves me wondering about the rest of the presentation.

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  7. Unknown19 November 2009 at 17:18

    Hi I'm Brady and I make the videos....

    I'm trying to ensure there's some variety and if we went into the issue of authorship in every video I think things would get repetitive... I'm quickly learning that authorship is obviously a messy but fascinating issue for numerous books of the Bible.

    In this case we didn't go into it... However we do go into authorship in some of the other Bibledex videos, both existing and still to come...

    Details of all the theologians can be found at the bibledex site but onscreen credits could be something to look at.

    Cheers for the continuing interest.

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  8. Unknown27 November 2009 at 07:59

    Thanks for the review, Mark! I anticipate dealing with the authorship of the Pastorals in one go, probably in the 2 Timothy video - to avoid boring repetition we just went with “Paul” and “Timothy” here (of course I deal comprehensively with it in my PhD, which reads 1 Tim as post-Pauline and relatively early, at the first-second generation shift).

    Check out the Ephesians video, just out, which you'll be pleased to know has a couple of minutes on authorship!

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