Dr helen bond biography of william hill

Dr. Helen K. Bond is Professor of Christian Origins & Head of the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh.

She returns to the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation tackling topics from members of the HBC online Lent group, Jesus De/Constructed. In our chat we discuss…

• what is the difference between the historical Jesus and the Christ of faith?
• how does a historical Jesus scholar do their work?
• the cultural/social/political/religious matrix of the historical Jesus
• the role of honor and shame in Jesus’ culture
• the entanglement of religion and politics
• what is the scholarly consensus around the historical Jesus?
• the political potency of Pilate’s pagan foreign troops in town for the Passover
• what does it mean for Jesus to be an Apocalyptic Jewish figure?
• it’s the end of the world, but what do “end” and “world” mean?
• how did the ancient world unders