S6E7: Reading narrative in prophetic books part 2

S6E7: Reading narrative in prophetic books part 2

Author: Tyndale House, Cambridge July 3, 2025 Duration: 30:38
In this episode, Francie Cornes continues her conversation with Tony Watkins and Peter Williams about the book of Jonah. Jonah is an unusual prophetic book because it is mostly narrative and has a very small amount of text where Jonah is actually proclaiming God’s word. In this second episode, Tony and Peter share insights into the theological themes we can see in chapters 2—4. In the first episode they looked at chapter 1 which you can catch up with here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1161728/e...

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S6E1: Who were the prophets? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:02
In this series Tony Watkins, Fellow for Public Engagement at Tyndale House, will be sharing how we can make sense of the books of the prophets, and providing helpful tips for how to read them for ourselves. In this first…
Interview with Peter Williams on eighty years of Tyndale House [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 34:19
In this episode, Dr Peter J. Williams, Principal of Tyndale House, walks us through the history of Tyndale House. Starting with the initial conversations about creating an institution for evangelical biblical scholarship…
S5E8: How did chapter divisions get into the New Testament? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:33
In this episode, Nelson Hsieh, Research Associate in New Testament Text and Language at Tyndale House, discusses chapter divisions in Bible manuscripts with Tony Watkins. Nelson has been working on chapter divisions for…
S5E6: What does textual criticism look like today? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 33:03
Having discussed how the early church and the reformers handled differences between Bible manuscripts, Tony, Dirk and Nelson now turn to look at how modern-day textual critics approach variation between manuscripts. Find…
S5E5: What role did textual criticism play in the reformation? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 30:04
In this episode, Tony Watkins (Fellow for Public Engagement at Tyndale House) hears from Dirk Jongkind (Academic Vice Principal at Tyndale House) and Nelson Hsieh (Research Associate in New Testament Text and Language) a…