{"id":40536,"date":"2018-09-03T16:47:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T20:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=40536"},"modified":"2018-09-10T22:52:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T02:52:32","slug":"podcast-236-levine-and-witherington-on-luke-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-236-levine-and-witherington-on-luke-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"podcast 236 &#8211; Levine and Witherington on Luke &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1430\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-40536-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities236.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities236.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities236.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities236.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=40536-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities236.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"trinities236.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7FuUF9DZM3zhtN41n6RJ6l\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribebyemail.com\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe by Email\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40542 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/levine-witherington-luke-commentary-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"400\" \/>For the first time, two accomplished New Testament scholars, one a Jew and the other a Christian, have coauthored a commentary on a book of Bible. Weighing in at 715 pages,<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gospel-Luke-Cambridge-Bible-Commentary\/dp\/0521676819\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1536000022&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=The+Gospel+of+Luke+%28New+Cambridge+Bible+Commentary%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Gospel of Luke<\/em><\/a> by Amy-Jill Levine and Ben Witherington III<\/strong> is a part of the New Cambridge Bible Commentary series. It does all of the things a full commentary should, but it also contains<strong> a series of friendly arguments in written form between an evangelical Methodist scholar and an agnostic feminist Jewish scholar<\/strong> who attends an Orthodox synagogue but describes herself as &#8220;often quite unorthodox.&#8221; They disagree on Luke&#8217;s attitude towards Judaism, his view of women, and sometimes his meaning or sources. But there&#8217;s also a lot these two distinguished scholars agree on.<\/p>\n<p>In this wide-ranging discussion we focus on <strong>this book&#8217;s origin<\/strong>, their agreements and disagreements, mistaken <strong>anti-Jewish readings of Luke<\/strong>, their opposition to replacement theology readings of Luke or Paul, radical views about the gospels such as <strong>mythicism<\/strong>, ancient anti-Marcionism and Luke 1-2, Luke&#8217;s anti-docetism, and the genre, authorship, style, and dating of this famous gospel.<\/p>\n<p>They have produced <strong>a model of informed, respectful, and reasonable dialogue<\/strong> between Christians and Jews, and you can hear aspects of their long dialogue here in part 1 of our discussion. (<a href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-237-levine-and-witherington-on-luke-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part 2 is here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Nero_D_IV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-40546\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/luke-in-the-lindesfarne-gospels.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Luke with his symbol (an Ox) from An Anglo-Saxon gospel-book (\u2018The Lindisfarne Gospels\u2019) - c. 700-3rd quarter of the 10th century\" width=\"451\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/luke-in-the-lindesfarne-gospels.jpg 761w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/luke-in-the-lindesfarne-gospels-342x450.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links for this episode:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gospel-Luke-Cambridge-Bible-Commentary\/dp\/0521676819\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1536000022&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=The+Gospel+of+Luke+%28New+Cambridge+Bible+Commentary%29\"><em>The Gospel of Luke<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/divinity.vanderbilt.edu\/people\/bio\/amy-jill-levine\">Dr. Amy-Jill Levine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/benwitherington.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Ben Witherington III<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Witherington&#8217;s blog The Bible &amp; Culture<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Did-Jesus-Exist-Historical-Argument\/dp\/0062206443\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1536000334&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=bart+ehrman+jesus\">Bart Ehrman, <em>Did Jesus Exist?<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Luke 1:1-4, Luke 18:1-8<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peshertechnique.infinitesoulutions.com\/The_Other_Gospels\/Paul_and_Talking_Lion.html\">Paul and the baptized lion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pseudepigrapha.com\/LostBooks\/TheInfancyGospelOfThomas.html\">Infancy Gospel of Thomas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlychristianwritings.com\/marcion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Cadbury\">Henry Cadbury<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlychristianwritings.com\/q-exist.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The &#8220;Q&#8221; hypothesis about the synoptic gospels<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/markgoodacre.org\/\">Mark Goodacre<\/a>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/markgoodacre.org\/Q\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Case Against Q<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>This week&#8217;s thinking music is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Doctor_Turtle\/none_given_1561\/Dead_From_The_Beginning_Alive_Till_The_End\">Dead From The Beginning, Alive Till The End<\/a>&#8221; 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