EPISODE 149
Exactly 45 years ago, I began formal academic study of the New Testament. It began at Chapel Hill, transferred to Cambridge, Mass; continued in Nottingham; and concluded (tho’ not quite) at Tuebingen.
Looking back on it now, the whole thing was “A Heartache, A Shadow, A Lifetime” (Dave Mason). Tho’ I still have hope.
The hope lies in the inexhaustible life and wisdom of Jesus. That’s a well that seems to never run dry, or at least it hasn’t for me.
This podcast remembers a long line of impressive scholarly mentors, a longer line of students and teachers who were “working something out” (That’s the “heartache”!). It also reflects a kind of giving up on one strand of the work (the “shadow”), but a re-emphasis on another.
Finally — this is the “lifetime” — it casts a net of hopefulness, with a little help from Irvin S. Cobb.
I’ve tried to do some ruminating justice, to 45 years, in 45 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_efInwsiTWE&w=600
