Podcasts

Scholar/GuestBook & Publication InfoPodcast Date & Link
1Lee Martin McDonaldBefore There Was a Bible: Authorities in Early Christianity (T&T Clark, 2023)26 May 2023 🍎
2Christoph HeiligThe Apostle and the Empire: Paul’s Implicit and Explicit Criticism of Rome (Eerdmans, 2022)25 June 2023 🍎
3Eric Vanden EykelThe Magi: Who They Were, How They’ve Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate (Fortress Press, 2022)3 July 2023 🍎
4Yonatan AdlerThe Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal (Yale U. Press, 2022)29 July 2023 🍎
5James Crossley & Robert MylesJesus: A Life in Class Conflict (Zero Books, 2023)2 Aug. 2023 🍎
6Joshua SchachterleJohn Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity (Equinox, 2023)30 Aug. 2023 🍎
7Michael KochenashRoman Self-Representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2020)26 Sept. 2023 🍎
8Tom BoomershineFirst-Century Gospel Storytellers and Audiences: The Gospels as Performance Literature (Cascade, 2022)4 Oct. 2023 🍎
9Matthew ThiessenA Jewish Paul: The Messiah’s Herald to the Gentiles (Baker Academic, 2023)22 Oct. 2023 🍎
10Richard S. AscoughEarly Christ Groups and Greco-Roman Associations: Organizational Models and Social Practices (Cascade, 2022)16 Nov. 2023 🍎
11J. DanielSuds Series: Baseball, Beer Wars, and the Summer of ’82 (U. Missouri Press, 2023)26 Nov. 2023 🍎
12Isaac SoonA Disabled Apostle: Impairment and Disability in the Letters of Paul (Oxford U. Press, 2023)16 Dec. 2023 🍎
13Angela Kim HarkinsAn Embodied Reading of the Shepherd of Hermas: The Book of Visions and its Role in Moral Formation (Equinox, 2023)5 Feb. 2024 🍎
14Clare K. RothschildThe Muratorian Fragment: Text, Translation, Commentary (Mohr Siebeck, 2022)6 Feb. 2024 🍎
15Joshua Paul SmithLuke Was Not A Christian: Reading the Third Gospel and Acts within Judaism (Brill, 2024)4 June 2024 🍎
16Hank WillenbrinkPerforming for the Don: Theatres of Faith in the Trump Era (Routledge, 2024)23 June 2024 🍎
17Jeremiah CooganEusebius the Evangelist: Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity (Oxford U. Press, 2022)18 July 2024 🍎
18Jonathon LookadooThe Shepherd of Hermas: A Literary, Historical, and Theological Handbook (T&T Clark, 2021)4 Aug. 2024 🍎
19Philippe Guillaume & Diana V. Edelman, eds.The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in 5 Minutes (Equinox, 2024)21 Aug. 2024 🍎
20Christy Cobb & Katherine Shaner, eds.Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts (Eerdmans, 2025)30 Apr. 2025 🍎
21Hugo MéndezThe Gospel of John: A New History (Oxford U. Press, 2025)4 Nov. 2025 🍎

Rob hosts podcast conversations primarily for the Biblical Studies sub-channel of the New Books Network, interviewing authors of new and exciting scholarship primarily in New Testament and Early Christian Studies (but sometimes outside of these bounds as well). Some conversations are with well-established scholars and some are new with Ph.D.s discussing their first monographs/revised dissertations, but what unites these episodes is the potential for their scholarship to affect the course of the field of biblical studies. This page includes links to podcast episodes already published as well as previews of interviews planned in the near term.

If you are a scholar with a recently published book that fits the bill, I’d love to chat with you! Please get in touch with me using my Contact form, Academia, Bluesky, or some other way using the various links in the menubar or sidebar of this page.