fleetwd1Lecture by Peter Williams “Does the Bible Support Slavery?”
Given 7pm - 9pm on Friday October 30, 2015 at The Lanier Theological Library Chapel in Houston, Texas.
It is part of the Lanier Library Lecture Series. A series devoted to bringing world class lectures to benefit the community of all those who might be interested.
I am indebted to the generosity of the library to allow me to share these videos of theirs. Please support them by visiting their website for more information and resources:
Lecture by Peter Williams "Does the Bible Support Slavery?"
In history the Bible was appealed to in support of both the abolition of slavery and of keeping slaves. Today people often object to the Bible as a document supporting slavery. This lecture will examine the key Old Testament and New Testament texts said to support slavery and show how the Bible as a whole does not support slavery. To do this, we will look at the biblical words commonly associated with slavery and how their translation has changed over time. We will also look at the logic of the Old Testament world and the way ancient societies were structured quite differently from ours.
Peter Williams is the Warden of Tyndale House in Cambridge and an affiliated lecturer at Cambridge University. This will be his third lecture at the Lanier Theological Library.
bio info:
Dr. Peter Williams is the Warden and CEO of Tyndale House Cambridge and a lecturer on the Hebrew language at the University of Cambridge. He earned his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. at Cambridge University studying ancient languages related to the Bible. Prior to leading Tyndale House, Williams was a Senior Lecturer in New Testament in the University of Aberdeen. He has spoken in churches, universities, seminaries, high schools and at conferences and seminars/workshops across the US and the world on Biblical subjects including Bible translation, apologetics, and how to understand the Scriptures.
Tyndale House Cambridge was awarded a commission by the Green Scholars Initiative (founded by the owners of Hobby Lobby) to research, transcribe and publish the Codex Climaci Rescriptus (CCR). The CCR is the most important manuscript of Christian Palestinian Aramaic and is the jewel in the crown of the Green Collection. Williams is personally leading this project.
Williams chairs the International Greek New Testament Project, which is currently producing the world’s most comprehensive information on the manuscripts of John’s Gospel. He is also a member of the Translation Oversight Committee of the English Standard Version of the Bible. He is passionate that the Bible should be well translated and carefully studied.
Looking back on his academic history, Williams describes his professional journey saying, “I find it amazing how I was led through stages of thinking I was going to do something else (be a Bible translator, OT scholar, NT scholar), only to find that I am now responsible for a library and research community in which my interests in both Testaments and in languages related to Bible study are highly useful.”
Williams has been involved in summer missions for over 20 years in Belgium where he and his wife Kathryn first met. They have two children, Magdalena and Leo.
Lecture - Peter Williams Does the Bible Support Slavery?fleetwd12015-12-02 | Lecture by Peter Williams “Does the Bible Support Slavery?”
Given 7pm - 9pm on Friday October 30, 2015 at The Lanier Theological Library Chapel in Houston, Texas.
It is part of the Lanier Library Lecture Series. A series devoted to bringing world class lectures to benefit the community of all those who might be interested.
I am indebted to the generosity of the library to allow me to share these videos of theirs. Please support them by visiting their website for more information and resources:
Lecture by Peter Williams "Does the Bible Support Slavery?"
In history the Bible was appealed to in support of both the abolition of slavery and of keeping slaves. Today people often object to the Bible as a document supporting slavery. This lecture will examine the key Old Testament and New Testament texts said to support slavery and show how the Bible as a whole does not support slavery. To do this, we will look at the biblical words commonly associated with slavery and how their translation has changed over time. We will also look at the logic of the Old Testament world and the way ancient societies were structured quite differently from ours.
Peter Williams is the Warden of Tyndale House in Cambridge and an affiliated lecturer at Cambridge University. This will be his third lecture at the Lanier Theological Library.
bio info:
Dr. Peter Williams is the Warden and CEO of Tyndale House Cambridge and a lecturer on the Hebrew language at the University of Cambridge. He earned his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. at Cambridge University studying ancient languages related to the Bible. Prior to leading Tyndale House, Williams was a Senior Lecturer in New Testament in the University of Aberdeen. He has spoken in churches, universities, seminaries, high schools and at conferences and seminars/workshops across the US and the world on Biblical subjects including Bible translation, apologetics, and how to understand the Scriptures.
Tyndale House Cambridge was awarded a commission by the Green Scholars Initiative (founded by the owners of Hobby Lobby) to research, transcribe and publish the Codex Climaci Rescriptus (CCR). The CCR is the most important manuscript of Christian Palestinian Aramaic and is the jewel in the crown of the Green Collection. Williams is personally leading this project.
Williams chairs the International Greek New Testament Project, which is currently producing the world’s most comprehensive information on the manuscripts of John’s Gospel. He is also a member of the Translation Oversight Committee of the English Standard Version of the Bible. He is passionate that the Bible should be well translated and carefully studied.
Looking back on his academic history, Williams describes his professional journey saying, “I find it amazing how I was led through stages of thinking I was going to do something else (be a Bible translator, OT scholar, NT scholar), only to find that I am now responsible for a library and research community in which my interests in both Testaments and in languages related to Bible study are highly useful.”
Williams has been involved in summer missions for over 20 years in Belgium where he and his wife Kathryn first met. They have two children, Magdalena and Leo.Featuring Mark Laniers Revelationfleetwd12024-06-21 | A playlist of the Biblical Literacy videos of Revelation can be found here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXYWl2o35j8wH5-Jrp6jbIHGM3CKypJ5&si=M21Sywwp_9N3yuLX
For a shorter version of Mark teaching on Revelation this playlist from the Context Bible has 7 videos Mark does the first 2 and the last 3. It is consistent with the current series but in less depth. youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXYWl2o35j-mjP5av1Pfmp4H3qZHtGf8&si=TuznJ14185BjMkCEDr Des Ford on Science 1Timothy 6:20fleetwd12024-04-20 | Edited from a previous upload Dr Des Ford - NT55B (1&2Timothy & Titus) church government - science to isolate this 11 min teaching on Science.
If you like this video and want a deeper dive please watch this playlist by the same author.
The person whose view they discuss is Dr David B Capes - Paul's Kyrios Christology - Hayward Lectures 2014 (my edit) youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMXYWl2o35j8wEbBDLzEB6brfKnnpR8ZPSpecial Event - The Divine Rescue - A Interview With Edward Fudge (Original) 2010fleetwd12022-01-16 | Mark Lanier interviews Edward Fudge about his book "The Divine Recue" in the Biblical Literacy class at Champion Forest Baptist Church 2010
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Summary “Come on take a little walk with me baby, and tell me who do you love?” – Bo Diddley
In the 5th century BCE, Parmenides said, “What-is” is, and “what-is-not” is not. So, “What-is” cannot be divided and cannot move. And since we are divided and do move, we must be “what-is-not.”
Heraclitus said, “Stop that, Parmenides. You’re freaking us out! It is obvious that the only thing that does not change is the truth that everything changes.” He referred to this truth as “the logos” (the word). And he said it was fire.
Plato argued that there is a realm of “What-is,” but we live in the realm of shadows, that is, what is not light. (Physicists now tell us that light does not experience “time.”)
Aristotle referred to “What-is” and what is undivided and eternal as “the Unmoved Mover.” How the Unmoved Mover could move, and how “What-is” could know a “what-is-not” like me remained a mystery…at least until the 4th century BCE, when one of Aristotle’s students, Alexander, conquered the known world, including the land of the Jews.
They worshipped “I Am that I Am,” who creates and sustains all things with a Word (logos). “I Am that I Am” sounds a lot like the Unmoved Mover, except that “I Am that I Am” moves and likes to go on walks. In fact, he is quite passionate about this, it would seem.
In the beginning, he was going for a walk in the garden in the “Spirit” of the day, when he called to the man and the woman, but they were hiding. They did not know their “Helper.” And so, he cast them from the garden; but as we saw last time, he went with them. He walked with them… but they did not seem to walk with him. He was still creating them.
Seven generations later, Enoch walked with God, and God “took him.” Three generations after that, Noah walked with God, and God saved him. Levi, the first priest, was said to walk with God, but none of the others did, apparently.
When God in the flesh (logos in carnos) appears in 0 BCE, what does he want? To go on walks. He finds twelve guys and says, “Come on, take a little walk with me, baby, and tell me, who do you love?”
When someone says to you, “Come on, let’s take a walk…” #1 It’s not about where you go, but who you are with. #2 You go for a walk not to get to a place, but to a person. #3 The things you encounter on your walk are the raw material of relationship… especially storms and snakes. #4 No two walks are just the same… #5 …And yet, the One we walk with remains the same: eternal, undivided, and true. #6 The One you walk with changes that way you walk… including whether or not you keep walking at all. (“Hell” is getting stuck in this age, our space, and our time.) #7 It takes a walk to create a faith. (Faith is trust.) #8 You go on a walk so that when you get to the end (which is the beginning) you will know the place for the first time, for you will know your helper as you have never known him before.
Adam (all humanity) will return to the garden and know it for the first time.
You will see what you cannot currently comprehend. You will see that the Beginning is the End, who is also the Way and did not leave you nor forsake you even when you forsook him and tried to leave him… like, all the time. You will see that the garden is a temple that is a city that contains an entire New Creation that is a body—the body of your helper and your own body, for you are his body and bride and the garden is in your soul.
We will know the garden for the first time, and we will know ourselves for the first time, for we will know our helper for the first time. And he will fill all things with himself, including us… the “what-is-not.” We will have watched ourselves become what we truly are: the image and likeness of “What-is,” “I Am that I Am,” “Yahweh.”
He is the Unmoved Mover that is constantly moving. He is a Dance constantly dancing and calling us into his dance. He is three persons and one substance; he is Love. He is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, unified in one eternal, unchanging judgment made in perfect freedom from outside of space and before time, but revealed on a Friday in a garden on a tree where we took his life, and he gave his life, Eternal Life; he is Good. He shows this to us on our walk: When we do our worst, he does his best.
Now, “Who do you love?” Him? Well, that is called “faith.”
It is how you are finished in the image and likeness of God, by God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. You are “what-is-not,” being filled with “I Am that I Am,” “What-Is.”
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