Show Notes:
- Mary Hinkle Shore’s essay, “Was Jesus a Threat to the Roman Empire?“
1.22: Was Jesus a Threat to the Roman Empire?
Jesus was a political, as well as a religious, figure.
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Today's Episode Hosted By
Cameron Howard
Eric Barreto
Joined by
Mary Hinkle Shore
Featuring:
Mary Hinkle Shore
Mary is a pastor in the ELCA, with a Ph. D. in New Testament from Duke University. She taught in the Bible Division at Luther Seminary for 16 years. She now lives in Brevard, North Carolina, where she owns and operates Aging Life Care Partners, LLC, helping elders and their families navigate the challenges of later life.
She especially enjoys working with seminarians, clergy and lay preachers on biblical interpretation and the moves between text and sermon. Shore completed a Ph.D. in New Testament and Christian Origins at Duke University, and also holds a Master of Divinity from Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary, and a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.
Hosted By:
Cameron B.R. Howard
Cameron B. R. Howard, associate professor of Old Testament, joined the Luther Seminary faculty in July 2012. She received her Ph.D. from Emory University in 2010. She also holds a Master of Theological Studies degree from the Candler School of Theology at Emory and a Master of Theology degree from Columbia Theological Seminary. Howard is the author of The Old Testament for A Complex World: How the Bible's Dynamic Testimony Points to New Life for the Church (Baker Academic, 2021). Committed to making academic biblical scholarship accessible and relevant to clergy and laypeople, Howard has written over two dozen essays for WorkingPreacher.org and is a contributor to BibleOdyssey.org. She is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA).
Eric Barreto
Eric D. Barreto is the Weyerhaeuser Associate Professor of New Testament. He holds a B.A. in religion from Oklahoma Baptist University, an M.Div. from Princeton Seminary, and a Ph.D. in New Testament from Emory University.
Prior to coming to Princeton Seminary, he served as associate professor of New Testament at Luther Seminary, and also taught as an adjunct professor at the Candler School of Theology and McAfee School of Theology.