I was pleased a couple of weeks ago to see that my new course for the Great Courses (formerly called the Teaching Company; now called Wondrium [??]) “The Triumph of Christianity” has now seen the light of published day. This is my ninth course for them and is obviously based on my book of the same name. Do you know about the Great Courses? If not, you should. They are *terrific*. I don’t mean mine – I mean in general. I’ve watched a ton of them, on Classical music, astronomy, psychology, neurology, Roman history, and and and. They get really fine lecturers (except for the ones they hired a long time ago) (not to name names) and all but one course I’ve seen has been superb. Read by Petra Ortiz
The most-commented-upon post from the blog's first decade shows how the "suffering servant" of Isaiah 53 was, prior to Christianity, understood to be Israel...
Bart recalls teaching a class at Rutgers in which he challenged students to analyse biblical authors' responses to suffering. Read by Steve McCabe.