About this episode

The episode explores the authorship and themes of the biblical book of Colossians with expert Paul Foster.

Colossians is chock-full of historical and theological mysteries. Did the apostle Paul really write it? Who were the false teaches troubling the church at Colossae? And was is the meaning of its famous Christological ‘hymn’ – was it truly sung? To get to the bottom of all things Colossians, Helen and Lloyd take a trip in the Biblical Time Machine with Paul Foster. Paul Foster is Professor in New Testament Language and Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has specialised on a r...

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Hosts: Helen Bond, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Guest: Paul Foster

Topics covered

• Colossians
• apostle Paul
• false teachers
• Christological hymn
• historical mysteries

Keywords

• Colossians
• apostle Paul
• false teachers
• Christological hymn
• historical mysteries

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Edinburgh

Books & works: Colossians

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