Every Thursday morning on BBC Radio 4, Melvyn Bragg hosts an endlessly fascinating discussion on a scholarly topic between three researchers in the field, called ‘In our Time‘. I always think it is worth the license fee for this programme alone. Right now (0930 GMT), Judas Maccabeus is getting the treatment by Philip Alexander, Helen Bond, and Tessa Rajak. Listening to the discussion, I hadn’t realised that the historical value of 1 and 2 Maccabees goes so relatively unquestioned. Since this is hardly advance notice (sorry), it will be available via iPlayer from the ‘In our Time’ homepage in due course.
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Thursday, 24 November 2011 at 11:54 am
I listened for about 15 minutes while driving … great stuff!! Sharp critical questions about i.e. the numbers… great background information for the NT!
Monday, 12 December 2011 at 2:35 pm
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Sunday, 1 January 2012 at 10:33 am
I haven’t listed to the lectures (yet), but did you mean to say that they the Maccs go relatively disregarded? DSS research might consider them in a footnote. Josephus is king. But it will be interested to hear what they have to say.
Just catching up on what those NT people are doing.