E. Randolph Richards

Jan 16, 2024 | textandcanon.org | E. Randolph Richards

My grandmother called it snooping when you read someone else’s mail. Yet, that is what we are doing, peering over the shoulders of the Philippians, reading Paul’s letter to them. But aside from reading his letters themselves, what can we learn about Paul’s first-century letters by learning about first-century letter writing more generally? Paul grew up in a first-century Mediterranean world that loved sending and receiving letters: a sailor wrote his mom (P.Mich.

Dec 7, 2023 | info.thecrossingchurch.com | Brian Rosner |E. Randolph Richards |N. T. Wright |Michael W. Goheen

Christians are known as “people of the book” because of their commitment to the Bible. One of the first things missionaries did when they reached a new culture was teach people to read. While reading the Bible is our priority, anyone who has read it knows that the biblical writers read things other than the Scriptures. They read the literature of their time.