Helen Bond: the Historical Jesus & his Female Disciples

Dr. Helen K. Bond is Professor of Christian Origins & Head of the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. She returns to the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation tackling topics from members of the HBC online Lent group, Jesus De/Constructed. In our chat we discuss…

• what is the difference between the historical Jesus and the Christ of faith?
• how does a historical Jesus scholar do their work?
• the cultural/social/political/religious matrix of the historical Jesus
• the role of honor and shame in Jesus’ culture
• the entanglement of religion and politics
• what is the scholarly consensus around the historical Jesus?
• the political potency of Pilate’s pagan foreign troops in town for the Passover
• what does it mean for Jesus to be an Apocalyptic Jewish figure?
• it’s the end of the world, but what do “end” and “world” mean?
• how did the ancient world understand religion, divinity, and god-talk?
• how should we understand the titles of Jesus in the NT and his historical self-consciousness?
• what does it mean for Jesus to be the Christ?
• why does Paul say so little about the historical Jesus?
• what occasioned the composition of the Gospels?
• you should listen to Helen’s first visit to the podcast…the First Biography of Jesus… PS it is the Gospel of Mark
• how does seeing the Gospels as biographies change the way we read them?
• go get Helen’s new book Women Remembered: Jesus’ Female Disciples
• the role and status of women in the early church
• how the transitions within the early church brought back the patriarchy
• Tertullian and the Montanists
• Helen’s favorite female followers of Jesus
• was Jesus a feminist?
• what do we know about Mary, the mother of Jesus?
• the historical Jesus’ brother James
• the cross & resurrection

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