In this episode, Francie Cornes asks Tony Watkins and Peter Williams about the book of Jonah. Jonah is an unusual prophetic book because it is mostly narrative and has a very small amount of text where Jonah is actually proclaiming God’s word. In this episode, Tony and Peter share some insights into chapter 1, and in the following episode they will look at chapters 2–4. Find out more about the host and guests here: Tony Watkins: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/tony-watkins/ Peter Williams: ...
Jun 19, 2025•26 min•Season 6Ep. 8
As we return to our series on ‘How do we read the Prophets?’, Francie Cornes asks Tony Watkins and Peter Williams about the book of Amos. Tony and Peter share insights into the historical context and structure of the book, as well as talking about what it meant for its original hearers and for us reading it today. Find out more about the host and guests here: Tony Watkins: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/tony-watkins/ Peter Williams: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/peter-j-williams/ Fr...
Jun 05, 2025•40 min•Season 6Ep. 7
This is part two of Peter Williams's interview with Dr Tom C. Schmidt about his new book, ' Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One they Call Christ '. In this second episode they discuss whether Josephus could have known people who were present at Jesus's trial. In the first episode, they tackled the question of whether Josephus's writing about Jesus was edited by Christians to sound more like the biblical account, or whether it could in fact have been written by Josephus (you can catch up...
May 27, 2025•27 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Peter Williams interviews Dr Tom C. Schmidt about his new book, 'Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One they Call Christ'. In this episode they tackle the question of whether Josephus's writing about Jesus was edited by Christians to sound more like the biblical account, or whether it could in fact have been written by Josephus. In next week's episode they will discuss whether Josephus could have known people who were present at Jesus's trial. Tom's book has been published online for free:...
May 20, 2025•25 min•Season 6Ep. 5
In the second half of this two-part episode, Tony Watkins and Peter Williams dig into the text of Micah chapter 6 to see what it is actually saying and what it means for us today. Find out more about the host and guests here: Tony Watkins: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/tony-watkins/ Peter Williams: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/peter-j-williams/ Francie Cornes: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/francie-cornes/ Support the show Edited by Tyndale House Music – Acoustic Happy Backg...
May 15, 2025•41 min•Season 6Ep. 4
In the first half of this two-part episode, Tony Watkins and Peter Williams begin walking us through the book of Micah, showing how to apply their top tips for reading prophetic books in the Bible. Find out more about the host and guests here: Tony Watkins: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/tony-watkins/ Peter Williams: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/peter-j-williams/ Francie Cornes: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/francie-cornes/ Support the show Edited by Tyndale House Music – Ac...
May 01, 2025•36 min•Season 6Ep. 3
In this episode, Tony Watkins and Francie Cornes explore what the theological foundations of the prophets were by looking at four key themes the prophets draw on in their writings: Exodus/Covenant, Creation/Fall, God’s dwelling place, and Wisdom. Book mentioned by Tony: W. Brown, 'Ethos of the Cosmos: The Genesis of Moral Imagination in the Bible', (William B Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1999). Find out more about the host and guest here: Tony Watkins: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/tony-watkin...
Apr 17, 2025•31 min•Season 6Ep. 2
In this series Tony Watkins, Fellow for Public Engagement at Tyndale House, will be sharing how we can make sense of the books of the prophets, and providing helpful tips for how to read them for ourselves. In this first episode, Tony Watkins and Francie Cornes discuss why we often find the prophetic books more difficult to read than other parts of the Bible, as well as who the prophets actually were and what their role was. Tony has put together a timeline of Old Testament history so you can vi...
Apr 03, 2025•37 min•Season 6Ep. 1
In this episode, Dr Peter J. Williams, Principal of Tyndale House, walks us through the history of Tyndale House. Starting with the initial conversations about creating an institution for evangelical biblical scholarship that took place in the late 1930s, through to the new library building project starting in 2025. Support the show Edited by Tyndale House Music – Acoustic Happy Background used with a standard license from Adobe Stock. Follow us on: X | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube...
Mar 27, 2025•34 min•Season 5Ep. 10
Dirk Jongkind, Academic Vice Principal at Tyndale House, shares with Tony Watkins how he went from growing flowers in the Netherlands to editing the Tyndale House Greek New Testament in Cambridge. They discuss Dirk's journey into biblical scholarship with a particular focus on his time working on Codex Sinaiticus at the British Library. Find out more about the host and guest here: Tony Watkins: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/tony-watkins/ Dirk Jongkind: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff...
Mar 20, 2025•31 min•Season 5Ep. 9
In this episode, Nelson Hsieh, Research Associate in New Testament Text and Language at Tyndale House, discusses chapter divisions in Bible manuscripts with Tony Watkins. Nelson has been working on chapter divisions for the second edition of the Tyndale House Greek New Testament, and he explains how the approach he is taking is different to the method used in the first edition. They also reflect on how chapter divisions in our Bibles today can affect how we read the text. TH ink articles mention...
Mar 06, 2025•31 min•Season 5Ep. 8
In this episode Tony, Dirk, and Nelson focus on the Tyndale House Greek New Testament (Crossway, 2017) and discuss how it is different from other editions of the Greek New Testament. They also talk about how the world of textual criticism was changed by the discovery of many more manuscripts in the late nineteenth century. Find out more about the host and guests here: Tony Watkins: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/tony-watkins/ Dirk Jongkind: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/dirk-jongkin...
Feb 27, 2025•33 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Having discussed how the early church and the reformers handled differences between Bible manuscripts, Tony, Dirk and Nelson now turn to look at how modern-day textual critics approach variation between manuscripts. Find out more about the host and guests here: Tony Watkins: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/tony-watkins/ Dirk Jongkind: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/dirk-jongkind/ Nelson Hsieh: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/nelson-hsieh/ Support the show Edited by Tyndale House ...
Feb 20, 2025•33 min•Season 5Ep. 6
In this episode, Tony Watkins (Fellow for Public Engagement at Tyndale House) hears from Dirk Jongkind (Academic Vice Principal at Tyndale House) and Nelson Hsieh (Research Associate in New Testament Text and Language) about the role of textual criticism in the reformation. Find out more about the host and guests here: Tony Watkins: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/tony-watkins/ Dirk Jongkind: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/staff/dirk-jongkind/ Nelson Hsieh: https://tyndalehouse.com/about/st...
Feb 13, 2025•30 min•Season 5Ep. 5
In this episode, Tony Watkins, Fellow for Public Engagement at Tyndale House, asks Dirk Jongkind and Nelson Hsieh, members of our New Testament team, about how the early church handled differences between Bible manuscripts. At 28:59 Dirk and Nelson are trying to remember a name, they incorrectly say Martianan, they meant Marcellum. Support the show Edited by Tyndale House Music – Acoustic Happy Background used with a standard license from Adobe Stock. Follow us on: X | Instagram | Facebook | You...
Feb 06, 2025•36 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Tony Watkins, Fellow for Public Engagement at Tyndale House talks to David Armitage, Academic Administrator at Tyndale House about the Tyndale Bulletin, which is the Academic Journal published by Tyndale House. David shares how the Bulletin has developed since it first began in the 1940s. Visit the Tyndale Bulletin website: https://www.tyndalebulletin.org/ Follow Tyndale Bulletin on X: https://x.com/TyndaleBulletin Support the show Edited by Tyndale House Music – Acoustic Happy Background used w...
Jan 31, 2025•27 min•Season 5Ep. 9
In this episode, Tony Watkins asks Dirk Jongkind and Nelson Hsieh about some of the major New Testament manuscripts and how they have influenced the Bible translations we have today. Support the show Edited by Tyndale House Music – Acoustic Happy Background used with a standard license from Adobe Stock. Follow us on: X | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube...
Jan 30, 2025•39 min•Season 5Ep. 3
In this episode Tony Watkins, Fellow for Public Engagement at Tyndale House, talks to Dirk Jongkind, Academic Vice Principal of Tyndale House, about what a manuscript actually looks like, and what features scholars look out for when studying them. At 4:05 Dirk misspoke when he said P52 has John 19 on the back, it actually has John 18:37–38 on the back. At 31:14 Dirk mistakenly said there are 70 names in the genealogy in Luke's Gospel, there are actually 77. Support the show Edited by Tyndale Hou...
Jan 23, 2025•38 min•Season 5Ep. 2
In season 5 of the Tyndale House podcast, Tony Watkins speaks to members of our New Testament team to find out about New Testament manuscripts and how studying them can help us with our trust and understanding of the Bible. In this first episode, Tony asks Dirk Jongkind and Nelson Hsieh what a manuscript actually is, and why it's worth studying New Testament manuscripts. Support the show Edited by Tyndale House Music – Acoustic Happy Background used with a standard license from Adobe Stock. Foll...
Jan 16, 2025•36 min•Season 5Ep. 1
In this episode, Tony talks to Dr Steve Walton, Professor of New Testament and Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Bristol. Steve is a frequent visitor to us here at Tyndale House as he's been working on his commentary on Acts for the Word Biblical Commentary series. The first volume of the commentary, on Acts 1–9:42 (volume 37A), was published in the USA in October 2024, and will be out in the UK on 2 January 2025. There will be three volumes in total, and Steve is currently working on v...
Dec 05, 2024•32 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Is the Nativity a true story? Why are there differences between Matthew and Luke’s accounts of Jesus’s birth? Was Luke historically correct when he wrote about the census? What was the star and is it even possible for the wise men to have followed it? What year was Jesus actually born? Peter Williams answers all these questions and more in this special Christmas podcast episode. Visit our Christmas resources page on our website for further reading on this topic: tyndalehouse.com/christmas Suppor...
Nov 29, 2024•30 min•Season 4Ep. 8
In this episode, Tony is joined by three of our long-term readers who are all working on PhDs at Cambridge University. Ellie Wiener is currently studying the book of Job, Megan Alsene-Parker is studying Lamentations, and Ben Rae is studying Ecclesiastes. Together, they discuss what poetry actually is, the features of Hebrew poetry, and why we should spend time digging into biblical poetry. TH ink articles written by interviewees: The ABCs of Hebrew Acrostic Poems by Megan Alsene-Parker: https://...
Nov 21, 2024•37 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Steve Walton and Tony Watkins discuss why Saul changed to Paul in the book of Acts. In the book of Acts, the apostle Paul is referred to as Saul up until chapter 13, where he begins to be referred to as Paul. Steve explains how names worked in the Roman world to shed light on this name change. He also shares about some of the research he has done in the book of Acts over several years. Further reading: Steve Walton, 2023, Why was “Saul” changed to “Paul”? www.logos.com/grow/hall-saul-to-paul/ Ed...
Nov 14, 2024•30 min•Season 4Ep. 6
In this episode, Peter Williams, Principal of Tyndale House, explains how names can help us to assess the historical reliability of the Gospels. By looking at name records we can see what the most popular names were outside of the Gospels at the same time and place. Peter then compares these with the names we see in the Gospels to see whether they line up. He and Tony also discuss Jesus calling himself ‘The Son of Man’ and what we should make of that. Edited by Tyndale House Music – Acoustic Hap...
Nov 07, 2024•29 min•Season 4Ep. 5
In this episode, Tony chats to James Bejon and Josh Meynell about strange or animal-related names that we find in the Bible. Some of the names in the Bible strike us as having curious meanings. For example, Caleb means ‘dog’, Nun means ‘fish’, and Abel means ‘vapour’. What are we to make of these names? James, Josh, and Tony work through some of these examples and some from the wider ancient Near East to explore how there might be more to the names than we might think at first glance. Edited by ...
Oct 31, 2024•38 min•Season 4Ep. 4
In this episode, Tony asks Caleb Howard and James Bejon why we have genealogies in the Bible and how we should make sense of them. They discuss how the Old Testament is unique in ancient literature in the way it lays out genealogies. They also explore how it can give us a clear account of the people of Israel from Adam through to the exile, by looking at some genealogies in the book of 1 Chronicles. Edited by Tyndale House Music – Acoustic Happy Background used with a standard license from Adobe...
Oct 24, 2024•36 min•Season 4Ep. 3
In this episode, George Heath-Whyte and James Bejon chat with Tony about the use of divine names in the ancient world and in the Bible. What did the Babylonians call their gods? What did the names of the Babylonian gods mean? Why did the Israelites go from calling God 'El-Shaddai' to 'Yahweh'? How did the worship of Yahweh in the Old Testament compare to idol worship in the ancient world? Hear answers to these and more in the episode. Edited by Tyndale House Music – Acoustic Happy Background use...
Oct 17, 2024•35 min•Season 4Ep. 2
In this episode, George Heath-Whyte and James Bejon chat with Tony about a range of difficult questions surrounding the book of Daniel: What is the significance of Daniel and his friends having their names changed in Daniel 1? What do their new Babylonian names mean? Why is there no mention of Belshazzar as king of Babylon in the official records? Who was Darius the Mede? Hear answers to these and more in the episode. Please do let us know what you think of the episode or if you have other topic...
Oct 10, 2024•39 min•Season 4Ep. 1
In this episode Tony sits down with David Tsumura, who is a professor emeritus in Old Testament studies at Japan Bible Seminary. David is a familiar face at Tyndale House having visited several times over nearly 40 years. He lived on site for two years from 1986 while working on a Tyndale House research project on Genesis 1–11. In this interview he shares how he went from studying economics to the Old Testament, and how his involvement at Tyndale House has influenced his work back in Japan. Edit...
Oct 03, 2024•31 min•Season 3Ep. 11
In this episode, Tony continues his conversation with writer-in-residence, Christopher Ash, on his new four-volume commentary on the Psalms. They discuss how Christ would have prayed the Psalms during his earthly life, the structure of the 5 books of the Psalms, and how we approach different genres of psalms such as imprecatory psalms. This is part 2 of the interview and you can catch up on part 1 wherever you get your podcasts from. Editing by Tyndale House. Music: Acoustic Happy Background use...
Sep 26, 2024•29 min•Season 3Ep. 10
