Where miracles seem to happen most: 2-minutes and 17-minute interview at Oxford:
Category Archives: Current issues
God’s Patience (1 minute, 45 seconds)
Why was God so patient and gracious toward Israel in the Old Testament?
Ancient biographies, history, and the Gospels
This new book (Biographies and Jesus, edited by Edward T. Wright and myself) provides essays analyzing ancient biographies’ use of sources, etc., showing that biographers saw their genre as requiring dependence on prior information. Biographies written within a few generations normally preserved considerable information about their subjects, a matter with relevance for the Gospels. It is somewhat technical (so it is not for everybody), but it provides serious research and documentation for subsequent work on which I and others will be able to build.
https://www.amazon.com/Biographies-Jesus-What-Does-Gospels/dp/1609471067/
“This collection deserves a wide circulation.”—Richard Burridge
“… a great book that will go a long way toward setting the record straight.”—Craig A. Evans
“Keener’s collection is to be praised.”—James H. Charlesworth
“The implications of these findings demand careful consideration by scholars of the Gospels and the Historical Jesus alike.”—Helen K. Bond
“Keener, Wright, Walton et al. have moved the needle forward in advancing our knowledge of the Jesus of the Gospels”—David P. Moessner
The Purpose of Spiritual Gifts (1.5 minutes)
1 Corinthians 12–14 tell us the purpose of spiritual gifts:
(Thanks to Third Millennium Ministries for publishing this video they took of me)
Why don’t miracles happen whenever we need them? (1.5 minutes)
Why don’t miracles happen whenever we need them?: 1-minute and 39-second interview at Oxford:
Why people are sometimes reluctant to talk about miracles
Even those who have witnessed miracles are sometimes scared to tell others what they have seen. Why is that? Craig addresses that in this brief (1.5 minutes) video clip taken at Oxford:
How do we know about Jesus’s miracles? (2 minutes)
Jesus’s contemporaries knew him as a miracle: 2-minute and 15-second interview at Oxford:
Ancient miracle workers besides Jesus (1.5 minutes)
Other miracle workers in antiquity: 1-minute and 33-second interview at Oxford:
Real vs. false miracles
Some biblical criteria for distinguishing genuine miracles: 2-minute and 35-second interview at Oxford:
Miracles lecture at Oxford
The Special Divine Action Project has reposted my full lecture for the Ian Ramsey Centre at Oxford regarding miracles. The lecture is introduced by my good friend Lenn Goodman, philosophy professor at Vanderbilt. (Lenn and his wife also kindly welcomed me to spend an Orthodox Jewish Shabbat with them back in the US, which I greatly enjoyed.) The discussion afterward also included Tim McGrew, philosophy professor at Western Michigan.)