Paul and Plato? Two Errors with Pagan Parallels | Joseph Dodson

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What does philosophy have to do with the New Testament? In Acts 17, Paul answered, "Plenty!" In this episode of Tool Talk, Travis chats with Joseph Dodson about two common errors when it comes to studying extrabiblical parallels to Scripture, especially in Greco-Roman philosophy. Dodson (PhD, Aberdeen) is associate professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary and co-editor (with David Briones) of Paul and the Giants of Philosophy: Reading the Apostle in Greco-Roman Context (IVP Academic, 2019).
 
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 Additional Resources:

• Paul and the Gift by John Barclay
• Paul and the Faithfulness of God by N. T. Wright
• Paul and Seneca in Dialogue by Dodson and Briones
• Paul and the Greco-Roman Philosophical Tradition, edited by Dodson and Andrew Pitts
• "Stoicism and Christianity: Professor Joseph Dodson on Similarities & Differences" on the Daily Stoic