From Hyde Park United Methodist Church in Tampa, FL, this is the Bible Project 2020, a journey to reading the Bible without fear or frustration.

On this week’s episode, Mat Hotho and Magrey DeVega interview for our episode on Hebrews and James. They interview The Rev. Dr. A.K.M. Adam who is a Tutor in New Testament and Greek at the St. Stephen’s House in the University of Oxford in England. He has published numerous books on biblical interpretation and has a particular affinity for Hebrews and James, for which he has written commentaries and essays. Back in the 1990s, he was Magrey’s college professor in Religious Studies and biblical Greek at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg. You’ll note that Magrey refers to him as AKMA, an acronym of the four initials in his name, which is how he has become known by his many students, colleagues, and readers. You can read his blog at akma.disseminary.org.

They start as many of our podcasts do, with background and context building. First for Hebrews. Then, using Hebrews as a launching point, they talk about how we can see the people of the New Testament working out how Jesus and believing in Jesus relates to the Hebrew scriptures or Old Testament. That is followed up with more context given to the book of James, They cover what is the most well-known idea in James, an argument about faith and works.

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