Lecture - Peter Williams "Does the Bible Support Slavery?"

Описание: Lecture by Peter Williams “Does the Bible Support Slavery?”

Given 7pm - 9pm on Friday October 30, 2015 at The Lanier Theological Library Chapel in Houston, Texas.

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Lecture by Peter Williams "Does the Bible Support Slavery?"

In history the Bible was appealed to in support of both the abolition of slavery and of keeping slaves. Today people often object to the Bible as a document supporting slavery. This lecture will examine the key Old Testament and New Testament texts said to support slavery and show how the Bible as a whole does not support slavery. To do this, we will look at the biblical words commonly associated with slavery and how their translation has changed over time. We will also look at the logic of the Old Testament world and the way ancient societies were structured quite differently from ours.

Peter Williams is the Warden of Tyndale House in Cambridge and an affiliated lecturer at Cambridge University. This will be his third lecture at the Lanier Theological Library.

bio info:

Dr. Peter Williams is the Warden and CEO of Tyndale House Cambridge and a lecturer on the Hebrew language at the University of Cambridge. He earned his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. at Cambridge University studying ancient languages related to the Bible. Prior to leading Tyndale House, Williams was a Senior Lecturer in New Testament in the University of Aberdeen. He has spoken in churches, universities, seminaries, high schools and at conferences and seminars/workshops across the US and the world on Biblical subjects including Bible translation, apologetics, and how to understand the Scriptures.

Tyndale House Cambridge was awarded a commission by the Green Scholars Initiative (founded by the owners of Hobby Lobby) to research, transcribe and publish the Codex Climaci Rescriptus (CCR). The CCR is the most important manuscript of Christian Palestinian Aramaic and is the jewel in the crown of the Green Collection. Williams is personally leading this project.

Williams chairs the International Greek New Testament Project, which is currently producing the world’s most comprehensive information on the manuscripts of John’s Gospel. He is also a member of the Translation Oversight Committee of the English Standard Version of the Bible. He is passionate that the Bible should be well translated and carefully studied.

Looking back on his academic history, Williams describes his professional journey saying, “I find it amazing how I was led through stages of thinking I was going to do something else (be a Bible translator, OT scholar, NT scholar), only to find that I am now responsible for a library and research community in which my interests in both Testaments and in languages related to Bible study are highly useful.”

Williams has been involved in summer missions for over 20 years in Belgium where he and his wife Kathryn first met. They have two children, Magdalena and Leo.