Adoption Metaphors in Paul
Erin Heim
We are joined on this episode by Dr. Erin Heim, a Tutor in Biblical Studies at Wycliffe Hall at the University of Oxford. We discuss her life of faith, training in music, and decision to pursue biblical scholarship. We also discuss Erin's research on metaphors of adoption in the letters of the Apostle Paul. Her research is informed by her own experience as an adoptee, and she argues that many of the ways contemporary Christians talk about adoption in Paul can be painful for adoptees and ironically not very closely related to what Paul actually meant in context.
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Erin Heim is a Tutor in Biblical Studies at Wycliffe Hall at the University of Oxford. She earned her PhD from the University of Otago in New Zealand and an MA from Denver Seminary. Her doctoral research has been published by Brill, Adoption in Galatians and Romans (2017).
