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John Kloppenborg

John Kloppenborg

University Professor and Chair of the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto; Canadian biblical scholar specializing in Christian origins, the synoptic gospels, and Q-source scholarship.

Jul 17, 2026

25:45
Can you talk a little bit about his sources? And then we're actually going to look at one of the maps later.
25:48
Yeah.
25:49
So that was, once I had, I should say there's another part of the puzzle that I had discovered when I was reading the first part of Acts, where you have the story of Peter and his colleagues down on the Levantine coast.
26:08
They first go to Joppa, which is Jaffa right now, and Lydda, which is modern law.
26:16
That's where Ben-Gurion Airport is.
26:19
And then moves north to Caesarea Maritima, and eventually you get Paul going to Sidon and Tyre and so forth.
26:29
There, Luke's knowledge has improved very considerably.

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42:10
Now it's called Jaffa or

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