Episode 9 - The Alistair Roberts Interview
Alastair Roberts
85.06
13 November 2025
16 November 2025
Chapters
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:05:29 - Alastair’s Bio
00:08:04 - Jim Jordan
00:11:12 - Typological Interpretation
00:20:23 - How the Pentateuch informs the rest of the Bible
00:21:15 - Why it is limiting for Christians to neglect the Pentateuch
00:26:36 - Should I focus on the New Testament?
00:36:40 - Literary patterns as tools to better understand the Bible
00:45:17 - Chiasm
01:00:12 - Does translation matter?
01:04:40 - Eschatology
01:12:00 - The Law
01:21:29 - Ox, Lion, Eagle, Man
About Alastair Roberts (https://theopolisinstitute.com/staff/alastair-roberts/)
Alastair Roberts (PhD, Durham University) works as an adjunct Senior Fellow for the Theopolis Institute. He is an author of Echoes of Exodus: Tracing Themes of Redemption Through Scripture (Crossway, 2018). He has a free chapter-by-chapter audio commentary on the entire Bible which can be found here (https://audio.alastairadversaria.com/explore/) . He participates in the Mere Fidelity (https://soundcloud.com/mere-fidelity) and Theopolis (https://soundcloud.com/user-812874628) podcasts and posts regular videos on theology on his YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmkS1-6kt64WIHegj-h25_g) account. You can follow his work and read some of his thoughts on The Anchored Argosy (https://argosy.substack.com/) Substack.
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