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Paul’s Use of Precious Metals to Describe Pastoral Ministry in 1 Cor 3:11-15

February 14, 2016by Max LeeComments on Paul’s Use of Precious Metals to Describe Pastoral Ministry in 1 Cor 3:11-15

It just so happens that the antiquities exhibit at the Getty Villa affords an opportunity to give a photo-by-photo commentary on Apostle Paul’s use of precious materials to describe the building blocks of pastoral ministry….

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Once Again the Brutality of Ancient Boxing: Lessons from the Getty Villa Museum

February 8, 2016by Max LeeComments on Once Again the Brutality of Ancient Boxing: Lessons from the Getty Villa Museum

It’s back to business and the main focus of this blog: interpreting the Apostle Paul in his Greco-Roman context. In the past, I had done a series of posts on athleticism in the Mediterranean world…

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Recovering Papyri Fragments from the Wrappings of Mummy Masks

October 18, 2015by Max LeeComments on Recovering Papyri Fragments from the Wrappings of Mummy Masks

Cartonnage bath to separate out the used papyri from a mummy maskPhoto taken from Emily Teeter’s Ancient Egypt (2003) Prior to my post on the Symposium on the Theological Interpretation of Scripture, I wrote on the mummy masks…

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Mummy Masks and Roman Egyptians

September 19, 2015by Max Lee2 Comments on Mummy Masks and Roman Egyptians

One of the best exhibits at the Getty Villa was the display of mummy masks from Roman Egypt. The use of portaits painted on the head of a mummy is a combination of Egyptian burial…

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Walking through a Roman Villa at Getty

September 12, 2015by Max LeeComments on Walking through a Roman Villa at Getty

During a research trip to the libraries of UCLA and my alma mater Fuller Theological Seminary this past August 2015, I finally got my chance to visit the antiquities exhibit of Greek and Roman artefacts…

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