Andy Judd
@andyjudd.bsky.social
Old Testament & Deputy Principal (Community) at Ridley College Melbourne. PhD Sydney Uni. Gadamer, Genre Theory and hermeneutics.
Did a little sermon in City on a Hill's "Ask Anything" series answering the question "how should Christians respond to the 'woke' movement?" open.spotify.com/episode/0A0I...
How should Christians respond to the ‘Woke’ movement?
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October 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Did a little sermon in City on a Hill's "Ask Anything" series answering the question "how should Christians respond to the 'woke' movement?" open.spotify.com/episode/0A0I...
Got asked to do a little sermon at my church on whether the Bible and Darwinian Evolution are compatible or contradictory www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlEJ...
Is it okay to believe in evolution? And if yes, where to draw the line with Darwinian theory?
YouTube video by City on a Hill
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September 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Got asked to do a little sermon at my church on whether the Bible and Darwinian Evolution are compatible or contradictory www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlEJ...
Trivia time: three people kill lions in the Hebrew Bible. Who are they?
June 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Trivia time: three people kill lions in the Hebrew Bible. Who are they?
"This cookbook is terrible". I guess I only have myself to blame for this review of Modern Genre Theory 😆
June 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
"This cookbook is terrible". I guess I only have myself to blame for this review of Modern Genre Theory 😆
My nerdy book on Gadamer and why people don't agree on what the Bible means is now in paperback for the bargain basement price of USD $45 / AUD $90. www.routledge.com/Playing-with...
Playing with Scripture: Reading Contested Biblical Texts with Gadamer and Genre Theory
This book puts a creative new reading of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and literary genre theory to work on the problem of Scripture. Reading texts as Scripture brings two hermeneuti...
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June 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
My nerdy book on Gadamer and why people don't agree on what the Bible means is now in paperback for the bargain basement price of USD $45 / AUD $90. www.routledge.com/Playing-with...
A thoughtful review of Modern Genre Theory from Aaron Downs on his substack. (I'll take "mostly right" any day of the week!) aarondowns.substack.com/p/book-revie...
Book Review: Modern Genre Theory (Judd)
Andrew Judd thinks its time to retire classical genre theory in favor of modern genre theory. I think he's (mostly) right.
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June 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A thoughtful review of Modern Genre Theory from Aaron Downs on his substack. (I'll take "mostly right" any day of the week!) aarondowns.substack.com/p/book-revie...
My 6 year old casually discussing “phonemes” and “split di-graphs” and “open syllables” over breakfast with her brother 🤓😳 The things they learn in the first 6 months of school!
June 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
My 6 year old casually discussing “phonemes” and “split di-graphs” and “open syllables” over breakfast with her brother 🤓😳 The things they learn in the first 6 months of school!
I know you're all wondering what happened with the Melbourne Anglican Archbishop election thewadrproject.com/2025/05/28/a...
A New English Archbishop for Melbourne Anglicans: The Process from the Inside by Andrew Judd
On Saturday 24 May 2025, the Anglican Church Diocese of Melbourne reached an historic inflection point, voting to elect Bishop Ric Thorpe as the next Archbishop of Melbourne.
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May 28, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I know you're all wondering what happened with the Melbourne Anglican Archbishop election thewadrproject.com/2025/05/28/a...
Bold play there, dedicating a chapter on treaty curses to your wife
April 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Bold play there, dedicating a chapter on treaty curses to your wife
"Occasionally, I think I am in a swimming race.
I know I am falling behind and I must wake up my muscles to pull me through the water to the finish line.
But of course, there is no finish line.
This is the ocean. "
www.rosiestanton.com.au/post/there-a...
I know I am falling behind and I must wake up my muscles to pull me through the water to the finish line.
But of course, there is no finish line.
This is the ocean. "
www.rosiestanton.com.au/post/there-a...
There are puddles and then there is Bible College
First impressions of my new studies.It feels likeI thought I was jumping into a puddle. I jumped, and then when I had already made the splash I realised the puddle was actually an ocean. It’s not like...
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April 6, 2025 at 4:24 AM
"Occasionally, I think I am in a swimming race.
I know I am falling behind and I must wake up my muscles to pull me through the water to the finish line.
But of course, there is no finish line.
This is the ocean. "
www.rosiestanton.com.au/post/there-a...
I know I am falling behind and I must wake up my muscles to pull me through the water to the finish line.
But of course, there is no finish line.
This is the ocean. "
www.rosiestanton.com.au/post/there-a...
In discussions about Genesis with my 5-year-old theologian she shared that of course the result of the curse is that boys are annoying and disruptive in class. She produced a lot of persuasive evidence
March 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In discussions about Genesis with my 5-year-old theologian she shared that of course the result of the curse is that boys are annoying and disruptive in class. She produced a lot of persuasive evidence
Amazing how often I have to reassure our American students that Australia is not nearly as full of dangerous creatures as they imagine! Relax!
In unrelated news, a spider ran out of my trouser leg this morning just as I was putting them on.
In unrelated news, a spider ran out of my trouser leg this morning just as I was putting them on.
March 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Amazing how often I have to reassure our American students that Australia is not nearly as full of dangerous creatures as they imagine! Relax!
In unrelated news, a spider ran out of my trouser leg this morning just as I was putting them on.
In unrelated news, a spider ran out of my trouser leg this morning just as I was putting them on.
The hubris of the rich is to parse great wealth as the result of great competence – rather than, say, a messy combination of luck, specific skills, and dull career choices
March 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The hubris of the rich is to parse great wealth as the result of great competence – rather than, say, a messy combination of luck, specific skills, and dull career choices
My banker is in love with me! (And other mistakes we can make about genre ...) .https://tyndalehouse.com/explore/articles/genre-theory/
Modern Genre Theory and the Bible
Andrew Judd unpacks the importance of understanding the conventions of genres as we read the Bible so that we don't get the wrong end of the stick.
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March 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
My banker is in love with me! (And other mistakes we can make about genre ...) .https://tyndalehouse.com/explore/articles/genre-theory/
What's that? Modern Genre Theory is 50% off for the next month? churchsource.com/products/mod...
Modern Genre Theory: An Introduction for Biblical Studies
How a better understanding of genre leads to a better understanding of the biblical text. The Bible, with its gloriously rich diversity of ancient genres, demands a flexible and historically aware app...
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January 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
What's that? Modern Genre Theory is 50% off for the next month? churchsource.com/products/mod...
My dear friend John Dickson has an amazing podcast for sceptics and believers alike. I was thrilled to be on for this episode on Bible Genres - it's a delightfully well-produced episode complete with horror films excerpts and poetry reading!! undeceptions.com/podcast/bibl...
Bible Genres
Undeceptions Episode 141: With 66 books, The Bible can be tough to make sense of. Understanding its different genres is essential
undeceptions.com
December 11, 2024 at 10:26 PM
My dear friend John Dickson has an amazing podcast for sceptics and believers alike. I was thrilled to be on for this episode on Bible Genres - it's a delightfully well-produced episode complete with horror films excerpts and poetry reading!! undeceptions.com/podcast/bibl...
What Die Hard, the uncontroversial Christmas movie, teaches us about Modern Genre Theory www.andyjudd.com/blog/what-di...
What Die Hard Can Teach Us About Modern Genre Theory — Andy Judd
It’s December which means it’s time for the yearly debate over the genre of the film Die Hard (1988) , directed by John McTiernan and staring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman. The debate over whether ...
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December 5, 2024 at 12:43 AM
What Die Hard, the uncontroversial Christmas movie, teaches us about Modern Genre Theory www.andyjudd.com/blog/what-di...
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Looking forward to this, both the tea and the read! ☕️📖 @andyjudd.bsky.social
December 3, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Looking forward to this, both the tea and the read! ☕️📖 @andyjudd.bsky.social
So many conversations in the USA last week trying to reassure friends to visit Australia, a country which definitely isn’t overrun by deadly snakes … amp.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
December 1, 2024 at 8:46 PM
So many conversations in the USA last week trying to reassure friends to visit Australia, a country which definitely isn’t overrun by deadly snakes … amp.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“a workshop on time management … is not an appropriate institutional response to employees labouring to breaking point …That this even needs to be said is troubling and illustrates that systems cannot process truths that involve their own dissolution. System’s answer is always more system.” L.Semler
November 30, 2024 at 8:30 PM
“a workshop on time management … is not an appropriate institutional response to employees labouring to breaking point …That this even needs to be said is troubling and illustrates that systems cannot process truths that involve their own dissolution. System’s answer is always more system.” L.Semler
The always wise Liam Semler on how to resist the over-systemisation of education using English literature www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
SysEd and English: The Work of Literature in an Over-Systematised Enlightenment
This is a theoretical essay that seeks to be of value to English teachers who want to understand their oft-reported experience of feeling stuck in an over-systematised professional environment. The...
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November 28, 2024 at 9:15 AM
The always wise Liam Semler on how to resist the over-systemisation of education using English literature www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Someone was presenting by Zoom and they left on the AI summary feature for our #sblaar24 session. End of meeting to-do items included gems like “Action Item 3: Amanda to work on changing the way people think about social identity.”
November 26, 2024 at 1:48 AM
Someone was presenting by Zoom and they left on the AI summary feature for our #sblaar24 session. End of meeting to-do items included gems like “Action Item 3: Amanda to work on changing the way people think about social identity.”
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Loving this California conference life. @andyjudd.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Loving this California conference life. @andyjudd.bsky.social
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Can’t tease cause I bought the book now so I would get the mug with it!
November 24, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Can’t tease cause I bought the book now so I would get the mug with it!
Please don’t tease me, but just seen that if you buy any book from Zondervan at #sblaar24 you get a Modern Genre Theory mug!! While stocks last…
November 23, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Please don’t tease me, but just seen that if you buy any book from Zondervan at #sblaar24 you get a Modern Genre Theory mug!! While stocks last…