Podcasts and videos
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The Crucifixion of Jesus: Torture, sexual abuse, and the scandal of the cross
OnScript podcast with Erin Heim, 6 March 2024 (1 hour 20 mins).
Erin Heim talks to David Tombs about his book and the biblical evidence that Jesus was subjected to stripping and forced nudity at crucifixion—and what else the texts might suggest about additional sexual abuse.
Jesus as a victim of sexual abuse
Shiloh Project podcast with Rosie Dawson, 4 March 2021 (35 mins).
David Tombs tells Rosie Dawson how engaging with Liberation Theology and reading about the experiences of tortured people in Central America led him to re-read the biblical account of Jesus’ crucifixion.
The Politics of Torture: The Findings of the US Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture
Annual Peace Lecture, Archibald Baxter Memorial Trust, University of Otago, 21 September 2015, (64 mins). Access the Peace Lecture archive for the full paper here.
David Tombs speaks on the CIA torture program after 9/11 and the politics of torture as state terror under authoritarian regimes in Latin America. He suggests how this can help understand the field punishment of Archibald Baxter in the First World War.
Latin American Liberation Theology and its Ongoing Legacy
Inaugural Professorial Lecture, 8 September 2015 (57 mins).
David Tombs’ describes his personal research journey in theology and his longstanding interest in Latin American Liberation Theology.