Thursday's biblical studies seminar ended with a request for a few students to help N.T. Wright (sp?) the new New Testament prof move some boxes at his recently acquired home. I volunteered because that's what my Mormon training has taught me to do ;-)
At 10am Tom picked us (me, Allen, and Steven) at the gate to St. Mary's college and drove us south to Elie (pronounced Ee-lee) where he and his wife have bought an old farmers cottage - actually four probably two room farm cottages that were combined a dozen years ago into one. The house looks south over several rolling fields to the firth of forth. On a rare beautiful weather day the sky was absolutely breath taking! I soooo wish I'd had my camera!!!
We moved desks, beds and boxes of books but took a break for tea and another for lunch. All the while we talked about Tom's travels through academic life (Oxford, Cambridge, McGill, Princeton, Durham and now St. A's), New Testament, Old Testament, preaching, philosophy. I tell you - it might have been hefting boxes. Maggy was wonderful and funny and definitely a force in her own right. It was a complete joy! If I get a chance to go back I will attach pictures of Tom and Maggy as well as the scenery!
By the way, turns out Tom is (from wikipedia): Nicholas Thomas "Tom" Wright a leading New Testament scholar and former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England. His academic work has usually been published under the name N. T. Wright but works such as What St Paul Really Said and Simply Christian, which are aimed at a more popular readership, are published under the less formal name of Tom Wright.
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