Carmen Imes (PhD, Wheaton) is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Prairie College in Alberta, Canada.
We talk about her new book, Bearing God’s Name: Why Sinai Still Matters (IVP Academic, 2019).
This work focuses on why the Old Testament (and specifically the Torah) still matters for Christians.
In the episode, we look specifically at the commandment not to "take/bear God's Name in vain," since Carmen argues that this is about far more than cursing or improper speech: It is a call to "bear" YHWH's Name in a way that shows how God has loved and transformed us.
Carmen and her husband, Danny, have served overseas as missionaries with SIM. They have three children. Her dissertation is published under the title Bearing YHWH’s Name at Sinai: A Re-Examination of the Name Command of the Decalogue (Eisenbrauns). Carmen is an active member of the Evangelical Theological Society, the Institute for Biblical Research, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies. Although she enjoys hanging out with other Bible geeks at conferences, her passion is to help the Bible come alive for laypeople. Carmen blogs at www.carmenjoyimes.blogspot.com, Christianity Today, and The Well (InterVarsity). She also releases weekly Torah Tuesday videos on her YouTube channel.
