Courses/events

This full-time residential course offers a close reading of the Gospel of Matthew, exploring its Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts and its meaning for Christians today. It also examines how this Gospel has divided communities, and how it might instead foster understanding and reconciliation.

For further information and to book a place, please visit the CBF website or write to info@biblical-program.com.

In a fractured world crying out for justice, peace, and hope, the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam continue to speak with urgency and wisdom.

This program invites participants to read and engage sacred texts across three faith traditions, exploring how each tradition understands justice, envisions peace, and sustains hope in times of conflict and uncertainty.

For further information and to book a place, please visit the CBF website or write to info@biblical-program.com.

This programme explores Jewish-Christian relations within Jerusalem’s unique religious, historical, and social landscape. Through study of texts from both traditions, conversation with religious leaders and activists, and site-based learning, participants will explore the city as a shared sacred space and engage practical models of interreligious dialogue.

For further information and to book a place, please visit the CBF website or write to info@biblical-program.com.

This programme explores the Book of Acts through the lens of Rome, the culmination of Luke’s narrative and the symbolic centre of the ancient empire. Through close reading and on-site learning, participants will trace the early Christian movement from Jerusalem to the heart of imperial power.

For further information and to book a place, please visit the CBF website or write to info@biblical-program.com.

This study tour integrates close biblical study with place-based learning across central and southern Türkiye, for encounter with the Apostle Paul in the landscapes that shaped his mission and theology.

A series of guided presentations on Galatians exploring themes of freedom, law, community, and identity in the earliest Christian communities will be complemented by visits to key Pauline sites, including Tarsus, Pisidian Antioch, Iconium (Konya), Antalya (Attalia), Aspendos, Antioch on the Orontes, and the wider Galatian region, allowing the land itself to inform the reading of the text.

For further information and to book a place, please visit the CBF website or write to info@biblical-program.com.