I have a 6+ hour drive today to Wheaton, and I am leaving here shortly. I am going solo, so I need to keep my mind busy. What will I be listening to in the car? I have just downloaded a course on itunes U (free lectures through itunes) by Dr. Moises Silva (Westminster Theological Seminary) on New Testament Introduction. Silva used to teach at Gordon-Conwell seminary, though not in my time there. He is a master interpreter of the NT, very skilled and very passionate. This course, as I see from the lecture titles, is not a content course (NT books), but a preparatory course: political history of Palestine, Hellenistic religions, textual criticism, linguistic milieu of Palestine, translation issues, history of the church’s understanding of the canon, etc…
I plan on being in Wheaton about 5-5:30 PM. I will register, have dinner (somewhere?) and then maybe hit the Wheaton library. Then I will probably check-in to my hotel and hit the hot tub… 🙂