2009-10-29T11:51:36-08:00

My thesis will be published by Walter de Gruyter in their BZNW series.  I just got word yesterday! This is very exciting, as they are very professional and come highly recommended.  Here were the main factors for me to consider in choosing a publisher: I wanted 1) A german publisher because, If I choose to apply for a German von Humboldt fellowship, they like it when candidates have gone with a German verlag. 2) a german publisher because they tend... Read more

2009-10-26T01:35:45-08:00

I have mentioned before that, as I have a very long commute to work, I have been scouring itunes for good (free) courses to listen to.  I did stumble across a great find! Dale Martin (Yale University) is on itunes with his Introduction to New Testament History and Literature course which is comprised of 26 lectures, each one ranging from 45 minutes to 51 minutes. He seems to do a good job of covering a number of NT books, though... Read more

2009-10-23T17:10:54-08:00

I just picked up John R. Levison’s Filled with the Spirit (Eerdmans, 2009), a book written by a real expert on the Spirit in early Judaism and early Christianity.  While I have not read the book yet, the argument he is attempting to make is quite paradigm-shifting: The initial endowment of God’s spirit at birth must not…be understood as an inferior presence, a merely physical reality, in comparison with charismatic endowments, but rather in its own right as a vital... Read more

2009-10-23T03:27:48-08:00

I have been thinking about Philemon lately and I was browsing through some documents on the internet and came across a translation of the oxyrhynchus papyri by Grenfell and Hunt (see HERE).  Did Philemon run away having commit some injustice against his master?  Or did he go out to seek mediation for a dispute under appropriate legal guidelines?  Most scholars nowadays lean towards the latter (I think?), but there is some evidence of the commonality of the former.  See this... Read more

2009-10-22T18:57:07-08:00

Do you know about the new Hendrickson book Paul Unbound? It is edited by Mark Given and involves a range of approaches to Paul that go beyond the normal responses. These are the participants in this project: CONTRIBUTORS Warren Carter, “Paul and the Roman Empire: Recent Perspectives” Steven J. Friesen, “Paul and Economics: The Jerusalem Collection as an Alternative to Patronage” Jerry L. Sumney, “Paul and His Opponents: The Search” Charles H. Cosgrove, “Paul and Ethnicity: A Selective History of... Read more

2009-10-18T11:50:52-08:00

My loving mother gave me $25 recently to buy a present for myself and I started to browse the discount section of cbd’s website – here are some deals I found: Udo Schnelle – Apostle Paul $19.99 down from $49.99 Simon Gathercole – Where is Boasting $18.74 – down from $34.00 Paul and Elizabeth Achtemeier – The OT Roots of Our Faith – $8.99 down from 16.95. Jerome Murphy-O’Connor – Paul: His Story – $11.99, down from 24.95. Read more

2009-10-18T11:10:31-08:00

Dan Doriani represents the second hermeneutical model in Zondervan’s Moving Beyond the Bible to Theology – “A Redemptive-Historical Model.”  This model follows some of the same interpretive procedures endorsed by Kaiser in the first chapter (on “principlizing”).  However, in addition, Doriani’s reformed model accepts that the narrative of Scripture progresses and that later in the Bible we have important developments that guide the Christian in ways not apparent in earlier stages of redemption. Doriani begins by affirming the sufficiency, clarity,... Read more

2009-10-18T03:56:20-08:00

How do you get from the ancient sacred text to modern life and how to live it ‘according to the Bible’?  This is one of the main questions that the contributors to Zondervan’s Moving Beyond the Bible to Theology had to address.  First up is Walt Kaiser on the ‘principlizing model’. To “principlize” is to [re]state the author’s propositions, arguments, narrations, and illustrations in timeless abiding truths with special focus on the application of those truths to the current needs... Read more

2009-10-15T17:45:10-08:00

Where can I find a running list of all the allusions/echoes of the LXX/OT in the NT?  I know that often people turn to the margins of the NA27 – rightly so.  Anywhere else?  Is it in a book somewhere?  Is there a webpage that focuses on this? Any help would be great! My specific interest is in Paul’s use of the OT or his allusions/echoes… Read more

2009-10-13T12:11:27-08:00

I was searching something on googlebooks and came across G. Walter Hansen’s new Philippians commentary for the Pillar series which just released.  Hansen is an excellent scholar (Fuller Theol. Seminary) and a very skilled exegete.  He is not prolific, so I am eager to get a hold of this new work of his.  Check it out HERE. Read more

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