I have been off of the blogging radar for a while for several reasons, the most pressing: I just returned from a holiday in Rome and I am getting ready to move back to the US having completed my phd. I have plenty of books waiting for me to crack open and review once I return to the States. Until then, time permits only a few short posts in the next two weeks or so. I hope to post on... Read more
My family and I are leaving for Rome on Monday for a few-days vacation. Any last-minute suggestions for places to see, eat, relax, take pictures? Read more
The September issue of Expository Times is now online. For NT folk, Paul Foster briefly reviews Doug Moo’s Colossians/Philemon commentary as well as Pervo’s Acts Hermeneia volume. Read more
I am getting excited about the British New Testament Conference (Aberdeen, this year)- always a fun time and usually some very good papers. The seminars and paper abstracts are steadily streaming in. Today the programme for the Hermeneutics seminar is up. Of three sessions, one is combined with the Paul group. The other two sessions are as follows: Dr. Cherryl Hunt (Exeter Univ) – ‘Reconciliation of the Cosmos? Re-reading Paul in a time of Ecological Crisis’ Abstract: New readings of... Read more
I get update emails, once in a while, from Wipf & Stock. I was pleased today to see that Stephen Fowl’s Theological Interpretation of Scripture book (Cascade Companions series) is now out. I met Stephen last year at SBL and he is a great guy. The endorses for this book are all experts and give his book much accolade. I hope to get my hands on this for some light reading in the near future. James Charlesworth has written a... Read more
James K. Mead’s Biblical Theology: Issues, Methods, Themes (WJK, 2007), is a wonderful critical introduction to this very important subject. In many ways, it acts as a history of the study of BT as Mead synthesizes and compares the work of dozens of scholars interested in BT. Mead leaves no stone unturned when it comes to problems and approaches to the subject. His exploration of themes in BT is interesting as well, but he finds nothing ‘new’ that has not... Read more
When it comes to second (or third or fourth…) language acquisition, the old adage is true: if you don’t use it, you’ll lose it. Ministers and others who took Greek in seminary often struggle with maintaining their knowledge of Greek and Hebrew. What can you do? Attempts to ‘re-learn’ Greek often fail as too many other responsibilities (work, family, the house, etc…) preclude the possibility of spending weeks and months going back through a textbook. How can you keep up... Read more
Jonathan Pennington is Assistant Professor of New Testament Interpretation at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He published his thesis with Brill’s Novum Testamentum Supplement Series – a very wise choice. He was kind enough to share his experience with me. What is especially exciting is that he has published his thesis additionally as an affordable paperback book with Baker Academic. Now it will be widely available at a reasonable price. Q1: As I recall, you studied at St. Andrews with... Read more
Benjamin Reynolds is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Tyndale University College & Seminary (Ontario, Canada). Again, Benjamin is an alum of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary – my own alma mater. He studied for his PhD at Aberdeen under Simon Gathercole (who studied here at Durham and was my external examiner). He is definitely someone to keep an eye on in the near future as he is already publishing some journal and dictionary articles and some essays. Ben has been kind... Read more
Dr. Daniel Gurtner, Associate Professor of New Testament at Bethel Seminary, is one of my favorite up-and-coming scholars. He also happens to be another Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary grad and he went on to study at St. Andrews for his PhD (one of the few schools I had applied to). He has kindly agreed to be interviewed in this series on publishing your thesis as a monograph. As a personal note, when I started my PhD I downloaded Dan’s CV and... Read more
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