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First day of the month means—LOGOS FREE BOOK! I just downloaded it, so should you. Read more
First day of the month means—LOGOS FREE BOOK! I just downloaded it, so should you. Read more
New Podcast Episode My buddy, Jonathan Wright, interviewed me on his great podcast New Books in Biblical Studies. We talked about my new Baker Academic book, Beginner’s Guide to New Testament Studies. Check it out! Read more
What is Paul’s Gospel? As “Gospel” conversations carry on, which I am largely skimming, I have been keeping the larger questions in mind as I write my Story of God commentary on Galatians. Right now, I am writing in Galatians 3. As I have said before, it is truly difficult to point to a center of Paul’s gospel language (aside from the person of Jesus, of course). Yes, the story of the Bible is the story of the total lordship... Read more
Remarkably Insightful Book about Genre and Interpretation of Mark Helen K. Bond is Professor of Christian Origins and Head of the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh—she is also one of my favorite scholars of Jesus and the Gospels. In this new book (Eerdmans, 2020), she engages with the ongoing discussion about the origins of the canonical Gospels, especially what most scholars consider the earliest gospel, Mark. Bond notes that there has been a massive shift in... Read more
Exclusive Sneak Peek! The New Cambridge Companion to Saint Paul, edited by Bruce W. Longenecker (Cambridge University Press) I can’t tell you how much I learned from and appreciate the original Cambridge Companion to Saint Paul (ed. J.D.G. Dunn, 2003). Great to see this get a new edition with all new contributors and essays. Dr. Bruce Longenecker was kind enough to share the Table of Contents with me and allow me to offer this exclusive sneak peek. A great selection of Pauline... Read more
A New Blog Series: Translating Philippians This is a new series reflecting on Bible translation by looking at the Greek text of Philippians. In my book Reading Philippians, I offer my own fresh translation of this letter. I tried to provide a readable, modern English translation, which means I made some untraditional choices. Follow along as I talk through some of these decisions. We begin with Philippians chapter one. “Paul and Timothy, Christ Jesus’s Slaves (douloi)” (1:1) Here I chose... Read more
Head over to the Logos Academic Blog, where they asked me about best resources for studying the background and contexts of the New Testament. How many of these books and sets do you have? Which ones are you most interested in checking out? Read more
Why Is It So Hard to Define “the Gospel”? Social Media is abuzz with “gospel” debates these days. Is proclaiming “Jesus is king” enough? Or do we need to be more explicit about the impact the kingdom of God has on personal salvation, justification, atonement, etc? Personally, I found Scot McKnight’s King Jesus Gospel a robust theology of gospel redemption in the kingship of Jesus. I am not convinced that all the fine print of personal salvation needs to be magnified in... Read more
Sign up for free Fleming Rutledge Lecture I am not especially motivated to spend more time on Zoom, but this will totally be worth it. I just signed up. Why? #1: Fleming Rutledge is amazing. #2: I got nothing else. Just #1. #3: OK, I thought of another thing: it’s free. Sign up HERE. Thank you to Northern Seminary for extending viewership to a wider audience! Read more
Nothing more fun for me than getting a big package delivered to my doorstep, especially if it is a 900+ page book! Wesley One Volume Commentary, edited by Kenneth J. Collins and Robert W. Wall (Abingdon, 2020) You are probably familiar with the genre of the single volume commentary, covering the whole Bible in one book, with individual biblical books treated by different scholars. Here the niche is a solid historical, literary, and theological study of each book of the... Read more
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