Congratulations to my wonderful colleagues Volker Rabens, Jacqueline N. Grey, and Mariam Kamell Kovalishyn on publishing this robust volume: KEY APPROACHES TO BIBLICAL ETHICS.  Table of Contents Part 1 How to Approach Ethics in the Bible: A Dialogue on the Fundamental Methodological Questions of Biblical Ethics “How to Read Biblical Texts Ethically: The New Method of “Implicit Ethics” for Analyzing Biblical Ethics”/Ruben Zimmerman “Reading Biblical Texts Ethically: A Discussion of Ruben Zimmermann’s Method of “Implicit Ethics” from an Old Testament Perspective”/Markus… Read more

My friend Patrick Gray (Rhodes College) is editor of an exciting new project, The Cambridge Companion to the New Testament—24 chapters, 400 pages. It is a bit surprising to me that Cambridge had not already published a CCNT (after all, the volumes on Paul and the Gospels are now in second editions). But this looks to be a really impressive volume covering a range of the key issues and texts in New Testament studies. Patrick was kind enough to share with… Read more

Eve-Marie Becker (University of Muenster) has published an excellent book on the concept of humility in Paul and early Christianity (German edition published in 2015; ET 2020). This is a wide-ranging study that looks at the ancient meaning of tapeinophrosynē (“humility”), Paul’s usage in Philippians and other letters, other uses in the New Testament, and also in the Apostolic Fathers and Patristic writers. Marie-Becker is also interested in what the ethical concept of humility contributes to modern European societies today (see… Read more