Okay, does everyone remember the Bibliotheca project where a guy raised something like 1.5 million dollars to produce an ASV in four volumes with no chapter or verse numbers? I have to confess that it struck me as a  trendy Bible for hipsters with too much disposable income and I wasn’t impressed by their selection of the ASV. FYI, there already exists good Bibles with no chapters or verses in the NIV Books of the Bible and Crossway’s ESV Reader’s Bible. Well,... Read more

I just heard the news about the passing of German Theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg. You can read a German news report posted by Jim West here. Fred Sanders has a great write up on the significance of Pannenberg here. His volume Jesus – God and Man is one of the best treatments on Christology in the 20th century. Probably the best studies on Pannenberg are by Stanley Grenz and John McClean (that I’m aware of any way). May he rest in peace and rise in... Read more

I’ve had the benefit of being able to check out Doug Moo‘s course on Romans in Logos Mobile Ed. I have to say that its a very good module which will meet a variety of needs. In sum, its quite a neat set up with over 90 short 5-8 minute videos divided into six units including: 1. Introduction to Romans 2. The Universal Reign of Sin 3. Justification by Faith 4. The Hope of Salvation 5. God’s faithfulness to Israel 6.... Read more

See below and amazing Dutch documentary about the ministry of Tim Keller. HT: TGC outreach. Read more

I was delighted to hear on FB that Douglas Green will be joining Queensland Theological College (Brisbane, Australia) in late 2015 as Senior Lecturer in Old Testament. The QTC principal is Gary Millar. QTC already have a great faculty and it is located in a wonderful part of Brisbane adjacent to the University of Queensland. So, ironically, an American Presbyterian seminary thinks Green is theologically dodgy, while an Aussie seminary leaps for joy at his joining them. So this is a win for Doug,... Read more

In Australia, Vegemite is a popular spread for sandwiches and toast! See this video of American kids eating it. When I teach courses at US colleges, this is what I’ll be making students eat as a punishment for not doing their assigned readings! Yes, I am that evil. Moowohaha! Read more

Over at Marginalia, T. Michael Law has put together a great team of folks including Adele Reinhartz, Steven Mason, Daniel Schwartz, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Joan Taylor, Malcolm Lowe, Jonathan Klawans, Ruth Sheridan, and James Crossley to chime in on the debate about how best to translate Ioudaios. This is a topic that touches upon biblical studies, ethnography, history, Greek literature, post-holocaust studies, sociology, and ideological criticism. Me personally, I’ve always been convinced by John Barclay’s take on Ioudaios as denoting a... Read more

I’m hoping that you all know about Tyndale House which is probably one of the best research centers for biblical studies in the world. Well, the team at TH (Dirk Jongkind, Peter Head, and Peter Williams) are producing the Tyndale House Edition of the Greek New Testament. You can read about it here with an interview Jim West did with Dirk Jongkind. Read more

The United Theological College in Sydney is looking for a lecturer in OT studies beginning in 2015. See the info here. Read more

The more accurately we understand the historical setting of 1st-century Palestine, the more precise and faithful will be our understanding of what the incarnate Word taught, did and suffered. The more we know of the Mediterranean world of Roman antiquity, more naunced will be our understanding of the ways in which the NT’s epistles summoned their readers to the conversion of the imagination – Hays, “Reading the Bible with the Eyes of Faith”, 12 Read more