The new Zondervan Academic Catalogue is out here. Featuring books by our own Joel Willitts on Messianic Judaism and my buddy Con Campbell on Paul and Union with Christ. Oh, and don’t forget, The Apostle Paul: Four Views. Read more

Here Prof. Dr. Holger Strutwolf, director of Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung, explains the institute and the launch of the NA28 edition of the Greek New Testament HT: ETC. Read more

Over at the Telegraph is an interview with outgoing ABC Rowan Williams about his time at the top, Richard Dawkins, his new book on faith in the public square, and lots of other stuff. Read more

Two gucci and bodacious conferences happening in the future include: Beyond Old and New Perspectives at Duke University: A Critical Engagement with Douglas Campbell’s Deliverance of God, 9-12 November 2012. Speakers include  Stephen Chapman, Susan Eastman, Stanley Hauerwas, Willie Jennings, Warren Smith, and David Steinmetz. Peter in Earliest Christianity at Edinburgh University, 4-6 July 2013 (just before International SBL in St Andrews). Speakers include Markus Bockmuehl, Larry Hurtado, Peter Lampe, and Sean Freyne. Read more

Joseph Torres reviews Chris Wright’s book The Mission of God’s People, including this quotation: Thus, though we cannot now study the passages in detail, Paul’s argument from Romans 3:29 to the end of Romans 4, and even more so in Galatians 3, is not (as sometimes suggested) merely using Abraham as an illustration of his doctrine of justification by faith, but constitutes precisely his exposition of what that doctrine means. God has demonstrated his righteousness and his trustworthiness by keeping... Read more

A project I’ve heard about for a while is that Tyndale House (known to insiders as Textual Criticism House) is producing its own edition of the Greek New Testament called the Tyndale House Edition of the Greek New Testament (THEGNT). See details form Peter Williams here. Read more

Tremper Longman Introducing the Old Testament: A Short Guide to its History and Message Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2012. Available at Amazon.com Review by Graham Scott (Crossway College) Introducing the Old Testament is an accessible quick reference to the Old Testament. The design and Longman’s clarity of writing makes it highly readable. Theological students will relish the summaries of each book’s content, as well as insights into genre and more scholarly issues like authorship and date. Pastors and laypeople will... Read more

Over at SAET, Jason Hood has a great post about F.F. Bruce on the Gospel. Highly relevant to the TGC “Did Jesus preach the gospel debate” too. Here is Jason’s summary of Bruce on “gospel”: 1. the prophecies [and I’d clarify that it’s story as a whole, not just individual prophecies] have been fulfilled and the new age inaugurated by the coming of Christ; 2. he was born into the family of David; 3. he died according to the Scriptures, to deliver... Read more

Matthew Claridge from Credo interviews Tom Schreiner about his contribution to the book, The Apostle Paul: Four Views. HT: Andy Naselli. Read more

In what could be the biggest theological event since a Swiss Pastor named “Karl” decided to write a commentary on Romans, January 2013 will see the first annual Los Angeles Theology Conference, featuring a great line-up of folks including Oliver D. Crisp (Fuller), George Hunsinger (Princeton Theological Seminary), Peter J. Leithart (New Saint Andrews College), Katherine Sonderegger (Virginia Theological Seminary) and Alan J. Torrance (University of Saint Andrews). The first conference will be on: CHRISTOLOGY, ANCIENT AND MODERN: EXPLORATIONS IN CONSTRUCTIVE THEOLOGY Those with completed... Read more