This from Jim West’s blog: The ETS Executive Committee is pleased to announce the Annual Meeting Student Scholarship Program. This program is designed to help academically promising students who find participation in the Society economically prohibitive, or who come from a traditionally underrepresented group to get to know the Society, its functions, its leaders, and the role it plays in supporting conservative evangelical scholarship. The goal of the program is to encourage and support students, who might otherwise not participate... Read more

Scot McKnight blogs on a beautiful summary of the King Jesus Gospel for children written by Ben Irwin for his daughter. It ends with this: The one true King had come and given his life for the world. But they didn’t even know. No one did. But then God — the one who made the world, rescued Israel, and sent Jesus — raised him from the dead. (more…) Read more

Dr. Chris Tilling of St. Paul’s Theological Center/St. Mellitus College in London, gives a charming video review of the book The Apostle Paul: Four View. No surprises, he gravitates towards Douglas Campbell’s view. Read more

You can have a “school” of fish, a “court”of kangaroos, a “murder” of crows, and a “gaggle” of geese. However, recently I learned that the technical name for a group of episcopal leaders is called a “sherry of bishops,” sherry being their preferred beverage after 9.00 p.m. I’m led to believe that Calvin, though preferring an elder-led model of church governance, was not radically opposed to  episcopal government outside of its Roman forms. In his book, On the Necessity of Reforming... Read more

Over at ETC, Tommy Wasserman has some more details about the forthcoming NA28 that will feature a new introduction by David Trobisch. Read more

Once again, I’ve seen a review of a book I’ve written or edited before I even got my own gratis copy! Scot McKnight has started his review of The Apostle Paul: Four Views, edited by Mike Bird, and first cab off the rank in Scot’s review is Tom Schreiner’s “Reformed View” of Paul. Scot gives a good summary of Schreiner’s position and raises a few points of contention with Schreiner’s approach. Read more

Eddie Adams has published an accessible book on the four Gospels in the last year: Parallel Lives of Jesus: A Guide to the Four Gospels (WJK 2011). The book is a nice introduction to the four Gospels. It has similarities to Richard Burridge’s Four Gospels, One Jesus, which is a superb introduction. Adams’ book builds on Burridge’s and has some distinctive features that make it a good resource for a Gospels course. I will be using it this fall in... Read more

Mark is my favourite Gospel, he’s the Bourne Identity of the Gospels, constantly asking us: So, who do you think this guy is? Here’s a great summary of Mark’s literary significance: Mark … is written in an extremely plain, abrupt, often unidiomatic and dogged Koine which has generally made to seem falsely natural, even eloquent in English translations. … Admittedly, Mark’s final effect in Greek is one of a great and spare eloquence; but that strength is seldom owing to... Read more

Paul Barnett Galatians: Defending the Truth Reading the Bible Today Series Sydney: Aquila Press, 2012. Available at CEP (with chapter preview). Here’s the blurb for the book: The Apostle Paul’s earliest surviving letter, Galatians gives its readers an insight into Paul’s life as a Pharisee and persecutor, and the change brought about through his amazing conversion. Paul Barnett’s enlightening commentary shows readers the apostle Paul’s defence of the truth he now held to at any cost, and his heartfelt desire to... Read more

Over at Themelios, there is a review of Justification: Five Views by Jeremy Kimble. Read more