March 2015 - exegetical.tools

Book Deal: A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life, $5 on Kindle

March 31, 2015

Get this work now from WTS Bookstore for only $5 on Kindle. Compare this cost with $41 for hardcover on Amazon and $30 for Kindle.

This is a massive, 1,055 page book that “offers a groundbreaking treatment of the Puritans’ teaching on most major Reformed doctrines, particularly those doctrines in which the Puritans made significant contributions. Since the late 1950s, nearly 150 Puritan authors and 700 Puritan titles have been reprinted and catalogued by Joel Beeke and Randall Pederson in their 2006 collection of mini-biographies and book reviews, titled, Meet the Puritans. However, no work until now has gathered together the threads of their teaching into a unified tapestry of systematic….

Keep Your Greek: Strategies for Busy People, by Constantine R. Campbell

March 30, 2015

Laura Guzman

Constantine Campbell is a lead contributor on the latest discussions concerning verbal aspect theory and has put his knowledge of the language to good use with his most recent book on Union with Christ. Not only is Dr. Campbell worth noting because he is a highly proficient Greek scholar and professor, but he is also jazz musician who knows the value of practice and hard work and uses these insights to inform his approach to maintaining your knowledge of the language. With excellent reviews from Craig L. Blomberg….

Handbook on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, by G. K. Beale

March 26, 2015

Warren Campbell

Beale is widely known for publishing extensively on the New Testament’s use of the Old. This work provides the student with a distilled outline of his entire exegetical method for interpreting the OT in the NT. In chapters 1 and 2, Beale introduces the reader to the discipline of Old in the New studies, surveying various interpretive and methodological developments….

Your Go-To Online Summer GERMAN Course

March 24, 2015

Todd Scacewater

Need to learn German for graduate programs? I highly recommend Erasmus Academy’s online seminar course in German. I took this course in the summer of 2012 and it was one of the best language courses I’ve taken. This year in runs May 18-July 8 (8 weeks total). The deadline to sign up is May 1. If you do take the course, please remember to tell the professor that Todd Scacewater referred you….

Reading Koine Greek, by Rodney Decker

March 23, 2015

Todd Scacewater

Rodney Decker has produced a new Koine Greek grammar that focuses on translation from the very beginning and includes extra-biblical Greek to allow exposure to wider forms of Koine. This work is entirely suitable for use in Greek 1 & 2, although the professor may find the following review helpful for determining whether it fits his or her tastes before ordering a review copy….

$0.99 on Kindle: Kuyper’s LECTURES ON CALVINISM

March 20, 2015

Todd Scacewater

Today you can buy Abraham Kuyper’s Lectures on Calvinism for only $0.99 on Kindle.

Dutch theologian Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) was prime minister of the Netherlands from 1901 to 1905. He developed Neo-Calvinism, which emphasizes the sovereignty of Jesus over all mental pursuits and supports the idea that there exists….

Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures Volume I

March 19, 2015

Warren Campbell

James H. Charlesworth, the Princeton Professor and editor of the standard two volume The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, noted that the recently edited volume, Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures Volume I, is “…high on the list of the most important publications in biblical studies over the past twenty-five years” (xi). Richard Bauckham, James R. Davila, and Alexander Panayotov have together produced an exciting addition to the area of Old Testament Pseudepigrapha studies….

Interviews with Alvin Plantinga

March 17, 2015

Todd Scacewater

The Gospel Coalition has posted a set of interviews (click here), totaling about 25 minutes, with Alvin Plantinga, author of the trilogy on Warrant: Warrant: The Current Debate Warrant and Proper Function Warranted Christian Belief Plantinga has now written a brief, 144pp. book summarizing this trilogy for a more lay-audience, or, perfectly, for theologians with little philosophical training. This work is entitled Knowledge and Christian Belief and will be released April 10, 2015. Although this is properly a biblical studies blog, epistemology (theory…

Meet Our New Blog Team

March 16, 2015

Todd Scacewater

Who is New? This week, Warren Campbell and Laura Guzman have joined the Exegetical Tools team. Both are fascinatingly sharp students of biblical studies and hope to serve our audience with their blogging efforts. Please check out their profiles here on our new Contributors page. What Will We Be Offering? We have a pretty clear vision of what we want to offer, and we hope it will be enticing enough for you to follow our blog. New Books. Keep up…

Galatians and Christian Theology, ed. Elliot, Hafemann, and Wright

March 13, 2015

Warren Campbell

The volume is structured into three parts: justification, the gospel and ethics. Each section includes a number of essays from a wide range of scholars of different disciplines and academic interests. While an extended review of every essay is certainly unnecessary in this forum, a brief….

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