August 2015 - exegetical.tools

Portrait of an Apostle: A Case for Paul’s Authorship of Colossians and Ephesians, by Gregory S. MaGee

August 31, 2015

If Colossians, Ephesians, or both are pseupigraphal writings, how would we know? There is one objective, historical test to which we might subject the documents. There are documents that are unanimously agreed to be Pauline pseudepigraphs, namely, Epistle to the Loadiceans (Ep. Lao.) and Third Corinthians (3 Cor.). An objective, historical test would be to compare the language and ideas of these two known pseudepigraphs….

Weekly Roundup August 28, 2015

August 28, 2015

Todd Scacewater

Blogs

N. T. Wright’s reviewed Wesley Hill’s Paul and the Trinity for The Living Church and Hill responded at EerdWord.

Book Deals

These sales last until September 1. Most of these books look great, but I especially like Community of Jesus by Easley and Morgan, Perspectives on Spirit Baptism, Prophets as Preachers by Gary Smith, and Perspectives on Israel and the Church. Comment below to let us know which ones you bought!….

25+ Books on SALE for $0.99 and Up, through September 1

August 27, 2015

Todd Scacewater

Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective, by Sanders and Issler, $2.99….

Keep Your Greek: Taking Greek Electives

August 26, 2015

Todd Scacewater

When I was doing my MDiv, I had a good amount of elective hours: 18 if I remember correctly. Those are a precious 18 hours. For better or for worse, I had different goals in my first two years of my MDiv. I came to seminary probably wanting to pastor, and pretty quickly gained a passion for church planting. I was excited to study hard, prepare for church planting, and pastor a church that was faithful to the biblical picture for the church (whatever that is!). Now here I am, completing my dissertation in a PhD program in hermeneutics and teaching Greek and New Testament courses. That’s quite a distance from planting a church….

Weekly Roundup August 21, 2015

August 21, 2015

Jennifer Guo

Blogs

Michael Bird commented on fellow Aussie Con Campbell’s latest book Advances in the Study of Greek.

Ken Schenck is continuing to blog through I (Still) Believe: Leading Bible Scholars Share Their Stories of Faith and Scholarship with posts on essays by Ellen Davis and James Dunn.

Larry Hurtado uploaded his essay Who Read Early Christian Apocrypha? from the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Apocrypha.

Huge Book Sale You Don’t Want to Miss

August 19, 2015

Todd Scacewater

B&H Academic has a ton of their books on huge sale for Kindle today. I already own most of these, but I picked up Everlasting Dominion by Merrill. Which books did you get?

Everlasting Dominion: A Theology of the Old Testament, by Eugene Merrill, $2.99

Colossians and Philemon (Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament) by Murray J. Harris, $0.99

Hebrews (The New American Commentary), by David L. Allen, $2.99….

Linguistics and the New Testament: Critical Junctures, eds. Stanley Porter and D. A. Carson

August 19, 2015

Todd Scacewater

T&T Clark is reissuing several studies from the JSNTSS series in their Library of New Testament Studies series. Many of these are valuable sets of essay, including the present volume, which contains papers that apply modern linguistic methods to the analysis of the New Testament. As in most sets of essays, some are more useful than others, but the volume gives a good sampling of what modern linguistics has to offer biblical scholars….

Philosophy Before Socrates: An Introduction with Texts and Commentaries, 2nd ed., by Richard D. McKirahan

August 17, 2015

Todd Scacewater

This work contains the primary texts containing information about the presocratic philosophers, with introductory notes and commentary on the texts. He organizes the material by topic to attempt to present each thinker in an organized fashion. The beauty of this book, as opposed to other “readers,” is that McKirahan presents “most, and in many cases all, of the fragments of the philosophers discussed, as well as other important evidence on their thought” (ix). There are cases where he cannot do this, for example, Hesiod’s Theogony, which is too long for full inclusion….

Weekly Roundup August 14, 2015

August 14, 2015

Todd Scacewater

Blogs

Eerdmans featured five great books by Stanley Hauerwas.

Book Deals

$0.99 on Kindle: Nine “Perspectives” Books from B&H Academic: Perspectives on….

On Sale from $0.99: “Perspectives” Books from B&H Academic

August 13, 2015

Todd Scacewater

I came across this huge sale today from B&H Academic on their Perspectives series (multiple views written by various authors in one volume). I already bought the volume on the ending of Mark and want to read it just to have the various views on it….

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