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….
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….
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…
Daniel Wallace has provided students a 1 year plan for reading through the Greek NT in 1 year. He orders the reading plan from easiest (John) to most difficult (Hebrews) and recommends reading three chapters a day, one being a new chapter and the other two being review (see his longer explanation). He has grouped them in segments of 6-10 chapters, so that if you tackled one segment a day you would finish the entire plan in a month, a…
This book is a classic and deserves to be read still today for the topics of canon, apostleship, authority, and redemptive history. Ridderbos, writing during a time dominated by existentialist interpretation, subjectivist hermeneutics, and canonical turmoil sought to establish a connection between the NT Scriptures and redemptive history. General historical investigation….
Brown and Yule survey the work done thus far on discourse analysis and the various components of what have been included in such work. They deal both with written and with oral texts, sometimes more with oral in order to see language-in-use more effectively. They appreciate the work done by Chomsky and other structural linguists to analyze grammar…
The “assumption underlying this work is that meaning is also structured, and that this structure is amenable to linguistic analysis and theory. Indeed, the purpose of this presentation is to set forth a theory of the structure of meaning—to give it a technical title, semantic structure” (14). The semantic structure that the authors lay out is hierarchical….