Learn about studying at Cambridge over the summer. Ministers and laypeople are encouraged to go, and it’s for two weeks (or you can just do one).
For those who were complaining about Mohr Siebeck’s price of God and the Faithfulness of Paul (the massive response to NT Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God), Fortress Press is putting out a cheaper version…
This week was juicy!
Blogs
Mike Bird writes an open letter to the SBL about their banning IVP from displaying books at a 2017 conference. Stanley Porter has also added his voice to object strenuously….
Blogs Congratulations to Doug Hibbard, winner of our giveaway of Allen Ross’s Hebrew and Homiletics guide to Malachi. Our Book of the Week was Jobes’ and Silva’s Invitation to the Septuagint, revised and expanded edition. LXX studies is complicated, but they untangle the issues for you with skillful clarity. We reviewed Paul’s Theology of Preaching by Duane Litfin. Book Deals Pillar New Testament Commentaries are on big sale at WTS Bookstore. New Books
We featured Allen Ross’s Malachi Then and Now as our Book of the Week and now we want to give an extra copy away! Check out our roundup of all the great blogs, book deals, and new books from this week and then enter to win Ross’s book at the bottom. Good luck (providence)! Blogs Babylon Bee won the internet with this post on John Kasich. Daily Dose of Greek (Rob Plummer) posted a Good Friday edition. Will Ross invites you to…
Blogs This brief review of a new special commentary was one of our most popular posts ever. Want to read more, faster? Here’s 3 tips. Learn about this superb documentary on the poverty industry as self-serving and self-perpetuating. Explore the frustrations of understanding the Koine Greek perfect verb. Conversational Koine Institute is now selling………….clothes. The CSNTM wrote on the Johannine Comma. Book Deals Micah (Old Testament Library), $5 The First Days of Jesus by Kostenberger, $3.99 Scandalous, by DA Carson,…
Blogs More than 760 new hebrew manuscripts have been digitalized and added here. We featured a new book focusing on the theological issues tied up with ‘free will’; check out why it’s a pleasure to read. We also posted G. K. Beale’s Erosion of Inerrancy which is currently on sale for $2.99 on Kindle, with an autobiographical story to show why you want it on your shelf. Lastly, we reviewed a book on blessing and curse in OT theology. Book Deals…
Blogs
Our own William Varner argued on his personal blog that the twelve tribes in the diaspora (James 1:1) refer to the actual tribes, not to a spiritualized remnant (the church). Go read it and tell him how wrong he is! :)….
Blog Evangelical Textual Criticism interviewed Hugh Houghton, Reader in NT Textual Scholarship at the University of Birmingham (UK) and Deputy Director of the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing (ITSEE) there. This two-part interview is on his new book on the Latin NT. Our own William Varner has revived his own blog and posted a neat little tradition history of the idea that Israel would tie a rope around the ankle of the High Priest to pull him out in case he…
Charles Ryrie died this week. He was a prolific theologian and the reports of his life are nothing but tribute and honor. Wish I had known him.
We featured David Croteau’s book on 40 “urban legends” of the NT, giving you five as typical examples of myths to put to rest….
There have been a lot of important blog posts this week worth sharing.
Michael Licona was interviewed about his latest research on Gospels contradictions.
JI Packer’s rare Puritan library has been digitalized and made available free online….