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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….
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Two books are currently on sale at the WTS Bookstore, both on legalism, antinomianism, and the gospel. Fisher’s is 45% off while Ferguson’s is 45% off for single copies and 55% off if you buy two or more.
Fisher’s book Marrow regarded an 18th century controversy on these topics….
His preteristic leanings are clear, but his desire to provide a close reading of the text is equally clear.
Textual criticism is a specialized practice with lots of symbols, methodologies, and esoteric knowledge. Moreover, in order to be extremely skilled at textual criticism, one must have access to manuscripts to study or at least see them physically, which some scholars have the opportunity to do. But the best most of us can do is use the critical apparatus of our Greek New Testaments to see the variants and try to discern the original reading….
These four books from D. A. Carson (and co-authors) are only $2.99 right now. We’ve reviewed His Mission, and the others are solid as well.
These other six books are from Paul Tripp, each of them useful books on counseling, worship, and ministry.
Grab them while they’re cheap!….
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What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality? by Kevin DeYoung
A History of Western Philosophy and Theology, by John Frame….
Among the philosophers, only Plato has made as large an impact as Aristotle. The latter a student of the former, Aristotle moved in slightly different directions and was not awarded the ownership of Plato’s academy. These two therefore made their own unique contributions, but they are inextricably tied together. In the Christian tradition, the two ancient giants, Augustine and Aquinas….
The New Year is getting off to a great start for those looking to strengthen their Greek. Kregel Academic is set to publish two volumes that the student of the Greek New Testament will want to add to their shelves.
Interest in the Septuagint today continues to grow stronger. Despite that interest, students have lacked a guidebook to the text similar to the readers and handbooks that exist for the Greek New Testament. Discovering the Septuagint….
Preparing a sermon on difficult texts can be extremely time-consuming. In Philippians 1, what does Paul mean when he says “I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my salvation” (1:19)? How should the difficult Greek phrase τοῦτο φρονεῖτε ἐν ὑμῖν ὃ καὶ ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ (2:5) be understood? What does the word ἁρπαγμὸν mean in 2:6? To give one more example, what about everyone’s favorite word in Philippians, σκύβαλα – just exactly how strong is that word? For each of these exegetical problems, and the many more you would find in almost every paragraph of Philippians, you might need to consult a few commentaries and a couple lexicons, assuming you’re working from the Greek….
