We’ll e-mail you a weekly Greek paradigm with instruction and translation exercises.
We’ll e-mail you five lessons in difficult Greek texts to push your language skills.
Eerdmans is giving away James Dunn’s three volume series Christianity in the making. This series will of course have debatable details throughout, but it’s a monument to Dunn’s scholarship and comprehensive coverage of primary and secondary sources. We’ll be featuring his third volume in a couple months as one of our books of the week. P&R is also giving away three Cornelius van Til volumes…..
The following is an excerpt (pp. 14-15, posted with permission) from Murray Harris’ Exegetical Guide to John’s Gospel, our Book of the Week for December 14, 2015.
RECOMMENDED COMMENTARIES
Throughout this Guide references are made to five commentaries that are written in English or translated into English and are based directly on the Greek text of John. They are:
C. K. Barrett, The Gospel according to St. John: An Introduction with Commentary and Notes on the Greek Text. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1978.
Nancy Pearcey wrote award winning Total Truth, an incredible book laying out a Christian worldview as a paradigm for cultural and intellectual engagement. (That book, by the way, is currently 44% off at WTS Books — if you haven’t read it, it needs to go on your to-read shelf!) Now she has written a following up volume Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes and it’s only $3.99 on Kindle. As the sub-title indicates, she gives five principles for finding non-Christian worldviews in various elements of society.
Here are some good books to have on Kindle – I’d probably prefer them in e-format than on my shelf taking up space, since they’re quicker readers. Some of them are good orientations to their subject, such as the book on premill and on whether the church has replaced Israel, and especially Naselli’s book on the atonement.
Taking Christian Moral Thought Seriously (B&H Studies in Christian Ethics), by Jeremy A. Evans and Daniel Heimbach….
The New Testament world lost a giant when I. Howard Marshall died on Saturday, December 12, 2015. Immediately, testimonies began popping up all over the web about ways Marshall had influenced men and women in the classroom and out of it. Since I never met Dr. Marshall but have appreciated his work, I thought I could join the tribute train by collating the testimonies of others into one place. If you have any more, please comment below so I can add them to the post….
There are three really good deals today from B&H Academic for $2.99 each on Kindle. Deals are done today.
Walt Kaiser’s History of Israel //// Everlasting Dominion by Eugene Merrill //// Text-Driven Preaching, ed. Akin et al.
You’re sitting at home enjoying a nice show when your doorbell rings: it’s a Jehovah’s witness who wants to share with you about how Jesus is a god. How do you respond? Do you tell him you’re busy and shut the door? Do you engage in a debate with him? Do you pull out your Greek New Testament to discuss the grammatical complexities of John 1:2? There are many reasons we as Christians and academics should know Greek grammar solid, and this is only one of them. Of course each Christological passages in the Bible require careful exegesis and close attention to the language used, otherwise how would we know whether our theology of Christ is actually grounded in what the biblical authors wrote?….
We’re giving away two beautiful NIV-Greek (UBS5) Parallel Bibles in honor of the NIV 50th Anniversary Celebration. If you’re not familiar with the history or translation policy of the NIV, check out some of these links for fun.
–Made for You Introduction: A brief (but not short!) history of revisions made to the NIV….
Vern Poythress is a true “Renaissance man.” He earned a PhD in math from Harvard. He studied linguistics with SIL. He knows philosophy quite well. And of course, he has a PhD in New Testament, which he has taught for a very long time at Westminster Theological Seminary. I had the pleasure of taking a hermeneutics course with him and it was a true tour de force of how various academic disciplines overlap….
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