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When Did the New Testament Become Scripture?

June 4, 2017

Many modern scholars have settled on c. AD 200 as the earliest period at which the New Testament writings were considered Scripture. Irenaeus has been called the “principal architect” of the canon, while another scholar has said Irenaeus “essentially created the core of the New Testament canon of Holy Scripture.” But a fresh examination of the evidence suggests that the New Testament writings were considered Scripture far earlier than Irenaeus….

Craig Blomberg’s Comprehensive Study on the Reliability of the New Testament

November 7, 2016

Todd Scacewater

Craig Blomberg has spent the span of his career studying the historical reliability of the New Testament. His first published book was his dissertation on the historical reliability of the Gospels. Since then he has written several other works on the same topic, covering John and other focused questions about the New Testament….

Paul and His Recent Interpreters, by N. T. Wright

October 20, 2016

Todd Scacewater

In 1911, Albert Schweitzer wrote Paul and His Interpreters, which not only summarized the history of Pauline interpretation but also located Paul within Judaism. In the last century there has been a stream of different approaches to Paul, from classical liberalism, to a history….

Interview with Charles Lee Irons: Syntax, Exegesis, and Forthcoming

October 6, 2016

Todd Scacewater

This week we featured Charles Lee Irons’ work, A Syntax Guide for Readers of the Greek New Testament, as our Book of the Week. And it is truly a resource to keep right next to your Greek New Testament. It could shave many precious minutes off your sermon preparation and keep you from flipping through your intermediate syntax categories every few minutes….

This Guide Helps You with the Syntax of the Entire New Testament

October 3, 2016

Todd Scacewater

There are many obstacles that stand between you and Greek proficiency. The first is mastering morphology, and there are plenty of helps from published books to Bible software like BibleWorks. The second is vocabulary, and there are plenty of ways to improve your bank of Greek vocabulary….

Interview with Andreas Kostenberger on Approaching New Testament Introduction

August 16, 2016

Todd Scacewater

New Testament introduction is an area that every seminary student must wade through because it is foundational to how we understand our Scriptures. Textbooks must therefore address the most critical issues, but Evangelical textbooks have an additional task of promoting the spiritual growth of students. The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown (2nd ed.) is a textbook that strikes an elegant balance, about which you can read more here. Andreas Köstenberger, co-author along with Scott Kellum and Chuck Quarles, was kind enough to…

Keep Several New Testament Intros on Your Shelf, and Make Sure This is One of Them

August 14, 2016

Todd Scacewater

It’s not often I get excited about a New Testament introduction textbook, but Köstenberger , Kellum, and Quarles have exceeded expectations. Their new work, The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown: An Introduction to the New Testament, is a tour de force for issues related to the NT. At 1,100+ pages, this work leaves no stone unturned and should be welcomed by NT professors, pastors, and students alike. Even better, this new second edition is completely updated with the latest scholarship. Contents The work divides…

All That the Prophets Have Declared: The Appropriation of Scripture in the Emergence of Christianity, ed. Matthew Malcolm

June 30, 2016

Todd Scacewater

This book was the product of a symposium in Perth Australia at Trinity Theological College. Key speakers were Larry Hurtado, Roland Deines, Allan Chapple, and Mark Seifrid. As the title indicates, the papers focused on the use of Scripture in early Christianity and what we can glean from that for knowledge about the emergence of early Christianity, and topic very well connected with Hurtado’s work….

The Epistle to the Romans (NIGTC), by Richard Longenecker

May 31, 2016

Todd Scacewater

Richard Longenecker is a senior scholar and professor emeritus of New Testament at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto. As such, he exhibits a dexterity with a wide breadth of academic sources that springs from a life committed to biblical investigation….

Five Myths about the New Testament You Should Re-Examine

February 15, 2016

Todd Scacewater

David Croteau has written a unique book with a sneaky purpose: to teach good hermeneutics. Many hermeneutics textbooks spend hundreds of pages on theory with some examples here and there. But not many books have been written with only examples of good exegesis for the purpose of teaching good exegesis….