Blogs
10 Unforgettable Lessons on Fatherhood. Ray Ortland bears witness to his father Ray Ortland Sr., pastor of Lake Avenue Congregational Church in Pasadena for twenty years, who led a life devoted to his family and to God.
We reviewed a great Greek resource by Murray Harris, an exegetical guide to Colossians and Philemon. If you want to improve your Greek, this is one of the best resources available.
We also reviewed His Mission: Jesus in the Gospel of Luke, ed. Carson, which has a great set of sermons from TGC 2013 and a stimulating Conference Panel on “Did Jesus Preach the Gospel,” to which I devote a good amount of space. We’re also giving away a free copy: enter here to win!
Kindle Deals
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laertius, trans. by C. D. Yonge
New Books
Do We Need the New Testament?: Letting the Old Testament Speak for Itself, by John Goldingay
- Titles don’t get much more provocative than this! Goldingay talks about the priority of the OT as the only Bible of Jesus and the apostles and about its unique witness to God and his faithfulness to Israel and the world. This is sure to make a big splash in NT/OT studies.
John’s Use of the Old Testament in Revelation (The Library of New Testament Studies), by Gregory Beale (new paperback edition)
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Developmental Composition of the Bible (Vetus Testamentum Supplements), by Eugene Ulrich
- Eugene Ulrich presents in The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Developmental Composition of the Biblethe comprehensive and synthesized picture he has gained as editor of many biblical scrolls. His earlier volume, The Biblical Qumran Scrolls, presented the evidence — the transcriptions and textual variants of all the biblical scrolls — and this volume explores the implications and significance of that evidence.
Lifting the Veil: 2 Corinthians 3:7-18 in Light of Jewish Homiletic and Commentary Traditions, by Michael Cover (De Gruyter)
Studien Zum Text Der Apokalypse (Arbeiten Zur Neutestamentlichen Textforschung), ed. Karrer et al. (De Gruyter)
Christian Philosophy of Religion: Essays in Honor of Stephen T. Davis, ed. C. P. Ruloff
Conventional and Ultimate Truth: A Key for Fundamental Theology (Thresholds in Philosophy and Theology), by Joseph O’Leary
Justifying Same-Sex Marriage: A Philosophical Investigation, by Louise Richardson-Self
Defending Substitution: An Essay on Atonement in Paul (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology), by Simon Gathercole, Kindle edition
Why Christian Faith Still Makes Sense: A Response to Contemporary Challenges (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology), by C. Stephen Evans, Kindle edition
Identity and Idolatry: The Image of God and its Inversion (New Studies in Biblical Theology), by Richard Lints
Theological Fitness: Why We Need a Fighting Faith, by Aimee Byrd (interview on the book here)
Walking with Jesus Through His Word: Discovering Christ in All the Scriptures, by Dennis Johnson
Marcion and the Making of a Heretic: God and Scripture in the Second Century, by Judith Lieu
Pneumatology: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed), Daniel Castelo
Atonement: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed), Adam Johnson
The Binding of Isaac: A Religious Model of Disobedience (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament), by Omri Boehm
Attitudes to Gentiles in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (The Library of New Testament Studies), ed. Sims & McLaren
Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness, by Richard Hays, Kindle edition
An Introduction to the Study of Ezekiel (T & T Clark Approaches to Biblical Studies), by Michael Lyons
