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Learn Syriac at Home: New User-Friendly Grammar with Workbook

January 9, 2017

As I worked on my dissertation on Ps 68 in Judaism and Paul’s epistles, I came across several articles that approached the problem of Ps 68:18 in Eph 4:8 from a text-tradition perspective. Paul changes Ps 68:18’s “you received” to “he gave” in Eph 4:8, so naturally an examination of early versions was a first step. But one of the early versions is the Peshitta, to which I had no linguistic access, but which was appealed to in several articles and commentaries. I quickly learned that Syriac was yet another language I needed to learn if I would study the New Testament….

Gospel and Ministry E-Book Deals

January 6, 2017

Todd Scacewater

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New Biblical Studies Books December 2016

January 5, 2017

Todd Scacewater

Skip the catalogs. Find all the new biblical studies books collected here.

Hebrew Union College Sign Tagged with Swastika

January 4, 2017

Todd Scacewater

The Cincinnati campus of the Hebrew Union College was tagged by a swastika yesterday. HUC is the first permanent Jewish institution of higher learning and was established in 1875. They now have multiple campuses in New York, Los Angeles, and Jerusalem. As their president notes, “For more than 140 years HUC-JIR has been committed to being the liberal, open and welcoming center of Jewish life and education….

Take Your Greek to the Next Level with the Septuagint

January 2, 2017

Todd Scacewater

The best way to improve your Greek is to read lots of it. We all enjoy reading the New Testament in Greek, but Koine Greek is much broader than the NT. The two corpora we should turn to first to continue expanding our Greek horizons are the Apostolic Fathers and the Septuagint. The Greek of the latter is probably easier (overall) and is therefore a great place….