We had an unofficial contest on our Facebook page and weekly Greek email. We asked everyone to summarize the Bible in one sentence, and we got some great responses. Here they all are, along with our pick for the best answer. Look for further contests, as we recently acquired some great Greek resources at a used book sale to give away to you all….
Yes, there are many books on the market on how to study the Bible. However, the traditional approach to the inductive method (a model that presents steps of observation, interpretation, and application) is most often depicted in popular level titles. The one notable exception to this is the Bauer and Traina book…
Learn to observe, interpret, and apply the Bible. That is one of the greatest goals of life.
The first step to keeping your Greek is to choose the right Greek Bible. Beyond this, there are many other ways to help keep your Greek, one of the most important being that you get the best resources. There are different types of resources, and it’s great to have a couple in each category within reach at your desk….
Learn about studying at Cambridge over the summer. Ministers and laypeople are encouraged to go, and it’s for two weeks (or you can just do one).
For those who were complaining about Mohr Siebeck’s price of God and the Faithfulness of Paul (the massive response to NT Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God), Fortress Press is putting out a cheaper version…
Lots of book sales today. I suggest reading any Nancy Pearcey writes (Finding Truth, below). Grief Undone is a wonderful book on grief and suffering by a godly woman who knows about it first-hand. And then B&H Academic has a good number of books for cheap. These two books below wouldn’t show up correct as images so they’re typed out….
There are definitely many reasons to learn Syriac from a Biblical Studies perspective, and I would encourage anyone interested in deepening their understanding of both the Bible and Church History to dive right in. Also, I think anyone with a background in Semitic languages (such as Biblical Hebrew or Biblical Aramaic) will find the language very interesting and easy to pick up….
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….
Enjoy these cheap books centered on the gospel and ministry! Preach: Theology Meets Practice, by Dever and Gilbert, $2.99 Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved, by J.D. Greear, $1.99 Cross: Unrivaled Christ, Unstoppable Gospel, Unreached Peoples, Unending Joy, by John Piper and David Mathis, $1.99 Doxology and Theology: How the Gospel Forms the Worship Leader, by Matt Boswell, $2.99 Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary, by J. D. Greear, $2.99 Gospel-Centered…
Skip the catalogs. Find all the new biblical studies books collected here.