Todd Scacewater

Todd (PhD, Hermeneutics) serves with Wycliffe Bible Translators as a professor of international studies at Dallas International University.

Book Deals in New Testament and (Biblical) Theology, from $0.99!

August 12, 2016

Todd Scacewater

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New Biblical Studies Books, July 2016

August 9, 2016

Todd Scacewater

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Commentaries on Sale from $3.99

August 8, 2016

Todd Scacewater

Zondervan has a bunch of commentaries on sale. Browse them below.

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26 Times the Word “God” Occurs in Esther

August 5, 2016

Todd Scacewater

Esther is notorious for not mentioning “God.” He is working behind the scenes in his sovereignty to orchestrate events to work for the preservation of his people and for justice against their enemies. But, did you know that the word “God” actually occurs 26 times in Esther? Well, at least in the additions Old Greek….

A Companion to Greek Literature, edited by Martin Hose and David Schenker

August 3, 2016

Todd Scacewater

Anyone studying Christianity faces the task of dealing also with Greco-Roman culture. If affected Christianity in multiple ways, from the early philosophical ideas of Plato and Aristotle that filtered down to the Stoics and Epicureans of the time of the….

Make Sure this Greek Guide to Ephesians is in Your Library

August 1, 2016

Todd Scacewater

Ephesians is not easy Greek. The sentences are complex and flowing; the syntax is ambiguous; genitives abound and interpretive decisions never cease. The Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament series from B&H Academic has so far produced many volumes, such as John, Philippians, and others. This latest volume covers every phrase in Ephesians with acute exegetical skill as well as concision. One of the best features of this volume is how brief it is. It spans only 246 pages,…

Greek Webinar: Colossians 2:16-19, the Epistle’s Interpretive Crux

July 29, 2016

Todd Scacewater

This week we tackled the most difficult passage to interpret in Colossians, 2:16-19. Verse 18 has the most difficult phrase, “which things he has seen, entering.” The phrase “worship of angels” is also a problem — is it subjective, or objective….

Koine Greek Reader: Selections from the New Testament, Septuagint, and Early Christian Writers, by Rodney J. Decker

July 29, 2016

Todd Scacewater

Koine Greek Reader: Selections from the New Testament, Septuagint, and Early Christian Writers, by Rodney J. Decker (Kregel Academic, 2007), 310 pages. Many students wonder what to do to keep their Greek. Rodney Decker was a fantastic Greek professor that obviously cared deeply about his students’ knowledge of the language. His recent grammar Reading Koine Greek breaks some new pedagogical ground and includes many helpful exercises and practice that professors can use in the classroom and that students can use on their…

How to Distinguish Subjects and Predicate Nominatives in Koine

July 22, 2016

Todd Scacewater

Remembering the three guidelines for distinguishing between subjects and predicate nominatives is difficult. But if you can get the guidelines down, you’ll save yourself a lot of time and errors when reading Greek….

Sailing Between Scylla and Charybdis for a Biblical Theology

July 18, 2016

Todd Scacewater

In the last two and a half centuries, biblical theology has come to the fore, and among topics in biblical theology, the role of covenant and how the covenants relate to one another looms large. Two broad approaches to the relationship between the OT covenants and the New Covenant have emerged: dispensationalism and covenantalism. While dispensationalism is newer to the scene,…