Todd Scacewater

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

Your Guide to Three Greek Exegetical Problems in John

December 13, 2015

Todd Scacewater

You’re sitting at home enjoying a nice show when your doorbell rings: it’s a Jehovah’s witness who wants to share with you about how Jesus is a god. How do you respond? Do you tell him you’re busy and shut the door? Do you engage in a debate with him? Do you pull out your Greek New Testament to discuss the grammatical complexities of John 1:2? There are many reasons we as Christians and academics should know Greek grammar solid, and this is only one of them. Of course each Christological passages in the Bible require careful exegesis and close attention to the language used, otherwise how would we know whether our theology of Christ is actually grounded in what the biblical authors wrote?….

Enter to Win One of Two NIV-Greek (UBS5) Parallel Bibles

December 9, 2015

Todd Scacewater

We’re giving away two beautiful NIV-Greek (UBS5) Parallel Bibles in honor of the NIV 50th Anniversary Celebration. If you’re not familiar with the history or translation policy of the NIV, check out some of these links for fun.
–Made for You Introduction: A brief (but not short!) history of revisions made to the NIV….

The Miracles of Jesus: How the Savior’s Mighty Acts Serve as Signs of Redemption, by Vern Poythress

December 8, 2015

Todd Scacewater

Vern Poythress is a true “Renaissance man.” He earned a PhD in math from Harvard. He studied linguistics with SIL. He knows philosophy quite well. And of course, he has a PhD in New Testament, which he has taught for a very long time at Westminster Theological Seminary. I had the pleasure of taking a hermeneutics course with him and it was a true tour de force of how various academic disciplines overlap….

5 Ways to Help Fund Us for FREE in Three Minutes

December 7, 2015

Todd Scacewater

Exegetical Tools’ main purpose is to equip students and pastors to rightly handle the Word of God in their original languages. Our long-term vision is to create resources to help you learn, retain, and improve your Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, German, French, and Latin.

But we cannot fulfill this vision without your help!

Would you spend less than five minutes and NONE of your own money to help support us financially, so that we can continue to equip you with our unique resources?….

Hezekiah’s Long Lost Seal, Book Deals, and New Books

December 3, 2015

Todd Scacewater

This week the internet exploded when archaeologists found a seal from Hezekiah in Jerusalem. The seal contains the phrase לחזקיהו [בן] אחז מלך יהדה–at least I’m trusting the person who knows paleo-Hebrew script to have that correct! The translation is “Belonging to Hezekiah, son of Ahaz, King of Judah.” What an exciting find! Of course this doesn’t “prove” that the Bible is true,…

How to Get Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals

December 2, 2015

Todd Scacewater

One of the sessions at SBL in Atlanta (2015) brought together three editors of mainstream journals to discuss the process of selecting and editing journal articles for publication in their journal. Much of the process is common sense, but it was most helpful to hear the differences between the journals that were represented and their estimated statistics on article selection vs. rejection and the kinds of articles….

Craig Bartholomew’s Philosophy of History Drawn from the Old Testament Worldview

December 1, 2015

Todd Scacewater

This year’s Institute for Biblical Research’s plenary speaker was Craig Bartholomew. He spoke on a biblical philosophy of history, which he draws out of the Old Testament, focusing in his talk on the view of God and history espoused in Ps 93, the first of the “YHWH mlk” psalms (“Yahweh reigns”). This theory comes largely out of his new….

All Kinds of Bibles on Big Cyber Monday Sale from WTS Bookstore

November 30, 2015

Todd Scacewater

Every kind of Bible you could want is currently on a huge Cyber Monday discount. This sale lasts only 48 hours so buy what you need now, or buy someone a Christmas present!

A Reader’s Greek New Testament, 3rd Edition, edited by Richard J. Goodrich and Albert L. Lukaszewski

November 29, 2015

Todd Scacewater

What is the best way to keep up with your vocabulary? Flashcards are definitely a big help, but there’s no substitute for simply immersing yourself in a language day after day. Goodrich and Lukaszewski understand this. As they note in the introduction, if you were to learn all the vocab words Mounce requires in his Basics of Biblical Greek, you would still be far from being able to sit down in your armchair….

Thanksgiving Leftovers

November 27, 2015

Todd Scacewater

We know you’re stuffed from your ridiculously huge dinner last night, so we’re offering some leftovers from the week for you to munch on. If you appreciate what we do here, do us a favor and do all your Black Friday shopping today from this link and Amazon will give us commission on your purchases! (If you want, you can save the link as a bookmark and use it for all future purchases to support Exegetical Tools and our creation of language…