Todd Scacewater

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

Endangered Languages: An Introduction, by Sarah Thomason

September 28, 2015

Todd Scacewater

“According to most experts’ estimates, at least half of the world’s seven thousand languages will vanish before the end of this century” (2). What an amazing statistic! Those of us interested in biblical languages have felt the sting of this statistic recently, as we heard news about the last of native Aramaic speakers dying out. What is it that leads to language “death,” and how can languages be revitalized? Or should they be? The purpose of this book is “to introduce the general topic of language endangerment…and to describe some methods designed to prevent endangerment from leading to the disappearance of a threatened language” (2)….

Huge Book Sale, Blog Roundup, and New Books

September 25, 2015

Todd Scacewater

Blogs

We posted a review of Constantine Campbell’s new book covering recent advances in the study of Greek, one of the most popular books of the year.

New Books

Did Jesus Speak Greek?: The Emerging Evidence of Greek Dominance in First-Century Palestine, by G. Scott Gleaves (James Clarke)….

A Book Sale to Break the Bank! 40 Titles Under $3

September 23, 2015

Todd Scacewater

10 Questions Every Christian Must Answer: Thoughtful Responses to Strengthen Your Faith Kindle Edition, by Alex McFarland, $2.99

Ministry is…: How to Serve Jesus with Passion and Confidence, by Dave Early, $2.99

Perspectives on the Doctrine of God, ed. Bruce Ware, $2.99….

Book Deals and New Books!

September 18, 2015

Todd Scacewater

Book Deals

The End of Christianity, by William Dembski, $0.99

Faith and Learning: A Handbook for Christian Higher Education, by David Dockery, $0.99

Generous Justice, by Tim Keller, FREE on Audible with a free trial

The Historical Jesus: An Essential Guide, by James Charlesworth

September 14, 2015

Todd Scacewater

Who was Jesus of Nazareth, and what can we know about him? Do the Gospels preserve any genuine traditions about Jesus? Was he a historical figure at all? Many people ask these questions, and many scholars try to answer them. The historical figure of Jesus is an elusive one for most scholars, who find him to be quite different from the “Christ of faith,” a distinction prominent since Martin Kähler’s The So-Called Historical Jesus and the Historic, Biblical Christ (1892)….

29 Zondervan Counterpoint Books on Sale

September 8, 2015

Todd Scacewater

These Zondervan Counterpoint titles are all on sale for $4.99 on Kindle. These are great introductions to various subjects with expert contributors to guide you through the various questions to consider on each topic. As always, let all your friends know by sharing it on social media.

Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics: Open Questions in Current Research, eds. Stanley Porter and D. A. Carson

September 7, 2015

Todd Scacewater

This volume is important for the development of aspect theory in New Testament Greek and the application of modern linguistics to the New Testament corpus. These lectures were presented at the 1990 and 1991 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in the Consultation on Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics. It was originally published in 1993 in the JSNT Supplement Series, but it has now been republished by Bloomsbury in the Biblical Studies segment of their Academic Collections series….

Over 45 Kindle Deals, Great Blogs, and New Biblical Studies Books

September 3, 2015

Todd Scacewater

We found over 45 books on sale this week! I’ve tried to organize them by topic to save you time. Check out a couple great blogs below, and browse through all the new biblical studies books published this week. This is a book geek’s paradise. Blogs Books At a Glance interviewed Stephen Wellum (and it has audio you can listen to) about his new book with Peter Gentry, God’s Kingdom through God’s Covenants, which is a condensation of their larger Kingdom through Covenant. Zondervan…

Gregory MaGee’s Response to My Review of His Portrait of an Apostle

September 2, 2015

Todd Scacewater

Earlier, I reviewed Greg Magee’s published dissertation, Portrait of an Apostle: A Case for Paul’s Authorship of Colossians and Ephesians (Wipf & Stock, 2013), 204 pages. You can catch up on the review here. I found this book very creative and well executed, so I decided to ask Greg to write a reply to my review, hoping that he could sharpen my thinking a bit on a topic he spent years studying. He graciously replied, and we hope the discussion between us is fruitful and stimulating….

Portrait of an Apostle: A Case for Paul’s Authorship of Colossians and Ephesians, by Gregory S. MaGee

August 31, 2015

Todd Scacewater

If Colossians, Ephesians, or both are pseupigraphal writings, how would we know? There is one objective, historical test to which we might subject the documents. There are documents that are unanimously agreed to be Pauline pseudepigraphs, namely, Epistle to the Loadiceans (Ep. Lao.) and Third Corinthians (3 Cor.). An objective, historical test would be to compare the language and ideas of these two known pseudepigraphs….