Blogs
Will Ross, PhD student at Cambridge who blogs on Septuagint studies, posted the biblical studies carnival for June. It’s essentially a roundup of all the biblical studies posts from the month.
We posted a review of How We Got the New Testament by Stanley Porter. We also launched our inaugural volume of the Exegetical Tools Quarterly.
New Books….
We’re proud to announce today the publication of the first issue of the Exegetical Tools Quarterly. Our Quarterly is a unique resource among a variety of similar publications. Most peer-reviewed journals include mostly articles with book reviews appended to the back. Some journals are just a collection of popular-level essays, maybe with some book reviews. Our Quarterly, however, is strictly resource-driven….
In honor of Kent Hughes joining the WTS faculty, the WTS Bookstore is holding a huge sale on a bunch of his books. Hughes has been in ministry for 35 years and has written an incredible amount of books, many of them in the Preach the Word series. Some of the Preach the Word volumes are on sale, and you can pre-order the entire NT set as well.
Blogs
Nijay Gupta posted an interview with George Guthrie about his recent commentary on 2 Corinthians in the BECNT series. Books At a Glance also posted a two-part interview with Guthrie about the commentary.
At the Center for Ancient Christian Studies Shawn Wilhite, Coleman Ford, and Trey Moss interviewed Dr. Jarvis Williams on his academic journey in relation to Pauline studies and Jewish backgrounds. They also discussed Williams’s latest book Christ Died for Our Sins: Representation and Substitution in Romans and their Jewish Martyrological Background….
I just came across four titles from B&H Academic all for $0.99 on Kindle. I bought two of them myself! Buy them now before the deals end.
In 2012 I was in the Dominican Republic helping to rebuild a church when I got into a discussion about whether we really needed the Old Testament. I tried to defend the OT by arguing that the NT by itself would be like a childrens’ coloring book, with all the shapes drawn but with no color to fill in the pictures to get all the fullness of the biblical picture of God and his purposes. I also pointed out that many heresies likely would arise without the OT to guide us in our understanding of God. Well, John Goldingay has done away with a defensive strategy and he’s gone on the offense. He flips the common question of whether we need the OT on its head and asks: Do we really need the New Testament?…
Book Deals
FREE on Kindle: Relationships: A Mess Worth Making, by Timothy Lane and Paul Tripp
$0.99 on Kindle: Colossians and Philemon (Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament), by Murray Harris
New Books
‘Return To Me’: A Biblical Theology of Repentance (New Studies in Biblical Theology), by Mark Boda (IVP Academic)
Forbes follows up Murray Harris’ Colossians and Philemon volume in this same series with the same approach, format, and clarity of expression as the inaugurating volume. The purpose of this series is to offer analysis of the grammatical, syntactical, and lexical features of every word, clause, and sentence in the NT book it analyzes. Those who would benefit most from these volumes would be intermediate Greek students or those who have been away from their Greek for a while and want to regain their language skills….
I’m not sure why a series such as this one wasn’t published sooner. The Baylor Handbooks on the Greek New Testament are a beautiful addition to the library of any student, pastor, or scholar. The purpose of these volumes is to give a grammatical and syntactical analysis of the Greek text of each book of the Bible. This is the “prequel” to commentary proper (ix). However, as we will see, deSilva’s volume does more than label Greek words or phrases with their corresponding syntactical category.
Blogs
Tim Keller posted a review of Matthew Vines book God and the Gay Christian, including also Ken Wilson’s A Letter to My Congregation. He provides six types of errors that he finds in Vines’ and Wilson’s books, both historical, personal, and theological. Matthew Vines has responded on his blog, suggesting that Keller has made some historical errors and misrepresented his arguments on many points. This was quite the little back-and-forth and easy to follow since Keller made his critiques in 6 categories, to which Vines responded point by point.