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God & Morality: Four Views, ed. by R. Keith Loftin

July 27, 2015

Almost all Christians familiar with the world of apologetics are familiar with the “moral argument,” which claims that in order for the moral law to be absolute and thereby create moral obligations, the moral law must be metaphysically grounded in an absolute source–namely, God.

It is rare that we hear serious dialogue among philosophers and ethicists who ascribe to competing views on this issue. Keith Loftin has ably served as a fair referee as four of these positions are stated, critiqued, and defended….

Paul’s Divine Christology, by Chris Tilling

July 15, 2015

Jennifer Guo

Paul’s Divine Christology is a slightly revised version of Chris Tilling’s Ph.D. dissertation completed in 2009 under Max Turner at the London School of Theology, with Steve Walton and Larry Hurtado as external examiners. It was originally published in 2012 by Mohr Siebeck in the prestigious NT monograph series WUNT II. Tilling’s thesis joins the ranks of Gordon Fee’s Pauline Christology, Larry Hurtado’s Lord Jesus Christ, and Richard Bauckham’s God Crucified as one of the most significant volumes in modern scholarship arguing for (Pauline) divine Christology. That is one reason why this monograph deserves a wide readership and why it is such a good thing that Eerdmans recently released a much more affordable reprint….

This Jesus: Martyr, Lord, Messiah, by Markus Bockmuehl

June 24, 2015

Warren Campbell

Ever since Martin Kähler’s 1892 publication (‘The so-called historical Jesus and the historic, biblical Christ’) a division between the ‘Jesus of history’ and the ‘Christ of faith’ has been a distinctive feature of both biblical studies and systematic theology. The gist of Kähler’s reading is that the Christ of faith, enshrined for us in the New Testament, is so colored by the theological faith commitments of Jesus’ early followers that the historical Jesus is hidden from plain sight.

In ‘This Jesus’ Markus Bockmuehl (MB), the Dean Ireland’s Professor at Keble College Oxford, seeks to demonstrate, “that it can be historically legitimate to see Jesus of Nazareth in organic and causal continuity with the faith of the early Church” (8)….

Introduction to the Grammar of Jewish-Babylonian Aramaic, by Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal

June 1, 2015

Todd Scacewater

I took Aramaic last year and really enjoyed it. In addition to the biblical texts, we translated some older Aramaic inscriptions and I got to see a bit of the diachronic development of the language. But I was quite a bit removed from Jewish-Babylonian Aramaic, the language of the Babylonian Talmud.

Grammar Jewish-BabylonianSiegal’s grammar, Introduction to the Grammar of Jewish-Babylonian Aramaic, seeks to introduce the student to this period of Late Aramaic. He divides Aramaic (following Fitzmyer) into the following periods in his introduction….

Devotions on the Greek New Testament, ed. Duvall & Verbrugge

May 13, 2015

Todd Scacewater

This work includes contributions from various New Testament seminary professors such as Craig Blomberg, Darrell Bock, Scot McKnight, Ben Witherington III, and many others. Each devotional is a brief two pages or so. They begin with either a brief sentence from the Greek New Testament or with a paragraph. The author then explains anything difficult about the sentence or paragraphs, breaking down the meaning of words, syntax, grammar, and anything else notable….

Sing and Learn New Testament Greek, by Kenneth Berding

April 16, 2015

Laura Guzman

This week’s Featured Resource is Ken Berding’s Sing and Learn New Testament Greek: The Easiest Way to Learn New Testament Grammar (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2008). (CD Hardcopy) (Audio Download) Among those who have rigorously attempted to teach or study Koine Greek, many will agree that memorizing paradigms and how to parse are equally the most important and the most difficult part of learning the language. Since paradigms are the foundation for parsing and parsing is part of the foundation for translation,…

History of New Testament Research Vol. 1: From Deism to Tübingen, by William Baird

April 9, 2015

Warren Campbell

For students and scholars in biblical studies, particularly in the field of New Testament, a robust comprehension of the history of interpretation of the New Testament is an inestimable resource for successful study and research. As per the various resources in this area, William Baird’s three volume History of New Testament Research (HNTR) is an unquestionable standard. The following review will concentrate on Volume 1, however many of the comments made here are indicative of the set as a whole….

A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism

April 3, 2015

Warren Campbell

A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism, edited by Matthias Henze, offers a wide selection of essays on the overarching techniques of early biblical interpretation, as well as particular examples from specific texts (i.e. Use of the Scripture in the Community Rule, in The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, or in the Genesis Apocryphon)

41rfiH0yyVLThe introductory essay by James Kugel (comprising Part 1 of the volume) is especially helpful. He begins by outlining historical factors that contributed to the rise of early biblical interpretation, focusing particularly on the Babylonian exile. Among the returnee’s from Babylonian deportation, there was not only an increasing need to reestablish Israelite society with the scriptures of Israel,…

Keep Your Greek: Strategies for Busy People, by Constantine R. Campbell

March 30, 2015

Laura Guzman

Constantine Campbell is a lead contributor on the latest discussions concerning verbal aspect theory and has put his knowledge of the language to good use with his most recent book on Union with Christ. Not only is Dr. Campbell worth noting because he is a highly proficient Greek scholar and professor, but he is also jazz musician who knows the value of practice and hard work and uses these insights to inform his approach to maintaining your knowledge of the language. With excellent reviews from Craig L. Blomberg….

Handbook on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, by G. K. Beale

March 26, 2015

Warren Campbell

Beale is widely known for publishing extensively on the New Testament’s use of the Old. This work provides the student with a distilled outline of his entire exegetical method for interpreting the OT in the NT. In chapters 1 and 2, Beale introduces the reader to the discipline of Old in the New studies, surveying various interpretive and methodological developments….