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Over at The Guardian is a sobering piece on how publishers use academics to make millions from academic books that nobody can or will buy.
Nijay Gupta alerted us to some new commentaries of note for 2015, both recently published as well as forthcoming.
Larry Hurtado made some important comments on the importance of taking into account the linguistic situation of first-century Judea. He also….
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…
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N. T. Wright’s reviewed Wesley Hill’s Paul and the Trinity for The Living Church and Hill responded at EerdWord.
Book Deals
These sales last until September 1. Most of these books look great, but I especially like Community of Jesus by Easley and Morgan, Perspectives on Spirit Baptism, Prophets as Preachers by Gary Smith, and Perspectives on Israel and the Church. Comment below to let us know which ones you bought!….
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Michael Bird commented on fellow Aussie Con Campbell’s latest book Advances in the Study of Greek.
Ken Schenck is continuing to blog through I (Still) Believe: Leading Bible Scholars Share Their Stories of Faith and Scholarship with posts on essays by Ellen Davis and James Dunn.
Larry Hurtado uploaded his essay Who Read Early Christian Apocrypha? from the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Apocrypha.
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Eerdmans featured five great books by Stanley Hauerwas.
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$0.99 on Kindle: Nine “Perspectives” Books from B&H Academic: Perspectives on….
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Brian Davidson at the Center for Ancient Christian Studies interviewed Ken Penner on his forthcoming book, The Verbal System of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which discusses how the Hebrew language evolved between the Bible and the Mishnah.
Larry Hurtado discusses the issue of the history of the emergence of orthodoxy….
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B&H Academic interviewed Joe Hellerman about his Philippians volume in the Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament series. We have a review of his book coming up soon.
Larry Hurtado posted on methodological concerns for studying early Christianity….
Blogs The biblical studies blogosphere was a bit vacuous this week. The biggest news is that Larry Hurtado posted a summary of the articles in the latest NTS arguing that the Jesus’ wife fragment is a forgery. It seems that there is now a consensus on the matter, unless serious rebuttals be given. We posted our first Keep Your Greek post on which Greek Bible is best to help you.. well, keep your Greek. We also posted reviews of BibleWorks 10, part…
Eerdmans posted an interview with Alvin Plantinga about his new book Knowledge and Christian Belief.
I posted a summary (6,000 words) of G. K. Beale’s Handbook on the NT use of the OT over at Books At a Glance. If you haven’t signed up yet, try a free 30-day trial and read my summary of this fantastic resource.
We posted two new posts in our Greek Matters series, which looks at practical or devotional points we can take from the Greek that isn’t easily or at all apparent from the English translations. Check out Greek Matters: Colossians 1:3-5 and Christian Hope and Greek Matters: Colossians 1:9-12 and Pleasing God….
Blogs David Capes posted a video in which he discusses with his co-authors Rodney Reeves and E. Randolph Richards their forthcoming book Rediscovering Jesus: An Introduction to Biblical, Religious and Cultural Perspectives on Christ. Larry Hurtado announced the forthcoming third edition of his groundbreaking One God, One Lord: Early Christian Devotion and Ancient Jewish Monotheism (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, November 2015) The Zondervan Academic blog posted From Where Did God Bring Out the Israelites (Exod 20:2)? by Lee Fields as well…