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Learn about studying at Cambridge over the summer. Ministers and laypeople are encouraged to go, and it’s for two weeks (or you can just do one).
For those who were complaining about Mohr Siebeck’s price of God and the Faithfulness of Paul (the massive response to NT Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God), Fortress Press is putting out a cheaper version…
The Meaning of the Pentateuch by John Sailhamer (IVP, 2009, 632 pp.) was the most stimulating and insightful book on the Bible that I read in the decade of 2000-2010. Sailhamer boldly went where most fear to tread in his proposal about the textual composition of the Pentateuch and the entire Hebrew Bible – as well as their implications for a theology of the OT. He argues for a two stage composition of the….
Lots of book sales today. I suggest reading any Nancy Pearcey writes (Finding Truth, below). Grief Undone is a wonderful book on grief and suffering by a godly woman who knows about it first-hand. And then B&H Academic has a good number of books for cheap. These two books below wouldn’t show up correct as images so they’re typed out….
There are definitely many reasons to learn Syriac from a Biblical Studies perspective, and I would encourage anyone interested in deepening their understanding of both the Bible and Church History to dive right in. Also, I think anyone with a background in Semitic languages (such as Biblical Hebrew or Biblical Aramaic) will find the language very interesting and easy to pick up….
As I worked on my dissertation on Ps 68 in Judaism and Paul’s epistles, I came across several articles that approached the problem of Ps 68:18 in Eph 4:8 from a text-tradition perspective. Paul changes Ps 68:18’s “you received” to “he gave” in Eph 4:8, so naturally an examination of early versions was a first step. But one of the early versions is the Peshitta, to which I had no linguistic access, but which was appealed to in several articles and commentaries. I quickly learned that Syriac was yet another language I needed to learn if I would study the New Testament….
Enjoy these cheap books centered on the gospel and ministry! Preach: Theology Meets Practice, by Dever and Gilbert, $2.99 Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart: How to Know for Sure You Are Saved, by J.D. Greear, $1.99 Cross: Unrivaled Christ, Unstoppable Gospel, Unreached Peoples, Unending Joy, by John Piper and David Mathis, $1.99 Doxology and Theology: How the Gospel Forms the Worship Leader, by Matt Boswell, $2.99 Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary, by J. D. Greear, $2.99 Gospel-Centered…
Skip the catalogs. Find all the new biblical studies books collected here.
The Cincinnati campus of the Hebrew Union College was tagged by a swastika yesterday. HUC is the first permanent Jewish institution of higher learning and was established in 1875. They now have multiple campuses in New York, Los Angeles, and Jerusalem. As their president notes, “For more than 140 years HUC-JIR has been committed to being the liberal, open and welcoming center of Jewish life and education….
2016 was a fun year for us! We enjoyed helping you all improve your Greek and we’ve enjoyed the friendships we’ve developed. The following five posts were the most popular and most highly-shared this year, so we wanted to make sure you didn’t miss them. Be sure to subscribe to the blog, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter to keep up with us! Number 5 7 Ways to Improve Your Writing Over the last 8 years I’ve…
The best way to improve your Greek is to read lots of it. We all enjoy reading the New Testament in Greek, but Koine Greek is much broader than the NT. The two corpora we should turn to first to continue expanding our Greek horizons are the Apostolic Fathers and the Septuagint. The Greek of the latter is probably easier (overall) and is therefore a great place….
