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I have worked through enough of this volume to offer a positive recommendation. Porter has complained that most commentaries are composed of comments on other commentaries. This is an observation that I echo as well. He has succeeded, in my opinion, in avoiding that pitfall. As would be expected, Porter is very familiar with the literature….
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Blogs More than 760 new hebrew manuscripts have been digitalized and added here. We featured a new book focusing on the theological issues tied up with ‘free will’; check out why it’s a pleasure to read. We also posted G. K. Beale’s Erosion of Inerrancy which is currently on sale for $2.99 on Kindle, with an autobiographical story to show why you want it on your shelf. Lastly, we reviewed a book on blessing and curse in OT theology. Book Deals…
Anderson’s purpose is to analyze the dual biblical theological theme of blessing and cursing across the OT. Whereas previous scholarship has been interested in the supposed magic of the words, Anderson chooses instead to apply speech-act theory to the various instances of blessing and cursing….
According to Amazon, I bought this book December 25, 2009 (I love that feature..). It sat on my shelf for around a year. But then I began wrestling through issues of historicity and inerrancy, especially whether the similarity of the OT to ANE literature meant the OT had borrowed lots of its history so that it amounted to appropriated “myth.” I remembered that I had this book on my shelf so I grabbed it and began to read. Beale deals with…
When I first read the introduction to this book, I couldn’t help but think of myself 10 years ago. I had recently discovered the “doctrines of grace” and was exploring them and studying Scripture to sort things out. I could recall my own experiences as I read through the backstory to this book given by the author, Scott Christensen….
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Our own William Varner argued on his personal blog that the twelve tribes in the diaspora (James 1:1) refer to the actual tribes, not to a spiritualized remnant (the church). Go read it and tell him how wrong he is! :)….
In Craig Bartholomew’s recent Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics, he gives eight guidelines for how the doctrine of the Trinity shapes biblical hermeneutics (8-15). If we want to interpret the Bible in a trinitarian manner, we should approach the Bible in this way….
The Gospel at Work: How Working for King Jesus Gives Purpose and Meaning to Our Jobs, by Sebastian Traeger and Greg D. Gilbert, $1.99
Church History in Plain Language, by Bruce Shelley, $3.99
There many introductions to biblical hermeneutics, but none have truly inspired me in the many ways Craig Bartholomew’s has. His Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics is truly a tour de force of the many methodologies, historical precedents, and disciplines that are wrapped up in the process of interpreting the Bible. This book has inspired me in at least two ways. First, I’ve never seen another hermeneutics textbook that includes a chapter on lectio divina and the necessity of listening to Scripture, as Bartholomew does in ch. 2. I was inspired…
