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Jesus, Paul and the People of God: A Theological Dialogue with N. T. Wright, eds. Nicholas Perrin and Richard B. Hays

September 9, 2015
Jennifer Guo

Jesus, Paul, and the People of God: A Theological Dialogue with N. T. Wright brings together the proceedings from the 2010 Wheaton Theology Conference, in which a group of scholars who also happen to be Wright’s friends were invited to deliver papers responding to some of the most important features of his work on Jesus and Paul. In distinction from other works responding to a biblical scholar, this book holds the unique features of 1) offering a theological response and 2) bringing the conversation to bear on the church, that is, the “people of God.” The book is divided into two parts, the first on historical Jesus research and the second on Pauline studies….

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29 Zondervan Counterpoint Books on Sale

September 8, 2015
Todd Scacewater

These Zondervan Counterpoint titles are all on sale for $4.99 on Kindle. These are great introductions to various subjects with expert contributors to guide you through the various questions to consider on each topic. As always, let all your friends know by sharing it on social media.             

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Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics: Open Questions in Current Research, eds. Stanley Porter and D. A. Carson

September 7, 2015
Todd Scacewater

This volume is important for the development of aspect theory in New Testament Greek and the application of modern linguistics to the New Testament corpus. These lectures were presented at the 1990 and 1991 annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in the Consultation on Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics. It was originally published in 1993 in the JSNT Supplement Series, but it has now been republished by Bloomsbury in the Biblical Studies segment of their Academic Collections series….

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Over 45 Kindle Deals, Great Blogs, and New Biblical Studies Books

September 3, 2015
Todd Scacewater

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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Gregory MaGee’s Response to My Review of His Portrait of an Apostle

September 2, 2015
Todd Scacewater

Earlier, I reviewed Greg Magee’s published dissertation, Portrait of an Apostle: A Case for Paul’s Authorship of Colossians and Ephesians (Wipf & Stock, 2013), 204 pages. You can catch up on the review here. I found this book very creative and well executed, so I decided to ask Greg to write a reply to my review, hoping that he could sharpen my thinking a bit on a topic he spent years studying. He graciously replied, and we hope the discussion between us is fruitful and stimulating….

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Portrait of an Apostle: A Case for Paul’s Authorship of Colossians and Ephesians, by Gregory S. MaGee

August 31, 2015
Todd Scacewater

If Colossians, Ephesians, or both are pseupigraphal writings, how would we know? There is one objective, historical test to which we might subject the documents. There are documents that are unanimously agreed to be Pauline pseudepigraphs, namely, Epistle to the Loadiceans (Ep. Lao.) and Third Corinthians (3 Cor.). An objective, historical test would be to compare the language and ideas of these two known pseudepigraphs….

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Weekly Roundup August 28, 2015

August 28, 2015
Todd Scacewater

Blogs

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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25+ Books on SALE for $0.99 and Up, through September 1

August 27, 2015
Todd Scacewater

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!

Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective, by Sanders and Issler, $2.99….

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Keep Your Greek: Taking Greek Electives

August 26, 2015
Todd Scacewater

When I was doing my MDiv, I had a good amount of elective hours: 18 if I remember correctly. Those are a precious 18 hours. For better or for worse, I had different goals in my first two years of my MDiv. I came to seminary probably wanting to pastor, and pretty quickly gained a passion for church planting. I was excited to study hard, prepare for church planting, and pastor a church that was faithful to the biblical picture for the church (whatever that is!). Now here I am, completing my dissertation in a PhD program in hermeneutics and teaching Greek and New Testament courses. That’s quite a distance from planting a church….

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Weekly Roundup August 21, 2015

August 21, 2015
Jennifer Guo

Blogs

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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