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

September 7, 2015

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….

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…

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….

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….

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!….

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

August 27, 2015

Todd Scacewater

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

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….

Weekly Roundup August 21, 2015

August 21, 2015

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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.

Huge Book Sale You Don’t Want to Miss

August 19, 2015

Todd Scacewater

B&H Academic has a ton of their books on huge sale for Kindle today. I already own most of these, but I picked up Everlasting Dominion by Merrill. Which books did you get?

Everlasting Dominion: A Theology of the Old Testament, by Eugene Merrill, $2.99

Colossians and Philemon (Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament) by Murray J. Harris, $0.99

Hebrews (The New American Commentary), by David L. Allen, $2.99….

Linguistics and the New Testament: Critical Junctures, eds. Stanley Porter and D. A. Carson

August 19, 2015

Todd Scacewater

T&T Clark is reissuing several studies from the JSNTSS series in their Library of New Testament Studies series. Many of these are valuable sets of essay, including the present volume, which contains papers that apply modern linguistic methods to the analysis of the New Testament. As in most sets of essays, some are more useful than others, but the volume gives a good sampling of what modern linguistics has to offer biblical scholars….

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

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

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

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

Weekly Roundup August 28, 2015

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

Keep Your Greek: Taking Greek Electives

Weekly Roundup August 21, 2015

Huge Book Sale You Don’t Want to Miss

Linguistics and the New Testament: Critical Junctures, eds. Stanley Porter and D. A. Carson