Listen as Travis sits down (or rings up) pastors, scholars, and more to ask them about tools they’re using to study the Bible, exegetical and theological issues they’re currently engaging, and Scriptures that are ministering to their hearts.

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Language Tools, Learning Trends, and the New THGNT-ESV Parallel Bible

After Crossway partnered with Tyndale House to produce a new Greek New Testament, it was only a matter of time before a THGNT-ESV parallel Bible was produced. How can students of the Scriptures benefit from these tools? How can seminaries and Bible colleges train students to use tools like these? What is the goal of language learning for exegetes?

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Visual Outline Charts of the New Testament | Scott Bashoor

Can the importance of context be visualized?

A unique and innovative resource, Visual Charts of the New Testament (SCS Press, 2020) introduces, surveys, and outlines every book of the NT in single-page charts, breaking them into discourse units and smaller sub-sections.

In this episode of Tool Talk, Travis interviews author Scott Bashoor, faculty associate and instructor at The Master’s Seminary and University and co-pastor at Community Bible Church in Anaheim, CA.

Thinking in terms of discourse and outlining Scripture visually can help Bible teachers, Bible preachers, and Bible readers display how the parts relate to the whole and better understand the Word.

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Interpreting Scripture Like It’s Inspired | Matthew Barrett

The Gospels don’t have a ‘lower’ Christology than Paul, so why has this claim gained ground? On this episode of Tool Talk, Matthew Barrett of Midwestern Seminary and Credo Magazine discusses his new book, Canon, Covenant, and Christology: Rethinking Jesus and the Scriptures of Israel.

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The Task of a Biblical Scholar | Andreas J. Köstenberger

What does a biblical scholar do? Andreas Köstenberger’s answer is simple, but he has applied it in his own career in a variety of ways.

Köstenberger is a professor at Midwestern Seminary, Director of the Center for Biblical Studies, Founder of Biblical Foundations, Editor of JETS, and a prolific author.

In this episode of Tool Talk, Travis asks Dr. Köstenberger about a range of topics, including his career, his current sense of calling, the nature of biblical theology, scholars he admires, his forthcoming works, what he’s been learning, and Kansas City BBQ.

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How Does the New Testament Use the Old Testament? | Tool Talk

Christians have one Bible with two testaments, and the New Testament authors frequently refer back to the Old Testament Scriptures. But they don’t only point to prophecies that have been fulfilled or directly quote OT passages. In this episode, joined by co-host Taylor DiRoberto, Travis gives an overview of the NT use of the OT and considers some trickier examples.

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Paul and Plato? Two Errors in Pagan Parallels | Tool Talk with Joseph Dodson

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What does philosophy have to do with the New Testament? In Acts 17, Paul answered, “Plenty!” In this episode of Tool Talk, Travis chats with Joseph Dodson about two common errors when it comes to studying extrabiblical parallels to Scripture, especially in Greco-Roman philosophy. Dodson (PhD, Aberdeen) is associate professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary and co-editor (with David Briones) of Paul and the Giants of Philosophy: Reading the Apostle in Greco-Roman Context (IVP Academic, 2019).

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Meeting God in the Bible: Devotions and Academics | John Linebarger

How is so-called “devotional” reading of the Bible different from so-called “academic” reading of the Bible? Why must the serious student of Scripture make time for both? How can the methodical and inquisitive reader make Scripture reading a time of worship? In this episode of Tool Talk, Travis asks these questions and more of John Linebarger, a “collector of degrees,” bivocational minister, and author of Meeting God in the Bible: How to Read Scripture Devotionally (Fontes Press, 2019).

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More than Citation: Matthew’s Use of the OT | Patrick Schreiner

Matthew’s use of the Old Testament portrays Jesus as the ultimate fulfillment of the Old Testament story. But Matthew doesn’t do this with just citations and quotations of specific OT texts. In this episode of Tool Talk, Travis chats with Patrick Schreiner (Assistant Professor at Western Seminary) about Matthew’s narrative allusions and Schreiner’s new book on the first Gospel.

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Jonah as Literature | Sam Bierig

What does the book of Jonah want readers to think and do? Beyond the history and apologetics involved, many readers are unaware of the important literary cues in Jonah. Sam Bierig, Dean of Spurgeon College at Midwestern Seminary, has been studying, writing, and preaching Jonah and wants Christians to hear the cues and see the book as it is.

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Dispensational Hermeneutics | Cory Marsh

Dispensationalism: It’s not just about the end times; it’s also about exegesis. As Cory Marsh, Associate Professor of New Testament at the College at Southern California Seminary, points out, it’s largely about hermeneutics. In this episode of Tool Talk, Travis chats with Cory about the exegetical commitments of dispensational thought.

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