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Weekly Roundup June 26, 2015

June 26, 2015

Blogs

Nijay Gupta posted an interview with George Guthrie about his recent commentary on 2 Corinthians in the BECNT series. Books At a Glance also posted a two-part interview with Guthrie about the commentary.

At the Center for Ancient Christian Studies Shawn Wilhite, Coleman Ford, and Trey Moss interviewed Dr. Jarvis Williams on his academic journey in relation to Pauline studies and Jewish backgrounds. They also discussed Williams’s latest book Christ Died for Our Sins: Representation and Substitution in Romans and their Jewish Martyrological Background….

Weekly Roundup June 19, 2015

June 19, 2015

Todd Scacewater

Book Deals

FREE on Kindle: Relationships: A Mess Worth Making, by Timothy Lane and Paul Tripp

$0.99 on Kindle: Colossians and Philemon (Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament), by Murray Harris

New Books

‘Return To Me’: A Biblical Theology of Repentance (New Studies in Biblical Theology), by Mark Boda (IVP Academic)

Galatians: A Handbook on the Greek Text (BHGNT), by David A. deSilva

June 15, 2015

Todd Scacewater

I’m not sure why a series such as this one wasn’t published sooner. The Baylor Handbooks on the Greek New Testament are a beautiful addition to the library of any student, pastor, or scholar. The purpose of these volumes is to give a grammatical and syntactical analysis of the Greek text of each book of the Bible. This is the “prequel” to commentary proper (ix). However, as we will see, deSilva’s volume does more than label Greek words or phrases with their corresponding syntactical category.

Weekly Roundup: New Books 5/2-5/8

May 8, 2015

Todd Scacewater

Biblical Studies Anthony Petterson, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi (Apollos Old Testament Commentary) Michael Gorman, Becoming the Gospel (The Gospel and Our Culture Series), Kindle Edition

Grief Undone: A Journey with God and Cancer, by Elizabeth Groves

May 7, 2015

Todd Scacewater

One certain truth in life that everyone must face, especially pastors and counselors, is the grim reality of death. Many have either grieved personally or have walked alongside friends who grieve the loss of a loved one. Death does not choose selectively but comes for us all. It is dark, terrifying, serious, horrible, and inescapable.

On one hand, no one can ever fully prepare for it prior to experiencing its devastating power in one’s life, whether it be family or one’s own keen sense of mortality. That said, there is much wisdom to be found in the Word of God and in the experiences of His people, and one would be wise to listen to elder saints who have walked through the valley of the shadow of death….

The World of the New Testament, ed. Green & McDonald

May 4, 2015

Todd Scacewater

The World of the New Testament is a collection of forty-some introductory articles to different areas of New Testament background. The chapters are written by senior scholars in the field, such as the editors, J. Charlesworth, M. Bird, G. Green, and more. The articles are concerned with the historical background of the New Testament, with some consideration to literary features of the writings, but are not concerned with the theology espoused within them.

The work starts with an essay on New Testament chronology and then follow five sections: (1) Exile….

Loads of New Books Published Today

April 28, 2015

Todd Scacewater

Today there were a good amount of new books published, including the Kindle version of two books from the Biblical Theology of the New Testament series. Check them all out here….

History, Ideology, and Bible Interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls, by Devorah Dimant

April 22, 2015

Todd Scacewater

This New Book is a collection of essays from Devorah Dimant, who has spent the last forty five years studying the Qumran texts. The first essay is an invaluable history of research from the 1950’s until today. The essays then fall into three parts: “The Qumran Library,” focusing on collections in the community; “The History of the Qumran Community,” which consists of one 30pp essay; “Themes in the Qumran Literature,” which touches on various ideas such as resurrection and restoration, the temple,…

Bloomsbury Companion to Discourse Analysis, ed. Hyland and Paltridge

April 20, 2015

Todd Scacewater

This collection of essays aims to “provide a way into this complex and wide-ranging field [of analyzing discourse] for beginning researchers in the area of applied linguistics” (15). They hope to provide “teachers, students, and researchers with a way of theorizing and investigating both spoken and written discourse.”

The first part of the book contains essays on various methods of discourse analysis. These methods may be executed on written or oral discourses and may stem from various methodological schools of thought. There are essays on narrative analysis, genre analysis, corpus approaches to discourse analysis, and more that are someone less relevant to biblical studies (although see below for a couple that are quite relevant)….

New Testament Theology Annotated Bibliography

April 13, 2015

Todd Scacewater

In 1787, J. P. Gabler delivered his oration on the distinction between biblical and systematic theology. Since then, NT theology has developed into a wide field of its own. The following bibliography provides the major works of the field along with annotations on the methodology and importance of the works. If you would want to enter into the field of NT theology, you should probably start with Hasel, then read Ladd. Beyond these two, which give a basic (and admittedly conservative) grasp of NT theology, you may move into the other works with different methodologies and various viewpoints…