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Weekly Roundup March 18, 2016

March 18, 2016

Blogs This brief review of a new special commentary was one of our most popular posts ever. Want to read more, faster? Here’s 3 tips. Learn about this superb documentary on the poverty industry as self-serving and self-perpetuating. Explore the frustrations of understanding the Koine Greek perfect verb. Conversational Koine Institute is now selling………….clothes. The CSNTM wrote on the Johannine Comma. Book Deals Micah (Old Testament Library), $5 The First Days of Jesus by Kostenberger, $3.99 Scandalous, by DA Carson,…

Weekly Roundup March 11, 2016

March 11, 2016

Todd Scacewater

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…

Weekly Roundup March 4, 2016

March 4, 2016

Todd Scacewater

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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! :)….

Weekly Roundup February 26, 2016

February 26, 2016

Todd Scacewater

Blog Evangelical Textual Criticism interviewed Hugh Houghton, Reader in NT Textual Scholarship at the University of Birmingham (UK) and Deputy Director of the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing (ITSEE) there. This two-part interview is on his new book on the Latin NT. Our own William Varner has revived his own blog and posted a neat little tradition history of the idea that Israel would tie a rope around the ankle of the High Priest to pull him out in case he…

Weekly Roundup February 19, 2016

February 19, 2016

Todd Scacewater

Charles Ryrie died this week. He was a prolific theologian and the reports of his life are nothing but tribute and honor. Wish I had known him.

We featured David Croteau’s book on 40 “urban legends” of the NT, giving you five as typical examples of myths to put to rest….

Thanksgiving Leftovers

November 27, 2015

Todd Scacewater

We know you’re stuffed from your ridiculously huge dinner last night, so we’re offering some leftovers from the week for you to munch on. If you appreciate what we do here, do us a favor and do all your Black Friday shopping today from this link and Amazon will give us commission on your purchases! (If you want, you can save the link as a bookmark and use it for all future purchases to support Exegetical Tools and our creation of language…

Pad Your Library with These Book Deals

November 6, 2015

Jennifer Guo

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Phil Long posted the October Biblical Studies Carnival, and Jim West posted his Avignonian Carnival. Check these out for some of the best of biblioblogging from October.

Wayne Coppins at German for Neutestamentler introduced Heinrich von Siebenthal and translated an excerpt from his Greek grammar….

Weekly Roundup October 30, 2015

October 30, 2015

Todd Scacewater

Some great new stuff this week (see the Kuyper link below!), some deals, and some good new books. NOTE: You need to pause or disable any adblockers to see the books below. After pausing or disabling, refresh the page. Add our site to your program’s exception list for next time. Blogs Reformation 21 posted on the death of the evening service. B&H Posted my piece on reading the Bible devotionally in the original languages. Nota Bene is offering a 25%…

SALE: 20 Preaching and Ministry Books Under $3

October 23, 2015

Todd Scacewater

Below you’ll find 20 books on preaching and ministry, all under $3. It’s a good time to load up your digital library on that those topics. NOTE: You need to pause or disable any adblockers to see the books below. After pausing or disabling, refresh the page. Choose not to run adblocker on this domain to save the trouble next time. Blogs Eerdmans has a list of books for pastor appreciation month. Buy your pastor one! Michael bird posted a…

Weekly Roundup October 16, 2015

October 16, 2015

Jennifer Guo

Blogs

Over at the Crux Sola blog Christopher Skinner mentioned the latest Syndicate symposium which focuses on critical responses to Christopher Keith’s book Jesus Against the Scribal Elite. Nijay Gupta noted the latest issue of Currents in Biblical Research.

At German for Neutestamentler, Wayne Coppins worked through a few passages from Christine Jacobi’s Jesusüberlieferung bei Paulus? Analogien zwischen den echten Paulusbriefen und den synoptischen Evangelien….