The new biblical studies books for August 2016 are all here. Browse them below — did we miss any? A few of the exciting publications are the new Colossians commentary, the Greek and Hebrew handbooks, Porter’s book on Paul, the intermediate Greek syntax, and Dunn’s commentary on Acts….
Paul the Jew. Especially since WD Davies’ Paul and Rabbinic Judaism, the quest for Paul’s Jewishness has continued. Of course Paul has other influences aside from Judaism, but his Jewish roots do often seem to be the most prominent. This new ….
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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! :)….
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…
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…
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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….
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Eerdmans featured five great books by Stanley Hauerwas.
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Brian Davidson at the Center for Ancient Christian Studies interviewed Ken Penner on his forthcoming book, The Verbal System of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which discusses how the Hebrew language evolved between the Bible and the Mishnah.
Larry Hurtado discusses the issue of the history of the emergence of orthodoxy….
Blogs The biblical studies blogosphere was a bit vacuous this week. The biggest news is that Larry Hurtado posted a summary of the articles in the latest NTS arguing that the Jesus’ wife fragment is a forgery. It seems that there is now a consensus on the matter, unless serious rebuttals be given. We posted our first Keep Your Greek post on which Greek Bible is best to help you.. well, keep your Greek. We also posted reviews of BibleWorks 10, part…
Blogs David Capes posted a video in which he discusses with his co-authors Rodney Reeves and E. Randolph Richards their forthcoming book Rediscovering Jesus: An Introduction to Biblical, Religious and Cultural Perspectives on Christ. Larry Hurtado announced the forthcoming third edition of his groundbreaking One God, One Lord: Early Christian Devotion and Ancient Jewish Monotheism (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, November 2015) The Zondervan Academic blog posted From Where Did God Bring Out the Israelites (Exod 20:2)? by Lee Fields as well…