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….
Blogs
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….
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….
Blogs
We posted a review of Constantine Campbell’s new book covering recent advances in the study of Greek, one of the most popular books of the year.
New Books
Did Jesus Speak Greek?: The Emerging Evidence of Greek Dominance in First-Century Palestine, by G. Scott Gleaves (James Clarke)….