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What Was Jesus’ Relationship with the Synagogue and Temple? 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Given the literary evidence in the Gospels, I would affirm Ralph Martin’s assertion that “[While Jesus] revered the Temple as his Father’s house, it held for him no indispensable place and no magical ...
Book Review: Holy War in the Bible by Thomas, et al. 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Holy War in the Bible: Christian Morality and an Old Testament Problem edited by Heath A. Thomas, Jeremy Evans, and Paul Copan (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2013). (Amazon.com) Holy War in the Bible ...
N.T. Wright on Praying the Psalms 26 Aug 2013 | 03:51 am
I don’t recall hearing about this lecture. N.T. Wright gave the plenary address at the 2012 Calvin Symposium on Worship on “Praying the Psalms: Personal, Pastoral, Theological and Liturgical Reflectio...
Trajectories for North American and Global Christianity 25 Aug 2013 | 11:56 pm
I found this interview with Soong-Chan Rah to be quite insightful: Rachel Held Evans’ Sunday Superlatives included another talk by Soon-Chan Rah that I intend to watch soon: This talk by Wesley Gran...
One week until the Biblical Studies Carnival 25 Aug 2013 | 08:48 am
As I said in this post: I accepted the sacred task of compiling and organizing links for the forthcoming August Biblical Studies Carnival (September 1st). If you have any recommendations please leav...
Paul, subversion, and ancient household codes 24 Aug 2013 | 06:34 pm
In Holy War in the Bible: Christian Morality and an Old Testament Problem edited by Heath A. Thomas, et al., there is a chapter by Timothy G. Gombis titled “The Rhetoric of Divine Warfare in Ephesians...
Short Book Review: Jack Wisdom’s Get Low 24 Aug 2013 | 08:35 am
Wisdom, Get Low Jack Wisdom, Get Low: Reflections on Pride and Humility (Houston: Whitecaps Media, 2013). (Amazon.com) This book is a mixture between a devotional and a volume of brief essays. Usual...
How to see images of Codex Bezae through the Logos Edition 23 Aug 2013 | 10:53 pm
If you downloaded the Logos Edition of Codex Bezae you may be interested to know that you can view images of the text as well. Unlike Bibleworks it is not part of the program, but there is a hyperlink...
Whether there is a Holy Spirit: an early interpretation of Acts 19:2 23 Aug 2013 | 08:08 pm
In his review of Chris Keith’s Jesus’ Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee Christopher Skinner made the following remark: “I tell my Greek students that we often find in the textual ...
Nineveh: an exceedingly great city or a great city to God/the Gods (Jonah 3:3) 22 Aug 2013 | 08:14 pm
Jonah 3:3 reads as follows in the NASB: “So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three days’ walk.” On a few occasions in J...
