Wright on Mission and Wisdom

Tim Davy does a nice job summarizing key points of Christopher Wright's discussion of wisdom literature and mission in this post.

1,000th Post and Books I Am Currently Reading and Reviewing

Just in case you are interested, this is the 1,000 post for this blog.

Also falling under the category of just in case your interested, I am currently reading and reviewing four books, two for this blog and two for a journal. The four books are: Samuel Meier, Themes and Transformations in Old Testament Prophecy; Adela Yarbro Collins, Mark; Thomas Phillips, Paul, His Letters; and Acts, and Ben Witherington III, The Indelible Image.

Paul's Imprisonment, Acts 16, and Philippians

Phillip Long has a succinct but helpful post outlining the various options for Paul's imprisonment referred to in Philippians. For what it is worth I affirm the traditional Roman imprisonment view. In any case read Phillip's post here.

Waltke on Evolution

The Biologos Foundation has posted a paper by Bruce Waltke entitled "Barriers to Accepting the Possibility of Creation by Means of an Evoluyionary Process." You can access the article here.

HT: Koinonia blog

Craig Keener onthe Historical Reliability of Acts

4Truth.net has an audio Interview with Craig Keener on the historical reliability of the Book of Acts. You can access it here.

Expository Preaching Conference Featuring the Psalms

Hear free audio from the recent Advanced Expository Preaching Conference held lat month at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. The four messages posted are:

Craig Blaising – Exegetical Foundations for Preaching the Psalms
Steven Smith Strategies for Preaching Through the Psalms
David Allen Psalm 1 and Using Hebrew
Calvin Pearson Psalm 46 and Using Art in Preaching

You can access these messages here.

Bryan Chapell on Expository Preaching

See this brief, but helpful, discussion on expository preaching by Bryan Chapell.



HT: Cal Habig

Three John Goldingay Courses on Free Audio

Fuller Theological Seminary has posted three of John Goldingay's seminary courses for free download online using the iTunes format.

The Pentateuch (20 tracks)
The Prophets (22 tracks)
Biblical Hermeneutics (22 tracks)

You can access the materials here.

HT: Nijay Gupta

Latest Issue of Review of Biblical Literature

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews that may be of interest from a Bible Exposition perspective include:

Lars Aejmelaeus and Antti Mustakallio, eds.
The Nordic Paul: Finnish Approaches to Pauline Theology
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6949
Reviewed by Erik Heen

Sandra Gravett, Karla Bohmbach, F. V. Greifenhagen, and Donald Polaski
An Introduction to the Hebrew Bible: A Thematic Approach
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6962
Reviewed by J. Dwayne Howell

Dietrich-Alex Koch
Hellenistisches Christentum: Schriftverständnis-Ekklesiologie-Geschichte
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6763
Reviewed by Friedrich Reiterer

M. Sydney Park
Submission within the Godhead and the Church in the Epistle to the Philippians: An Exegetical and Theological Examination of the Concept of Submission in Philippians 2 and 3
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6560
Reviewed by Mark A. Jennings

Jonathan T. Pennington and Sean M. McDonough
Cosmology and New Testament Theology
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6955
Reviewed by Michael J. Lakey

Enno Edzard Popkes
Die Theologie der Liebe Gottes in den johanneischen Schriften: Zur Semantik der Liebe und zum Motivkreis des Dualismus
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5254
Reviewed by Jan G. van der Watt

Gershom M. H. Ratheiser
Mitzvoth Ethics and the Jewish Bible: The End of Old Testament Theology
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=5882
Reviewed by Ben Ollenburger

Jens Schröter
Von Jesus zum Neuen Testament: Studien zur urchristlichen Theologiegeschichte und zur Entstehung des neutestamentlichen Kanons
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6568
Reviewed by Nils Neumann

David Sim and Boris Repschinski, eds.
Matthew and His Christian Contemporaries
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6951
Reviewed by Glenna Jackson

Lawrence M. Wills
Not God's People: Insiders and Outsiders in the Biblical World
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6692
Reviewed by Lara van der Zee-Hanssen

Frank Yamada
Configurations of Rape in the Hebrew Bible: A Literary Analysis of Three Rape Narratives
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6638
Reviewed by Susanne Scholz

Thielman on Three Approaches to Luke's View of the Law in Luke-Acts

Frank Thielman suggests that there are three approaches that interpreters generally understand Luke’s view of the Law in Luke–Acts. He writes,

“Many interpreters claim that Luke's approach to the law is consistently conservative. Jewish Christians are required to keep it, and Gentile Christians, although not obligated to become Jewish proselytes, are brought under the Law's requirements by means of the Apostolic Decree in Acts 15. Some interpreters think that for Luke the law was the divinely sanctioned way of life for God's people until the introduction of a new era with the coming of Christ. Luke faithfully records in his two volumes that gradual acceptance among Jesus’ followers of the notion that a new age had dawned. One interpreter thinks Luke is anti-Semitic, and that his account of the abandonment of the Jewish law among the early Christians serves his attempt to show that the separation of Christianity from Judaism was the fault of the Jews.”

Frank Thielman, The Law and the New Testament: The Question of Continuity (New York: Crossroad, 1999), 136.