Nijay Gupta's Interview with Brenda Colijn

   
See Nijay Gupta's interview with Brenda Colijn concerning her book Images of Salvation in the New Testament (IVP, 2010).
  

Nine Aberrant Forms of Christian Leadership

  
See Michael Jensen's post here.
  

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:

Johanna Brankaer
Coptic: A Learning Grammar (Sahidic)
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7598
Reviewed by Hans Förster

Kevin R. Brine, Elena Ciletti, and Henrike Lähnemann, eds.
The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies across the Disciplines
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7772
Reviewed by Lawrence M. Wills

Everett Ferguson
Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7108
Reviewed by Hennie Stander

G. Walter Hansen
The Letter to the Philippians
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7397
Reviewed by Angela Standhartinger

Bengt Holmberg, ed.
Exploring Early Christian Identity
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7771
Reviewed by Cornelis Bennema

Heidi J. Hornik and Mikeal C. Parsons
Illuminating Luke: Volume 3: The Passion and Resurrection Narratives in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Painting
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7476
Reviewed by John F. A. Sawyer

Leroy A. Huizinga
The New Isaac: Tradition and Intertextuality in the Gospel of Matthew
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7389
Reviewed by Russell C. D. Arnold

Luke Timothy Johnson
The Writings of the New Testament: An Interpretation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7524
Reviewed by Ken Olson

Matthijs J. de Jong
Isaiah among the Ancient Near Eastern Prophets: A Comparative Study of the Earliest Stages of the Isaiah Tradition and the Neo-Assyrian Prophecies
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7646
Reviewed by Hallvard Hagelia

R. Steven Notley, Marc Turnage, and Brian Becker, eds.
Jesus' Last Week: Jerusalem Studies in the Synoptic Gospels-Volume One
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7424
Reviewed by Daniel M. Gurtner

Why Study Biblical Languages?

  
Nicholas Frankovish has an article in First Things entitled, "Why Study Biblical Languages?" In the article Frankovich argues for the importance for studying biblical languages. He is preaching to the choir here. Unfortunately and ironically, the author's example from John 21 is probably an instance of misunderstanding the Greek.
 

Varner on Genesis 6:1-3

  
See William Varner's post on Genesis 6:1-3.
 

Blomberg on the Implications of Textual Criticism on Pastoral Ministry

"The average reader of Scripture is not at any great peril if he or she does not understand the text-critical  process; however, the pastor or teacher who wants to instruct with the greatest amount of accuracy and precision but who bypasses this step in exegesis risks relying on an inferior text at some point without even knowing it. Ignorance of textual criticism will become a more serious obstacle for pastors or teachers when they are unable to answer parishioners' questions about how the text has come to us in the forms in which we have it, or about why different modern-language translations opt for different textual variants. They will be unable to respond to the charges of the ‘far right’ that contemporary translations have corrupted the supposedly pure, inerrant King James Version, and of the ‘far left’ that careless copying or theologically motivated distortions prove so pervasive that we cannot be confident that anything remaining resembles the original documents."

Craig L. Blomberg with Jennifer Foutz Markley, A Handbook of New Testament Exegesis (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2010), 26.
 

Commentaries on James

  
See Shane Lems' nice annotated discussion of commentaries that he found helpful as he preached and taught through James. 
  

Videos on Greek Accents on Youtube

   
I know that this has been noted here and there, but just in case you missed it John Schwandt of the Institute of Biblical Greek has three videos on Youtube explaining Greek accenting. You can view the first videos here. Double click the video and it will take you to the Youtube site where you can access all three videos.
  

Placher on Mark 1:1

  

"The implicit reference: Mark's first audience was familiar with a book that started with archē (beginning)—Genesis, the first chapter of the Torah, in its Greek translation. Starting another book that way suggests a comparison between this story of a recently crucified teacher and the story of God's creation of the whole universe, the beginning of God’s sacred Work. History, creation itself, is beginning again. Can what follows possibly be that important?

William C. Placher, Mark: Belief, a Theological Commentary on the Bible, ed. Amy Plantinga Pauw and William C. Placher (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2010),13.