Teaching Old Testament Characters

  
See J. D. Greear's article on "How to Teach Old Testament Characters" here.
  

Latest Issue of Review of Biblical Literature

  

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below.

Reinhard Achenbach and Martin Arneth, eds.
»Gerechtigkeit und Recht zu üben« (Gen 18,19): Studien zur altorientalischen und biblischen Rechtsgeschichte, zur Religionsgeschichte Israels und zur Religionssoziologie: Festschrift für Eckart Otto zum 65. Geburtstag
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7468
Reviewed by Klaus Grünwaldt
 
Jan Assmann
Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6870
Reviewed by James K. Hoffmeier
 
Roger S. Bagnall
Early Christian Books in Egypt
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7755
Reviewed by Stephan Witetschek
 
Assnat Bartor
Reading Law as Narrative: A Study in the Casuistic Laws of the Pentateuch
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7580
Reviewed by Thomas B. Dozeman
 
Christopher L. Carter
The Great Sermon Tradition as a Fiscal Framework in 1 Corinthians: Towards a Pauline Theology of Material Possessions
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7489
Reviewed by Philip F. Esler
 
Sandra Gambetti
The Alexandrian Riots of 38 C.E. and the Persecution of the Jews: A Historical Reconstruction
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7665
Reviewed by Magnus Zetterholm
 
Robert H. Gundry
Commentary on the New Testament: Verse-by-Verse Explanations with a Literal Translation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7741
Reviewed by Peter J. Judge
 
Martin Karrer and Wolfgang Kraus, eds.
Die Septuaginta-Texte, Kontexte, Lebenswelten: Internationale Fachtagung veranstaltet von Septuaginta Deutsch (LXX.D), Wuppertal 20.-23. Juli 2006
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7380
Reviewed by J. Cornelis De Vos
 
Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Stories of the Babylonian Talmud
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7680
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Gospel of John Resources

  
Nijay Gupta has a nice discussion of the best Gospel of John resources here.
 

New Studies in Biblical Theology on Sale

  

Although I have not read or used every volume in the New Studies in Biblical Theology series edited by D. A. Carson, I have found some of the volumes helpful. The Westminster Seminary Bookstore is now offering a sale on individual volumes and on the whole series.

40% off a single volumes

50% off five or more volumes

52% off all 26 volumes 

Go here.
  

McKnight on James

  
Michael Bird has a nice interview with Scot McKnight concerning James. Read it here.
  

Biblical Scholars and Archaeological Digs

   
See John Byron's post "Why Biblical Scholars Should Participate in at Least One Dig."
  

The Need to Preach Christ

See this article.

  

Good Advice

“The key to good exegesis, and therefore to a more intelligent reading of the Bible, is to learn to read the text carefully and to ask the right questions of the text. One of the best things one could do in that regard would be to read Mortimer J. Adler’s How to Read a Book (1940, revised edition) with Charles Van Doren [New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972]).”

Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, 3rd ed. (Grand Rapids: Academie Books, 2003), 26.