Recent Biographies of New Testament Scholars

  
Michael Bird has listed four of his favorite biographies of New Testament scholars here.
 

Logos' Free Book of the Month

  
Logos Bible software is offering volume one of D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones' Studies in the Book of Acts entitled Authentic Christianity as its free book of the month. This volume covers Acts1—3. You can get more information here.
 

Free Audio of A Tale of Three Kings

  
Christianaudio.com is offering a free audio download for the month of March is Gene Edwards' book A Tale of Three Kings. For a description of the book and instructions go 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.

  

Katharine Dell, ed.
Ethical and Unethical in the Old Testament: God and Humans in Dialogue
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7839
Reviewed by Walter Brueggemann
 
Georg Fischer
Der Prophet wie Mose: Studien zum Jeremiabuch
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7913
Reviewed by Bob Becking
 
Robert F. Hull Jr.
The Story of the New Testament Text: Movers, Materials, Motives, Methods, and Models
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7960
Reviewed by Larry W. Hurtado
Reviewed by Jean-François Racine
 
David Instone-Brewer
Feasts and Sabbaths: Passover and Atonement
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7978
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz
 
Thomas Richard Kämmerer, ed.
Studien zu Ritual und Sozialgeschichte im Alten Orient/Studies on Rituals and Society in the Ancient Near East: Tartuer Symposien 1998-2004
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=6825
Reviewed by Gerhard Karner
 
Jennifer L. Koosed
Gleaning Ruth: A Biblical Heroine and Her Afterlives
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8178
Reviewed by Helen Leneman
 
Peter Oakes
Reading Romans in Pompeii: Paul's Letter at Ground Level
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7353
Reviewed by Richard A. Wright
 
Mark Allan Powell, ed.
Methods for Matthew
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7412
Reviewed by Daniel A. Smith
 
Michael Tait and Peter Oakes, eds.
Torah in the New Testament: Papers Delivered at the Manchester-Lausanne Seminar of June 2008
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=7554
Reviewed by William Loader

  

9.5 Theses Regarding the Need to Learn Biblical Greek

  
See this post.
  

The So-Called Jesus Tomb Back in the News

  
Check out Todd Bolen's multiple posts on his blog concerning the so-called Jesus tomb that made such a stir some time back. If you are not familiar with Todd's blog, you should be. 
  

What Does the Church Expect from the Seminary?

  
Here is one answer.
 

The Jerusalem Syndrome

 
Here is an interesting article on the so-called Jerusalem Syndrome.