Dec 15, 2018

5 Myths about the Trinity

Fred Sanders identifies and discusses them here.

Dec 14, 2018

The Latest Issue of the Review of Biblical Literature

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below but unfortunately you must be a SBL member.

Athalya Brenner-Idan and Archie Lee, eds., Samuel, Kings and Chronicles I
Reviewed by Sara M. Koenig

Edward M. Cook, Dictionary of Qumran Aramaic
Reviewed by Albert Lukaszewski

Peter Dubovsky, The Building of the First Temple: A Study in Redactional, Text-Critical and Historical Perspective
Reviewed by Ziony Zevit

David L. Eastman, The Ancient Martyrdom Accounts of Peter and Paul
Reviewed by Janet E. Spittler

Martin Ravndal Hauge, Solomon the Lover and the Shape of the Song of Songs
Reviewed by Jennifer L. Koosed

Jonathan Douglas Hicks, Trinity, Economy, and Scripture: Recovering Didymus the Blind
Reviewed by Kyle R. Hughes

Yung Suk Kim, Resurrecting Jesus: The Renewal of New Testament Theology
Reviewed by Frank E. Dicken

John P. Meier, A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume 5: Probing the Authenticity of the Parables
Reviewed by Tobias Hägerland

Matthew H. Patton, Hope for a Tender Sprig: Jehoiachin in Biblical Theology
Reviewed by George Athas

Adam Y. Wells, ed., Phenomenologies of Scripture Reviewed by Davis Hankins

Dec 13, 2018

Using Memes and GIFs in Classroom Teaching

I have used some GIFs in the past but I thought they looked a bit cheesy. But this article has caused me to rethink using them.

Dec 12, 2018

Dec 11, 2018

Christianity Today's Book Awards

You can look at Christianity Today's 2019 book awards here.

Dec 10, 2018

Two Discussions on Job

Kyle Dunham is interviewed the book of Job here

The latest issue of Crucible, published by the Australian Evangelical Alliance, includes an article by David Kummerow on "Preaching Christ from the Prologue of Job." You can access the article here or the entire issue here.

HT: Antony Billington

Dec 9, 2018

The Latest Issue of the Review of Biblical Literature

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below but unfortunately you must be a SBL member.

Shawn Zelig Aster, Reflections of Empire in Isaiah 1–39: Responses to Assyrian Ideology
Reviewed by Patricia K. Tull

Michael G. Azar, Exegeting the Jews: The Early Reception of the Johannine “Jews”
Reviewed by Chris Blumhofer

Walter Bruggemann, Money and Possessions
Reviewed by Peter Altmann

Oskar Dangl, Das Buch Habakuk
Reviewed by Csaba Balogh

Elizabeth Berne DeGear, ‘For She Has Heard’: The Standing Stone in Joshua 24 and the Development of a Covenant Symbol
Reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

Salima Ikram, ed., Divine Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt
Reviewed by Shirly Ben-Dor Evian

John J. Pilch and Bruce J. Malina, eds., Handbook of Biblical Social Values
Reviewed by John Goldingay

J. David Pleins, Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary by Conceptual Categories: A Student’s Guide to Nouns in the Old Testament
Reviewed by Paul Overland

David E. Wilhite, The Gospel according to Heretics: Discovering Orthodoxy through Early Christological Conflicts
Reviewed by B. Lee Blackburn

David M. Young and Michael Strickland, The Rhetoric of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark
Reviewed by Elliott Maloney