Mar 1, 2019

Free Logos Book for March: How Bible Stories Work

The free Logos Book for the Month for March is Leland Ryken's How Bible Stories Work: A Guided Study of Biblical Narrative You can also purchase Ryken's Jesus the Hero: A Guided Literary Study of the Gospels or Short Sentences Long Remembered: A Guided Study of Proverbs and Other Wisdom Literature for $1.99 and $2.99 respectively. You can also register for a chance win the 40-volume Weaver's Titles Bundle. For all these offers, go to the Logos' Free Book of Month page here.

Feb 28, 2019

Two Recent Books on the Decalogue

Louis McBride discusses and compares two recent books on the Decalogue here.

Feb 27, 2019

Teaching Zechariah

Nancy Guthrie interviews Anthony Peterson here about teaching the book of Zechariah. The link will allow you to listen to the audio or read a transcript.

Feb 26, 2019

Faux Christian Quotes

Trevin Wax has a number of them in this post, including supposed quotes from Bonhoeffer, Spurgeon, Chesterton, Luther and others.

Feb 25, 2019

Hurtado on the Woman Caught in Adultery

Larry Hurtado discusses the work here of Jennifer Knust and Tommy Wasserman on well-known textual problem in the Gospel of John 7:53—8:11, the so-called Pericope Adulterae.

Feb 24, 2019

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.

Roger David Aus, Two Puzzling Baptisms: First Corinthians 10:1–5 and 15:29; Studies in Their Judaic Background
Reviewed by Michael Tilly

Kit Barker, Imprecation as Divine Discourse: Speech Act Theory, Dual Authorship, and Theological Interpretation
Reviewed by Richard S. Briggs

David L. Bartlett, Christology in the New Testament
Reviewed by Chris Kugler

Paul B. Duff, Jesus Followers in the Roman Empire
Reviewed by Sarah E. Rollens

Wilda C. M. Gafney, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah
Reviewed by Jason Lecureux

Mark W. Hamilton, A Kingdom for a Stage: Political and Theological Reflection in the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Diana Edelman

Jiseong James Kwon, Scribal Culture and Intertextuality
Reviewed by Brandon R. Grafius

Sheree Lear, Scribal Composition: Malachi as a Test Case
Reviewed by Michael H. Floyd

Ariane Magny, Porphyry in Fragments: Reception of an Anti-Christian Text in Late Antiquity
Reviewed by Pieter W. van der Horst

Cynthia Long Westfall and Bryan R. Dyer, eds., The Bible and Social Justice: Old Testament and New Testament Foundations for the Church’s Urgent Call
Reviewed by Yung Suk Kim