Teaching Zephaniah

Nancy Guthrie talks to William Wood about teaching Zephaniah here.

Journal of Biblical Literature 139:1

Volume 139:1 of the Journal of Biblical Literature is now out. Here is a list of the articles with links to abstracts.

Presidential Address: Introduction
Adele Reinhartz

Thinking Intersectionally: Gender, Race, Class, and the Etceteras of Our Discipline
Gale A. Yee

The Problem of Reubenite Primacy: New Paradigms, New Answers
Andrew Tobolowsky

The Book of Ruth and the Limits of Proverbial Wisdom
Laura Quick

Why Davidic Superscriptions Do Not Demarcate Earlier Collections of Psalms
David Willgren Davage

A Collective Anointed? David and the People in Psalm 89
Marcel Krusche 

Matthew 26:73 and the Case of the Disappearing Galilean Accent
Matthew W. Mitchell

Jesus, Barabbas, and the Crowd as Figures in Matthew’s Day of Atonement Typology (Matthew 27:15–26)
Hans M. Moscicke

A Literary and Theological Case for the “Unbeloved” Reading in John 10:29
Donghyun Jeong

Aquila and Apollos: Acts 18 in Light of Ancient Ethnic Stereotypes
Matthijs den Dulk

Junia: An Apostle before Paul
Yii-Jan Lin

The Curse of the Law, the Covenant, and Anthropology in Galatians 3:10–14: An Examination of Paul’s Use of Deuteronomy 27:26
J. Andrew Cowan

Digital Resources from GlossaHouse

GlossaHouse produces some excellent biblical languages resources. In response to COVID-19 they are offering many of their digital resources for free and selling many of their hard copy resources at a 50% discount. You can read about these offers here.

The "Total Kill" and "Drive Them Out" Texts

Scot McKnight interacts with William Webb and Gordon Oeste here on the meaning of the "total kill" and "drive them out" texts of the Old Testament. I am still thinking through the conclusion presented but the discussion was helpful for me.

Eight Pillars of Scholarly Excellence

Todd Scacewater has a nice interaction here with Andreas Köstenberger’s proposed eight pillars of scholarly excellence in the latest issue the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (63:1). I respond with a hearty, "Amen."

Psalm 17 Links

I have been working on a commentary on the Psalms. I have decided to compile some of my favorite links that I discovered during my research. There is a mix of exegetical and sermonic links. Here is what I have for Psalm 17 (in no particular order). Feel free to mention any that you find helpful in the comments section.

Literary analysis of Psalm 17: http://psalmsstudy.com/psalms-literary-analysis-by-chapter/literary-analysis-psalm-17

Analysis by C. J. Labuschagne: https://www.labuschagne.nl/ps017.pdf

William Barrick’s notes: https://drbarrick.org/files/studynotes/Psalms/Ps_017.pdf

Eric Mathis: https://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?commentary_id=1826