Praying the Imprecatory Psalms

In this podcast, Trevor Laurence makes a case for doing so.

Walton's Slides on the Gospel of Luke

Steve Walton has posted his PowerPoint slides here and here from some recent talks that he gave on the Gospel of Luke.

Tips for Seminary Reading

One of the major differences that I noticed in moving up the educational ladder was that amount of reading can increase fairly dramatically. So beginning and future seminary students might want to consider these tips by Danny Zacharias and Benjamin K. Forrest. Pastors might also find wisdom here as they try and stay well-read.

Text and Canon Institute Website

The Text and Canon Institute has a brand new website. You can access it here. It looks like this is going to be a wonderful resource related to the Bible and its origins.

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 to read them.

Tanios Bou Mansour, Le ministère sacerdotal dans la tradition syriaque primitive: Aphraate, Ephrem, Jacques de Saroug et Narsaï
Sebastian P. Brock

Tony Burke, ed., New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, Volume 2
J. K. Elliott

Noel Forlini Burt, Encounters in the Dark: Identity Formation in the Jacob Story
Julianne Burnett

Haim Goren, “The Loss of a Minute Is Just So Much Loss of Life”: Edward Robinson and Eli Smith in the Holy Land
Thomas Davis

Gudrun Guttenberger, Das Evangelium nach Markus
Olegs Andrejevs

Evan Hershman, Jesus as Teacher in the Gospel of Mark: The Function of a Motif
Vernon K. Robbins

Martha Himmelfarb, Jewish Messiahs in a Christian Empire: A History of the Book of Zerubbabel
J. Thomas Hewitt

Jonathan A. Kruschwitz, Interludes and Irony in the Ancestral Narrative
Rachel Adelman

Jonathan Loopstra, The Patristic “Masora”: A Study of Patristic Collections in Syriac Handbooks from the Near East
Jacob A. Lollar

Klyne R. Snodgrass, Stories with Intent: A Comprehensive Guide to the Parables of Jesus
Peter Claver Ajer

Free Text-Driven Preaching Webinar

David Allen is offering a free text-driven preaching webinar on November 11 @ 2:00 PM  (CST). You can sign up here.

Five Reasons to Read the Bible Intertextually

B. J. Oropeza shares them here.