May 27, 2022

Psalm 75

I am working on a commentary on the Psalms. I have decided to compile some helpful links that I discovered during my research. It includes a mix of exegetical and sermonic links. Here is what I have for Psalm 75 (in no particular order). Feel free to mention any that you find helpful in the comments section.

Analysis by C. J. Labuschagne: https://www.labuschagne.nl/ps075.pdf

William Barrick’s notes: https://drbarrick.org/files/studynotes/Psalms/Ps_075.pdf

Psalm 75 devotional: https://www.generations.org/devotionals/88

Daniel Akin sermon resources: https://www.danielakin.com/lets-thank-god-the-righteous-judge-through-the-psalms-series

May 25, 2022

The significance of the authorship of Acts

Steve Walton has made his slides available here from a recent conference on the significance of the authorship of Acts

May 24, 2022

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.

Isaac D. Blois, Mutual Boasting in Philippians: The Ethical Function of Shared Honor in its Biblical and Greco-Roman Context
Gregory E. Lamb

Luc Bulundwe and Chen Dandelot, eds., Approches et méthodes en sciences bibliques: Quoi de neuf
Sébastien Doane

Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme and Kirsi Valkama, eds., Approaching the Dead: Studies on Mortuary Ritual in the Ancient World
F. Dorie Mansen

David T. Landry and John W. Martens, Inquiry into the New Testament: Ancient Context to Contemporary Significance
Jonathan Gan

Aloo Osotsi Mojola, God Speaks My Language: A History of Bible Translation in East Africa
Nebeyou Alemu Terefe

Stephen D. Moore, Gospel Jesuses and Other Nonhumans: Biblical Criticism Post-poststructuralism
Matthew J. Klem

Stanley E. Porter and Francis G. H. Pang, eds., The Letter to the Romans: Exegesis and Application
Mark Cooper

Bernd U. Schipper, The Hermeneutics of Torah
David Penchansky

Stefan Schorch, ed., The Samaritan Pentateuch, Volume I: Genesis
Ingrid Hjelm

Rosa Ching Shao, Jonah: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary
Daniel André Gloor

May 23, 2022

Leviticus as a Continuation of Exodus

L. Michael Morales's volume, Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord: A Biblical Theology of Leviticus, is chock full of insights. Consider the following

The wayyiqtol form with which the book [Leviticus], and from which it derives its Hebrew title, sets the following legislation within a narrative context. Thematically, the opening wayyiqrā’ (And-he-called) sets the entire book of Leviticus within the development of God’s redemptive dealings, as the following chart illustrates.

YHWH God called to Adam [in the garden of Eden]    Genesis 3:9
God called to him [Moses] from within the bush          Exodus 3:4
YHWH called to him [Moses] from the mountain         Exodus 19:3
YHWH called to Moses from within the cloud              Exodus 24:16
YHWH called to Moses and spoke to him from the     Leviticus 1:1
tent of meeting 
 

More particularly for our purposes, the wayyiqtol links Leviticus to the narrative context of the ending of Exodus, as a continuation of it. We may, therefore, turn to the close of Exodus in order to position the legislation leading up to the inauguration of the tabernacle cultus (Lev. 1–10).

L. Michael Morales, Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord: A Biblical Theology of Leviticus, New Studies in Biblical Theology 37. (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2015), 112.