Reflections on Studying the Psalms

 Peter Mead discusses eight of the here.

Free Logos Resources for July

Logos is offering Steven Lawson's Job (HOTC) and Justin Martyr's The First and Second Apologies as their free offerings for July. You can also purchase other resources at significant discounts and enter to win the 12-volume Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament  collection These offers can be accessed here and here.

Journal of Biblical Literature 141:2

Volume 141:2 of the Journal of Biblical Literature is now out. Here is a list of the articles with links to abstracts.

Still Invisible after All These Years? Female God-Language in the Hebrew Bible: A Response to David J. A. Clines
Hanne Løland Levinson

Designing the Golden Calf: Pens and Presumption in the Production of a “Divine” Image
Elizabeth VanDyke 

A Child Is Being Eaten: Maternal Cannibalism and the Hebrew Bible in the Company of Fairy Tales
Rhiannon Graybill

Reconsidering the Composition of Ezra-Nehemiah in Light of 2 Maccabees 1:10–2:18
H. Clay Smith

Isaiah 55–66 and the Psalms: Shared Viewpoints, Literary Similarities, and Neighboring Authors
Ulrich Berges

Daniel and the Diadochi
Edmon L. Gallagher

Text-Correcting Qere, Scribal Errors, and Textual Variants in Medieval Hebrew Bible Manuscripts
Nehemia Gordon

Unbelievable: An Interpretation of Acts 12 That Takes Rhoda’s Cassandra Curse Seriously
Michael Kochenash

What Does It Mean to See Paul “within Judaism”?
Paula Fredriksen

The Craftsman: Paul’s Law of Christ and the Stoic Law of Nature
Annalisa Phillips Wilson

Sermon Application

I find it strange that some preachers question the need for application in their sermons. Matt Cohen uses Isaiah 55 to highlight why application is an important and necessary part of preaching here.

HT: Gary Shogren

Preaching to a Post-Christian America

One could debate or nuance a point here or there but I suspect that Carey Nieuwhof is right about needing these seven skills to preach to a post-Christian America.

Philippians 4:13

Jason Meyer has a good post here on the oft-quoted but not always understood, Philippians 4:13.