Aug 20, 2022

God’s Righteousness and Justice in the Old Testament

This looks looks to be an interesting study in two important themes in the Old Testament.

Aug 19, 2022

Seven Reasons for John's Specialness

Michael Kruger identifies seven reasons why the Gospel of John is so special here.

Aug 18, 2022

The Shema

Reuven Kimelman has an excellent post on the Shema (Deut 6:4-9) here.

Aug 17, 2022

Psalm 86

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 86 (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/ps086.pdf

William Barrick’s notes: https://drbarrick.org/files/studynotes/Psalms/Ps_086.pdf

Psalm 86 devotional: https://www.generations.org/devotionals/99

Aug 15, 2022

Aug 14, 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.

Rainer Albertz, Die Josephsgeschichte im Pentateuch: Ein Beitrag zur Überwindung einer anhaltenden Forschungskontroverse (Mohr Siebeck)
Marlen Bunzel

Alessandro Falcetta, Early Christian Teachers: The ‘Didaskaloi’ from Their Origins to the Middle of the Second Century (Mohr Siebeck)
H. H. Drake Williams III

John Goldingay, The Book of Lamentations (Eerdmans)
Kristin J. Wendland

Craig S. Keener, Galatians: A Commentary (Baker Academic)
Gregory R. Perry

David C. Kraemer, A History of the Talmud (Cambridge University Press)
Sara Ronis

Dieder Lafleur, Greek New Testament Manuscripts from Albania (Brill)
Zachary Skarka

M. David Litwa, The Evil Creator: Origins of an Early Christian Idea (Oxford University Press)
James F. McGrath

Allan J. McNicol, The Persistence of God’s Endangered Promises: The Bible’s Unified Story (T&T Clark)
James W. Thompson

Julia M. O’Brien, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the Minor Prophets (Oxford University Press)
Steven Tuell

Michaela Sohn-Kronthaler and Ruth Albrecht, eds., Faith and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Religious Communities (SBL Press)
Barbara E. Reid