Free Webinar: Preaching Advent

David Allen is offering a free webinar on Monday, November 6 @ 7 pm CST on preaching advent. You can sign up here.

Genesis 22:1-19

Genesis 22:1-19 is called the Akedah in Jewish tradition. This post is an interesting examination of this passage from a Jewish perspective.

Steve Walton on 2 Timothy 4:1-8

You can access Walton's presentation slides here.

Free Logos Resources for November

Logos is offering these three freebies this month: The Message of Discipleship: Authentic Followers of Jesus in Today’s World by Peter Morden, Proverbs 10-31 by Michael V. Fox, a free ebook, After Acts by Bryan Litfin, and the audio book Being the Bad Guys: How to Live for Jesus in a World That Says You Shouldn’t by Stephen McAlpine. You can get these free resources and also purchase others at significant discounts here, here, here, and here.

Free eChart on Deuteronomy

Hendrickson is offering a a free echart introducing the book of Deuteronomy here. It is taken from their Bible Overview book.

A Brief History of Hell

Kevin Dickinson gives a brief overview of the concept of Hell here. The article is not written from a Christian biblical perspective and is superficial in many ways but does provide an illustration of the ongoing interest in the topic.

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.

Christopher Armitage, Atonement and Ethics in 1 John: A Peacemaking Hermeneutic (T&T Clark)
Matthew D. Jensen

Shelley L. Birdsong, J. Cornelis de Vos, and Hyun Chul Paul Kim, eds., Reading Gender in Judges: An Intertextual Approach (SBL Press)
Alexiana Fry

Mark DelCogliano, ed., Christ: Chalcedon and Beyond (Cambridge University Press)
Robert Edwards

William G. Dever, My Nine Lives: Sixty Years in Israeli and Biblical Archaeology (SBL Press)
Joshua Schwartz

Bruce W. Longenecker, ed., Greco-Roman Associations, Deities, and Early Christianity (Baylor University Press)
Zeba Crook

Paul L. Redditt, 1 and 2 Chronicles (Smyth & Helwys)
Steven Schweitzer

Christopher Rowland, “By an Immediate Revelation”: Studies in Apocalypticism, Its Origins and Effects (Mohr Siebeck)
Frances L. Flannery

Abdul-Massih Saadi, ed. and trans., Moshe Bar Kepha’s Commentary on the Gospel of Luke (Gorgias)
T. C. Schmidt

Michael Spalione and Helen Paynter, eds., Map or Compass? The Bible on Violence (Sheffield Phoenix)
David A. Bosworth

Greg Stanton, Unity and Disunity in Greek and Christian Thought under the Roman Peace (Mohr Siebeck)
Stefan Krauter