1 Peter 3:19, Again

Jarvis Williams tackles this difficult text here. The view is similar to my own.

Job and Ecclesiastes Humor

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Psalm 135

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 135 (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/ps135.pdf

William Barrick’s notes: https://drbarrick.org/files/studynotes/Psalms/Ps_135.pdf

John Piper, The Pleasure of God in Everything He Does: https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/the-pleasure-of-god-in-everything-he-does

Psalm 135 devotional: https://www.generations.org/devotionals/220 

Daniel Akin sermon resources: https://www.danielakin.com/no-god-is-like-our-god-psalm-135

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.

Sidnie White Crawford, Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran (Eerdmans)
Sarianna Metso

Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder and Mary F. Foskett, eds., Remapping Biblical Studies: CUREMP at Thirty (SBL Press)
Hugh R. Page Jr.

Peter Frick, Understanding Paul: The Existential Perspective (Mohr Siebeck)
Sigurd Grindheim

Waldemar Heckel, In the Path of Conquest: Resistance to Alexander the Great (Oxford Lester L. Grabbe

Joseph M. Henderson, Jeremiah under the Shadow of Duhm: A Critique of the Use of Poetic Form as a Criterion of Authenticity (T&T Clark)
Ron Lindo Jr.

Matthias Henze and David Lincicum, eds., Israel’s Scriptures in Early Christian Writings: The Use of the Old Testament in the New (Eerdmans)
Susana de Sola Funsten

Craig S. Keener and L. William Oliverio Jr., eds., The Spirit throughout the Canon: Pentecostal Pneumatology (Brill)
William Horst

Daniel Klinkmann, Die rituelle Welt des Lukas: Eine narrative Ritualanalyse des dritten Evangeliums (Kohlhammer)
David John McCollough

A Beastly Flight (Rev 13:18)

This ad appeared on my Facebook feed. The comments were interesting, to say the least.