Sep 1, 2025

Free Logos Resources for September

Logos is offering these freebies this month: A Passion for Faithfulness: Wisdom from the Book of Nehemiah by J. I. Packer, Follow Me: A History of Christian Intentionality by Ivan Kauffman, a free ebook, Marriage Forecasting by Tim Muehlhoff, and the free audio book Raising Disciples by Teresa Roberts. You can get these free resources and also other deals hereherehere, and here. If you are a subscriber, you can also get 1 Samuel: Choose Your King by Tim Chester for free here.

Aug 31, 2025

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.

Craig G. Bartholomew, Listening to Scripture: An Introduction to Interpreting the Bible (Baker Academic)
Zach Eberhart

Angelika Berlejung and Gideon Bohak, eds., Amulets of Protection and Texts for Fears in Antiquity (Mohr Siebeck)
Ariel Feldman

Kathleen J. Birney, Ashkelon 9: The Hellenistic Period (Eisenbrauns)
Joshua Schwartz

Aron Freidenreich, Mutual Influence in Priestly and Non-Priestly Pentateuchal Narratives: A Study of the Dynamic Interaction Behind the Textual Growth of P and Non-P (Mohr Siebeck)
Gershon Brin

Matthew E. Gordley, Social Justice in the Stories of Jesus: The Ethical Challenge of the Parables (Wiley Blackwell)
Warren Carter

Roy R. Jeal, Exploring Colossians: Living the New Reality (SBL Press)
Timothy Milinovich

Benjamin Kantor, The Pronunciation of New Testament Greek: Judeo-Palestinian Greek Phonology and Orthography from Alexander to Islam (Eerdmans)
Jenny Read-Heimerdinger

Sydney Tooth, Suddenness and Signs: The Eschatologies of 1 and 2 Thessalonians (Mohr Siebeck)
Janusz Kucicki

Aug 30, 2025

Themelios 50:2

You can access the latest issue of Themelios for free in three different formats here.

HT: Antony Billington

Aug 26, 2025

Psalm 2

Steve Walton has made his slides from a recent sermon on Psalm 2 available here.

Aug 24, 2025

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.

Brendan Byrne, Paul and the Economy of Salvation: Reading from the Perspective of the Last Judgment (Baker Academic)
Grant Buchanan

Steven Fassberg, ed., Hebrew Texts and Language of the Second Temple Period: Proceedings of an Eighth Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira (Brill)
John Screnock

Martin Goodman, Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World (Yale University Press)
Jodi Magness

David W. Kling, The Bible in History: How the Texts Have Shaped the Times (Oxford University Press)
An-Ting Yi

Reinhard G. Kratz and Bernd U. Schipper, eds., Elephantine in Context: Studies on the History, Religion and Literature of the Judeans in Persian Period Egypt (Mohr Siebeck)
Alejandro F. Botta

Albert Sui Hung Lee, Dialogue on Monarchy in the Gideon-Abimelech Narrative: Ideological Reading in Light of Bakhtin’s Dialogism (Brill)
Keith Bodner

Susanne Scholz, ed., Doing Biblical Masculinity Studies as Feminist Biblical Studies? Critical Interrogations (Sheffield Phoenix)
Alexiana Fry

Benjamin D. Suchard, Aramaic Daniel: A Textual Reconstruction of Chapters 1–7 (Brill)
Peter Joshua Atkins

Aug 19, 2025

Free eBook: Practicing Intertextuality

Wipf and Stock is offering a free eBook copy of Practicing Intertextuality edited by Max A. Lee and B. J. Oropeza. Act quickly because the deal ends on 8/30. Here are the instructions to get your copy.

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Aug 18, 2025

What Happened to the Apostles?

Christian History magazine's latest issue addresses the issue of apostleship and lives of the Apostles. You can read the issue or access a free PDF of the issue here. Several friends have contributed to this volume.

HT: Rex Butler

Aug 17, 2025

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.

Elie Assis, Before There Were Kings: A Literary Analysis of the Book of Judges (Eisenbrauns)
Joel S. Kaminsky

Reinhard von Bendemann, Christus der Arzt: Frühchristliche Soteriologie und Anthropologie im Licht antik-medizinischer Konzepte (Kohlhammer)
Karl Olav Sandnes

Bart Ehrman, Michael F. Bird, and Robert B. Stewart, When Did Jesus Become God? A Christological Debate (Westminster John Knox)
Andrew Loke

Jennifer Brown Jones, Psalms 89–105: A Handbook on the Greek Text (Baylor University Press)
Elizabeth H. P. Backfish

Joel Korytko, Death of the Covenant Code: Capital Punishment in Old Greek Exodus in Light of Greco-Egyptian Law (Brill)
Anna Angelini

Sarah E. Rollens, Eric M. Vanden Eykel, and Meredith J. C. Warren, eds., Judeophobia and the New Testament: Texts and Contexts (Eerdmans)
Paula Fredriksen

Daniel R. Schwartz, 1 Maccabees: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary (Yale University Press)
Joshua Schwartz 

Ruben Zimmermann; Dieter T. Roth, ed., Breaking New Ground in John: Imagery, Parables, Characters, Christology, and Ethics in the Fourth Gospel (Mohr Siebeck)
Craig R. Koester