Dec 17, 2025

Another Free Logos Book

Logos is offering another free book, Carmen Imes's Bearing God's Name. You can access the offer here which is good until the end of the month. 

Ending Courses Well

I know some of you who read this blog are seminary or Bible college teachers like me. If you are then you might find this post about ending your courses in a more effective way to be helpful.

Dec 16, 2025

Memorizing the Beatitudes

This post actually came out a few weeks ago but if you are interested in memorizing the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount you might try this.

Dec 15, 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.

Dominique Barthélemy, The Precursors of Aquila: The First Complete Publication of the Text of the Greek Minor Prophets Scroll (ḤevXIIgr), Preceded by a Study of the Greek Translations and Recensions of the Bible Conducted in the First Century CE under the Influence of the Palestinian Rabbinate (Brill)
Timothy A. Lee

John Behr, ed. and trans., Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God (Oxford University Press)
Hemchand Gossai

Cornelis Bennema, Imitation in Early Christianity: Mimesis and Religious-Ethical Formation (Eerdmans)
Daniel L. Smith

Simon Goldhill, Preposterous Poetics: The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity (Cambridge University Press)
Nina E. Livesey

Stan Harstine, Reading John through Johannine Lenses (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
Christopher Seglenieks

Louise J. Lawrence, Peter-Ben Smit, Hannah M. Strømmen, and Charlene van der Walt, eds., Challenging Contextuality: Bibles and Biblical Scholarship in Context (Oxford University Press)
Pieter J. J. Botha

Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò and Kacper Ziemba, eds., Contact Zones in the Eastern Mediterranean: Judeans and Their Neighbours in Intercultural Contexts; Places, Middlemen, Transcultural Contacts—Sixth to Second Century BCE (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht)
Stefan Beyerle

Jason A. Staples, Paul and the Resurrection of Israel: Jews, Former Gentiles, Israelites (Cambridge University Press)
Magnus Zetterholm

Louis Stulman and Edward Silver, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Jeremiah (Oxford University Press)

Benedetta Rossi Marvin A. Sweeney, Visions of the Holy: Studies in Biblical Theology and Literature (SBL Press)
Kevin L. Tolley