Free Audio of a Dan Wallace Textual Criticism Course

You can download free audio of a textual criticism course by Dan Wallace here. Note video and other options are not free but the audio portion is. I am also unsure of how long it will be free so you might want to take advantage of the opportunity sooner rather than later.

Why Are Academic Books So Expensive?

Thomas Kidd explains here.

Exegesis vs Exposition

Michael Duduit explains the difference between exegesis and exposition here.

Missions and Hermeneutics

Will Brooks argues that training in biblical interpretation should be an integral part of every missions strategy here.

Greekonomics

Rob Plummer explains how to set goals, manage your time, and grow your Greek here.

Latest Issue of 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.

Keon-Sang An
An Ethiopian Reading of the Bible: Biblical Interpretation of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10941
Reviewed by Ralph Lee

Bradley Arnold
Christ as the Telos of Life
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10305
Reviewed by Julien M. Ogereau

Margaret Aymer
James: Diaspora Rhetoric of a Friend of God
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10472
Reviewed by Carla Swafford Works

Timothy Brookins
Corinthian Wisdom, Stoic Philosophy, and the Ancient Economy
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10407
Reviewed by Devin L. White

Michael Gorman
Becoming the Gospel: Paul, Participation, and Mission
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10416
Reviewed by Gregory R. Perry

Christoph Heil
Das Spruchevangelium Q und der historische Jesus
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10120
Reviewed by Kari Syreeni

Ronald Hendel
Steps to a New Edition of the Hebrew Bible
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11532
Reviewed by Emanuel Tov

Corrado Martone
Scritti di Qumran 1
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10110
Reviewed by Paola Mollo

Paul A. Rainbow
Johannine Theology: The Gospel, the Epistles and the Apocalypse
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10114
Reviewed by Athanasios Despotis

Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Micah: A Commentary
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10932
Reviewed by Claude F. Mariottini

Why Your Youth Leader Needs Seminary Training

Cameron Cole explains here.

The Tombs of Esther and Mordechai

You can read this interesting article on the tombs of Esther and Mordechai located in Iran.

Reading the Genealogies Devotionally

William Barrick provides some suggestions here.

Pastoral Epistles Literature Review

Check out "Paul’s Letters to Timothy and Titus: A Literature Review (2009–2015)" by Charles J. Bumgardner in the winter issue of the Southeastern Theological Review.

Latest Issue of 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.

Rainer Albertz
Exodus 19–40
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10926
Reviewed by William Johnstone

Darrin W. Snyder Belousek
Good News: The Advent of Salvation in the Gospel of Luke
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10050
Reviewed by Benjamin J. Burkholder

Stephen B. Chapman
1 Samuel as Christian Scripture: A Theological Commentary
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11265
Reviewed by Jordan M. Scheetz

Nicole Wilkinson Duran and James P. Grimshaw, eds.
Matthew
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=9238
Reviewed by Ernest van Eck

Joachim Eck
Jesaja 1—Eine Exegese der Eröffnung des Jesaja-Buches: Die Präsentation Jesajas und JHWHs, Israels und der Tochter Zion
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10667
Reviewed by Richard J. Bautch

Rebekah Eklund
Jesus Wept: The Significance of Jesus’ Laments in the New Testament
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10290
Reviewed by Leonard Maré

Izaak J. de Hulster, Brent A. Strawn, and Ryan P. Bonfiglio, eds.
Iconographic Exegesis of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: An Introduction to Its Method and Practice
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11065
Reviewed by Michael B. Hundley

Charles Irons
The Righteousness of God: A Lexical Examination of the Covenant-Faithfulness Interpretation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10379
Reviewed by Robert L. Foster

Britt Leslie
One Thing I Know: How the Blind Man of John 9 Leads an Audience toward Belief
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10357
Reviewed by Susanne Luther

Peter S. Williamson
Revelation
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10366
Reviewed by Andrew R. Guffey

The Very Model of a Doctor of New Testament

Gary Manning provides a New Testament flavored parody of Gilbert and Sullivan's "I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" from The Pirates of Penzance here.

Genealogical Gaps and Chronological Gaps in Biblical Genealogies?

Peter Leithart has an interesting post here interacting with Jeremy Sexton's 2015 critique of William Henry Green's fairly well-known article, "Primeval Chronology" (Bibliotheca Sacra 47 [1890]: 285-303).

Mudbricks and the Bible

Gary Byers has a fairly comprehensive article on mudbricks and the Bible here.

Free Logos Book for March: This Risen Existence: The Spirit of Easter

The free Logos Book of the Month for March is This Risen Existence: The Spirit of Easter by Paula Gooder. You can also purchase Fruit of the Soul: Luther on the Lament Psalms for $1.99. For both offers you can go to the Logos' Free Book of Month page here.

On Footnotes

"For most theological writers/researchers, the writing of footnotes is secondary to the primary task of researching and writing the paper. Footnotes are intended to support your argument, not to draw attention to themselves. When footnotes are well written and carefully cited, they give a paper authority, scholarly credibility, and rhetorical force. In sum, a well written footnote is one that is clear, concise, accurate, rendered in one's own academic voice, and formatted according to the convention of the style of citation required for the paper."

Lucretia B. Yaghjian, Writing Theology Well: A Rhetoric for Theological and Biblical Writers, 2nd ed. (London: Bloomsbury, 2015),154.

Developing Pastoral Sensitivity

David Murray has some really good advice developing pastoral antennae here. I remind my students frequently that ministry is people. Unfortunately, the pastor as CEO model has done great harm to the traditional pastoral ministries.

Pastors and Domestic Violence

Christianity Today has an interesting study of pastors perceive domestic violence here.

Saul and Paul

Greg Lanier has a good correction and explanation here of the use of Saul and Paul in the New Testament.

Latest Issue of 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.

Kristian A. Bendoraitis
‘Behold, the Angels Came and Served Him’: A Compositional Analysis of Angels in Matthew
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10950
Reviewed by Marianne Blickenstaff

J. Blake Couey
Reading the Poetry of First Isaiah: The Most Perfect Model of the Prophetic Poetry
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11598
Reviewed by Daniel J. Stulac

Robert Hanhart, ed.
Septuaginta: Paralipomenon liber II
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10312
Reviewed by Roger Good

Diana Lipton, ed.
Universalism and Particularism at Sodom and Gomorrah: Essays in Memory of Ron Pirson
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=8455
Reviewed by Victor H. Matthews

Peter Meineck and David Konstan, eds.
Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11000
Reviewed by Zsuzsanna Varhelyi

Geert van Oyen
Reading the Gospel of Mark as a Novel
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10180
Reviewed by Gregg S. Morrison

E. J. Revell; Raymond de Hoop and Paul Sanders, eds.
The Pausal System: Divisions in the Hebrew Biblical Text as Marked by Voweling and Stress Position
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11133
Reviewed by Jerome A. Lund

Randy Rheaume
An Exegetical and Theological Analysis of the Son’s Relationship to the Father in John’s Gospel: Equal Yet Subordinate
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10799
Reviewed by Athanasios Despotis

Mirjo Salvini
Les textes hourrites de Meskéné/Emar
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=11147
Reviewed by Michael S. Moore

Christopher W. Skinner
Reading John
http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10513
Reviewed by Chang Seon An

Another Three-Fold Division of the Law

Ian Paul discusses Philip Jenson's alternative three-fold division of the law here. It is an interesting proposal but I am not sure that setting up a tiered-system solves some of the thornier problems related to Christians and the law.

Maintaining Your Greek

Andreas Köstenberger and Robert Plummer talk about maintaining your Greek here. I especially liked this quote: “Greek is like the neighborhood cat. If we don’t feed it, eventually it will leave.” The same could be said of Hebrew as well.

The Temple in Daniel 9:24-27

Michael Vlach has a good  post here on the three phases of the Jerusalem temple in Daniel 9:24-27.

Free ANE Timeline

The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is providing a free full-color PDF timeline of the ancient Near East here.

How to Read (a Lot) More Books This Year

See this article at the Harvard Business Review.

HT: Trevin Wax