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.

Claudia D. Bergmann, Festmahl ohne Ende: Apokalyptische Vorstellungen vom Speisen in der Kommenden Welt im antiken Judentum und ihre biblischen Wurzeln (Kohlhammer)
Laura S. Lieber

Yanrong Chen, The Diffused Story of the Footwashing in John 13: A Textual Study of Bible Reception in Late Imperial China (Pickwick)
Jonathan C. Borland

Jason L. Merritt, Devils and Deviants: Religious Schism in 1 and 2 John (Wipf & Stock)
Steven R. Shisley

Hilde Brekke Moller, The Vermes Quest: The Significance of Geza Vermes for Jesus Research (Bloomsbury)
Tucker S. Ferda

Reinhard Müller and Juha Pakkala, Editorial Techniques in the Hebrew Bible: Toward a Refined Literary Criticism (SBL Press)
Julian C. Chike

Jared Ortiz, ed., Deification in the Latin Patristic Tradition (Catholic University of America Press)
Michael M. C. Reardon

Thomas Schmeller, Kreuz und Kraft II: Untersuchungen zu Paulus (Katholisches Bibelwerk)
Oda Wischmeyer

Olivier-Thomas Venard, ed., La passion selon saint Matthieu: Matthieu 26–28 (Peeters)
Serge Ruzer

Prayer Worrier or a Prayer Warrior?

Ken Berding has a good word here.

The Worship Song Song by Random Action Verb Worship

It looks like this video has been out for a couple of years but it was new to me. It is one of the funniest things I have watched in awhile.

HT: Israel Steinmetz 

 

Psalm 95

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 95 (in no particular order). Feel free to mention any that you find helpful in the comments section.

Ray Stedman., “How to Worship,” Psalm 95: https://www.raystedman.org/old-testament/psalms/how-to-worship

Analysis by C. J. Labuschagne: https://www.labuschagne.nl/ps095.pdf

William Barrick’s notes: https://drbarrick.org/files/studynotes/Psalms/Ps_095.pdf

John Piper, Through Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Power of the Holy Spirit: https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/through-our-lord-jesus-christ-in-the-power-of-the-holy-spirit

Ligon Duncan sermon: https://www.fpcjackson.org/resource-library/sermons/come-let-us-worship

Psalm 95 devotional: https://www.generations.org/devotionals/108

Putting Music to all 150 Psalms

This story tells how Poor Bishop Hooper's pandemic project resulted in setting all the Psalter to music.

Free Gordon Fee Audio

Regent University is offering the following select messages by Gordon Fee for free.

The Uniting of Heart and Mind

The Paradox of Jesus

Exegesis and Spirituality: Completing the Circle and Living It Out

Vocation, Work, and Ministry: A Pauline Perspective

Society for Pentecostal Studies Honouring Gordon Fee (2014)

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.

Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle, The Human Spirit: Beginnings from Genesis to Science (Pennsylvania State University Press)
Tyler Horton

Bart D. Ehrman, Craig A. Evans, and Robert B. Stewart, Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? (Westminster John Knox)
Jonathan L. Reed

Nickolas A. Fox, The Hermeneutics of Social Identity in Luke-Acts (Pickwick)
Jason F. Moraff

Sung Min Hong, Those Who Weep Shall Laugh: Reversal of Weeping in the Gospel of Luke (Pickwick)
Daniel P. Mueller

Lynn Kaye, Time in the Babylonian Talmud: Natural and Imagined Times in Jewish Law and Narrative (Cambridge University Press)
Joshua Schwartz

Peter H. W. Lau, Esther: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary (Langham Global Library)
Ron Lindo Jr.

Dennis R. MacDonald, From the Earliest Gospel to the Gospel of Mark: Solving the Synoptic Problem with Mimesis Criticism (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
David B. Sloan

Wolf B. Oerter and Zuzana Vitkova, eds., Coptica, Gnostica und Mandaica: Sprache, Literatur und Kunst als Medien interreligiöser Begegnung(en) (De Gruyter)
Sarah Parkhouse

Psalm 94

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 94 (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/ps094.pdf

William Barrick’s notes: https://drbarrick.org/files/studynotes/Psalms/Ps_094.pdf 

Psalm 94 devotional: https://www.generations.org/devotionals/107

Walton on Matthew 8–9

Steve Walton has made his slides on Matthew 8–9 from a recent talk he gave available here.

A Biblical Spectrum of Divine Guidance

Ken Berding has a really helpful survey here of how God speaks to people in the Bible and the relative clarity related to that revelation.

Free Logos Books for November

Logos is offering three freebies this month: Luke in the Preacher's Commentary series, John Courson's Application Commentary: New Testament, and Christ and Spirituality in St. Thomas Aquinas. You can also purchase other resources at significant discounts and enter to win the 23-volume Zondervan 2021 collection. These offers can be accessed here and here.

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.

Daniel L. Akin and Thomas W. Hudgins, eds., Getting into the Text: New Testament Essays in Honor of David Alan Black (Wipf & Stock)
Michel Pauw

Beth Allison Barr, The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth (Brazos)
Marion Ann Taylor

Daniel Daley, God’s Will and Testament: Inheritance in the Gospel of Matthew and Jewish Tradition (Baylor University Press)
Amy-Jill Levine

Jerry A. Gladson, Endgame: A New Commentary on the Book of Daniel (Wipf & Stock)
Tim Meadowcroft

Johan D. Hofstra, ed., Isho‘dad of Merw: Commentary on the Gospel of John (Peeters)
Jacob A. Lollar

Eric C. Moore, Claiming Places: Reading Acts through the Lens of Ancient Colonization (Mohr Siebeck)
Drew Strait

Walter T. Wilson, Ancient Wisdom: An Introduction to Sayings Collections (Eerdmans)
Mark Sneed

Carolin Ziethe, Auf seinen Nahmen werden die Volker hoffen: Die mattäische Rezeption der Schriften Israels zür Begründung des universalen Heils (De Gruyter)
Edwin K. Broadhead

Journal for the Study of the New Testament 45:2

The latest articles from of the Journal for the Study of the New Testament are available now. Here is a list of the articles and links to abstracts.

Thomas the (Un)Faithful: Πιστός in John 20.27
Christopher Seglenieks

Malleable Masculinity: Rethinking Paul’s Masculinity in Light of Valerius Maximus
Susan E. Hylen

Illustrating a Pauline Imperative (Phlm. 17): Προσλαμβάνω in P.Mur. 2.115
Zachary J. Cole

The Performance of Parrhesia in Philo and Acts
Arco den Heijer

Abraham’s Paternity and God’s Promise: Another Look at the Context and Syntax of Romans 4.1
Jeffrey W. Aernie

Isaiah and the Age of Empires

Critical treatments of Isaiah often leave me a bit frustrated but this one seemed to be fairly balanced.

Zacchaeus in Luke 19

Ian Paul has a very good discussion here of Zacchaeus in Luke 19.

Gordon Fee (1934–2022)

It is being reported on a number of online platforms (here for one) that Gordon Fee is now with the Lord. I did not know him personally but have been impacted by his scholarship in the New Testament. His work was thoughtful, thorough, and helpful.

Jim Denison on Preaching

This essay meanders a bit but makes several cogent observations concerning preaching.

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.

Pamela Barmash and Mark W. Hamilton, eds., In the Shadow of Empire: Israel and Judah in the Long Sixth Century BCE (SBL Press)
Michael B. Hundley

Aaron Butts, Kristen Heal, and Sebastian P. Brock, Clavis to the Metrical Homilies of Narsai (Peeters)
Adam H. Becker

G. Anthony Keddie, Michael Flexenhar, and Steven J. Friesen, eds., The Struggle over Class: Socioeconomic Analysis of Ancient Christian Texts (SBL Press)
David B. Hollander

Jerome H. Neyrey, An Encomium for Jesus: Luke, Rhetoric, and the Story of Jesus (Sheffield Phoenix)
Toan Do

Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, Tora und Weisheit: Studien zur frühjüdischen Literatur (Mohr Siebeck)
Jozef Tiňo

Andrei A. Orlov, Yetzer Anthropologies in the Apocalypse of Abraham (Mohr Siebeck)
William Horst

Charlie Trimm, The Destruction of the Canaanites: God, Genocide, and Biblical Interpretation (Eerdmans)
Gili Kugler

Walter T. Wilson, Ancient Wisdom: An Introduction to Sayings Collections (Eerdmans)
Dennis R. Magary