Psalm 101

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 101 (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/ps101.pdf

William Barrick’s notes: https://drbarrick.org/files/studynotes/Psalms/Ps_101.pdf

James Hamilton Sermon, “The King’s Values” : https://kenwoodbaptistchurch.com/sermons/the-kings-values

Psalm 101 devotional: https://www.generations.org/devotionals/114

Daniel Akin sermon resources: https://www.danielakin.com/12-marks-of-a-wise-and-trustworthy-leader-psalm-101

John and Matthew

This is an interesting post on whether John is aware of or uses Matthew.

Psalm 100

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 100 (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/ps100.pdf

“Global Gladness” sermon by S. Lewis Johnson: http://sljinstitute.net/miscellaneous-topics/global-gladness

William Barrick’s notes: https://drbarrick.org/files/studynotes/Psalms/Ps_100.pdf

John Piper, Education for Exaltation: https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/education-for-exultation

Psalm 100 devotional: https://www.generations.org/devotionals/113

Daniel Akin sermon resources: https://www.danielakin.com/the-lord-is-god-and-he-is-good-through-the-psalms-series

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.

Jeannine K. Brown and Kyle Roberts, Matthew (Eerdmans)
Akiva Cohen

Reed Carlson, Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bible: Possession and Other Spirit Phenomena (De Gruyter)
Mareike Verena Blischke

Jože Krašovec, God’s Righteousness and Justice in the Old Testament (Eerdmans)
David G. Firth

Steven L. McKenzie, 1 Kings 16–2 Kings 16 (Kohlhammer)
Cameron B. R. Howard

Jocelyn McWhirter and Sylvie T. Raquel, eds., Teaching the Bible with Undergraduates (SBL Press)
Sandie Gravett

D. Francois Tolmie, Pointing Out Persuasion in Philemon: Fifty Readings of Paul’s Rhetoric From the Fourth to the Eighteenth Century (Mohr Siebeck)
Harry O. Maier

Charlie Trimm, The Destruction of the Canaanites: God, Genocide, and Biblical Interpretation (Eerdmans)
Rory J. Balfour

Barbara Villani, ed., Kyrill von Alexandrien, De adoratione et cultu in spiritu et veritate, Buch 1: Einführung, kritischer Text, Übersetzung und Anmerkungen (De Gruyter)
Konrad F. Zawadzki

Free Webinar: Contextualizing Your Preaching

David Allen is offering a free webinar on Thursday, January 19, on how to contextualize preaching. You can sign up here.

Praying the Psalms

Claude Mariottini has a nice post on the topic here.

Free eBook: Of Martyrs, Monks, and Mystics

Wipf and Stock is offering a free eBook copy of Of Martyrs, Monks, and Mystics: A Yearly Meditational Reader of Ancient Spiritual Wisdom by Charles Ringma and Irene Alexander. I did not see an expiration date so you might want to act sooner rather than later. Here are the instructions to get your copy.

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The OT Background to Jesus' Baptism

Ian Paul has an interested discussion here on the OT background to Jesus' baptism focusing particularly on Matthew's account. 

I would make just one minor comment concerning Paul's statement that, "Contrary to all artistic depiction (including the mosaic above from Ravenna), what happens next occurs after Jesus has ‘gone up out of the water’, in other words, once he has left the river and is on the bank once more." While the text does state, "Jesus came up immediately from the water" (NASB), this does not have to mean that he would have have to have go to shore. For example, one could say that "a whale came up out of the water." Furthermore, the idea of "immediately" (εὐθὺς) seems more naturally to refer to coming up out from under the water than hastening back to shore. So, I am not sure certainty is warranted in either case.

Bible Reading

One of my regular practices is to read through the Bible every year. There are many reasons to do this and Tim Casteel give five of them 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.

Israel Finkelstein and Mario A. S. Martin, eds., Megiddo VI: The 2010–2014 Seasons (Eisenbrauns)
Avraham Faust

H. H. Hardy II, The Development of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions (SBL Press)
Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal

Brian Larsen, Archetypes and the Fourth Gospel: Literature and Theology in Conversation (T&T Clark)
Paul N. Anderson

Hanne Løland Levinson, The Death Wish in the Hebrew Bible: Rhetorical Strategies for Survival (Cambridge University Press)
David G. Firth

Kevin M. McGeough, Representations of Antiquity in Film: From Griffith to Grindhouse (Equinox)
Philippa Carter

Nicolò Rizzolo, Pesher: L’interpretazione della Parola per la fine dei giorni (Peeters)
Jeffrey L. Morrow

Love Lazarus Sechrest, Race and Rhyme: Rereading the New Testament (Eerdmans)
Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder

Wilbert P. Stelzer, A New Reconstruction of the Text of 2 Corinthians in Pelagius’s Commentary on the Pauline Epistles (Gorgias)
W. Andrew Smith

Free Logos Resources for January

Logos is offering two freebies this month: After God’s Own Heart: The Gospel According to David by Mark Boda and Herbert McCabe's The New Creation. You can also purchase other resources at significant discounts and enter to win the 13-volume Eerdmans Commentary Collection." These offers can be accessed here and here.

Year in Review

Faculty Focus has posted a nice year in review here. For those who are teachers, there are posts that are worth reading or reading.

Psalms Today Videos

Peter Mead has created short videos for each of the 150 psalms. You can see his post introducing them here.

Another Top Ten Discoveries in Biblical Archaeology List

Bryan Windle posts his list here.

The Real Color of Papyrus

Super nerdy but I found this post and the article it was based on related to papyrus production fascinating.

Top 10 Discoveries in Biblical Archaeology in 2022 and Much More

Todd Bolen has posted his top ten discoveries in biblical archaeology in 2022 and he also includes several other noteworthy lists. You should check it out 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.

Susan Ackerman, Gods, Goddesses, and the Women Who Serve Them (Eerdmans)
Laura Quick

Gilles Dorival, The Septuagint from Alexandria to Constantinople: Canon, New Testament, Church Fathers, Catenae (Oxford University Press)
Leonardo Pessoa da Silva Pinto

Raanan Eichler, The Ark and the Cherubim (Mohr Siebeck)
David A. Falk

Paul Laffan, The Fabricated Christ: Confronting What We Know about Jesus and the Gospels (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
Tobias Ålöw

Béatrice Oiry, Le temps qui compte: Construction et qualification du temps de l’histoire dans le récit des livres de Samuel (1 S 1–1 R 2) (Peeters)
Raoul Baziomo

Justin Pannkuk, King of Kings: God and the Foreign Emperor in the Hebrew Bible (Baylor University Press)
David B. Schreiner

Richard Walsh, ed., T&T Clark Companion to the Bible and Film (T&T Clark)
Melody D. Knowles

Merry Christmas!