Peter’s Confession in Matthew 16

Ian Paul has a good discussion of Peter’s confession in Matthew 16:13-20 here. I think a little more explanation regarding the possible significance of the geographical location (the region of Caesarea Philippi) would have made the post a little stronger.

On Writing Commentaries

Ronald Hendel talks about it 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.

Bryan Blazosky, The Law’s Universal Condemning and Enslaving Power: Reading Paul, the Old Testament, and Second Temple Jewish Literature (Eisenbrauns)
William Horst

Robert L. Foster, The Theology of the Books of Haggai and Zechariah (Cambridge University Press)
Michael H. Floyd

Richard A. Horsley, The Pharisees and the Temple-State of Judea (Cascade)
Daniel R. Schwartz

Francis J. Moloney, The Apocalypse of John: A Commentary (Baker Academic)
Andrew R. Guffey

Elizabeth A. Myers, Intertextual Borrowing between 1 Peter and Hebrews: Probability of Literary Dependence and the Most Likely Direction of Borrowing (Pistos Ktistes)
Justin Langford

John Riches, The Bible: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press)
Jocelyn McWhirter

Beth M. Stovell and David J. Fuller, The Book of the Twelve (Cascade)
Steven Tuell

Martin Wallraff, Die Kanontafeln des Euseb von Kaisareia: Untersuchung und kritische Edition (De Gruyter)
Matthew R. Crawford

Greek Word Order

Mike Aubrey has a good explanation of the significance of Greek word order here.

Psalm 116 Video

 Here is a video that was created by my church's communication department.

Psalm 116 from Sagemont Church on Vimeo.

Hapax Legomena in the Hebrew Bible

 Gary Rendsburg talks about ten examples here.

Leviticus Meme

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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.

Eric J. Beck, Justice and Mercy in the Apocalypse of Peter: A New Translation and Analysis of the Purpose of the Text (Mohr Siebeck)
David J. Downs

Walter Dietrich, Historiographie und Erzählkunst in den Samuelbüchern: Studien zu den Geschichtsüberlieferungen des Alten Testaments III (Kohlhammer)
Mark W. Hamilton

Paul M. C. Elliott, Creation and Literary Re-creation: Ambrose’s Use of Philo in the Hexaemeral Letters (Gorgias)
Alexander H. Pierce

David Emanuel, An Intertextual Commentary to the Psalter: Juxtaposition and Allusion in Book I (Pickwick)
W. Dennis Tucker Jr.

Anna Sui Hluan, “Silence” in Translation: 1 Corinthians 14:34–35 in Myanmar and the Development of a Critical Contextual Hermeneutic (Langham Monographs)
Arminta Fox

Lindsey A. Mazurek, Isis in a Global Empire: Greek Identity through Egyptian Religion in Roman Greece (Cambridge University Press)
Daniel Charles Smith

Philip Rousseau and Janet A. Timbie, eds., The Christian Moses: From Philo to the Qur’ān (Catholic University of America Press)
Richard A. Zaleski

Samuel J. Tedder, Children of Laughter and the Re-creation of Humanity: The Theological Vision and Logic of Paul’s Letter to the Galatians (Cascade)
Andrew King

Acts 27–28 Visual

Here is a visual that I created for a class on Acts.

Continuing Excavations on the Church of the Holy Sepulcher

The Times of Israel has a nice update on the continuing excavations on the Church of the Holy Sepulcher here.

Walton on the Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds

Steve Walton shares his video and slides on the Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds (Matt 13:24-30, 36-43) 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.

Bogdan Gabriel Bucur, Scripture Re-envisioned: Christophanic Exegesis and the Making of a Christian Bible (Brill)
John Anthony Dunne

Douglas A. Campbell, Pauline Dogmatics: The Triumph of God’s Love (Eerdmans)
Alexandra Brown

Samuel D. Ferguson, The Spirit and Relational Anthropology in Paul (Mohr Siebeck)
H. H. Drake Williams III

Brian Gronewoller, Rhetorical Economy in Augustine’s Theology (Oxford University Press)
Michael Glowasky

Matthew J. Lynch, First Isaiah and the Disappearance of the Gods (Eisenbrauns)
Benjamin D. Sommer

Kristin Swenson, A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible (Oxford University Press)
Paul Korchin

Federico G. Villanueva, Psalms 73–150: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary (Langham Global Library)
Simon P. Stocks

Annalisa Phillips Wilson, Paul and the Jewish Law: A Stoic Ethical Perspective on His Inconsistency (Brill)
Troels Engberg-Pedersen

Free eBook: A Short Book about Paul

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