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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.

Daniel I. Block, Ruth: A Discourse Analysis of the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Alice L. Laffey

Melody R. Briggs, How Children Read Biblical Narrative: An Investigation of Children’s Readings of the Gospel of Luke
Reviewed by Boris Paschke

K. Jason Coker, James in Postcolonial Perspective: The Letter as Nativist Discourse 
Reviewed by Darian R. Lockett

Arthur J. Dewey, Inventing the Passion: How the Death of Jesus Was Remembered
Reviewed by Jay Harrington

Lowell Gallagher, Sodomscapes: Hospitality in the Flesh
Reviewed by Rhiannon Graybill

Lanuwabang Jamir, Exclusion and Judgment in Fellowship Meals: The Socio-historical Background of 1 Corinthians 11:17–34
Reviewed by I. W. Tilma and Bart J. Koet

Karen H. Jobes, ed., Discovering the Septuagint: A Guided Reader 
Reviewed by Melvin K. H. Peters

Jonathan Kaplan, My Perfect One: Typology and Early Rabbinic Interpretation of Song of Songs
Reviewed by Jeffrey L. Morrow

Nadav Sharon, Judea under Roman Domination: The First Generation of Statelessness and Its Legacy
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Sunny Kuan-Hui Wang, Sense Perception and Testimony in the Gospel according to John
Reviewed by Deolito V. Vistar Jr.

Interpreting Parables

Andreas Köstenberger has a brief discussion on interpreting parables here.

Advice for New Seminary Students

The fall semester is upon us so Charles Patrick offers some advice here to those just starting their seminary journey.

Bible Software and Interpretation Blog

Glenn Weaver has started a blog devoted to Bible software and how such software affects interpretation. I first met Glenn in seminary and then would see him off-and-on at conferences as he represented Bibleworks. I am looking forward to seeing how this blog develops. I encourage you to check out Glenn's new resource.

HT: Mark Hoffman

The Old Testament and Poverty

David Murray helpfully summarizes R. C. Sproul on four Old Testament perspective on poverty 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.

Julie Ann Duncan, Ecclesiastes
Reviewed by Jennifer L. Koosed

Michael Harrison Kibbe, Godly Fear or Ungodly Failure? Hebrews 12 and the Sinai Theophanies
Reviewed by Brian C. Small

Jonathan G. Kline, Allusive Soundplay in the Hebrew Bible
Reviewed by Paul Korchin

Robert J. Miller, Helping Jesus Fulfill Prophecy
Reviewed by J. Andrew Doole

Nadav Sharon, Judea under Roman Domination: The First Generation of Statelessness and Its Legacy
Reviewed by G. Anthony Keddie

Slawomir Szkredka, Sinners and Sinfulness in Luke: A Study of Direct and Indirect References in the Initial Episodes of Jesus’ Activity
Reviewed by F. Scott Spencer

Fatima Tofighi, Paul’s Letters and the Construction of the European Self
Reviewed by Jay Twomey

Ian Douglas Wilson and Diana Edelman, eds., History, Memory, Hebrew Scriptures: A Festschrift for Ehud Ben Zvi
Reviewed by Jeffrey P. Hudon

Tyler R. Yoder, Fishers of Fish and Fishers of Men: Fishing Imagery in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
Reviewed by Glenn Pemberton

Shamir Yona, Edward Greenstein, Mayer Gruber, Peter Machinist, and Shalom Paul, eds., Marbeh Hokmah: Studies in the Bible and the Ancient Near East in Loving Memory of Victor Avigdor Hurowitz
Reviewed by Yoram Cohen

The Cost of a Good Sermon

David Mathis here asks and answers the question, "What does a good sermon cost?" 

Free Greek Reader

Nijay Gupta is making a Greek reader he has coauthored available as a free download here.

Free Video of Historical Jesus Course

Credo Courses is offering free video downloads of Darrell Bock's "The Historical Jesus" course. You can access this limited time offer here.

Evangelicals and the Study of the Bible

"As evangelicals we do not pretend to study the Bible without presuppositions, We consciously, intentionally, and apologetically seek to be informed and motivated by explicitly biblical thinking as we study the Bible, Belief in God is foundational for all of life and should guide the way we understand the quest for truth. The Bible tells us that God exists and what he is like, how he has revealed himself, and how we are to relate to him as creatures made in his image. This understanding then determines the method, attitude, and purposes of biblical and theological studies. The God we find in the Bible determines how we approach the Bible. The way we study the Bible is based on certain functional attributes about God."

Michael J. Wilkins and Erik Thoennes, Biblical and Theological Studies: A Student’s Guide, Reclaiming the Christian Intellectual Tradition (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2018), 26

Dead Mentors

Some would consider having a dead mentor to be an oxymoron but Michael O'Neal makes a case for it here.

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