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

Wipf and Stock is offering a free eBook copy of A Short Book about Paul: The Servant of Jesus by Paul Barnett. Keep in mind that offer is only good until 8/13. Here are the instructions to get your copy.

1. Click on this link.
2. Click "ADD TO CART" on the eBook option.
3. Use the code "BARNETT23"
4. Upon checkout completion, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions of how to download your free eBook.

 

Iron in Ancient Israel

Naama Yahalom has a very interesting and informative article here on iron in ancient Israel.

The Feeding of the Five Thousand in Matthew

Ian Paul has a nice summary here.

Free Jerusalem eChart

Rose Publishing has taken an excerpt from their book, Jerusalem Rising, and made it part of this free echart.

Free Logos Resources for August

Logos is offering these two freebies this month: Letters of John (NIVAC) by Gary Burge and Gregory of Nazianzus: Three Poems. You can get these free resources and also purchase others at significant discounts here and here.

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Genesis humor!

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.

Theodor Dunkelgrün and Pawel Maciejko, eds., Bastards and Believers: Jewish Converts and Conversion from the Bible to the Present (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Carmen Palmer

Eberhard W. Guting, Textual Criticism and the New Testament Text: Text Theory, Practice, and Editorial Technique (SBL Press)
Curt Niccum

Rob James, The Spiral Gospel: Intratextuality in Luke’s Narrative (Clarke)
Alexander P. Thompson

Enrique Jiménez and Catherine Mittermayer, eds., Disputation Literature in the Near East and Beyond (De Gruyter)
Alex Novikoff

Emanuel Pfoh and Lukasz Niesiolowski-Spanò, eds., Biblical Narratives, Archaeology and Historicity: Essays In Honour of Thomas L. Thompson (T&T Clark)
Victor H. Matthews

Robyn Faith Walsh, The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture (Cambridge University Press)
Vernon K. Robbins

Francis Watson, What Is a Gospel? (Eerdmans)
Ian Mills

Carla Swafford Works, The Least of These: Paul and the Marginalized (Eerdmans)
Rollin A. Ramsaran

Jeremiah 9:11 and Tisha B'Av

Tisha B'Av or the Ninth of Av is a Jewish day of fasting in remembrance of a number of calamities in Jewish history, most notably the destructions of the First and Second Temples.The Ninth was observed yesterday. Baraka Blumental captured this remarkable photo (it is claimed not to be photoshopped) of the Western Wall. It is a poignant illustration of Jeremiah (and similar texts) 9:11: "I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant."

HT: Wai-Lam Chan

Ten Commandments or Ten Statements?

Zvi Brettler and Jed Wyrick have a good overview here concerning the best designation of what most people know as the Ten Commandments or the Decalogue.

Let the Youth Pastor Preach

Brandon Cooper has a good reminder here of investing in the next generation of preachers. I have often stated (perhaps with some hyperbole) that one cannot be a good preacher without first being a bad one. The resistance to allowing the less-experienced and less-polished preacher to preach is often born out of fear and a failure to appreciate the sovereign power of God. 

The Original Pronunciation of the Hebrew Bible

Geoffrey Khan has a very interesting and helpful discussion 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.

Richard S. Ascough, Early Christ Groups and Greco-Roman Associations: Organizational Models and Social Practices (Cascade)
Jin Hwan Lee

John Coleman Darnell and Colleen Manassa Darnell, The Ancient Egyptian Netherworld Books (SBL Press)
James P. Allen

David Emanuel, An Intertextual Commentary to the Psalter: Juxtaposition and Allusion in Book I (Pickwick)
Rebecca W. Poe Hays

Claire Hall, Origen and Prophecy: Fate, Authority, Allegory, and the Structure of Scripture (Oxford University Press)
Ilya Kaplan

Emanuel Pfoh, ed., Patronage in Ancient Palestine and in the Hebrew Bible: A Reader (Sheffield Phoenix)
Michael S. Moore

Charles B. Puskas, Hardness of Heart in Biblical Literature: Failure and Refusal (Cascade)
John Goldingay