Psalm 126

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

Matthew Stith: https://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?commentary_id=3821

Analysis by C. J. Labuschagne: https://www.labuschagne.nl/ps126.pdf

William Barrick’s notes: https://drbarrick.org/files/studynotes/Psalms/Ps_126.pdf

Praying with Passion (Psalm 126): https://davidschrock.com/2017/01/02/praying-with-passion-psalm-126

Psalm 126 devotional: https://www.generations.org/devotionals/211

Bernard Howard Sermon: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/podcasts/word-of-the-week/when-dry-riverbeds-flow-again-psalm-126

Why Matthew and Luke Offer Different Birth Narratives

Ian Paul offers his take here.

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Psalm 125

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 125 (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/ps125.pdf

William Barrick’s notes: https://drbarrick.org/files/studynotes/Psalms/Ps_125.pdf

Psalm 125 devotional: https://www.generations.org/devotionals/210

Ray Fowler sermon: https://www.rayfowler.org/sermons/psalms-of-ascent/psalm-125-safe-and-secure

Sermon commentary by Leonard Vander Zee: https://cepreaching.org/commentary/2018-09-03/psalm-125

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.

Karl Leslie Armstrong, Dating Acts in Its Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts (T&T Clark)
Mark Jeong

Barry J. Beitzel, ed., Lexham Geographic Commentary on Acts through Revelation (Lexham)
Clifford T. Winters

Kamil Cyprian Choda, Maurits Sterk de Leeuw, and Fabian Schulz, eds., Gaining and Losing Imperial Favour in Late Antiquity: Representation and Reality (Brill)
Angela Hug

Amy Cottrill, Uncovering Violence: Reading Biblical Narratives as an Ethical Project (Westminster John Knox)
Samantha J. Scott

David A. deSilva, Introducing the Apocrypha: Message, Content, and Significance (Baker Academic)
Lorenzo DiTommaso

Michael Glowasky, Rhetoric and Scripture in Augustine’s Homiletic Strategy: Tracing the Narrative of Christian Maturation (Brill)
Jesse B. Ophoff

George H. Guthrie, Jon Laansma, and Cynthia Long Westfall, eds., So Great a Salvation: A Dialogue on the Atonement in Hebrews (T&T Clark)
Félix H. Cortez

David Janzen, The End of History and the Last King: Achaemenid Ideology and Community Identity in Ezra-Nehemiah (T&T Clark)
Donna J. Laird

Jack Levison, An Unconventional God: The Spirit according to Jesus (Baker Academic)
Kenneth D. Litwak

Sophie Ramond and Reinhard Achenbach, eds., Aux commencements—Création et temporalité dans la Bible et dans son contexte culturel: Collected Essays on Creation and Temporality in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Texts (Harrassowitz)
Mark A. Awabdy

A. Sue Russell, In the World but Not of the World: The Liminal Life of Pre-Constantine Christian Communities (Pickwick)
Nathan Betz

Bernd U. Schipper, The Hermeneutics of Torah (SBL Press)
James E. Harding

Omer Sergi, The Two Houses of Israel: State Formation and the Origins of Pan-Israelite Identity (SBL Press)
Zachary Thomas

The Gospel Coalition 2023 Book Awards

You can check it out here.

Ritmeyer on the Gaza Strip

Leen Ritmeyer has a nicely illustrated post here on the archaeology of the area of the Gaza Strip.

The Rainbow in Genesis and ANE

Ronald Hendel has an interesting article here on the rainbow in Genesis 9 and the ancient Near East.

Christianity Today’s 2024 Book Awards

You can access the annotated listing here.

Christmas through the Eyes of Women

We are looking at Christmas through the eyes of women utilizing the birth story in Luke for this year's Christmas series. We will examine Mary, Elizabeth, and Anna. I found it  interesting to compare and contrast these three and have summarized the results in the following table.

Overview of the Bible Slides

Steve Walton has made his slides for an overview of the Bible presentation available here. Walton is building off the work of Bartholomew and Goheen.

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.

Timothy R. Ashley, The Book of Numbers (Eerdmans)
Christian Frevel

Carol Bakhos and Gerhard Langer, eds., The Jewish Middle Ages (SBL Press)
Dana Fishkin

Ian Boxall and Bradley C. Gregory, eds., The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation (Cambridge University Press)
Stacy Davis

Jan A. Bremmer, Becoming a Man in Ancient Greece and Rome: Essays on Myths and Rituals of Initiation (Mohr Siebeck)
Jeffrey M. Tripp

Tony Burke, ed., New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, Volume 3 (Eerdmans)
Gerbern S. Oegema

Michael B. Cover, John Thiede, and Joshua Ezra Burns, eds., Bridging Scripture and Moral Theology: Essays in Dialogue with Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan S.J. (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
Jeffrey L. Morrow

Vicente Dobroruka, Persian Influence on Daniel and Jewish Apocalyptic Literature (T&T Clark)
Jason M. Silverman

Samuel M. Ngewa, The Epistles of John: Their Message and Relevance for Today (Cascade)
Toan Do

Andrei Orlov, The Glory of the Invisible God: Two Powers in Heaven Traditions and Early Christology (T&T Clark)
Michael F. Bird

David Toshio Tsumura, Vertical Grammar of Parallelism In Biblical Hebrew (SBL Press)
Barbara Kaiser

Lily C. Vuong, The Protevangelium of James (Cascade)
Thomas W. Hudgins

William M. Wright IV and Francis Martin, Encountering the Living God in Scripture: Theological and Philosophical Principles for Interpretation (Baker Academic)
Mike O’Neal