Preaching the Psalms

Phillip Howell makes some good points here about preaching the Psalms here.

Archaeological Discoveries Related to Esther

Bryan Windle has a nice post here on the top ten discoveries related to the Book of Esther.

HT: Todd Bolen

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.

Ra‘anan Boustan, David Frankfurter, and Annette Yoshiko Reed, eds., Above, Below, Before, and After: Studies in Judaism and Christianity in Conversation with Martha Himmelfarb (Mohr Siebeck)
Joshua Schwartz

C. Hassell Bullock, Theology from the Psalms: The Story of God’s Steadfast Love (Baker Academic)
Marika Pulkkinen

Caralie Cooke, Discovering the Religious Dimension of Trauma: Trauma Literature and the Joseph Story (Brill)
David N. DeJong

Philip Erwin, Paul and Image: Reading First Corinthians in Visual Terms (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
Yi-Sang Patrick, Chan

René Jacob, L’Évangile de Marc: L’Évangile de la Foi (L’Harmattan)
Luca Marulli

Margaret H. Williams, Early Classical Authors on Jesus (T&T Clark)
Alden Bass

Benjamin Wold, Qumran Wisdom and the New Testament: Exploring Early Jewish and Christian Textual Cultures (Cambridge University Press)
Michael R. Jost

Another Free Logos Resource

Logos is offering John MacArthur's commentary on Philemon for free here. The offer is available until March 31.

Sermon Previews

Preaching your sermon before preaching your sermon might not work for everyone but Sean DeMars offers some thoughts here on how it might work.

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.

Régis Burnet, Exegesis and History of Reception: Reading the New Testament Today with the Readers of the Past (Mohr Siebeck)
Cristian Cardozo Mindiola

Eric H. Cline, Digging Deeper: How Archaeology Works (Princeton University Press)
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott

Johann Cook and Gideon R. Kotzé, eds., The Septuagint South of Alexandria: Essays on the Greek Translations and Other Ancient Versions by the Association for the Study of the Septuagint in South Africa (LXXSA) (Brill)
Anwar Tjen

E. Earle Ellis; Terry L. Wilder, ed., 1 Corinthians: A Commentary (T&T Clark)
Timothy Keiderling

David F. Ford, The Gospel of John: A Theological Commentary (Baker Academic)
John Behr

Tal Ilan, Tractates Pe’ah, Demai and Kil’ayim: Text, Translation, and Commentary (Mohr Siebeck)
Natalie C. Polzer

Elizabeth A. Myers, Authorship of 1 Peter and Hebrews: New Evidence in Light of Probable Intertextual Borrowing (Pistos Ktistes)
John-Christian Eurell

Robert W. Wall, Studies in Canonical Criticism: Reading the New Testament as Scripture (T&T Clark)
Peter-Ben Smit

Free eBook: To Follow the Lamb

Wipf and Stock is offering a free eBook copy of To Follow the Lamb: A Peaceable Reading of the Book of Revelation by Ted Grimsrud. The offer is valid until March 14. 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 "GRIMSRUD25"
4. Upon checkout completion, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions of how to download your free eBook.

The "Mixed Multitude" in Exodus 12:38

Very interesting discussion here on the identity of the "mixed multitude" in Exodus 12:38.

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.

Dionsio Candido, Renate Egger-Wenzel, and Stefan C. Reif, eds., What Makes a People? Early Jewish Ideas of Peoplehood and Their Evolving Impact (De Gruyter)
Grace Wing-Yi Au

Meghan Henning and Nils Neumann, eds., Vivid Rhetoric and Visual Persuasion: Ekphrasis in Early Christian Literature (Eerdmans)
Jason Robert Combs

John C. Poirier, The Invention of the Inspired Text: Philological Windows on the Theopneustia of Scripture (T&T Clark)
Jeffrey M. Tripp

Stanley E. Porter, The Pastoral Epistles: A Commentary on the Greek Text (Baker Academic)
Isaiah Allen

Olivia L. Rahmsdorf, Zeit und Ethik im Johannesevangelium: Theoretische, methodische und exegetische Annäherungen an die Gunst der Stunde (Mohr Siebeck)
Gregory Thomas Bask

Nicolai Techow, Sinners, Works of Law, and Transgression in Gal 2:14b–21: A Study in Paul’s Line of Thought (Mohr Siebeck)
William Sanger Campbell

Philip S. Thomas, In a Vision of the Night: Job, Cormac McCarthy, and the Challenge of Chaos (Baylor University Press)
Anthony C. Swindell

Robyn J. Whitaker, Even the Devil Quotes Scripture: Reading the Bible on Its Own Terms (Eerdmans)
Greg Carey