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Keep ‘em coming back with the December Biblical Studies Carnival
Charles Spurgeon is reported to have said, “If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.” And so we who blog in the fields of academic biblical studies and theology keep giving carnivals. So let Words on … Continue reading
Christian Apologetics winner
We have a winner in the giveaway contest at Words on the Word for Zondervan’s primary source compendium, Christian Apologetics: An Anthology of Primary Sources, edited by Khaldoun A. Sweis and Chad V. Meister. I have weathered the storm, several flickers of the power on and off, and have selected the winner at random. (Actually, … Continue reading
Christian Apologetics: free book giveaway
One good giveaway deserves another. The other day I noted that Zondervan has just put out a primary source compendium called Christian Apologetics: An Anthology of Primary Sources, edited by Khaldoun A. Sweis and Chad V. Meister. I have an extra copy to give away (not my review copy). It’s a good resource to have on the … Continue reading
Christian Apologetics: a review
I still remember, as a 16-year-old, sitting down at my parents’ computer, hearing the dial tone, and logging on to AOL. I would do this often, not just to check the new technological miracle known as e-mail, but also to go into chat rooms (remember those?) and seek to share my faith with others online. I … Continue reading
Praising God through Academic Biblical Studies: Less Hypermodernist Objectivism, More Affect!
Why such an emphasis on wanting to get as close to the “original text” of the Bible as possible? Or, as some scholars call it, the “earliest attainable text”? Earlier this week I wrote a bit about scholarly editions of the Jewish Scriptures, both the Greek and the Hebrew. But I began asking myself today, … Continue reading
Clergy Fitness Initiative (via Ev’ry Day I’m Pastoring tumblr)
Oh, dear, my fellow ministers. May this not be so. (If you’re not already seeing the above in motion, click on the image to go to Ev’ry Day I’m Pastoring, its source.)
New issue of Journal of Biblical Literature is up
Issue 131.3 of The Journal of Biblical Literature is out. You have to be a Society of Biblical Literature member to access the full contents, but you can see what’s in the new fall 2012 issue here. From SBL, here is what’s inside the issue. Judah Comes to Shiloh: Genesis 49:10ba, One More Time Serge Frolov, … Continue reading
Guest post: Robbie Pruitt on A.W. Tozer
Magnificent Monograph Monday this week features a guest blogger, Robbie Pruitt. I have guest posted on his blog (My Two Mites) before, and today he posts here. It’s a review of Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer. Robbie is a gifted youth minister, teacher, poet, reader, writer, and friend. Nothing is more important than a right … Continue reading
frameworks (How to Navigate the New Testament): a review
Why the book frameworks? Author Eric Larson says, frameworks, quite simply, is a book about Bible navigation and context, material that’s designed to build your confidence in your ability to negotiate the text and understand it. Think of it as a guidebook, a Bible companion, written for anyone who would like to have a personal biblical … Continue reading
A wife for Jesus?
Did Jesus have a wife? Does it matter? In the last two days I’ve seen about 50 Facebook status updates from friends and groups I follow, each with their own take on the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” papyrus that Harvard Professor Karen L. King recently announced. (Nerdy grammatical excursus: King has titled the papyrus with Jesus’s, … Continue reading
