I’d give away half a bookshelf worth of books to see Mark Wahlberg or Matt Damon star in a film adaptation of 1 Maccabees. Judas Maccabeus (“Hammer” will be his nom de film) and his Hasmonean family drive out imperial powers and call the Jewish people back to faithful observance of the Torah. They do … Continue reading Septuagint Sunday: I Heart Maccabees
Accordance Bible has put its Göttingen Septuagint on sale, at its lowest price ever. There are 19 volumes, which span 34 Septuagint books. As Brian Davidson notes, Logos has five LXX volumes not in Accordance (Judith; Tobit; 3 Maccabees; Wisdom of Solomon; and Susanna, Daniel, and Bel et Draco), while only Accordance has the 2014 … Continue reading Göttingen Septuagint in Accordance (Lowest Sale Price)
I’ve made no secret of my love of Jewish Publication Society’s works. The JPS Torah Commentaries have greatly enhanced my reading of the first five books of the Bible. I have particularly appreciated the seamless blend of critical scholarship and devotional posture that series offers. In 2013 JPS published a massive, three-volume set, Outside the … Continue reading Outside the Bible (JPS): 3,000+ Pages in Accordance
Last week we received a kindness in the mail from a new friend in Israel–F.F. Bruce’s Bible History Atlas. My 7-year-old son, who had been looking forward to receiving it, came home from school and smiled widely when I had him open it. He ran outside to share the good news with his younger siblings, … Continue reading F.F. Bruce’s Atlas for Young Readers
Is The Sacred Bridge the best Bible atlas ever? To be fair, people consult atlases for different purposes. But for the one–academic or otherwise–who wants to dig deeply into the historical geography of the biblical world, what’s the best resource available? I believe the reviewer should evaluate a work according to its merits in relation … Continue reading The Best Bible Atlas Ever? Yes. A Review of The Sacred Bridge
On the top of my bookshelf at home sits an old, falling-apart, heavily marked-up edition of The New Oxford Annotated Bible. So it has been with anticipation and appreciation that I’ve been able to use the The New Oxford Annotated Bible in its most current, 4th edition. What the Annotated Bible Is The Bible text in The New Oxford Annotated … Continue reading Gentlemen (and Gentlewomen), THIS Is a Study Bible
Welcome to today’s stop of the book blog tour of Craig A. Evans’s From Jesus to the Church: The First Christian Generation. I’m covering chapter 4, “Phinehan Zeal and Works of the Law: What Paul and James Are Really Saying.” Brian at Near Emmaus introduces the book here, and quotes from the introduction, which is worth repeating: … Continue reading Of Paul, James, Mattathias, and Phinehas: Works and Reckoned Righteousness
Carl G. Rasmussen has recently released a Revised Edition of Zondervan Atlas of the Bible. Below I offer a description of its contents with some evaluative remarks. What’s in the Atlas After the Preface and Introduction the atlas consists of a Geographical Section and a Historical Section, followed by Appendices. The Geographical Section is first, because: … Continue reading Zondervan Atlas of the Bible
Though it was a quiet month in the Septuagint blogosphere, J.K. Gayle turned up the heat with some top-notch posts. Gayle looked at the phrase “ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ” (a “Greek frozen phrase”) in “Aristotle,” “Moses,” and Paul. Gayle writes: As my son and my daughters grow into adulthood more in this world, I long for English … Continue reading Septuagint Studies Soirée #3
This week I’ve been reviewing the “LSJ” Greek-English Lexicon for Logos Bible Software. How does LSJ compare to other Greek lexicons, especially the oft-used BDAG?
Words on the Word 