Book-Notices on J. David Stark

Cascadia Syntax Graphs of the Greek Bible

Sat, 02 Sep 2017 04:52:49 +0000

Logos Bible Software offers syntax graphs for “the LXX Deuterocanon/Apocrypha.”

Watkin, "Derrida"

Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:00:58 +0000

Forthcoming this fall in P&R’s “Great Thinkers” series is Christopher Watkin’s volume on Jacques Derrida. According to the book’s blurb,

Christian thinkers and writers who address Jacques Derrida’s philosophy face two potential pitfalls. One is to recast Christianity in an ill-fitting Derridean mold; the other is to ascribe to Derrida objectionable positions that bear little relation to his writing.

Keener on Romans

Sun, 02 Oct 2016 11:07:20 +0000

This month, Logos Bible Software has Craig Keener’s New Covenant Commentary volume on Romans available for free. The companion deep-discount volume is Gordon Fee’s on Revelation, also from the NCC.

Fitzmyer for Free

Thu, 04 Feb 2016 12:52:13 +0000

This month, Verbum has Joseph Fitzmyer’s Impact of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Paulist, 2009) available for free. The $0.99 companion volume is Fitzmyer’s Interpretation of Scripture: In Defense of the Historical-Critical Method (Paulist, 2008).

Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 13:00:05 +0000

Noet has Maimonides’s Guide for the Perplexed free in the month of January. A taste of Maimonides’s ethical reflections is also available for $0.99.

Butler, Lives

Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:40:05 +0000

The Internet Archive has full-text PDFs of Alban Butler’s twelve-volume set, Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints (Thomas Richardson, 1842–46):

Advent 22 @ Logos

Tue, 22 Dec 2015 13:16:17 +0000

Today, Logos Bible Software has Louis Berkhof’s Introduction to the New Testament for free.

Advent 17 @Logos

Thu, 17 Dec 2015 13:35:29 +0000

Today’s Advent givaway by Logos Bible Software is Geerhardus Vos’s Idea of Biblical Theology as a Science and as a Theological Discipline.

Advent 8 @ Logos

Tue, 08 Dec 2015 13:30:16 +0000

For today’s Advent freebie, Logos Bible Software has volume 2, part 1 of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics ( The Doctrine of God).

Advent 3 @Logos

Thu, 03 Dec 2015 14:34:14 +0000

Today’s Advent giveaway at Logos Bible Software is the Cornerstone series commentary on the Pastorals and Hebrews with contributions by Linda Belleville, Jon Laansma, and Ramsey Michaels.

Advent 2 Resource @ Logos

Wed, 02 Dec 2015 14:25:17 +0000

Today’s free resource for Advent at Logos is Henry Cole’s edition of Calvin’s Calvinism (1856–1857) .

Advent @Logos

Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:10:43 +0000

For Advent, Logos Bible Software is providing an additional and daily free or discounted book and media deal. Today’s book freebie is N. T. Wright’s Scripture and the Authority of God(SPCK, 2005).

Logos's Free Book(s) of the Month for December 2015

Tue, 01 Dec 2015 01:57:15 +0000

Logos Bible Software’s free book of the month for December is now live. The selection is Stephen Fowl’s Ephesians from the New Testament Library series. Also deeply discounted to $1.99 is Luke Timothy Johnson’s Hebrews volume from the same series.

November Logos Freebies

Mon, 02 Nov 2015 09:12:50 +0000

November’s freebies at Logos Bible Software include several fine texts:

Lutz, Matthew (Hermeneia, vol. 1)—with vol. 2 coming in at $1.99.
Kuyper, Collected Works in Public Theology (excerpts)
Caesar, Gallic War (Loeb Classical Library)

Update: Verbum now shows November’s free text too: Bernard of Clairvaux’s sermons on Advent and Christmas.

Adler, ed., Great Books of the Western World

Mon, 19 Oct 2015 09:02:17 +0000

The Faithlife platform family (e.g., Logos, Noet) now has Mortimer Adler’s 60-volume Great Books of the Western World (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1990) available for preorder. It seems the information from Adler’s Syntopicon has also been embedded within this digital version of the series.

Sacra Pagina: Revelation

Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:10:09 +0000

Harrington, Revelation (Sacra Pagina)

Verbum’s free book for October is Wilfrid Harrington’s Sacra Pagina volume on Revelation:

More than any other New Testament writing, the Book of Revelation demands commentary. Its often-bewildering text is easily open to less-than-scholarly interpretation.

Wilfrid Harrington brings his scholarship to the Book of Revelation and conveys its Christian message. He puts the work in its historical and social setting—a first-century CE province of the Roman Empire—and explores its social and religious background and its literary character. Through Harrington we hear clearly the challenge of John, the prophet, to the churches of his time—and to ours—not to compromise the Gospel message.

Sacred Texts and Paradigmatic Revolutions in Paperback, Part 2

Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:49:49 +0000

A while ago, I mentioned Sacred Texts and Paradigmatic Revolutions would be coming to paperback. That format is now available at about a fourth or less of the MSRP for the hardback.

Sacred Texts and Paradigmatic Revolutions in Paperback

Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:52:46 +0000

The kind folks at Bloomsbury (the parent company of the T&T Clark imprint) have recently mentioned that a paperback release is forthcoming for my Sacred Texts and Paradigmatic Revolutions: The Hermeneutical Worlds of the Qumran Sectarian Manuscripts and the Letter to the Romans. Slated for this June, the paperback, at a $29.95 list price, will be a fiscally welcome complement to the current hardback ($120.00) and PDF ($27.99) formats. The paperback is already available for pre-order on Amazon, currently at just under the list price.

July's Luther Resources @ Logos

Tue, 01 Jul 2014 21:37:58 +0000

Hans Iwand,

This month, Logos Bible Software is giving away Hans Iwand’s The Righteousness of Faith according to Luther (trans., Randi Lundell; Wipf & Stock, 2008, originally published in 1941). According to the product page, the volume:

Duguid, "Is Jesus in the Old Testament?"

Sat, 07 Jun 2014 05:44:25 +0000

Through June 11, the Westminster Bookstore is offering a free PDF download of Iain Duguid’s Is Jesus in the Old Testament? (P&R, 2013). Duguid has been at Grove City College but has recently joined the Westminster Seminary faculty. According to its introduction, Duguid’s essay (the text is a brief 33 pages of prose) has the following major components to its argument:

Perthes, Life of John Chrysostom

Fri, 06 Jun 2014 13:42:34 +0000

This month, Logos Bible Software has Frederic Perthes’ Life of John Chrysostom (John P. Jewett, 1854) available for free. According to Logos’s description,

Based on the investigations of Neander, Böhringer, and others, Life of John Chrysostom details the “golden-mouthed” orator’s influence on Asia Minor. It offers a look into his role as preacher and bishop, his interactions with different sects and notable persons during his life, and an exacting account of his three-year exile.

Witherington, What’s in the Word

Tue, 03 Jun 2014 13:27:48 +0000

Ben Witherington,

Through June 16, Ben Witherington’s What’s in the Word: Rethinking the Socio-Rhetorical Character of the New Testament (Baylor, 2009) is available for free from Logos Bible Software.

In sum, “Expanding on the work in which he has been fruitfully engaged for over a quarter century, Witherington challenges the previously assured results of historical criticism and demonstrates chapter by chapter how the socio-rhetorical study shifts the paradigm.” The volume discusses concerns related to orality and canon, and includes several chapters treating particular texts or phrases within the New Testament.

Brueggeman, Spirituality of the Psalms

Sat, 31 May 2014 10:52:16 +0000

Walter Brueggemann,

The June free book of the month seems already to be live on the Logos Bible Software website. The included text is Walter Brueggemann’s Spirituality of the Psalms (Fortress, 2001). The optional, $0.99 add on is Brueggemmann’s David’s Truth: In Israel’s Imagination and Memory (Fortress, 2002).

Sacred Texts and Paradigmatic Revolutions

Fri, 14 Feb 2014 23:30:30 +0000

The latest Bloomsbury Highlights notes the newly available volume 16 in the T&T Clark Jewish and Christian Texts Series. The volume is a revision of my 2011 dissertation at Southeastern Seminary and primarily explores paradigmatic, or presuppositional, aspects of the hermeneutics at play in Romans and some of the Qumran sectarian texts.

Get the ESV Free @Faithlife Study Bible

Wed, 24 Jul 2013 07:01:01 +0000

Faithlife ESV Giveaway

The English Standard Version is now free for a limited time with the Faithlife Study Bible ( affiliate disclosure). According to the press release,

Starting July 24, anyone who downloads or signs in to the Faithlife Study Bible app will get the English Standard Version free for life! All Faithlife Study Bible app users will get a full license to the ESV Bible, including offline access when Internet is not available. Users can download their free copy of the Faithlife Study Bible app by visiting the Faithlife/ESV giveaway page anytime 12:00 am [Pacific], July 24–11:59 pm, August 10.

Schreiner, The King in His Beauty

Wed, 03 Jul 2013 21:00:49 +0000

Baker and the Stone-Campbell Journal were kind enough to provide a copy of Tom Schreiner’s The King in His Beauty: A Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments. According to the publisher’s description, Schreiner:

Cockerill, Hebrews

Wed, 03 Jul 2013 13:59:01 +0000

Gareth Lee Cockerill

Thanks to Eerdmans and the Stone-Campbell Journal, Gareth Lee Cockerill’s New International Commentary on the New Testament volume on Hebrews arrived recently. According to the publisher,

Vos's Reformed Dogmatics in English

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 02:03:51 +0000

Logos Bible Software is currently preparing the first English translation of Geerhardus Vos’s Reformed Dogmatics. By way of background regarding Vos:

[T]he “father of Reformed biblical theology,” was born 151 years ago this month. Vos, a professor of biblical theology at Princeton, lectured alongside many famous theologians, including J. Gresham Machen, B. B. Warfield, and Abraham Kuyper. So great was Vos’ academic insight that Kuyper offered him the chair of Old Testament studies at the Free University of Amsterdam when Vos was just 24.

Funk, Beginning-Intermediate Grammar

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:51:47 +0000

Robert Funk

A single-volume edition Robert Funk’s Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek is due out in April and is now available for pre-order from Polebridge. According to the publisher’s description,

Originally published in three volumes in 1973, Robert Funk’s classic Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek utilizes the insights of modern linguistics in its presentation of the basic features of ancient Greek grammar. Now redesigned and reformatted for ease of use, this single-volume third edition makes Funk’s ground-breaking work available once more.

On the Web (February 8, 2013)

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:33:46 +0000

On the web:

Rod Decker shares an update on his forthcoming Greek grammar.
Logos Bible Software is wishing everyone a happy International Septuagint Day today with a substantial sale on their release of the Göttingen Septuagint (HT: Brian Davidson, Abram K-J).
Jim Davila excerpts a Cambridge News story about funding that Cambridge and Oxford are seeking to keep together the Lewis-Gibson Genizah Collection at Westminster College.

NA28 @Logos

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:36:28 +0000

Nestle-Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th ed.

The 28th edition of the Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament, including the critical apparatus, is now available on Logos Bible Software’s prepublication program. For Peter Williams’ review of the edition earlier this week, see here.

Wright, Paul and the Faithfulness of God

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:15:01 +0000

As Anthony Le Donne and Michael Bird have already noted, N. T. Wright’s much-anticipated fourth volume in the Christian Origins and the Question of God Series, Paul and the Faithfulness of God, has now become three installments. Besides the series’ first three volumes, all three installments of the new fourth part are now available for pre-order via Logos Bible Software. The three individual installments’ contents are outlined there as follows:

Morgan and Peterson, The Kingdom of God

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:32:23 +0000

Christopher Morgan and Robert Peterson, eds.

Crossway has recently released The Kingdom of God, co-edited by Christopher Morgan of Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, and Robert Peterson, of Covenant Theological Seminary. According to Crossway’s description:

The kingdom of God is a very large biblical category indeed. Accordingly, a comprehensive understanding of the kingdom would illuminate many aspects of theology. With this in mind, Bruce Waltke, Robert Yarbrough, Gerald Bray, Clinton Arnold, Gregg Allison, Stephen Nichols, and Anthony Bradley have collaborated to articulate a full view of the kingdom of God across multiple disciplines. One of the most important books on the kingdom since G. E. Ladd, this volume offers a robust theology and is corroborated by the very series in which it stands. Fourth in the noted Theology in Community series, The Kingdom of God establishes the significance of the kingdom from the perspectives of biblical theology, systematic theology, history, pastoral application, missiology, and cultural analysis.

Ratzinger, The Infancy Narratives

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:27:00 +0000

Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)

Today, the Pope’s new book on the Gospels’ infancy narratives goes on sale. The volume is the third of a three-part series. The two earlier volumes have respectively discussed the narratives from Jesus’ baptism to his transfiguration (2007) and the final entrance into Jerusalem to the resurrection (2011). The present volume:

Bird, ed., Four Views on the Apostle Paul

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:28:24 +0000

Michael Bird, ed.

The folks at Zondervan sponsored this year’s Institute for Biblical Research meeting reception. In addition to the deserts there, they very kindly provided attending members with a copy of the recent (2012) Counterpoints volume on Paul, edited by Michael Bird. According to the publisher’s description:

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 03:22:25 +0000

Ben Dunson and I were at Westminster together for a bit before his Durham days, and it’s wonderful to see that this volume is now available. For those who want to take a look at the original thesis, Durham has it archived here.

Puckett, Apologetics of Joy

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:01:04 +0000

Joe Puckett

One of our recent MLitt graduates through the Christian Institute for the Study of Liberal Arts, Joe Puckett, completed his thesis earlier this year, and it has now come to press with Wipf and Stock under the title, The Apologetics of Joy: A Case for the Existence of God from C. S. Lewis’s Argument from Desire. The title should soon also be available through other booksellers.

Goldsworthy, Christ-Centered Biblical Theology

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:51:02 +0000

Graeme Goldsworthy

New out earlier this year was Graeme Goldsworthy’s Christ-Centered Biblical Theology: Hermeneutical Foundations and Principles (InterVarsity). On the volume’s product page, the folks at the Westminster Bookstore have made available a PDF containing the volume’s first chapter, “Biblical Theology: Lame Duck or Eagles’ Wings?” (19–37).

Tov, Scribal Practices and Approaches

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:21:43 +0000

Emmanuel Tov has made available the full text of his 2009 monograph Scribal Practices and Approaches Reflected in the Texts Found in the Judean Desert in two PDF files in the “Publications” section of his website. Excepting certain “minute changes,” these files are substantially identical to the printed versions.

NA28 Is on Its Way

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 22:46:15 +0000

Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament, 28th ed

The 28th edition of the Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament is set to be available around the end of the year. The new edition features a revised and more user-friendly critical apparatus, readings for Papyrii 117–127, somewhat more than 30 changes to the main text, and additional checking of scriptural cross references (HT: Brian Davidson).

New Logos Collections

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:42:22 +0000

Logos Bible Software now has a Herman Ridderbos Collection available for order on their pre-publication program and a John Huss Collection open for bidding on their community pricing program. According to the respective product pages:

Bock, Theology of Luke and Acts

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:07:35 +0000

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In the second volume to be released in Zondervan’s Biblical Theology of the New Testament series, Darrell Bock takes up Luke and Acts. On the text’s product page, the Westminster Bookstore has assembled a 5-part playlist of YouTube interviews from Zondervan about the volume.

Bauckham, Living with Other Creatures

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:01:35 +0000

Bauckham, ‘Living with Other Creatures’

Courtesy of Baylor University Press and the Stone-Campbell Journal, Richard Bauckham’s Living with Other Creatures: Green Exegesis and Theology (2011). According to the publisher’s description:

The Bible and Christian tradition have, at best, offered an ambiguous word in response to Earth’s environmental difficulties. At worst, a complex, often one-sided history of interpretation has left the Bible’s voice silent. Aiming to bridge these gaps, Richard Bauckham mines scripture and theology, discovering a firm command for Christians to care for all of God’s creation and then discusses the generations of theologians who have sought to live out this biblical mandate. Going beyond Old Testament human dominion, Living with Other Creatures consults scripture in its entirety and includes Jesus’ perspectives on creation, novel approaches to reading the gospels, and some of the most well-known “ecologists” throughout Christian history. The result is an innovative and enriching treatise that reminds readers of Gods whole creation—and humanity’s place within it.

Pillar Commentaries at WTSBooks

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:12:20 +0000

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In recognition of the release of Colin Kruse’s Romans volume in the Pillar New Testament Commentary, the Westminster Bookstore is running several sales, including:

For and Against Calvinisim

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:20:40 +0000

Thanks to the folks at Zondervan, Michael Horton’s For Calvinism and Roger Olson’s Against Calvinism came in yesterday’s mail, as the volumes are doing for a number of others too. According to the publisher,

Loebolus

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 16:45:24 +0000

A new collection of online Loeb Classical Library volumes is now available (HT: Charles Jones).

This new collection provides locally-hosted PDFs that can be downloaded without completing a CAPTCHA field.

The page also provides a link to a single ZIP file (3.2 GB) that contains all the individual LCL volume PDFs available on the page.

More Old Testament Pseudepigrapha

Tue, 08 May 2012 17:35:54 +0000

Bauckham, Davila, and Panayotov< ‘Old Testament Pseudepigrapha’

From Nijay Gupta,

The time is soon-coming for the release of the long-anticipated Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures edited by Bauckham, Davila, and Panayotov (Eerdmans, Nov 2012). . . .

At more than 800 pages (in 2 volumes), it will certainly be substantive. The attempt was made by the editors to collect non-canonical texts that pre-date the rise of Islam. (underlining for original italics)

Bray's God Is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:15:58 +0000

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Fresh off the presses at Crossway this past month is Gerald Bray’s God Is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology. According to the publisher,

While there is no substitute for personal, faithful, and careful Bible reading and prayer, the Bible’s vast size and diversity can make distilling its truth a daunting task. Thus most Christians benefit from supplemental resources to help learn and apply what Scripture teaches. . . .

Select Kindle History and Biography Texts for $1

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:37:23 +0000

Through the end of the day tomorrow, Kindle with Special Offers users or Kindle users who have turned on the Special Offers feature are able to take advantage of a promotion that Amazon is running to “Buy one of 50 biography and history titles for $1.” A list of eligible titles is available here. Among the eligible titles of particular interest here are:

Sample Keener's Miracles

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:19:11 +0000

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Ever helpful, the folks at the Westminster Bookstore have made available a PDF sample from Craig Keener’s Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts(2 vols.; Baker, 2011) on the book’s product page. The sample contains the work’s table of contents, introduction, and first chapter.

Hahn, Bibliothek der Symbole und Glaubensregeln der Apostolisch-katholischen Kirche

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:44:04 +0000

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Google Books has available a full-text PDF of August Hahn’s Bibliothek der Symbole und Glaubensregeln der Apostolisch-katholischen Kirche(Breslau: Grass und Barth, 1842).

A Free Book Each Month in 2012

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:10:55 +0000

The folks at Logos Bible Software have started a monthly free book giveaway for 2012. This month’s title is volume 6 from their collection of the Works of John Owen.

Flint, Duhaime, and Baek, eds., Celebrating the Dead Sea Scrolls

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:51:48 +0000

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Newly available from the Society of Biblical Literature is Celebrating the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Canadian Collection, edited by Peter Flint, John Duhaime, and Kyung Baek:

This volume celebrates the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, their contents, the community that wrote and preserved them, and new scientific issues that arise from Scrolls studies. The essays, in four sections, explore the origins and text of scripture, the interpretation of scripture in Second Temple Judaism, the identity and practices of the movement associated with Qumran and the Scrolls, and the extensive contributions of Canadian projects and scholarship.

Carson and Moo, Introducing the New Testament, ed. Naselli

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:55:23 +0000

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A while back, the kind folks at Zondervan forwarded a survey about their Textbook Plus website, and in return for some feedback there, D. A. Carson and Douglas Moo, Introducing the New Testament, edited by Andrew Naselli (2010), arrived in yesterday’s mail. The text is “a condensation of [the] longer and more detailed . . . An Introduction to the New Testament(D. A. Carson and Douglas J. Moo [2d ed.; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005]) ( 7).

New SBL Publications (August 26, 2011)

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:51:20 +0000

The latest publications from the Society of Biblical Literature include:

Yitzhaq Feder, Blood Expiation in Hittite and Biblical Ritual: Origins, Context, and Meaning
Itamar Singer, The Calm before the Storm: Selected Writings of Itamar Singer on the End of the Late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant
Alan Lenzi, ed., Reading Akkadian Prayers and Hymns: An Introduction

A New Medieval Historical Theology Collection

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:59:15 +0000

Logos releases a new collection for medieval historical theology, which includes:

Aidan Nichols, Discovering Aquinas: An Introduction to His Life, Work, and Invluence and
Lawrence Cunningham, Francis of Assisi: Performing the Gospel of Life.

For more information, please see the product page.

Codex Sinaiticus Facsimile Sale

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:12:00 +0000

Christian Book Distributors now has Hendrickson’s facsimile edition of Codex Sinaiticus on sale for $499.00. For more information, see the the product page.

In the Mail: Blomberg with Markley, Handbook of New Testament Exegesis

Mon, 30 May 2011 17:03:29 +0000

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In Saturday’s mail arrived Craig Blomberg’s Handbook of New Testament Exegesis, with Jennifer Markley (Baker, 2010), which I’ll be reviewing this summer for the Stone-Campbell Journal. The text is just over 300 pages, and the back cover includes recommendations from Thomas Schreiner, Jeannine Brown, Grant Osborne, and Mark Strauss. At first brush, this introductory text also includes some discussions that should push its readers in a more technical direction. So, I’ll certainly be interested in working through the book in detail in the coming weeks.

New ZECNT Volumes

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:16:30 +0000

Zondervan has recently added the following volumes to the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament series:

Grant Osborne, Matthew;
Thomas Schreiner, Galatians; and
Chilton Arnold, Ephesians.

According to Zondervan,

Thiselton, 1 and 2 Thessalonians through the Centuries

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:09:18 +0000

[caption id=“attachment_6620” align=“alignright” width=“80” caption=“Anthony Thiselton”] [/caption]Anthony Thiselton’s volume on the Thessalonian correspondence is the latest in the Blackwell Bible Commentaries series and is due to be released this December. A sample chapter is, however, available from the product page on the publisher’s website, and other previews are also available from Google and Amazon. As a whole, the Blackwell series is devoted primarily to reception-historical commentary, and for each pericope in the Thessalonian letters, Thiselton’s commentary divides this task among:

Groves Festschrift

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:45:26 +0000

[caption id=“attachment_6600” align=“alignright” width=“80” caption=“Peter Enns, Douglas Green, and Michael Kelly”] [/caption]Now in the rolling queue on the Westminster Bookstore’s home page is a freshly published festschrift for the late Al Groves. I never had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Groves, but I am certainly and often thankful for his work and the personal blessing that he was in the lives of so many others.

And I Was Just Getting Used to the 15th Edition

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:51:31 +0000

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The 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style is, however, now available. Among other updates, this edition boasts Chicago’s first explicit guidelines for citing Kindle editions and publications (§§14.166; A.38). Although I have yet to be able to examine this new edition first-hand, on a cursory perusal, these guidelines appear mainly to be an additional application of the instructions for citing electronic books in Chicago’s 15th edition (§§17.142–47). More information on this new edition of Chicago is available at Chicago Manual of Style Online.

Putnam, A New Grammar of Biblical Hebrew

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:21:51 +0000

Grammar of Biblical Hebrew

Fred Putnam’s New Grammar of Biblical Hebrew is now out ( affiliate disclosure). According to the publisher,

This is a Hebrew grammar with a difference, being the first truly discourse-based grammar. Its goal is for students to understand Biblical Hebrew as a language, seeing its forms and conjugations as a coherent linguistic system, appreciating why and how the text means what it says—rather than learning Hebrew as a set of random rules and apparently arbitrary meanings.

Dearman, Hosea (NICOT)

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:35:21 +0000

Hosea (NICOT)

The Book of Hosea, written by Andrew Dearman for the New International Commentary on the Old Testament series, has been released. Dearman is Professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary’s Houston extension. Some of the endorsements for Dearman’s volume include:

Oxyrhynchus Papyri on Logos

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:40:23 +0000

The equivalent of 15 print volumes of over 1,800 Oxyrhynchus Papyri fragments are now available to order from Logos via their pre-publication discount program. Details about the module and a list of the papyri it will include are available here.

Mburu, Qumran and the Origins of Johannine Language and Symbolism

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:00:24 +0000

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Due out in a little less than one month is the revised version Elizabeth Mburu’s PhD thesis, Qumran and the Origins of Johannine Language and Symbolism. In the book, Mburu

sets out to demonstrate that the sectarian Qumran document The Rule of the Community, provides linguistic clues which illuminate our understanding of how the author of the Fourth Gospel used truth terminology and expected it to be understood.

Oh, Yes, They Are

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:00:48 +0000

Christian Book Distributors is offering their 22-volume collection of Calvin’s commentaries for $99.99 (retail: $1200.00) with a bonus copy of Calvin’s Institutes. Also, starting November 1, CBD will offer a 14-volume set of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics for $99.99 (retail: $995.00). Even after accounting for shipping costs, the 90%+ discount offered on these sets’ retail prices still leaves them as strikingly good bargains.

Today's Dead Sea Scrolls Today

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:14:19 +0000

Dead Sea Scrolls Today

A revised edition of James VanderKam’s excellent introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls is making its way to retailers. This new edition “retains the format, style, and aims of the first edition, and the same wider audience is envisaged” ( xii). Consequently, this edition includes five primary categories of changes ( xii–xiii):

Two New Dead Sea Scrolls Resources from Brill

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:31:25 +0000

Brill recently released the following two new resources for Dead Sea Scroll studies:

Biblical Texts from Qumran and Other Sites (Dead Sea Scrolls Concordance, Volume 3) [caption id=“attachment_4394” align=“alignright” width=“90” caption=“Martin Abegg Jr.”] [/caption] According to the publisher,

For decades a concordance of all the Dead Sea Scrolls has been a major desideratum for scholarship. The Dead Sea Scrolls Concordance covers all the Qumran material as published in the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series, as well as the major texts from caves 1 and 11, which appeared elsewhere.

New Reference Works from OUP

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:55:12 +0000

The following two reference works are recently published or forthcoming from Oxford University Press, albeit with rather hefty, retail price tags:

[caption id=“attachment_3613” align=“alignleft” width=“80” caption=“Roger Bagnall”] [/caption]Publisher’s Summary: Thousands of texts, written over a period of three thousand years on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Persian, and other languages, have transformed our knowledge of many aspects of life in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology provides an introduction to the world of these ancient documents and literary texts, ranging from the raw materials of writing to the languages used, from the history of papyrology to its future, and from practical help in reading papyri to frank opinions about the nature of the work of papyrologists. This volume, the first major reference work on papyrology written in English, takes account of the important changes experienced by the discipline within especially the last thirty years. Including new work by twenty-seven international experts and more than one hundred illustrations, The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology will serve as an invaluable guide to the subject.[caption id=“attachment_3612” align=“alignleft” width=“90” caption=“Michael Gagarin”] [/caption]Publisher’s Summary: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome is the clearest and most accessible guide to the world of classical antiquity ever produced. This multivolume reference work is a comprehensive overview of the major cultures of the classical Mediterranean world—Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman—from the Bronze Age to the fifth century CE. It also covers the legacy of the classical world and its interpretation and influence in subsequent centuries. The Encyclopedia brings the work of the best classical scholars, archaeologists, and historians together in an easy-to-use format. The articles, written by leading scholars in the field, seek to convey the significance of the people, places, and historical events of classical antiquity, together with its intellectual and material culture. Broad overviews of literature, history, archaeology, art, philosophy, science, and religion are complimented by articles on authors and their works, literary genres and periods, historical figures and events, archaeologists and archaeological sites, artists and artistic themes and materials, philosophers and philosophical schools, scientists and scientific areas, gods, heroes, and myths.

New Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:48:28 +0000

Three recent, Brill publications on the intersections between the New Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls include:

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Publisher’s Summary: In spite of the amount of literature on the relationship between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, no consensus among the scholars has emerged as yet on how to explain both the similarities and the differences among the two corpora of religious writings. This volume contains a revised form of the contributions to an “experts meeting” held at the Catholic University of Leuven on December 2007 dedicated to explore the relationship among the two corpora and to understand both the commonalities and the differences between the two corpora from the perspective of the common ground from which both corpora have developed: the Hebrew Bible.

The Deliverance of God

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:10:01 +0000

Douglas Campbell

Douglas Campbell’s new book, The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul, has come to publication at Eerdmans. The publisher’s description reports that:

In this scholarly book Douglas Campbell pushes beyond both “Lutheran” and “New” perspectives on Paul to a noncontractual, “apocalyptic” reading of many of the apostle’s most famous-and most troublesome-texts.

Campbell holds that the intrusion of an alien, essentially modern, and theologically unhealthy theoretical construct into the interpretation of Paul has produced an individualistic and contractual construct that shares more with modern political traditions than with either orthodox theology or Paul’s first-century world. In order to counteract that influence, Campbell argues that it needs to be isolated and brought to the foreground before the interpretation of Paul’s texts begins. When that is done, readings free from this intrusive paradigm become possible and surprising new interpretations unfold.