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A Difference in Authority
I just started in on Peter Leithart’s Deep Exegesis, and found some thought-provoking material on Bible translation. He is considering the sort of language that translations use when they bring… more →
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It's a Conspiracy, I Tell You! The Possessive Apostrophe with "Jesus."
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wrote 6 months ago: Grammar nerd alert! I still remember learning that the name “Jesus” (and as I later lear … more →
A Difference in Authority
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wrote 6 months ago: I just started in on Peter Leithart’s Deep Exegesis, and found some thought-provoking material … more →
Reading Report, October 2012
wrote 6 months ago: Well, pretty much all of last month’s reading corresponded with my class reading assignments a … more →
John D'Elia, A Place at the Table: George Eldon Ladd and the Rehabilitation of Evangelical Scholarship in America
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wrote 7 months ago: This book is an absolutely fascinating look at the life and academic career of George Eldon Ladd. … more →
September Reading Report
wrote 7 months ago: 9/30/12 Scot McKnight, “The Professor as Scholar: Exiled to Eden.” Address to All-Facu … more →
Bibliography on Prayer as a Theme in Luke-Acts
wrote 8 months ago: I am leading a class discussion on prayer in Luke-Acts in a couple of weeks, and part of the prepara … more →
Keener on Acts
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wrote 8 months ago: I was able today to take a look at the first volume of FOUR total volumes of Craig Keener’s Ac … more →
Porter and Dyer Take on Witherington
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wrote 9 months ago: While I am by no means an expert on rhetorical criticism of Scripture, I’ve been intrigued by … more →
Reading Report, July 2012
wrote 9 months ago: This was the first month that I really hit my Ph.D. reading hard. I have something over 7300 pages … more →
The Public Reading of Scripture
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wrote 10 months ago: I posted on the public reading of Scripture several years back, but recently read an article that sp … more →
Reading Report, June 2012
wrote 10 months ago: I’ve been reading ahead on a class I’ll be taking on the Pastoral Epistles; I’m wo … more →
Augustine's Prayer regarding His Theology
wrote 11 months ago: At the end of Augustine’s last book of On the Trinity–and in the interest of full disclo … more →
False Dichotomy in Reading Scripture
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wrote 11 months ago: I buzzed through Piper/Carson, The Pastor as Scholar and the Scholar as Pastor (Crossway, 2011), and … more →
Genesis in Revelation
wrote 11 months ago: In a larger discussion of the unity of the biblical canon, Michael Kruger notes some of the many str … more →
Reading Report, May 2012
wrote 11 months ago: 5/31/12 Raymond E. Brown, “Episkope and Episkopos: The New Testament Evidence,” Theolog … more →
The Christian and the Law
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wrote 11 months ago: I’ve doing personal study on the relationship between the Mosaic Law and the Christian. Many h … more →
Isaiah 6: The Vision of Isaiah in Light of the Sin of Uzziah
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wrote 1 year ago: Many sermons have been preached on Isaiah 6, and I’ve heard my share of them, but I hadn … more →
Interpreting the NT with Final-Form Literary Approaches
wrote 1 year ago: In 2006, Marcus Bockmuehl addressed several newer approaches to the NT — “final-form lit … more →
Notes on Hengel's "Tasks of NT Scholarship"
wrote 1 year ago: Back in 1993, Martin Hengel, a well-published German scholar who focused on the New Testament and Ea … more →
