A wife for Jesus?
Front of papyrus fragment, Karen L. King, 2012 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...
View Articleframeworks (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...
View ArticleGuest 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...
View ArticleNew 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....
View ArticleClergy 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.) Filed under: religion, the...
View ArticlePraising God through Academic Biblical Studies: Less Hypermodernist...
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...
View ArticleChristian 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...
View ArticleChristian 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...
View ArticleChristian 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....
View ArticleKeep ‘em coming back with the December Biblical Studies Carnival
We’re here; we blog about the Bible; get used to it. 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...
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