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  • Scripture as Music and Genesis 1 as Overture

    In their book, Echoes of Exodus: Tracing Themes of Redemption Through Scripture, Alastair Roberts and Andrew Wilson employ a musical metaphor to organize the material. “Scripture is music,” they say, and the variety of genres in Scripture call to mind the variety among musical genres as well. The authors go beyond this though, and highlight…

  • Christmas Book List: Theology

    It’s been six years since Peter Gentry and Stephen Wellum’s Kingdom Through Covenant first came out. In the interim, an abridged version was released (God’s Kingdom Through God’s Covenants), and now there’s an updated second edition of the original. That might seem rather quick, but I’m not particularly surprised. When the original came out, I…

  • Christmas Book List: New Studies in Biblical Theology

    As we continue the great Christmas book list series, I want to spotlight several volumes in IVP Academic’s New Studies in Biblical Theology series. This is one of my favorite series, and if you search a bit on the blog, you can find longer reviews of most of the volumes. Thanks to IVP Academic for sending me…

  • The Spirituality of Wine

    I can count on one hand the number of books I’ve read about wine. Actually, I don’t even need fingers because it’s only this one. This is in part because I’m not a big fan of wine. But, it’s also because there aren’t exactly a whole shelf of books out on there on wine and…

  • Genesis, Science, and Making Sense of It All

    I have a wide variety of reading interests. They mostly relate to classes I teach, but I also have some long standing research interests. And perhaps the longest standing is what to think about Genesis as a book of the Bible and its relation to modern scientific thought. From what I have read and studied,…

  • Calling on The Name of The Lord: A Biblical Theology of Prayer

    It is a truth universally acknowledged that a new title in the New Studies in Biblical Theology series is in want of a place on my bookshelf. On first glance, today might seem better suited for a different kind of post. But, as I read recent events, it’s a call to start taking prayer seriously.…

  • Rooted, Unparalleled, and Philosophy in Seven Sentences

    I’m always on the lookout for helpful primers on the subjects I study. Often, introductory texts can be so daunting it is hard to know where to start. Thankfully, new books continued to be published. Even if there is overlap at times, that just means there are more options for just the right audience. In…

  • Their Rock Is Not Like Our Rock: A Theology of Religions

    Everyone who reads a good bit has favorite authors. When another author uses many of your favorite authors in writing their book, it usually catches your attention. That was my experience in reading through Daniel Strange’s Their Rock Is Not Like Our Rock: A Theology of Religions. I made most of my way through it back in…

  • Identity and Idolatry: The Image of God and Its Inversion (NSBT)

    Usually, I am very high on any volume in the New Studies in Biblical Theology series. You can probably tell already that I might feel differently about Richard Lints’ Identity and Idolatry: The Image of God and Its Inversion (NSBT). Given that my interest in this subject reaches back to mid-seminary and my discovery of G. K. Beale,…

  • Old Books of Note: New Studies in Biblical Theology Edition

    Thanks to the generosity of IVP Academic, I recently got not only several new releases, but a few old ones as well. Four of those are in the outstanding New Studies in Biblical Theology series. First, I requested Peter Adam’s Hearing God’s Words: Exploring Biblical Spirituality, forgetting I already had that in my collection (read…