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  • Summer Reviews: Scripture and Hermeneutics Series

    If you read widely in biblical studies, you may have already one or more of the volumes in this stack. At the very least, you’ve probably seen frequent footnotes to a few key volumes, particularly Out of Egypt and Renewing Biblical Interpretation. What you might not be aware of is that Zondervan recently re-released these…

  • What Does The Bible Really Teach About Homosexuality?

    It is hard to imagine a more relevant subject in our culture than the issue of homosexuality. Specifically, the issue at hand is how religious liberty and gay rights relate. A more pressing issue, in my mind at least, is how the church is to understand homosexuality and relate to persons who identify as gay…

  • New Books of Note

    Last year, I used Gerald Bray’s God is Love: A Biblical and Systematic Theology for my 11th grade Bible class. Along the way, I offered several posts with excerpts: The Christian Experience of God God Has Spoken To Us Christian Worldview and Speaking About God The Practice of Theology and Theology of Faith The Mystery…

  • Covenant and Commandment: Works, Obedience, and Faithfulness in the Christian Life

    It seems like every few months or so, another title is released in IVP Academic’s New Studies in Biblical Theology series. Even as I work on this review, I’ve already started a more recent work in the series and just noticed that another title is coming this summer. None of this should be construed as…

  • New Books of Note

    When it comes to teaching or preaching a book of the Bible, there are plenty of resource and commentaries one could choose from. Recently, I’ve had the opportunity check out several volumes from Baker Books‘ Teach The Text series. If you’re not familiar, each of the volumes in the series offers the following units for each…

  • A Theology of James, Peter, and Jude: Living in The Light of The Coming King

    Peter H. Davids is Visiting Professor of Theology at Houston Baptist University and Visiting Professor of Bible and Applied Theology at Houston Graduate School of Theology. Davids has written commentaries on James (NIGTC), 1 Peter (NICNT), and 2 Peter & Jude (PNTC) in addition to numerous articles and a few special studies related to these books.…

  • 1, 2, & 3 John (ZECNT)

    At this point, I think I’ve commented on every volume in the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament series: James (ZECNT) Ephesians (ZECNT) Matthew (ZECNT) Galatians (ZECNT) Colossians/Philemon (ZECNT) 1 & 2 Thessalonians (ZECNT) Luke (ZECNT) Acts (ZECNT) Except of course for the two most recent volumes on 1, 2, 3 John and Mark. I’ll get…

  • Christian Spirituality: Five Views of Sanctification

    So, here I am keeping up my trend of reviewing slightly older books. Like Predestination & Free Will, Christian Spirituality: Five Views of Sanctification was published in the 80’s. Unlike the former book, I think this one has much light to shed in the present. If for instance you’ve kept up with the conversations about holiness in…

  • How To Read The Bible For All Its Worth and Book by Book

    Many people have found their introduction to hermeneutics in How to Read The Bible for All Its Worth. I was not one of them. However, when I saw a new edition of the book (the 4th) was being released earlier this year, I thought it might be a good time to check it out. I…

  • Paul & Judaism Revisited: A Study of Divine and Human Agency In Salvation

    Preston Sprinkle is associate professor of biblical studies at Eternity Bible College. He co-authored Erasing Hell (remember that?) with Francis Chan and co-edited The Faith of Jesus Christ with Michael Bird. His doctoral dissertation was published as Law and Life: The Interpretation of Leviticus 18:5 in Early Judaism and in Paul. The present book, Paul &…