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  • A Commentary on the Psalms Volume 1

    On Wednesday, I had a review of Psalms as Torah, looking at how it encourages deeper meditations on the Psalter. Yesterday, I offered a review of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, which is the first commentary I’ve reviewed on here. Today’s post is somewhat of a cross between the two and we’ll look at Allen P. Ross’…

  • Proverbs and Ecclesiastes

    Commentaries are an area of review I haven’t done much in work yet. I say yet since between today and tomorrow I’ll offer two commentary reviews, and hopefully in the future I’ll have a few more. Today we’ve got Daniel Treier’s Proverbs and Ecclesiastes from the Brazos Theological Commentary series. This was my first exposure to the series, and…

  • Psalms As Torah: Reading Biblical Song Ethically

    Psalms as Torah is the most recent book published in the Studies in Theological Interpretation series. I’m gradually trying to collect all of them, and am only 1 short at this point, though this is only my 2nd to review (here’s the first). So far though, this is my favorite one and it has pushed me to start…

  • Salvation Accomplished By The Son: The Work of Christ

    A few weeks back, I told you I was working my way through this book for lent. There I mentioned that Robert Peterson divides his study on the work of Christ into two sections: Events Pictures As Peterson himself says, there is really only one work of Christ, but that work accomplishes our salvation through nine Events:…

  • What is Theological Interpretation of Scripture?

    This question has been drawing my attention, even before it was featured here in the blogging world by the Gospel Coalition. In that post, Andy Naselli highlights D. A. Carson’s assessment of the movement. As Carson understands it, the theological interpretation of Scripture (TIS) is: partly disparate movement, partly a call to reformation in biblical interpretation, partly…

  • 4 Steps to Better Bible Study

    Step #1 Buy yourself some colored pencils. Step #2 Find Bible. Open to book you want to study. Step #3 Grab ruler to ensure your markings will be neat (I suppose this is optional) Step #4 Proceed to color-code Bible using previously purchased pencils. Or, you could use highlighters in Logos, and then step #4 would look…

  • The Character of Christian Scripture

    [This review is part of the What Is Theological Interpretation? series] In case you wondering, no, I didn’t spend the weekend feverishly reading so I could have so many book reviews this week. I’m trying to get caught up on all the stellar books I’ve been sent to review and have finished reading over the last month…

  • Practicing Theological Interpretation

    [This review is part of the What Is Theological Interpretation? series] Full disclosure, this week is going to be pretty book focused. But, hey, that’s not really anything new is it? Yesterday, I gave you a review of Invitation to Biblical Interpretation, which is a textbook and clocks in at 850+ pages. Today, thanks to Baker Academic sending along…

  • Invitation to Biblical Interpretation

    There are more than a few books out there on how to interpret the Bible. I’ve got several on my shelf, and full disclosure, probably will even buy more in the future (once I’m off book probation of course, or if I earn a gift certificate by you clicking through links). In looking at Invitation…

  • Theological Commentary: Evangelical Perspectives

    [This review is part of the What Is Theological Interpretation? series] On a couple of recent occasions, Justin Taylor has highlighted an article by D. A. Carson that is featured in Theological Commentary: Evangelical Perspectives. Thanks to T & T Clark, I received copy of it to review, and I thought I’d tell you about the rest of the book.…