The print editions of the Nestle-Aland Greek texts include a lot of helpful information that most electronic editions in Bible software do not include (it is available via Accordance). Students with print editions may need to be reminded of this, too, as it easy to forget, not least when first learning to navigate these critical… Continue Reading
Thanks to Baylor Press for allowing me an opportunity to review Matthew W. Bates, The Hermeneutics of the Apostolic Proclamation: The Center of Paul’s Method of Scriptural Interpretation (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2012). This monograph is a revision of Bates’ doctoral work done under David Aune at the University of Notre Dame. Bates begins in… Continue Reading
What follows is a brief review of Daniel Lynwood Smith, The Rhetoric of Interruption: Speech-making, Turn-taking, and Rule-breaking in Luke-Acts and Ancient Greek Narrative (BZNW 193; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012). This monograph is a revision of Smith’s doctoral work completed under David Aune at the University of Notre Dame. In it, Smith examines the occurrence… Continue Reading
Speaking of Bulmann’s Theology of the NT (which you can win), here’s a bit I like on Paul’s personification of sin in Romans: “Sin” particularly appears in this way as if it were a personal being. It “came into the world” (Rom. 5:12) and “achieved dominion” (Rom. 5:21 Blt.). Man is enslaved to it (Rom.… Continue Reading
Fascinating way to reconstruct and interpret a historical event. Kudos to all involved. In NT studies, how about something similar to reconstruct stories within narratives (e.g., Sermon on the Mount, Paul’s Areopagus sermon) or the performance of whole narratives (e.g., the Gospel of Mark being read out/performed in a meeting of early Christians)? I suppose… Continue Reading
Ronald Huggins has a helpful post clarifying what Hindu texts actually say about Krishna, contrary to more popular claims circulating in the West which are sometimes used to imply that key elements of the story about Jesus in the Gospels are derivative from the Hindu story. The Claim that Krishna was a Virgin Born, Crucified… Continue Reading
From the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog: [Hoskier] notes that three manuscripts of Revelation have a curious little drawing (or perhaps better a pictogram) instead of the word ‘the sun’ ‘ο ηλιος’. …It is a curious little drawing and I am not sure it looks like a sun, much more like a circle with a tail,… Continue Reading
Given recent buzz about a book that first appeared eight (yes, eight!) years ago, alleging the fourfold Gospel was a fabrication carried out by Rome as a psy-op (psychological operation) to control the masses (no, seriously), I thought I would offer a few thoughts. Where did the buzz come from, anyway? Was there a big… Continue Reading
Ben Witherington has a series of interviews going with N. T. Wright. The most recent (the second) had some intriguing bits and pieces. I especially enjoy hearing scholars recall those influential works they read earlier in their career. My own combination of K[aesemann]’s rejection of B[ultmann], and Caird’s exposition of the OT view, all coming… Continue Reading
Things have been a bit quiet around the blog for a few reasons, not least of which was preparing for and attending the BNTC followed immediately by packing up house and moving from the south side of Edinburgh to the north(ish) side. I will resume the series on academic blogging this week or next and… Continue Reading