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Nestle-Aland 28 On Its Way

£21.xx or $35.xx ain’t bad at all. I didn’t think it was going to be available quite so soon, so this came as a surprise. I would have preferred a wide-margin edition (which is what I normally use–my NA27 wm edition), but from what I read, such an edition isn’t being printed, at least not… Continue Reading

Dear Sake of Truth Email Subscribers

Please note that I am changing the way one subscribes to my posts via email because the former way was not up to snuff. If you’re interested in subscribing to new posts, you can do so one of two ways: RSS- click the orange RSS feed button in the right sidebar and put my feed… Continue Reading

John Piper Interviews Rick Warren on Purpose Driven Life

Rick Warren and John Piper are among the most influential pastors in the United States (and possibly the world). Piper and Warren are similar in theological perspective but take different approaches to ministry (and quite different approaches to preaching in particular). I believe Warren’s approach to preaching and academia is largely influenced by his sense… Continue Reading

Try this exam!

Couldn’t help but share David Rattigan’s “rejected exam paper,” which I learned about from Mark Goodacre’s NT Blog. Like Goodacre, I particular find #6 funny: 6. Briefly solve the synoptic problem (3-4 lines max). Explain why the problem still baffles scholars today, and suggest what should be done to them. But #7 isn’t bad, either:… Continue Reading

Good Dissertation Advice

Nijay offers some thoughts on citing other scholars and reflects on some advice one of his mentors gave him during the writing phase of his dissertation: At one point, this same mentor used the analogy that I was hiding behind my sledgehammer in my attempt to crack eggshells. Discussion follows–I particular like Jason’s comment in… Continue Reading

Hermeneutics in the Blogosphere

After completing the brief series on existentialism and hermeneutics (pt 1, pt 2, pt 3), I noticed a few related discussion around the way worth mentioning: 1. Rod Decker interacted with the reader-response approach which Richard Hays seemed to suggest in Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul (1989). 2. Ken Schenck shares an… Continue Reading

Existentialism and Hermeneutics (p3)

[Be sure to catch part 1 and part 2, first, and note Mike’s comment in p2 which highlights the importance of the terms we use when discussing philosophy]. The Strength of an Existential Approach to the Text? Sure…reading a text is an experience of sorts. Paul Ricoeur emphasized that reading a text leads to self-understanding. I… Continue Reading