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Buy Print, Get Digital Free

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Lexham Press is offering a number of print-digital bundles currently that won’t force you to make a decision between either reading physical paper books or digital versions. Buy one of the print Lexham Press titles featured in their bundles promotion, and get the digital version for free.

(Here’s an idea: buy a print book as a gift for friends or family, and keep the digital version for your own reading or research pleasure.)

Here are some of my favorites (but check out the full list here):

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The Biblical Scholar’s Black Friday Event

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Are you a biblical scholar, theologian, pastor/scholar, seminary student? Logos is holding a Black Friday event that will interest you greatly. Here are three deals that stuck out to me with the academic in mind:

Eighty Percent Off

First, pretty much every resource in the Logos digital library is on sale, with some items up to 80% off. Peruse the deals, or search for specific items to find your discount and build your library.

ICC Commentaries

Second, the esteemed ICC Commentaries are on sale for $14.99 each. That’s a very low price for these scholarly kings of the commentary world, in the order of 60-70% off. Add more of the iconic green covers to your library.

Legacy Libraries

Third, Logos is offering a number of so-called “legacy libraries” for sale. These are Logos 6 libraries (Logos is now in its 9th iteration) that many customers loved, which you can now get for a very low price, and incorporate into your newer version of Logos.

There are of course many more deals to find this Black Friday, so head over to Logos and find something special at a great price before the weekend is over.

What to do with a PhD? Part 4: Administration

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by Charlie Trimm | Talbot School of Theology & Brittany Kim | North Park Theological Seminary

For a school to run smoothly, talented administrators are required to direct the ship, and scholars can find it to be a fulfilling role to help facilitate the work of others. However, it could be difficult to get a job in educational administration without first holding a full-time faculty position. In addition, administrative roles generally allow less time for publishing and teaching.

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Eugene Peterson’s “Soulcraft” Approach to Discipleship

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by Peter Santucci

Soulcraft. It’s a word Eugene Peterson thought he’d coined. It was the intended title for the book which became Practice Resurrection: A Conversation on Growing Up in Christ. Little did he know Soulcraft would become the name of a Colorado brewery, but I’m guessing he would have liked that.

Soulcraft was Eugene’s word to describe what we often refer to as discipleship or spirituality. He believed the spiritual is larger than the physical, that there is more to our interior selves than to our physical selves. There is a vast interiority to us which corresponds to the vast world of God. It’s like C.S. Lewis’s wardrobe. It looks like a simple wooden box for the storage of coats, but walk into it and you’ll experience a whole Narnian world.

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What To Do With A PhD? Part 3: High School Teaching

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by Charlie Trimm | Talbot School of Theology & Brittany Kim | North Park Theological Seminary

While some might view it as a “step down,” teaching the Bible in a Christian high school plays an important role in the formation of many teenagers. The pay is lower than teaching in a college or seminary setting, but the rewards of working with teenagers can be high.

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When a Mathematician Rethought the Synoptic Problem

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Jeffrey Tripp received a doctorate in New Testament and Early Christianity from Loyola University Chicago, and now teaches Math at Rock Valley College. He often incorporates statistical methods into his biblical research, which focuses on the New Testament narratives and their reception. Here he tells the story of how he came to rethink his position on the Synoptic Problem:

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A NT Studies Milestone: Translation of Strack-Billerbeck’s Talmudic-Midrashic Commentary on the NT

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By Jacob Cerone

Lexham Press has just made a significant contribution to biblical studies with the translation, editing, and publication of the massive 3-volume Strack-Billerbeck Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Midrash. Every verse in the New Testament is illuminated with potentially relevant passages from the keystone works of rabbinic Jewish theological thought, the Talmud and Midrash. Jacob Cerone, General Editor and key translator of the work (also doctoral candidate at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen-Nürnberg) provides an excellent example of how S-B can benefit the research and teaching interests of scholars and pastors alike:

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Eugene Peterson Couldn’t Get Published

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by Pete Santucci

Though Eugene Peterson is now known as a writer, this wasn’t always the case. His first attempts at writing books only brought him frustration along with a string of rejection letters. In fact, because of this lack of traction, he told me he ghost wrote a book for a famous Christian figure. While he refused to let me know which book this was and for whom, he said I’d know both the title and the person. The experience disgusted him so much, he refused to go down that path again. 

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This World Is Our Home: John’s Use of σκηνόω in Revelation

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by Luke Nagy

We’ve all heard the saying, “this world is not my home; I’m just a passing thro’.” The words are from a hymn penned in 1919, and arranged in 1937. It reflects a popular attitude among Christians in America at the time, and currently. A world ravaged by the Great War and the Spanish Flu looked pretty dismal. This notion, that the present world is not the Christian’s home, seemed to be very comforting at the time, and it’s holding sway in our current economic and political climate. Pew Research in 2015 found that 72% of Americans believe in Heaven, which was defined as “where people who have led good lives are eternally rewarded.”1 Thus it is fair to say that “This world is not my home” is the predominant view.

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Academic Jobs in Biblical Studies and Theology: Sep 30 – Oct 25, 2021

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We’ve seen another healthy month for new jobs coming to market, from Ohio to Belgium, Ontario to Norway. Happy hunting.

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