This is an exciting week in academic job postings, with well over a dozen assistant professorships, three distinguished chairs, and some interesting postdocs.
Best of luck with your applications this weekend. [Read more…]
How to read Josephus in Greek like a boss
It is inevitable that every student of ancient Greek will find a time when they feel out of their depth. Greek literature, as with literature in any language, ranges from relatively easy to read to frustratingly complex. And, since literary Greek syntax is anything but intuitive to native speakers of most modern languages, there will come a time when every student stares at a sentence in a text without even knowing where to start.
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Kevin Vanhoozer announces A Reforming Catholic Confession
Our Logos Mobile Education crew met up with Kevin Vanhoozer near Chicago to discuss a new project he’d been working on: A Reforming Catholic Confession. The 500th year of the Reformation, it turns out, is an appropriate time to pause and examine the Church’s doctrinal identity.
Hear what Dr. Vanhoozer, along with a broad range of collaborating Christian thinkers and leaders, has in mind for this moment in Church history in this video interview from Logos Mobile Education.
Why the Apostles Rarely Mention the Kingdom
Why the Apostles Rarely Mention the Kingdom
You may have noticed that “kingdom” language is frequent in the Gospels and in Jesus’ teaching particularly, but that it almost disappears in the rest of the NT. After examining every instance of βασιλεία in the NT, I compiled the following data. [Read more…]
Academic Jobs in Biblical Studies and Theology: Sep 4-8 2017
Here are the latest job adverts for academic posts in biblical studies and theology worldwide, and related jobs in history and classics, presented by theLAB:
Exclusive interview: Michael Bird on “Jesus the Eternal Son”
Michael Bird has just released a new book (surprise!), Jesus the Eternal Son: Answering Adoptionist Christology. As the subtitle makes explicit, the book confronts adoptionism, which is the idea that Early Christianity believed Jesus was adopted into his role as the Son of God, rather than being such from time eternal.
I sat down with Mike recently to get a brief overview of the book, which I am pleased to present exclusively here on theLAB.
Academic Jobs: Aug 28-Sep 1 2017
theLAB is pleased to present this week’s new jobs in biblical studies and theology, and relevant jobs in history and philosophy. [Read more…]
5 Resources You Need to Succeed in Seminary
5 Resources You Need to Succeed in Seminary
When I began seminary 7 years ago, I was ignorant of the tools that would help me succeed in the classroom, the pulpit, and now postgraduate studies.
Logos’ Back-to-School Sale includes dozens of discounted resources, all hand-selected by scholars and pros at Logos who’ve been there and done that.
Here are five products that I highly recommend to ensure you make it through another grueling year of seminary, or that you could recommend to your students. They’re all available for 20% off through September 15. [Read more…]
Academic Jobs: Aug 21-25 2017
theLAB is pleased to present this week’s job postings in biblical studies and theology, and related jobs in history and philosophy. [Read more…]
Fighting the Good Fight: When Translations Differ over a Metaphor
Ἀγωνίζομαι is a Greek word commonly abused by Bible interpreters; and I think it raises an interesting test case for what to do when major Bible translations differ. In this post, I want to try to discern what that word is used to mean in its various contexts. [Read more…]