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5 Days of Pre-Pub! Day 1: The Complete Biblical Library and Ancient Christian Texts

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On this final week leading up to Christmas, the Academic Blog is featuring a select number of pre-publication resources from Logos. Pre-pub deals are a great deal, with books often discounted significantly from retail pricing. You can purchase these for yourself, or even better, give the gift of reading and research this Christmas to friends and family.

Today is Day One, and we’re delighted to feature two great resources: The Complete Library of Old and New Testament, and the Ancient Christian Texts Collection:

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Paul: A Multicultural Leader

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By James P. Chaisson, Ed.D.

Introduction

After his resurrection, as he was preparing to leave this earth and ascend to the right hand of the Father, Jesus told his followers, and by extension the church universal, to go into all the world and make disciples of all the nations (Matt 28:19-20). Because the mission of the Church is to go and transform this world with the gospel message (Gal 3:26-29), Christian leaders must understand how to effectively interact with and lead people from a variety of cultural, ethnic, and socio-political backgrounds. After all, the world is becoming ever more interconnected with people from various backgrounds interacting daily.

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What to do with a PhD? Part 5: Editing and Publishing

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The world of publishing plays an important role in the life of a professor engaged in the guild. While many who work in publishing have education in other fields, it is often advantageous for publishers to hire experts in the field of biblical and theological studies to work as editors. They are intimately involved in influencing professors, students and churches through a wide variety of publishing projects.

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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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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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