Faithlife StaffAdded David Bolton’s dissertation Justifying Paul Among Jews and Christians? A Critical Investigation of the New Perspective on Paul in Light of Jewish-Christian Dialogue to the Bibliography under The New Perspective on Paul.
Daryl EldridgeIf God has called you to get a seminary education, here are some tips that might help you to go debt free or reduce your debt. 1. Get a ministry position, even if it is part-time, and serve for several years before going to seminary. By doing...
Recently, a local news program reported that educational debt in the US is $870 billion, more than the nations credit card debt. Nearly 10% of the debt is past due. In Texas, 56% of college graduates owe an average of $21,000 to private and...
Added Chris M. Smith’s review of Stephen J. Chester’s dissertation Conversion in Corinth: Perspectives on Conversion in Paul’s Theology and the Corinthian Church to the Book Reviews section under The New Perspective on Paul and added the...
Added Matthew Forest Lowe’s review of Chrisopher D. Stanley, ed., The Colonized Apostle: Paul in Postcolonial Eyes to the Book Reviews section under Paul and Empire and added the book to the Bibliography.
Added the following to the Bibliography under The New Perspective on Paul: Cornelis P. Venema’s Getting the Gospel Right: Assessing the Reformation and New Perspectives on Paul (a Calvinist critique) and E.P. Sanders’ Paul: A Very Short...
Updated the link to Paul’s Contradictions — Can They Be Resolved? by John G. Gager under the Articles section of Paul Wthin Judaism.
Book Review James D.G. Dunn, Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2011, 221 pp. The back cover promotes this book as a “compact theological primer,” a description that could be improved in accuracy as “compact biblical theological primer.” This monograph is a...
Earlier today The Huffington Post published an article by filmmaker Robert Orlando titled A Polite Bribe: A New Narrative for Paul and the Early Church? For more information about Orlando’s documentary and a list of scholars featured in the...
Added James S. Hanson’s review of Paul: A Guide for the Perplexed by Timothy G. Gombis to the Book Reviews section under The New Perspective on Paul: Around the Web and added the book to the Bibliography.
Added a link to An Offstage Perspective on the NPP by John G. Krivak in the category Around the Web: On The New Perspective.
Book Review Arland J. Hultgren, Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2011, 834 pp. Many New Testament scholars could be pressured to write a commentary on Paul’s epistle to Rome “because,” to paraphrase George Mallory, “it’s there.” For a noted scholar like...
Added Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels by James D.G. Dunn to the Bibliography.
When the publisher sent me the book From M.Div. to Rev. by Eubanks, I confess I was less than enthusiastic about it reviewing it. However, I quickly changed my attitude. Books of this genre often just state the obvious, but Eubanks does a good job...
Book Review Bernard Brandon Scott, editor, Polebridge Press, 2011, 94 pp. As the Jesus Seminar now begins to engage the questions of the historical Paul, the Polebridge Press Jesus Seminar Guides study series has published its first collection of...
Book Review Arthur J. Dewey, Roy W. Hoover, Lane C. McGaughy, and Daryl D. Schmidt, Polebridge Press, 2010, 270 pp. Those who appreciated the fresh and edgy translation of the Scholars Version of the Gospels will be thrilled with the Westar...
And now for something completely different! Whoever said that biblical studies can’t be fun? Indulge in the lighter side of faith with Mark Mattison’s new e-book, Bible Puns: 100 Original Jokes, now available for only $2.99! In this...
Book Review Bruce W. Longenecker, Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2010, 400 pp. It is widely agreed that the apostle Paul’s theological reflections had little to do with social structures and economic issues. This consensus, however, is increasingly being...
Eliminated some dead links and updated the links to Apocalypsis and Polis: Pauline Reflections on the Theological Politics of Yoder, Hauerwas, and Milbank by Douglas Harink, N.T. Wright and New Insights on Paul by Jerry Bowyer, and Paul’s...
Added Bruce W. Longenecker’s Remember the Poor: Paul, Poverty, and the Greco-Roman World to the Bibliography page under Paul and Empire. Hope to put up a book review soon.
Book Review Kent L. Yinger, Cascade Books, 2011, 120 pp. Kent L. Yinger’s The New Perspective on Paul: An Introduction is as accessible as it is academically sound. In only 120 pages he outlines and illustrates nearly every aspect of the new...
Added The New Perspective on Paul: An Introduction by Kent L. Yinger and Paul Unbound: Other Perspectives on the Apostle by Mark D. Given to the bibliographies. Thanks to Mark Nanos for the tip.
Updated the link to God, Israel, and the Gentiles: Rhetoric and Situation in Romans 9-11 by Johann D. Kim as reviewed by Mark D. Nanos in Catholic Biblical Quarterly. In addition, we have finally broken out a new category labeled Paul Within...
Anthony RussoWeekly chapel is an exciting rite of passage in the first weeks of seminary. I can still remember many sermons where a pastor would talk about his own chapel experiences way back in the day. This past year it was my turn. My wife even came to the...
Seth RossIt has been four months since we began this journey to and through seminary together. Thank you to those who have read, commented, encouraged and helped me along the way. There is one resounding question in my mind that continually drives me to my...
Nick NgIn Cross-Shattered Christ, Stanley Hauerwas wrote in his introduction that, ‘Mystery does not name a puzzle that cannot be solved. Rather, mystery names that which we know, but the more we know, the more we are forced to rethink everything we...
Jason ChamberlainIn my mind, the primary reason we attend seminary is so that we can learn how to handle God’s Word appropriately. Of course there are many other benefits to seminary that go beyond that, but I believe that this is what makes seminary unique...
Can you name a team sport that starts with ‘s’? (Think about it’ll wait.) How about ‘seminary’? Oh, you don’t think so? Well, you’ll have another chance later. Hopefully by then I will have changed your...
Mark Goodacre has just announced on his NT Blog that Eisenbrauns has launched a new academic journal. Edited by Michael Bird, the new journal is the Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters (JSPL). A sample copy can be downloaded here in PDF...
Brian SchmittGrabbing nibbles all morning of the food being prepared for our Thanksgiving lunch is one of my favorite parts of the day. I wink and sneak them to my children as they pass by. They get the message, “Don’t let Mom see you with the...