Right now Logos is offering up to ten $5 coupons for any purchase of a select number of excellent resources currently in pre-publication status.
That’s $50 total if you pre-order 10 or more!
[Read more…]Logos Prepub Summer Celebration!
Two Paid NT PhD Posts in Switzerland
We were just made aware of two new paid positions at the University of Bern, Switzerland, in New Testament. These are well-funded posts, see details below:
[Read more…]20% off the Word Biblical Themes Collection
One of the most useful commentaries for my research during the long and strenuous days of writing up a PhD was Jimmy Dunn’s 2-volume commentary on Romans. There is such a depth of insight and intensity of focus in the Word series that each page encourages working harder to grasp every nuance of the text as it presents itself in Scripture.
I’ve used Word Commentaries in other contexts as well, including preaching. But there is another excellent resource from Word that you should consider investing in: the 15-volume Word Biblical Themes Collection.
[Read more…]Get the Most Out of Your Research Trip: Advice for First-Time Archive Researchers
Ryan Griffith | Indianapolis Theological Seminary
Although library archives are most often the domain of historians and other students of the humanities, research interests will take seminary faculty into the archives from time to time. Even biblical scholarship can unexpectedly require archival research—whether to investigate a rare manuscript or to access a theologian’s unpublished correspondence. Whatever the occasion, digging around in university archives can be an inspiring experience. If you don’t plan well, however, it will be inefficient and frustrating—particularly if you are traveling to a university far away from home.
A measure of advance planning will make a research trip more enjoyable and productive—and potentially save you or your students from having to make a costly trip to a distant archive more than once. Unfortunately, graduate-level research courses sometimes neglect practical guidance on archival research. If you teach and supervise graduate (especially doctoral) students, consider including a guide to archival research as part of your regular instruction.1
Here are some tips for getting the most out of a research trip.
[Read more…]Why You Should Read the Apocrypha
Did you know that Athanasius, Cogent of the Trinity, recommended reading the Apocrypha? In his 39th Festal Letter, after giving us one of the earliest canon lists, he writes the following:
[Read more…]Radical Decision Making: A Christian-College Response to Covid-19
Let me give you a quick a snapshot of what happened during the most difficult season of leadership I have ever experienced as a leader in higher education:
- 25% loss of our operating budget in 30 days
- Enrolment swung from 15% growth to 10% drop (25% swing)
- We had to lay off 30% of our staff
- Our Financial reserves had been exhausted
- With the remaining staff we were as much as 9 weeks behind on payroll at one point
Surprisingly, this was not a result of the recent pandemic, this was 10 years ago! God had entrusted us with a significant season of affliction; it was painful, it was hard, and it forced us to ask some really difficult questions that God used to refine us through an incredibly difficult season. These are questions that are just as significant now as the world of higher education is in a state of serious disruption and refinement.
[Read more…]Happy Memorial Day! From the Editor, an Annapolis Grad
Happy Memorial Day to our loyal readers of the Logos Academy Blog. Here’s a 25% discount in recognition of our country’s service members and their incredible sacrifices.
[Read more…]The Covid Vaccine has 666 Written All Over It…and Why that Doesn’t Matter According to Revelation
by Matthew L. Halsted, PhD
In an article published last week on theLAB, COVID-19 and The Mark of the Beast, I claimed that the mark of the beast (666) is most likely not a physical or visible mark (Rev. 13:16). The biggest objection I received from readers had to do with this very point: how could the mark be non-physical and invisible if having the mark was what allowed people to “buy or sell” things (Rev. 13:17)? Wouldn’t the mark need to be visible in order to do that? Furthermore, isn’t there enough evidence that the vaccine is the “number” of the beast, including a bill currently before the House of Representatives (6666) and the very letters “C-O-R-O-N-A” themselves?1 These are good questions, and I think a response would be helpful. But first, we need to start from square one and do some background work.
[Read more…]COVID-19 and The Mark of the Beast
Watching the news a few days ago, I saw photos and videos of those protesting the COVID-19 quarantine on full display. I’m growing weary of how certain biblical texts are attached to certain political movements and demonstrations—texts that are, quite frankly, misused and misunderstood. Sadly, Christianity ends up getting misrepresented in the process.
[Read more…]Lexical Semantics and Lexicography
Part 2 of the series Observations from a Linguistic Spectator: An Annual Report.
For part 1, see here.
A Semiotic Framework
I’m going to cheat right away in this first post in this series that discusses an actual linguistic subject – quite a bit of what I discuss here isn’t that new to me. So it’s not really part of the honest annual report of new insights that I promised. Still, I feel like I have to include these considerations because in my experience this is perhaps the single issue where publications in biblical studies fail most often.
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