The Logos Academic Blog
For decades, N. T. Wright has written groundbreaking works that have reshaped our understanding of the earliest Christians. And now it all culminates in his latest release: a 900+ page, definitive overview of the New Testament as seen through first-century eyes.
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This short Pauline epistle has long fascinated scholars, especially the so-called “Christ Hymn” (2:6-11), offering the possibility that Paul embedded here a piece of liturgy or tradition from earliest Christianity (or Paul proves himself here a poet as well as a theologian). More recently, attention has turned to Paul’s shaping of Christian identity, his attitude towards his own Jewish identity and his pre-Christ past, and how he teaches the Philippians to navigate their life together in a potentially hostile context. Exegetical and theological wisdom is widely available in existing commentaries.
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by Rev Dr. David Instone-Brewer, Cambridge
We tend to read the OT as though God is the only spiritual being, and at the first hint of plurality (e.g., “let us create”) we look ahead to Jesus. There are of course “strange bits” like Psalm 82 and Job 1, but these can be ignored. In the NT things become a bit more complex, with Satan, demons, and angels, and we assume that these will somehow explain the strange bits of the OT.
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Inviting Students to Confront Their Misrepresentations About Jesus
Michael Kibbe | Great Northern University
“The Gospel of Mark can be summed up in two words: Rome wins.” I speak these words about sixty minutes into my first hermeneutics session of every semester. It’s a sophomore-level general education course at an evangelical liberal arts university, and since the students have already had OT and NT survey on top of whatever church/Christian education background they possess, the biblical literacy rate is reasonably high. But whatever perspective they’ve come in with about the story of Jesus, “Rome wins” probably isn’t it.1
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Galatians. Not the longest of Paul’s epistles, but in some ways the most forceful. Not always the most beloved of NT writings, but in many ways the most lovely. This epistle that resounds the aria of grace with such brevity has now been engaged in a nearly 1,000-page commentary by the legendarily prolific Craig Keener.1
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The 16-volume Classic Commentaries and Studies on the General and Pastoral Epistles is currently under development through the Logos Pre-pub program, which means that you can enjoy huge savings by getting in early.
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Nijay K. Gupta, associate professor of New Testament at Portland Seminary (PhD, University of Durham) is beginning a blog series at theLAB on biblical commentaries on the Pauline epistles. Dr. Gupta has written three commentaries (Colossians, 1-2 Thessalonians, Lord’s Prayer), and he has another commentary in production (Philippians, Cambridge University Press, co-written with Michael F. Bird), and is currently writing the Galatians volume for the Story of God commentary series. You can follow Gupta’s personal blog @ www.cruxsolablog.com
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Words by Mike Aubrey, Photographs by Tavis Bohlinger
Both Brill’s new Dictionary of Ancient Greek (GE) and Liddell and Scott Greek–English Lexicon with Revised Supplement (LSJM) are more or less the same size and length. As a publishing decision, this introduces an important set of constraints upon GE’s editors, who must make various judgments, comprises, and decisions in what they choose to prioritize.
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We recently had the opportunity to speak with Charles Lee Irons about his impressively researched monograph, The Righteousness of God (Mohr Siebeck, 2015). Lee offered some keen insight during our interview concerning the New Perspective on Paul, the use of “righteousness” language in the NT and surrounding literature, the subjective/objective genitive debate, and the significance of the “old perspective” for the health of the church.
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We asked a few question recently of Jason Whitlark (Baylor University) regarding his recent book, Resisting Empire: Rethinking the Purpose of the Letter to “the Hebrews” (T&T Clark). Jason’s book is part of the special LNTS series (2016), that you can get for a great price through pre-publication (see below). Enjoy the interview, and leave comments below!
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