Tavis Bohlingerby Donald McIntyre Textual criticism is a hot topic among biblical scholars. The views on the discipline’s profitability span the extremes of being of crucial importance for serious scholarship and the opposing view of being hostile towards the...
Didaktikos"Teaching students to examine a passage for these oral conventions can achieve multiple pedagogical goals in graduate and undergraduate Bible courses."
"My work is for all who are passionate to know what it is we are handling when we take up the New Testament and the Bible as a whole into our hands."
"Thus, the physical body that goes into the ground when buried is the physical body that will be raised up out of the ground one day, albeit changed"
"Paying attention to these basic details can pay huge exegetical dividends when it comes to interpreting the strange roles [pronouns] can play in discourse."
"In order to decide how aspect interacts with the actional potential of verb constellations, you first need to know which situation type the verb constellations in your text represent."
"Responsible scholars and pastors will invest time into familiarizing themselves with the same apocryphal texts that Jesus and his apostles had either read or heard during their own lifetimes."
"Education needs to recenter around the idea that every human’s primary calling is to put God on display and that our workplaces are simply one of many contexts for doing so."
"Beyond biblical studies, TUAT has long been recognized as a reference resource in disciplines such as ANE Studies, Egyptology, as well as Historiography of Religion and the Cultural History of the ANE."
"If we completely detach our modern-day applications from a text’s original, historical context, we risk misapplying the text—sometimes in embarrassing ways."
"even if your translation is correct because you by chance picked words in the target language whose concepts overlap sufficiently with those in the original, this correct translation is not of much use. For you will have *nothing but* the...
"My goal as a professor is for you to do what you need to do here at the church—not just always rely on, as you were saying, things from the West, but to have there be a mutuality."
"Most NT scholars are not well-acquainted with cognitive linguistics. (I’m certainly not.) That’s why I think we should be all the more careful when we immerse ourselves too deep in associative meanings."
Nijay GuptaImage: © Tavis Bohlinger
One of the most important set of resources in which students of the Bible and pastors can invest is New Testament backgrounds and context. We will divide up our discussion into four categories.
Part 1: Introduction Why this blog post series? Beginning this April, I will work as an assistant at the University of Basel at the chair of Prof. Moisés Mayordomo. Already on my second work day, I was going to give a presentation in the...
"I chose intentionally to forsake the possibility of reading broadly and chose to read much more narrowly instead."
Image: © Tavis Bohlinger Until a few weeks ago, COVID-19 was a distant problem that many discounted as superfluous to their life; it is a global catastrophe. No one today questions the relevancy of COVID-19 to their local community. The surge of...
Students and pastors should have a few really good introductions to the New Testament in their personal library. The good news is that there are lots to choose from. But with such a wide selection comes questions about preferred academic level...
Google Classroom . . . has great potential to meet several institutional needs and can be easily adopted for theological education.
"My goal was to imbibe Scripture in its original form in every conceivable situation where reading, even briefly, might be possible."
The prayer guide Operation World has taught me much over the years. By its estimates, only 16.7 percent of Christians lived in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in 1900. That figure rose to 63.2 percent by 2010 and is projected to reach 70 percent in...
"Seminary students want to know and be known in their classes. If you are committed to caring for your students, they will respond and engage."
"I want to teach in such a way that there is intra-trinitarian presence in teaching. If it is about the overarching plan of God, it is about the Holy Spirit revealing the Scriptures, and it is about Christ being magnified."
"Reading Cyril has helped me to see . . . that the heart of our faith is a person."
"In studying the Bible, a big part of our goal is to understand the text in its original historical and cultural context. This means we have the difficult responsibility of trying to read God’s Word with “Middle Eastern eyes” instead of our innate...
One of my warmest memories with Professor Hurtado occurred in 2014 at SBL in San Diego over a meal. We went to lunch at a French café and before we began eating, he paused and said: “Let’s pray over our meal.” He thanked God for the meal, closing...
"The impression we want to create is that Jesus is the reason why we have a New Testament. Jesus is the momentum, the event, the power, and explanation for why Christianity began"
Jonathan Homrighausenlike to illustrate the power of Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary by Conceptual Categories to deepen Biblical Hebrew word studies.
Mark WardToday, November 1, Faithlife is launching the brand new Bible Study Magazine Podcast!
"To spend such an extended time immersed so deeply in a text of Scripture was a wonderful experience, and a number of my writing weeks offered me a profound sense of being in the presence of God."