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Best Resources for Studying New Testament Backgrounds and Context

April 25, 2020 by nijaygupta 7 Comments

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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.

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Filed Under: Miscellaneous, New Testament Tagged With: backgrounds

Strategies and Reasons for Writing

January 25, 2018 by Tavis Bohlinger 5 Comments

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by Craig S. Keener 

Younger seminary professors sometimes ask me about my experiences as a writer. Many have trouble finding time to write, a situation for which I have sympathy. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Didaktikos, Writing Tagged With: backgrounds, craig keener, tenure, writing

A Strategic Approach to Reading Background Texts of the New Testament

June 27, 2017 by shawnwilhite 16 Comments

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While many NT scholars may know a whole lot about Matthew–Revelation, many lack the ability to pick up and read Josephus and Clement in the original Greek, or Seneca and Cicero in Latin. This reveals not just a severe lack of language ability, but, more importantly, a lack of familiarity with the ideas and historical contexts of Early Jewish, Greco-Roman, and Early Christian authors and texts.

My belief (and I’m not alone in this) is that, as a NT and Early Christian scholar, I must do more than be mindful of the vast body of literature outside the NT; I actually have to read it. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Greek, Miscellaneous, New Testament Tagged With: Apocrypha, backgrounds, Bible, classics, original languages, phd advice, pseudepigrapha, reading plan, seminary, stoics, theology

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