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5 Days of Pre-Pub! Day 2: Journal Bundles

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On these final five days leading up to Christmas, the Academic Blog is featuring a select number of pre-publication resources from Logos. Pre-pub deals are a great deal, with books often discounted significantly from retail pricing. You can purchase these for yourself, or even better, give the gift of reading and research this Christmas to friends and family.

Today is Day Two, and we’re delighted to feature three great journal bundles, the Academic, Theology, and Master Journal Bundles:

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Sean Adams on “What Makes a good Biblical Scholar or Theologian?”

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Although the image of the lone scholar is prominent, it is not really accurate. All of us need other scholars to sharpen our ideas and to gain new viewpoints on the texts. As a result, it is important for scholars to be humble regarding their ideas and to be able to work with others. [Read more…]

Christoph Heilig on “What makes a good Biblical Scholar or Theologian?”

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For me personally, a good biblical scholar is someone who enriches the discipline not only, and not even primarily, through his or her publications, but also through the way he or she interacts with colleagues, especially those who do not yet hold powerful positions or might never do so. [Read more…]

Karen Langton on “What makes a good Biblical Scholar or Theologian?”

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Always be willing to see your own weaknesses and strengths and know when to seek help.

Always be willing, hoping, to have your argument proved false, but don’t give up.

Reconsider, redesign, and rediscover.

~Karen Langton, Postgraduate Researcher, University of Birmingham

John Anthony Dunne on “What makes a good Biblical Scholar or Theologian?”

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The kind of biblical scholar that I admire is someone who has a contagious passion for understanding the text in all of its facets, a calling from God that compels them, and the desire and ability to contribute in meaningful ways to both the academy and the church.

~John Anthony Dunne, Assistant Professor of New Testament, Bethel University

John also manages and posts regularly at The Two Cities. 

Grant Macaskill on “What Makes a Good Biblical Scholar or Theologian?”

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We continue our series on the qualities and practices of good biblical scholar with the esteemed Grant Macaskill of Aberdeen University.

I’m sensitive to a number of things on the back of the intellectual humility work I’ve done recently, and obviously such humility would be a key marker: we are all imperfect, finite thinkers, who are dependent on God and on other creaturely thinkers, and have to be open to exchange with others if truth is to be comprehended. John Barclay, Simon Gathercole or Loren Stuckenbruck are all lovely examples, I think, of such openness, by contrast to some others who may be rather more entrenched in their own positions.   [Read more…]