Tavis BohlingerThis is the most thought-provoking book I have read in a long time . . . none of the weak portions undermine his general thesis that the supernatural personages envisioned in the OT are both central and coherent in the text.
DidaktikosIf you tell the story of Jesus according to Mark and set yourself up as the brilliant professor whose insights will ultimately rescue students from the dark tyranny of ignorance, you have not actually taught Mark’s way. You must be the punchline of...
What you need is a system that allows you to take notes easily (one that is not clunky); allows you to use your notes for drafting essays (one that allows you to find and search easily); and one that protects you from plagiarism, both now and for...
Nijay GuptaManuscript leaf with the opening of the epistle of Saint Paul to the Ephesians. Image source: Wikipedia commons. Ephesians is widely considered one of the most beautifully composed texts of the New Testament. And yet, because some scholars argue...
Image Source: Bloomsbury.com Here’s an opportunity to expand your library that you won’t want to miss: a superb set of OT resources from T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies: 2016 (25 vols.), is...
If you missed ISBL in Rome this year, then we offer you here a sense of the importance of the event and the grandeur of the city through the following photoessay.
Image source: Wikipedia commons Like Romans, Galatians has been at the center of theological debate concerning Paul’s theology. At the heart of the issue is Paul’s view of the Law. Thankfully, several excellent commentaries are available, a few...
Sue Edwards | Dallas Theological Seminary How you view women influences how you teach them. Paul uses familial language to describe Christian relationships, and I’ve found this imagery useful in creating a healthy classroom ethos where both women...
Faithlife StaffAdded Joshua Washington’s review of Paul’s ‘Works of the Law’ in Second Century Reception by Matthew J. Thomas to the Book Reviews: Around the Web section of The New Perspective on Paul .
Historic Ushaw College and Gardens, where over 80 laypeople, professors, poets, and priests gathered for the New Song Conference 24–25 June, 2019. by Richard Rohlfing | Durham University Most of us are aware that 35-40% of the Hebrew Bible can be...
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...
Image source: Wikipedia An Example of Co-Teaching as a Means of Modeling Interdisciplinary Dialogue Eric J. Tully | Trinity Evangelical Divinity School One of the challenges in Christian higher education is navigating the tension between various...
One scholar has referred to 2 Corinthians as the “sleeping giant” of Paul’s letters—often under-appreciated but packing explosive theological power.
What makes a good biblical scholar? Lots of things, many of which have to do with self-awareness. In no particular order:
Strive to be a professor who is concerned about heart application as much as theological information.
Words and Photographs by Tavis Bohlinger The last day of the Tyndale House Conference in Cambridge was bittersweet. While excellent papers were presented all around, at every social hour including coffee breaks and meals there was a sense of pending...
Hey everybody, here is the second instalment of our coverage of the 2019 Tyndale House Conference. Yesterday I posted some commentary and a photo essay on Day 1 (well, actually it was Day 3 since the conference began on Monday, but NT and Biblical...
Words and Photographs by Tavis Bohlinger I’m here in Cambridge right now for the second half of the annual Tyndale House Study Groups. This is my first time attending the conference, although members of the Logos team have been here in past...
Image source: Proclaim Software Scholars have long been fascinated by the window that 1 Corinthians provides into life of the early Christians. In this letter we also have creedal information, gender relationship teachings, and—what’s up with...
Let me encourage you, as a professor, to get involved—or stay involved—in ministry
Daniel K. EngUr wasn’t a small and backwards village. It was a major city with foundations of wealth and skill. Abraham left and lived in tents, because he believed in an even greater Architect and Builder.
Stop preaching sermons on the OT that wouldn't pass muster in a Sunday School class. Preach with authority, preach with the best, preach with the men whose sermons lit the church on fire with illustrations that are still relevant today.
Added Emma Wasserman’s book Apocalypse as Holy War: Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul to the Bibliography of the Paul and Empire section.
Book Review Emma Wasserman, Yale University Press, 2018. 352 pp. Review by Scot Miller. This present era of binary perspectives and hyperbolic representations of conflict or truth finds a convenient source in biblical literary genres. The...
Image source: Faithlife Proclaim 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...
Reading Plutarch will generate new ideas in your own thinking, ushering you into the company of the great minds who came before and inviting you to live life well along with them.
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...
I realize these are widely held views, and that I am going up against some of the titans of biblical scholarship in the 20th century.
Such is the power of journals: they are the “primary sources” of the scholarly debate and conversation.
Brevard Childs and Julius Wellhausen are two of my intellectual heroes. But they do not get along—so to speak.