Faithlife StaffOver on the Huffington Post, filmmaker Robert Orlando has posted his most recent comments related to his film A Polite Bribe: An Apostle’s Final Bid. I posted my reflections of the documentary after the 2012 showing in Chicago here. In...
Added a link to John M.G. Barclay’s review of Paul and the Faithfulness of God by N.T. Wright in the Scottish Journal of Theology to the Book Reviews section under The New Perspective on Paul: Around the Web and updated the link to Douglas...
Added the Festschrift to Douglas J. Moo edited by Matthew Harmon and Jay E. Smith, Studies in the Pauline Epistles: Essays in Honor of Douglas J. Moo, to the Bibliography under The New Perspective on Paul and Robert Orlando’s book Apostle...
Added a link to Paul’s Non-Jews Do Not Become “Jews,” But Do They Become “Jewish”?: Reading Romans 2:25-29 Within Judaism, Alongside Josephus by Mark D. Nanos under the category Articles under Paul Within Judaism.
Added a link to Judaizing the Nations: The Ritual Demands of Paul’s Gospel by Paula Fredriksen under the category Articles under Paul Within Judaism.
Added a link to Paul’s Relationship to Torah in Light of His Strategy “to Become Everything to Everyone” (1 Corinthians 9:19-22) by Mark D. Nanos under the category Articles under Paul Within Judaism.
Added a link to the Horizons in Biblical Theology article “Spheres of Influence” in the Epistle to the Galatians by A. Chadwick Thornhill under the category Around the Web: From the New Perspective.
Added Paul Within Judaism: Restoring the First-Century Context to the Apostle, ed. by Mark D. Nanos and Magnus Zetterholm, to the Bibliography of Paul Within Judaism.
Added a link From the New Perspective to N.T. Wright: Panel Discussion on Pauline Theology with Faculty, a YouTube video of a Duke Divinity School panel discussion with N.T. Wright, Douglas Campbell, Susan Eastman, and J. Ross Wagner. Thanks to...
N. T. Wright, Fortress Press, 2013, 605 pp. In the first volume of his two-volume magnum opus on Paul, Wright lays the groundwork for his interpretation of the apostle’s writings. He begins by quoting from a letter of Pliny the Younger to one of his...
Book Review Bruce W. Longenecker and Todd D. Still, Zondervan, 2014, 408 pp. This volume is an attractive new addition to the literature devoted to the life and letters of the apostle Paul. It is designed mainly as a textbook for college-level...
Added new links to the Book Reviews section under The New Perspective on Paul: Around the Web: Phil Johnson’s review of What Saint Paul Really Said by N.T. Wright and Guy Waters’ review of Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s...
Added a link to the video of Mark Goodacre’s interview with Robert Orlando, director of A Polite Bribe to the Articles page under Paul and Empire.
Added Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking a Pauline Theme by Stephen Westerholm to the Bibliography under The New Perspective on Paul.
Missed the screenings? In just one more week Robert Orlando’s groundbreaking documentary on Paul will be widely available to the general public: The film is being distributed by VCI Entertainment through Cinedigm.The DVD will be released on...
Under the category Paul and Empire, added J. Albert Harrill’s book Paul the Apostle: His Life and Legacy in Their Roman Context to the Bibliography and added the reviews of Ross P. Ponder and James Harrison to the Book Reviews section.
Under the category of Challenging the New Perspective, added a link to Tabletalk magazine’s February 2010 issue, which was devoted to criticizing N.T. Wright and “the new perspectives on Paul.”
Added N.T. Wright’s latest three books to the Bibliography under The New Perspective on Paul: Paul and the Faithfulness of God, Paul and His Recent Interpreters, and Pauline Perspectives. Also added Douglas J. Moo’s review of Paul and...
Added a link to 1 Corinthians Bible Study Index – Reta’s Reflections by Reta Halteman Finger on the Articles page under Paul and Empire. This collection of articles from Christian Feminism Today situates Paul’s Corinthian...
Calvin Theological Seminary 3233 Burton Street SE Grand Rapids MI 49546 Tuesday October 15, 2013 This day-long conference will feature Dean Margaret Mitchell, Ph.D. as the keynote speaker. Dr. Mitchell is the Dean of the University of Chicago...
Added David G. Horrell’s review of Moral Formation according to Paul: The Context an Coherence of Pauline Ethics by James W. Thompson to the Book Reviews section under The New Perspective on Paul: Around the Web and added the book to the...
Added Douglas A. Campbell’s book The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul to the Bibliography under The New Perspective on Paul.
Book Review Ben Witherington III, Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2011, 341 pp. Ben Witherington shares a special insight in the introduction to his 2011 commentary on Paul’s Letter to the Philippians. He writes: “Words such as grace, faith, and believe...
Added Arthur J. Dewey’s review of Four Views on the Apostle Paul ed. by Michael F. Bird to the Book Reviews section of The New Perspective on Paul: Around the Web.
Minor maintenance — fixed some broken links.
Book Review James D. Tabor, Simon & Schuster, 2012, 320 pp. Books that challenge conventional wisdom and provoke spirited dialogue can be much more valuable than books that simply reiterate popular opinion or buttress our own personal...
On November 18, during the 2012 meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Chicago, I finally got the chance to view the long-awaited documentary by filmmaker Robert Orlando, A Polite Bribe, at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Orlando has proven...
Planning on attending the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion? This is your chance to see an advance screening of A Polite Bribe, Robert Orlando’s documentary on Paul. It’s...
Added to the Bibliography Michael F. Bird’s latest contribution to Zondervan’s Counterpoints series, Four Views on the Apostle Paul with Reformed (Thomas R. Schreiner), Catholic (Luke Timothy Johnson), Post-New Perspective (Douglas...
Added James D.G. Dunn’s review of Whom God Has Called: The Relationship of Church and Israel in Pauline Interpretation, 1920 to the Present by Christopher Zoccali to the Book Reviews section under The New Perspective on Paul: Around the Web...