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Posted in Biblical Studies, Old Testament on Sep 30th, 2011
Zondervan grammars are constructed around a systematic and programmatic presentation of the language. This quality is the key to the enduring success of Robert Mounce’s Basics of Biblical Greek and Basics of Biblical Hebrew by Gary Pratico and Miles Van Pelt, both of which are used by hundreds of schools across North America. Mounce’s book takes a [...]
Posted in 1 Corinthians, Biblical Studies, New Testament on Sep 29th, 2011
Kenneth E. Bailey is one of most creative, popular–and yet scholarly–authors around. Specializing in understanding the ancient world ‘through the eyes’ of poor and/or common people, his two most recent books with IVP Academic Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels and (just released) Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes: Cultural Studies in 1 Corinthians epitomize his work. Both help us [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 19th, 2011
Matthew: The scope of your book Hermeneutics: An Introduction (Eerdmans: 2009) is, to put it flatly, breathtaking. What is the intent of this book, and how does it serve those who are interested in the field of hermeneutics? Thiselton: The book follows fairly closely my lectures on Hermeneutics, given at Nottingham University for M.A. and [...]
Posted in Interview, Philosophy, Politics/Political Theory on Sep 12th, 2011
I have been reading Nicholas Wolterstorff since my earliest days as a graduate student. I was first exposed to him after reading Kant’s Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason through the discovery his little book Reason within the Bounds of Religion (Eerdmans: 1984), a book that addresses many of the same epistemological questions as Kant and whose [...]
Posted in 1 Corinthians, Biblical Studies, Interview, New Testament on Sep 6th, 2011
The second interview in our Eerdmans 100 series shifts gears from Theology to Biblical Studies, and highlights the most recent volume in Eerdmans’ acclaimed Pillar New Testament Commentary series. The First Letter to the Corinthians [PNTC] is a collaborative effort by New Testament scholars Roy Ciampa and Brian Rosner and is a solid mid-level exegetical [...]