In today’s saturated market creating a truly unique commentary is a virtual impossibility. Yet, Zondervan’s ZECNT series is unique, not because its format is original, or its content new, but because the series is fundamentally based on the common sense needs of people who wish to work with the text. In the truest sense of [...]
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In the most recent issue of Christianity Today Scot McKnight rightly points out that many Christians are having increasing difficulty reconciling Jesus and Paul. This is, of course, a major question that has been frequently discussed by NT scholars and theologians in recent years. It was even a major aspect–if not the central concern–of N.T. [...]
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For months I have been waiting for this commentary on 1 Corinthians to appear. But like a little kid on Christmas, I just can’t wait. I assume there are others out there who have waited with equal anticipation, and so I decided to post the books very detailed outline for your perusal. I have highlighted [...]
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In my August 20th blog post, I mentioned an interview with Andrew Pitts and Joshua Walker pertaining to the authorship of Hebrews and their thesis that Luke acted as a stenographer for Paul. Michael Bird performed the interview on his blog, euangelizomai.blogspot.com, and the questions raised were quite compelling in my mind. Here is my [...]
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In part 2 of the Read-In we covered Allen’s analysis of Apollos and Barnabas as potential authors of Hebrews. The evidence to support these candidates is, to say the least, very thin. The Apostle Paul however, is another matter entirely. In this supplemental post we will concisely examine Allen’s treatment of the Pauline hypothesis. The [...]
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In part 1 of our Read-In of the Lukan Authorship of Hebrews we looked at the primary methodological structures set up by David Allen. Today, in part 2, we are going to see how those structures affect Allen’s treatment of the two authorial candidates for Hebrews, namely, Barnabas and Apollos. In a supplementary post (to [...]
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What’s in the Word: Rethinking the Socio-Rhetorical Character of the New Testament. By Ben Witherington III. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2009. Pp. 195. Read a Sample. Christianbook.com/academic $24.99. Bryan R. Dyer, Ph.D. Candidate McMaster Divinity College Hamilton, ON. Ben Witherington has for the greater part of the last twenty years been refining and applying [...]
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Ok, so we have our first winners for the Christianbook.com Academic blog “Read In”. The five winners will receive one copy of David Allen’s book Lukan Authorship of Hebrews. But before we announce the winners here is our reading plan for the book and some other details about our new “Read In” feature. Day One [...]
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When ever one begins to deal with the problematic (at best) nature of how the New Testament uses the New Testament, one must eventually engage with Paul’s conversion. As I began to make my way through Steve Moyise’s new book Paul and Scripture, I have been repeatedly struck by the problematic circumstances that surround the [...]
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Anyone who follows biblical studies closely is well aware that one, if not the fastest growing and most important fields is how the New Testament uses the Old Testament. But as with most scholarly emphasis, the non-academic Bible reader probably knows little if anything about the fascinating reality of the Bible within the Bible. Granted, [...]
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