Andy Naselli

Thoughts on Theology

Exegesis

Coming in 2026: Exegetical Fallacies, 3rd edition

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This book should release by August 2026:

Carson, D. A., and Andrew David Naselli. Exegetical Fallacies. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2026.

Dr. Carson wrote the first two editions, which released in 1984 and 1996. Baker Academic plans to release the third edition thirty years after the second edition.

While Dr. Carson’s voice still predominates in the third edition, I have updated Exegetical Fallacies in three ways:

  1. I have removed some less relevant examples and added new ones, including some new fallacies. This third edition is about 30% longer than the second edition.
  2. Instead of using only labels as the headings for fallacies throughout the book, I have labeled each fallacy, and then I concisely define that fallacy. This makes the book a bit more user-friendly.
  3. I have lightly updated the style to make it as accessible as I could for non-experts. I have attempted to make it readable for beginning theology students as well as stimulating for those who are intermediate or more advanced.

Related: Tools to Study the Bible and Theology.

Tools to Study the Bible and Theology

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Earlier this year my fellow pastors assigned to me the task of preparing a list of recommended resources for our church’s website. As I worked on this project, it snowballed into a little book—over 80 pages (over 30,000 words). My church has published it as a free e-book in PDF format:

Naselli, Andrew David. Tools to Study the Bible and Theology. Stillwater, MN: Christ the King Church, 2025.
  • I organize the tools into various categories, and I annotate them.
  • It may be a bit overwhelming to see such a long document of tools, so at the beginning of the document, I include a list of ten tools to prioritize.
  • I want to encourage my church to continually benefit from excellent tools that help them study the Bible and theology.
  • You may want to add some of the tools I recommend to your reading queue, and in the future you may want to search this document when you are looking for helpful tools on particular topics.

Take up and read!

God’s Good Design for Men and Women and 1 Timothy 2:9–15

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I am preaching a series on 1 Timothy to Christ the King Church in Stillwater. When it came time to preach on 1 Timothy 2:9–15, I zoomed out and preached four sermons on God’s good design for men and women, and then I zoomed back in and preached five sermons on 1 Timothy 2:9–15. The videos are below, and audio is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts (I use Overcast).

1. God’s Good Design for Men and Women: Part 1 of 4—A Spectrum of Views and Two Types of Complementarianism | March 30, 2025

2. God’s Good Design for Men and Women: Part 2 of 4—Five Exhortations | April 6, 2025

3. God’s Good Design for Men and Women: Part 3 of 4—Three Arguments for Biblical Patriarchy | April 13, 2025

4. God’s Good Design for Men and Women: Part 4 of 4—Three More Arguments for Biblical Patriarchy | April 27, 2025

5. How Should Women Dress? (1 Timothy 2:9–10) | May 4, 2025

6. A Woman Must Learn Quietly and Submissively (1 Timothy 2:11–12) | May 18, 2025

7. Two Reasons a Woman Must Learn Quietly and Submissively (1 Timothy 2:13–14) | May 25, 2025

8. Responding to Objections to 1 Timothy 2:11–14 | June 15, 2025

9. A Woman Will Be Saved through Childbearing (1 Timothy 2:15) | June 22, 2025

Related: Pastor Tim Stephens, pastor of Fairview Baptist Church in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, interviewed me on July 19, 2025: “Sunday Seminar: Evangelical Feminism, Egalitarianism, Complementarianism, & Patriarchy” (~64 min.):

Our Priest in the Pattern of Melchizedek: Eight Conclusions Hebrews 5–7 Draws about Jesus the Messiah from Genesis 14:18–20 and Psalm 110:4

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New article:

Naselli, Andrew David. “Our Priest in the Pattern of Melchizedek: Eight Conclusions Hebrews 5–7 Draws about Jesus the Messiah from Genesis 14:18–20 and Psalm 110:4.” Christ Over All, 5 July 2024.

Summary: Because Jesus the Messiah is our priest in the pattern of Melchizedek …

  1. he is the supreme priest (Heb. 4:14–5:10).
  2. he has entered the Most Holy Place on our behalf (Heb. 6:19–20).
  3. he is both king and priest (Heb. 7:1–2).
  4. his priesthood is eternal (Heb. 7:3).
  5. he is greater than both Abraham and Levitical priests (Heb. 7:4–10).
  6. he is better than Levitical priests, and he fulfills the Mosaic law (Heb. 7:11–17).
  7. he guarantees a covenant that is better than the Mosaic covenant (Heb. 7:18–22).
  8. he can save his people completely (Heb. 7:23–28).

My Publications in 2023

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Here are my publications that released in 2023—plus some books I endorsed. (I prepared this list so that I can conveniently link to one post.) As I explain in the article “Three Reflections on Evangelical Academic Publishing,” I aim to be academically responsible more than academically respectable. The ultimate reason I research, write, teach, and shepherd is to glorify God by serving Christ’s church.

Books

Dictionary of the New Testament Use of the Old Testament

Predestination: An Introduction

  1. Tracing the Argument of 1 Corinthians: A Phrase Diagram. Bellingham, WA: Logos, 2023.
  2. Dictionary of the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. Edited by G. K. Beale, D. A. Carson, Benjamin L. Gladd, and Andrew David Naselli. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2023.
  3. Predestination: An Introduction. Short Studies in Systematic Theology. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, January 2024. (The official publication date is January 2024, but it is available early because Crossway was able to print it ahead of schedule.)

Articles

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Videos of Israel’s Tabernacle, First Temple, and Temple at the Time of Jesus

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1. Israel’s Tabernacle

“Illustrated Tabernacle (Exodus 26-27)” (6:24 min.): This video illustrates the dimensions and instructions God gives in Exodus 26–27.

“3D Tabernacle of Moses” (1:52 min.)

“Tabernacle of Moses” (3:49 min.)

“The Tabernacle and What It Reveals to Us” (5:17 min.)

2. Israel’s First Temple (Solomon’s Temple)

“Solomon’s Temple 3D” (3:42 min.)

“Solomon’s Temple Explained” (10:20 min.)

3. Israel’s Temple at the Time of Jesus (Herod’s Temple)

Second Temple Judaism refers to Jewish history and literature from the time that Zerubbabel completed the second temple (c. 516 B.C.) to when the Romans destroyed Herod’s temple in A.D. 70.

“Jerusalem Temple at the Time of Jesus” (1:51 min.)

“3D Model of Herod’s Temple” (4:02 min.): Leen Ritmeyer comments, “This is the best 3D rendition of the Temple Mount I have seen so far” (“Herod’s Temple Mount in Jerusalem in 3D).” (Ritmeyer is an archaeological architect who has been involved in all of Jerusalem’s major excavations.)

“Herod’s Temple Mount – 3D Information Videos” (23:57 min.)

“Jerusalem’s Temple: Building the Most Detailed Depiction of Herod’s Temple” (14:50 min.): Leen Ritmeyer comments, “This is truly a masterful video that aims to bring together the extensive research that began at the Temple Mount Excavations in Jerusalem in 1968, directed by the late Professor Benjamin Mazar. Many scholars have analysed the result of this and other excavations in Jerusalem to get a full picture of what Herod’s Magnum opus may have looked like. We understand that this 3D video is the first of a series designed to help people better understand this sacred structure.”

Compare images of the temple in the ESV Study Bible.

(Feel free to contact me to alert me to similar videos.)

Related sermon: “The Temple and Light in the Bible’s Storyline” (11/27/2022):

Yet Another Attempt to Justify What God Forbids: A Response to Cynthia Lang Westfall, “Male and Female, One in Christ” (on Galatians 3:28)

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The latest issue of Eikon is mostly a chapter-by-chapter review of the third edition of Discovering Biblical Equality.

I contributed an article on Galatians 3:28:

Naselli, Andrew David. “Yet Another Attempt to Justify What God Forbids: A Response to Cynthia Lang Westfall, ‘Male and Female, One in Christ.’” Eikon: A Journal for Biblical Anthropology 5.1 (2023): 32–39.

Here’s my phrase diagram of Galatians 3:26–29:

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Tracing the Argument of 1 Corinthians: A Phrase Diagram

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My latest book just released:

Naselli, Andrew David. Tracing the Argument of 1 Corinthians: A Phrase Diagram. Bellingham, WA: Logos, 2023.