Last week my BCS colleague Jason DeRouchie and I gave “small talks” at Desiring God’s Conference for Pastors. Our assignments were to present the Old Testament and New Testament in 10 minutes:
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This book released this week:
Andreas J. Köstenberger and Justin Taylor. The Final Days of Jesus: The Most Important Week of the Most Important Person Who Ever Lived. Wheaton: Crossway, 2014. 42-page PDF sample.
You may especially enjoy working through this book day by day during the Passion week (this year = April 13–20):
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B&H recently released a new commentary series, and the first volume is an impressive 800 pages:
Howard, Jeremy Royal, ed. The Gospels and Acts. The Holman Apologetics Commentary on the Bible. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2013.
This is the most comprehensive 1-volume defense of the Gospels and Acts. [Read more…] about The Most Comprehensive Defense of the Gospels and Acts
Logos Bible Software has a Christmas special that disappears at midnight, December 31, 2013: [Read more…] about 500 Book Mega Pack from Logos
The latest edition of Don Carson’s NT commentary survey released last month:
D. A. Carson. New Testament Commentary Survey. 7th ed. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2013.
It’s significantly updated. [Read more…] about The 7th Edition of Don Carson’s NT Commentary Survey
Murray Harris has served as a professor of New Testament exegesis and theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and as Warden of Tyndale House in Cambridge, England. He presently resides in New Zealand.
I describe him more (and relay a funny story about him) in this post, which highlights his book Prepositions and Theology in the Greek New Testament. [Read more…] about Murray Harris’s 6-Page Expanded Paraphrase of Colossians
This new edition is scheduled to release in February 2014:
Craig S. Keener. The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament. 2nd ed. Downers Grove: IVP, 2014.
The first edition, which has sold over 600,000 copies, released twenty years ago in 1993, and the second edition slightly revises it. (Keener’s foreword and acknowledgments to the second edition doesn’t specify what he has revised in the second edition, and I haven’t compared the two editions to spot changes.) [Read more…] about The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament
I’m teaching a course at Bethlehem College & Seminary this fall to second-year seminary students called “New Testament Background and Message.” We are systematically working through the NT, and prior to each time we meet for class the students must summarize the theological message of a NT book in one clear, concise sentence. Then they must briefly unpack that sentence by showing how the book’s themes support that message. (And it takes a lot of work to do that well!)
It frustrates me when books and articles discuss the “theology” of a Bible book by presenting a bucket list of parallel motifs but without showing how they integrate as one coherent theological message. So I was delighted to see that the new NIV Proclamation Bible (ed. Lee Gatiss; cf. publisher page and 40-second video) includes a one-sentence summary of the message of every book of the Bible.
I disagree with many of these one-sentence summaries (which are rather uneven), but it’s still helpful to consider how others articulate the messages. These are from the introduction to each book of the Bible:
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