This book came out in 2010:
Robert L. Plummer. 40 Questions about Interpreting the Bible. 40 Questions Series. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2010. 
Rob has prepared two short, lay-friendly booklets (under 100 pages) that derive from his 40 Questions book:
1. The Story of Scripture: How We Got Our Bible and Why We Can Trust It. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2013. [Read more…] about Two New Booklets by Rob Plummer
This little book’s title sums it up:
Douglas S. Huffman. The Handy Guide to New Testament Greek: Grammar, Syntax, and Diagramming. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2012. 112 pp.
This 13-page PDF excerpt includes the table of contents.
Part 3 (pp. 83-106) is by far the most helpful section of the book.
Outline of part 3: [Read more…] about The Handy Guide to New Testament Greek: Grammar, Syntax, and Diagramming
Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary recently released the seventeenth volume of their journal, and one of the articles is available as a PDF:
William W. Combs, “The History of the NIV Translation Controversy,” Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 17 (2012): 3–34.
Outline:
It’s an informative survey.
Update on 3/31/2017: In my latest attempt to explain how to interpret and apply the Bible, I include a chapter on Bible translation (pp. 50–81).
In 2010 I shared my top five books on the letter of James and interviewed Chris Morgan on the theology of James.
Now I’d add this book to that top-tier list:
Chris A. Vlachos. James. Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2013. 225 pages.
This sample 53-page PDF includes
Last month Larry Hurtado informatively reviewed this book:
Charles E. Hill and Michael J. Kruger, eds. The Early Text of the New Testament. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Hurtado writes,
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve taken the time to work through the volume (21 contributions, and over 400 pp.), and I have to underscore how impressed I am with it. In the following comments, I highlight contributions that I found particularly valuable. . . .
This volume (though expensive!) is now probably the most up to date analysis of earliest evidence about the state and transmission of NT writings in the second century CE. Given the limitations of our evidence, scholars are required to make the best inferences they can. This volume provides essential resources in doing so, and largely shows that we can with some confidence posit that the NT writings, essentially as we know them, were copied for both ecclesial and private reading.
Doug Moo is my favorite commentator on Paul’s letter to the Romans. (I list 17 of his publications on Romans here.)
So I was delighted to learn this morning that BiblicalTraining.org just announced a new class: Doug Moo on Romans. The course was recorded during a D.Min. seminar in May 2012.
You can watch Moo lecture on Romans in 53 segments for free, but unfortunately you can only stream it online. But you can download the audio. (They’re currently working on an app for the resources on the site.)
Update on 4/3/2013: I downloaded all 53 MP3s and imported them into an iTunes playlist (15.8 hours), and yesterday and today I listened to all 53 MP3s (on double-speed) while doing other tasks. Time well spent.
Here are the three latest volumes in the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament (each published within the last month or so):
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It’s a pleasure to watch a godly scholar honored with and genuinely surprised by a Festschrift. (A Festschrift is a collection of writings published in honor of a scholar.) That’s what happened to Grant Osborne on November 14, 2012, in Milwaukee at the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society.
A few hundred people filled up a convention room to hear a 2.5-hour session on “Writing and Reading Commentaries,” but right out of the gate Eckhard Schnabel revealed the surprise that it was primarily a time to present a Festschrift to Grant Osborne. And it was moving to watch Grant receive a standing ovation from admiring peers and former students.
Here’s info on the Festschrift:
Stanley E. Porter and Eckhard J. Schnabel, eds. On the Writing of New Testament Commentaries: Festschrift for Grant R. Osborne on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday. Texts and Editions for New Testament Study 8. Leiden: Brill, 2013.
It’s ridiculously expensive, but it’s definitely worth owning. (You can view it in Google Books.) [Read more…] about On the Writing of New Testament Commentaries: Festschrift for Grant R. Osborne