I just reviewed this book for Books at a Glance:
Ben Witherington III. Reading and Understanding the Bible. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Here are four similar books I recommend more highly: [Read more…] about My Review of Ben Witherington’s “Reading and Understanding the Bible”
On November 19, 2014 in San Diego during the Evangelical Theological Society’s annual meeting, Biblica, the Committee on Bible Translation, and Zondervan presented “The NIV 50th Anniversary Dinner and Program: Celebrating the Commissioning of the NIV.”
At the event Doug Moo, chair of the Committee on Bible Translation, spoke about the NIV. Here’s what he said (available as a free PDF): [Read more…] about Essays in Honor of Douglas J. Moo
One of my greatest joys is serving alongside my colleague Jason DeRouchie (pronounced deh-ROW-shee) at Bethlehem College & Seminary. My respect and gratefulness for him grows as I get to know him better. I love carpooling with him about three hours each week during the school year (and I missed him while he was out of state on sabbatical this last semester!).
I especially love co-teaching a fourth-year graduate course with him on biblical theology. He is both an Old Testament scholar and a biblical theologian.
I already recommended his book in which he surveys Jesus’s Bible. Now you can download free audio files in which he surveys the Old Testament. [Read more…] about Free MP3s: OT Survey by Jason DeRouchie
This book releases this month:
Kevin DeYoung. What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality? Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015. 158 pp. 
Check out this 36-page PDF sample. (And here’s a free corresponding 36-page study guide.)
I read a draft of this book last December, [Read more…] about What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality?
At the end of last year the TGC staff cited “best books from 2014.”
This is one of the two books I selected:
Rodney J. Decker. Reading Koine Greek: An Introduction and Integrated Workbook. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2014.
My dear friend Rod Decker went to be with the Lord in May 2014 at age 61, but in spite of his terminal cancer God enabled him to complete two major projects that publishers released in November 2014: [Read more…] about Reading Koine Greek: An Introduction and Integrated Workbook
Sometimes well-intentioned people argue for the right thing the wrong way. Their position may be right even though at least one of their arguments is not. This seems to be the case with a popular exegetical and theological argument for the personality of the Holy Spirit. The right position is that the Holy Spirit is a person, and the fallacious argument is that the masculine demonstrative pronoun ἐκεῖνος [ekeinos] in John 14:26, 15:26, and 16:13–14 proves it. Trinitarian theologians through church history have rightly defended the personality of the Spirit, and an astonishing number of defenders appeal to this argument for support.
That’s how Phil Gons and I begin the following article (now available free online as a PDF):
“Prooftexting the Personality of the Holy Spirit: An Analysis of the Masculine Demonstrative Pronouns in John 14:26, 15:26, and 16:13–14.” Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 16 (2011): 65–89. [Read more…] about Prooftexting the Personality of the Holy Spirit
Carson’s 1992 book on prayer is now available in a second edition along with a study guide he coauthored with my colleague Brian Tabb:
[Read more…] about Praying with Paul: A Call to Spiritual Reformation
The best part about knowing the biblical languages is tracing the argument.
The main tool we use for this at Bethlehem College & Seminary is Biblearc.
Biblearc initially focused exclusively on tracing the argument by a method called arcing. It is a method that John Piper and Tom Steller developed after learning it from Dan Fuller.
Last year Biblearc added bracketing.
And this year it added phrasing. Phrasing is my favorite method for tracing the argument because it’s so intuitive and clear.
Phrasing goes by many names:
Phrasing is a flexible and easy-to-use Bible study tool that allows you to visually trace a passage’s argument: simply indent to subordinate. The Biblearc phrasing feature has all sorts of mark-up features from arrows to relationship comments to Dot Notes.
My colleagues Jason DeRouchie and Brian Tabb teamed up with Andy Hubert to show how it works in these five videos:
1. Introduction to Biblearc’s Phrasing Module
[Read more…] about Phrasing: My Favorite Way to Trace an Argument