This is rich. I’ve heard several people recommend them recently, and now I know why.
You can download the audio as stand-alone MP3s or via a new app, and you can read the transcripts.
The corresponding NT lectures are by Craig Blomberg (about 4 hours, 40 min.) and Tom Schreiner (about 4 hours, 15 min.). It’s good stuff, but in these recordings Miles Van Pelt is more engaging.
Another helpful debate-book:
Stanley E. Porter and Beth M. Stovell, eds. Biblical Hermeneutics: Five Views. 
Spectrum Multiview Books. Downers Grove: IVP, 2012. 224 pp. 20-page sample PDF.
It’s not a typical debate-book format because the five views are not mutually exclusive. They overlap. Thus, Craig Blomberg writes,
As I suspected when I saw the lineup of contributors and viewpoints for this book, I found much more to agree with than to disagree with in these chapters. As I noted in my position essay, I do not wish to argue for a historical-critical/grammatical approach to the exclusion of all other approaches but for the historical-critical/grammatical approach as the necessary foundation for these other approaches. Various comments each of the other four contributions makes suggest that they either agree or should agree with this assertion, if they are consistent with what they have written. I can happily support much of what each additional perspective contributes on top of this foundation, although there are a few places where I must demur. (p. 133) [Read more…] about Biblical Hermeneutics: Five Views
Craig Blomberg reflects on how “different cultures use honorific titles differently.”
It reminds me of how John MacArthur fields the question, “Why do people call you John [and not Pastor MacArthur or Dr. MacArthur]?”
Well, they called Paul, “Paul.”
This book came out last month:
Christopher John Donato, ed. Perspectives on the Sabbath: 4 Views. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2011. 420 pp.
The book is superb. It’s an excellent example of how different views use different hermeneutical approaches and theological methods (i.e., the relationship between exegesis, biblical theology, historical theology, systematic theology, and practical theology).
And the debate format allows the authors to have the last word: an author writes an essay, the other three contributors respond, and then the author responds to those responses.
Here’s the table of contents:
Here’s a sampling: [Read more…] about Four Views on the Sabbath
Here’s how D. A. Carson introduces Craig L. Blomberg‘s Neither Poverty Nor Riches: A Biblical Theology of Possessions (ed. D. A. Carson; New Studies in Biblical Theology 7; Downers Grove: IVP, 2001) in the series preface (p. 9):
Dr Blomberg’s volume is an extraordinary achievement. With remarkable compression, this book not only guides the reader through almost all the biblical passages that have a bearing on poverty and wealth, but weaves the exegesis into a biblical theology that is simultaneously faithful to the historic texts and pastorally sensitive to the immense issues facing today’s church. Dr Blomberg cannot simplistically condemn wealth: he has learned from Abraham, Job and Philemon. Nor can he exonerate acquisitiveness: he has learned from Amos, Jesus and James. The result is a book that is, quite frankly, the best one on the subject. It will not make its readers comfortable, but neither will it make them feel manipulated. Read it and pass it on.
[Read more…] about Five Conclusions about Material Possessions
In the latest RBL, Craig Blomberg positively reviews Steven Roy‘s How Much Does God Foreknow: A Comprehensive Biblical Study. The review is available as a four-page PDF.
BiblicalTraining.org is now offering an “Introduction to the New Testament” course on MP3 by Craig Blomberg (Theopedia | Wikipedia). The first half, Gospels and Acts, is currently available in some thirty-five MP3s (available for free downloads). Blomberg, author of a number of books and articles on the Gospels, has recently penned From Pentecost to Patmos: An Introduction to Acts Through Revelation (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2006).