Peter MontoroScribes & Scripture: The Amazing Story of How We Got the Bible, is a love letter from the academy to the church, a truly excellent book that will surely become a staple in churches and seminaries all over the English-speaking world. Authors...
Tavis BohlingerRick Brannan has just finished an important side project on early Christian papyri: Fragments of Christianity —now available for pre-order on Logos. Keep reading to learn what Rick Brannan says about the book—and how it can help us understand early...
The sixth interview in our series on the OUP Handbooks is with Matthew Levering, co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Trinity. Some of the best of the Oxford Handbooks series are entering the Logos digital library, and they are currently...
The fourth interview in our series on the OUP Handbooks is with Robert Kolb, Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther’s Theology. The LAB sat down (virtually) with...
"TBAC has three main distinctives. First, as already mentioned, it is substantially longer and more in-depth. Second, it is explicitly Christocentric in its entire structure and orientation. And third, it follows a different sequence that is...
Guest Author"Mounce is to be commended for producing a quality seminal grammar, and this latest edition is a worthy upgrade."
Michael F. BirdThe information age is changing how we deliver teaching and learning in seminary education. Accordingly, our pedagogy needs to catch up with the technology and the needs of our students. My mind changed on this very slowly and very reluctantly, but...
What if there was a lexicon that required less art and more science?
This is the most thought-provoking book I have read in a long time . . . none of the weak portions undermine his general thesis that the supernatural personages envisioned in the OT are both central and coherent in the text.
Galatians. Not the longest of Paul’s epistles, but in some ways the most forceful. Not always the most beloved of NT writings, but in many ways the most lovely. This epistle that resounds the aria of grace with such brevity has now been...
Book Review Emma Wasserman, Yale University Press, 2018. 352 pp. Review by Scot Miller. This present era of binary perspectives and hyperbolic representations of conflict or truth finds a convenient source in biblical literary genres. The...
Words by Mike Aubrey, Photographs by Tavis Bohlinger Both Brill’s new Dictionary of Ancient Greek (GE) and Liddell and Scott Greek–English Lexicon with Revised Supplement (LSJM) are more or less the same size and length. As a publishing decision...
I realize these are widely held views, and that I am going up against some of the titans of biblical scholarship in the 20th century.
Words by Mike Aubrey. Photographs by Tavis Bohlinger Brill’s Dictionary of Ancient Greek is now available at logos.com. Many of us Greek language geeks have been rather eagerly waiting for its digital appearance on Logos, though perhaps other...
"my study can be taken as a renewed call to creative and prophetic preaching and teaching from the psalms"
Matt Perman deserves credit for helping a lot of people do more stuff. But that’s not the point of his book. Matt actually wants to equip you to do stuff that matters. We interviewed Matt recently on his exceptional time management book...
We are immensely privileged to feature perhaps the most exciting new book project to come to light this year, Septuaginta: A Reader’s Edition. This immense 2-volume work, edited by Gregory R. Lanier and William A. Ross, is jointly published by...
I had the great pleasure recently of reading Jamie Davies’ Paul Among the Apocalypses?: An Evaluation of the “Apocalyptic Paul” in the Context of Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic Literature, his contribution to T&T...
by Brian J. Orr Introduction The God of the Old Testament wants his enemies’ blood shed for their abominations; the God of the New Testament wants to shed his own blood for his enemies’ abominations. Since the first century, this dilemma has led...
Welcome back to the third installment of theLAB’s Hot Seat interview with Matthew Bates on his new book, Salvation by Allegiance Alone. In this segment, we engage Matt on his perception of the gospel message, whether “allegiance alone” can correct...
We welcome Matthew Bates back to theLAB for a second round of probing questions regarding his new book, Salvation by Allegiance Alone: Rethinking Faith, Works, and the Gospel of Jesus the King (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2017). Here in Part 2, we...
Not since the Reformation has there been a challenge to the five solas as persistent and potentially persuasive as Matthew W. Bates’ third book, Salvation by Allegiance Alone: Rethinking Faith, Works, and the Gospel of Jesus the King (Grand Rapids:...
katiewoolstenhulmeI am pleased to introduce the publication of our first book review here on the relaunched Academic Blog. We are honoured to have Katie Woolstenhulme contribute this first review for us. Here, Katie critically examines Candida R. Moss and Joel S...
Cliff KvidahlThe following is a review of William Baird’s History of New Testament Research: From C.H. Dodd to Hans Dieter Betz. With the publication of volume three, William Baird brings his masterful work on the history of New Testament research to a close...
Jonathan WatsonHow do you use your Bible? That is the question Michael Lawrence opens with in his 2010 book Biblical Theology in the Life of the Church. He expands on that question, explaining that how we use it illuminates how we think about it. Do we see it as...
“Commit yourself to the serious reading of books, and your life will be enlightened.” These are the opening words to Tony Reinke’s Lit! A Christian Guide to Reading Books, a volume about the importance, dangers, and methodology of...
Book Review Ben Witherington III, Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2011, 341 pp. Ben Witherington shares a special insight in the introduction to his 2011 commentary on Paul’s Letter to the Philippians. He writes: “Words such as grace, faith, and believe...
Book Review James D. Tabor, Simon & Schuster, 2012, 320 pp. Books that challenge conventional wisdom and provoke spirited dialogue can be much more valuable than books that simply reiterate popular opinion or buttress our own personal...
Book Review Bruce W. Longenecker, Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2010, 400 pp. It is widely agreed that the apostle Paul’s theological reflections had little to do with social structures and economic issues. This consensus, however, is increasingly being...