Guest AuthorStrive to be a professor who is concerned about heart application as much as theological information.
Tavis BohlingerWords and Photographs by Tavis Bohlinger The last day of the Tyndale House Conference in Cambridge was bittersweet. While excellent papers were presented all around, at every social hour including coffee breaks and meals there was a sense of pending...
Hey everybody, here is the second instalment of our coverage of the 2019 Tyndale House Conference. Yesterday I posted some commentary and a photo essay on Day 1 (well, actually it was Day 3 since the conference began on Monday, but NT and Biblical...
Words and Photographs by Tavis Bohlinger I’m here in Cambridge right now for the second half of the annual Tyndale House Study Groups. This is my first time attending the conference, although members of the Logos team have been here in past...
Nijay GuptaScholars have long been fascinated by the window that 1 Corinthians provides into life of the early Christians. In this letter we also have creedal information, gender relationship teachings, and—what’s up with “baptism for the dead” (15:29)...
Mark StraussLet me encourage you, as a professor, to get involved—or stay involved—in ministry
Daniel K. EngUr wasn’t a small and backwards village. It was a major city with foundations of wealth and skill. Abraham left and lived in tents, because he believed in an even greater Architect and Builder.
Stop preaching sermons on the OT that wouldn't pass muster in a Sunday School class. Preach with authority, preach with the best, preach with the men whose sermons lit the church on fire with illustrations that are still relevant today.
Scot Miller reviews Emma Wasserman’s Apocalypse as Holy War: Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul Emma Wasserman, Yale University Press, 2018. 352 pp. This present era of binary perspectives and hyperbolic representations of...
Nijay K. Gupta, professor of New Testament at Northerm Seminary (PhD, University of Durham), contributed a series on biblical commentaries on the Pauline epistles. Dr. Gupta has written three commentaries (Colossians, 1–2 Thessalonians, Lord’s...
Reading Plutarch will generate new ideas in your own thinking, ushering you into the company of the great minds who came before and inviting you to live life well along with them.
Mike AubreyBoth 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, this introduces an important set of constraints upon...
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.
Brevard Childs and Julius Wellhausen are two of my intellectual heroes. But they do not get along—so to speak.
"Genesis 1‐3 has a powerful message to the modern world, if only we got hold of it and believed it." --Vern Poythress
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 Logos users might be wondering what Brill’s GE...
DidaktikosDougald McLaurin | Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Last fall a student walked into the library and asked me where the commentaries on the book of Romans were located. He said he needed them for an exegesis paper he was writing. I asked...
"Hebrews is a majestic and disturbing Christian speech that calls its audience to perseverance in its Christian identity" - Jason Whitlark
The new habitus of the Christian community "is always patterned around the death and resurrection of Jesus."
The TDOT Aramaic Dictionary ships today.
Douglas EstesI am a perfectionist. While this may seem like a simple admission, it took me many years to self-diagnose and admit that I am, in fact, a perfectionist. Nothing in my personality or past experiences led me to believe that I was a perfectionist...
I have already offered thoughts for the preaching scholar concerning first things and meditation, as well as my suggested exegetical resources for preaching (including exegetical commentaries). Here I want to pass on my favorite theological...
by Chris Porter Coming to biblical studies from prior research in the social sciences I am often asked what makes for good interdisciplinary research. While a valid question, I think the more interesting question is what makes a good...
by Daniel K. Eng Last week, I gave a talk for an undergraduate course, Introduction to the New Testament, at The King’s College, New York City, per the invitation of my friend Benjamin G. White. In the lecture, I offered an overview of the epistle...
Logos StaffBonhoeffer "most clearly points to the Christ as God’s Word for us, not simply to us, but emphatically on our behalf."
We have offered some preliminary comments on preaching, its purposes and the mindset of the preacher. Now I want to offer some guidance on Bible study and exegetical resources. Now, it would be easy for me to go on and on with book recommendations...
I put some questions recently to John Meade and Peter Gurry regarding their newly launched Text and Canon Institute, based at Phoenix Seminary. In this interview, they discuss the impetus behind the Institute, the significance of textual criticism...
by Adam Winn | University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Rome and Rome’s empire have always been recognized as significant pieces of the New Testament’s background. It was a Roman governor who sentenced Jesus to die on a Roman cross. It was a Roman...
"my study can be taken as a renewed call to creative and prophetic preaching and teaching from the psalms"
Pastors of different types and in different contexts have varying amounts of time for “sermon prep.” We all know 5 hours is not enough, but most do not have the luxury of 20+ hours. So, let’s say that we are working in a given week with 15 hours for...