The Writings of Cornelis Bennema

Cornelis Bennema teaches at the South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies. His new book from Paternoster is entitled, Encountering Jesus: Character Studies in the Gospel of John. Here are some blurbs on Encountering Jesus: ‘This is a book I have been waiting for – a comprehensive, sophisticated analysis of the characters in the Gospel …

Check Out the New ESV Online

As book technology charges forward (check out this fascinating comparison of the Kindle and the iPad by Tim Challies), the folks at Crossway are setting the pace among evangelicals, not least through the ESV Digital Initiative. They’ve developed a fabulous ESV Online site (more about it here), and for a limited time everyone who signs …

Now Available: The Sacred Text

Newly released from Gorgias Press: Michael F. Bird and Michael W. Pahl, eds. The Sacred Text: Excavating the Texts, Exploring the Interpretations, and Engaging the Theologies of the Christian Scriptures. Gorgias Précis Portfolios 7. Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias, 2010. Contents Introduction: From Manuscript to MP3 – Michael F. Bird The History of the Texts The Septuagint …

Brian McLaren’s New Kind of Whole Foods Store: A Parable

Note: Tomorrow (Thursday, March 10, 2010), Lord willing, it will be my privilege to participate in a panel discussion at SBTS chapel moderated by Dr. Mohler with my esteemed colleagues, Drs. Ware, Wellum, and Wills. We will be discussing Brian McLaren’s book, A New Kind of Christianity. I am posting this parable in the hopes …

Chris Castaldo’s Holy Ground

There are loads of Roman Catholics here in Louisville. Our neighbors on both sides of us are Roman Catholic, so I’m thrilled to see the publication of Chris Castaldo’s Holy Ground: Walking with Jesus as a Former Roman Catholic. I would commend this book to anyone interested in seeing the gospel believed by Roman Catholics. …

Parry and Gentry Review Fernández Marcos

Jason T. Parry and Peter J. Gentry teamed up to review Natalio Fernández Marcos, Septuaginta: La Biblia griega de judíos y cristianos (Biblioteca de Estudios Bíblicos Minor 12; Salamanca: Ediciones Sígueme; 2008). 157 pp. Softcover. EURO 15. ISBN: 9788430116898. The review provides a nice overview of key points in the discussion of the Greek translation of …

Review of Capes, et al., Israel’s God and Rebecca’s Children

Note: If you are involved in publishing and uninterested in the contents of this review, please nevertheless read the final paragraph on endnotes. David B. Capes, April D. DeConick, Helen K. Bond, and Troy A. Miller, eds., Israel’s God and Rebecca’s Children: Christology and Community in Early Judaism and Christianity: Essays in Honor of Larry …

Christian Audio Free Download of Dante’s Divine Comedy

In my opinion Dante’s Infermo is one of those works of literature that should be relished by every human being. Now you can listen to it for free from Christian Audio . com. I recommend you also buy a print edition with really good study notes. It will repay your attention! One of the greatest works …

Review of Hurtado, Earliest Christian Artifacts

Larry W. Hurtado, The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006. 248pp. $22.00, paper. Larry Hurtado is on a mission to help Christians know their own treasures. In this book Hurtado makes pertinent observations on what can be known from the earliest Christian manuscripts. The five chapters of this volume are …

Happy Birthday to John Calvin! Celebrate with Robert Godfrey’s Book

Tomorrow is the the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin, I suggest you give yourself a present for Calvin’s birthday: Robert W. Godfrey’s John Calvin: Pilgrim and Pastor. For a long time I’ve looked for a Calvin biography that would stand with Bainton’s biography of Luther, Here I Stand, and I’m hopeful that …

Interviews with Nettles and Wills on Their New Books

SBTS has a new news blog, and there you can find an interview with Greg Wills on his history of the school, as well as a two part interview with Tom Nettles on his new biography of James P. Boyce. There’s also a post on the two collections of the writings of Boyce and Many, …

Greg Wills’ History of Southern Seminary

It’s out: Gregory A. Wills, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1859-2009 It is my understanding that today is its first day being sold at the Lifeway Store on the SBTS campus. I was browsing the book and was surprised to see Scott Hafemann’s name. I won’t type up the whole story surrounding his name, but it …

New Nettles Biography of Boyce!

I happened to be in the Lifeway Store on the SBTS campus just now and they were setting up the display of this new book by Tom Nettles on James Petigru Boyce, founding father of Southern Seminary. I’m thrilled to have a copy, and eager to read it in this the 150th year since the …

Review of John Nolland’s Commentary on Matthew

The Gospel of Matthew: A Commentary on the Greek Text by John Nolland. The New International Greek Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005. Xcviii + 1481 pp. $80.00. It is always interesting to read an editor’s preface to a commentary series. In editorial hands the series becomes unlike anything else—or almost anything else—and at the …