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Logos Mobile Ed Review (Walton) Pt. 4: The iPod/iPhone App
I’m thrilled to be reviewing John Walton’s Old Testament Genres course from the new Logos Mobile Ed program (other posts in the series are here)! In my previous posts, I discussed the video and...
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“Don’t Be Drunk With Wine” = The Dionysus Cult? (Eph 5:18)
I ran across a unique understanding of Ephesians 5:18 when reading Clinton Arnold’s Powers of Darkness. He referenced a paper by Cleon L. Rogers, Jr entitled The Dionysian Background of Ephesians...
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Logos Mobile Ed Review (Walton) Pt. 5: The Lectures
The last few weeks have been a bit intense for us. We moved house and gave birth to our second child, first son: Whitfield Stephen Kennedy. Now that our internet is hooked up again, I will be finishing...
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Logos Mobile Ed Review (Walton) Pt. 6: Conclusion
Last post I reviewed John Walton’s Old Testament Genres Logos Mobile Ed course. Now comes the difficult task of evaluating Mobile Ed as a whole. It’s important to remember this series is a document of...
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Did the Apostle Paul Dare to Be A Daniel?
Did Paul dare to be a Daniel? If you’re expecting a sarcastic lambasting of that expression, then I’m sorry to disappoint (that will have to wait for another post!). Getting back to the question,...
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Why Samson May Not Have Visited a Prostitute (Judges 16:1-3)
I’m highlighting a few essays in From Creation to New Creation (a tribute/fenschrift to G. K. Beale); not necessarily those I think are objectively superior, but rather stood out to me as interesting...
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Review: The Messianic Hope by Michael Rydelnik
It may not come as a surprise that many modern Jews, in contrast with their predecessors, deny that the Old Testament is messianic. But how should we think when the same conclusions come from modern...
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My friend and fellow-teacher at Calvary Chapel Bible College York, Randy McCracken, has been blogging for a while now and producing very enjoyable and insightful posts that skilfully blend scholarship...
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Review: A Theology of Matthew by Charles Quarles
Not sure where Matthew sits in this guy’s Bible! Charles Quarles’ A Theology of Matthew gives a refreshing but conservative, academic but devotional, rich but accessible introduction to the larger...
View ArticleReverberations in Psalms 1 & 2 (Stephen Dempster)
I’m a bit late to the game on this one, but I just finished reading Stephen Demspster’s JETS article “Canons on the Right and Canons on the Left: Finding a Resolution in the Canon Debate” (PDF) and it...
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Monotheism Freshly Revealed in Jesus (Wright’s PFG)
Believe it or not, I’m still (a year later) slogging through Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God. Fans of G.K. Beale may know that he “famously” read Wright’s The Resurrection of the Son of God...
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Paul, the Hymn Redactor (Col 1:15-20)
We all know Paul the theologian, Paul the letter writer, and Paul the missionary. But do we know Paul the hymn redactor? Most scholars believe that found within Paul’s writings are early-Christian...
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Review: Reading Backwards by Richard Hays
Richard Hays is a leading NT scholar, well-known for works such as Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul and The Moral Vision of the New Testament. For some time now, Hays has been at work on a...
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Review: By the River Chebar by Daniel Block
Psychedelic visions, “crazy man” activities, risqué r-rated parables, and a final LOTR-scale epic battle, it’s strange to me that Ezekiel is overlooked. Isn’t everything listed above on the TV shows...
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Why I Love My Crossway UBS Greek New Testament
I think there are few things cooler than owning a Greek New Testament (or does that just show how much of a dork I am?). But even cooler than owning a Greek NT is being able to read it. If you’re going...
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John Walton: Origins of Genesis 1-3 (Logos Mobile Ed)
A number of months ago I reviewed Logos Mobile Education by way of John Walton’s Old Testament Genres course. This was part of a bundle with his Origins of Genesis 1-3 course, so I thought it high time...
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Identifying the “I” of Romans 7
Romans chapter 7 is a treasured section of a treasured letter. The depiction of Paul in turmoil, struggling to honor God’s Law stands as a comforting testament to the plight that every believer faces....
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Is Romans 7 About Immature Christians? (Grant Osborne)
Does Romans 7 describe the experience of the believer? This is a very popular reading of the passage and also what Grant Osborne argues for in Perspectives of Our Struggle with Sin. Here is a summary...
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Review: Studies in the Pauline Epistles, by Harmon & Smith
Studies in the Pauline Epistles is put together by Matthew Harmon and Jay Smith and includes a stellar lineup of scholars contributing essays in honour of Doug Moo inspired by his interests. Studies in...
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Is Romans 7 About Someone Under the Law? (Mark Seifrid)
Perhaps Romans 7 is not about believers or unbelievers after all; what if Paul is trying to say something entirely different? In Perspectives of Our Struggle with Sin, Mark Seifrid argues that Paul’s...
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