Greek Teaching – Week One Strategy

[Disclaimer: much of this advice is geared towards an urban campus where most students have full-time job outside of their educational work]
I think I mentioned before that I have chosen Clayton Croy’s A Primer of Biblical Greek for my class, as it is very basic and the seminary has used it many times before.
What to [...]

New Commentary Series – by Africans

It is no controversial statement to say that most biblical commentaries comes from America, the UK, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and a few other parts of Europe. However, there is a booming population of Christians in Africa who either do not have access to this scholarship physically, or are not able to bridge the [...]

Wheaton Theology Conference 2010 (and NT Wright)

This year’s Wheaton Theology Conference (April 16-17, 2010) is in dialogue with Bishop of Durham, N.T. Wright and his dialogue partners for the weekend are very impressive!
Of course Wright will be there, not just for a fly-by, but all weekend with several lectures and a Q & A!  But – there is more.  Throw in [...]

Four Views on Moving Beyond the Bible to Theology

I came across an advert for a very exciting forthcoming book from Zondervan:

Four Views on Moving Beyond the Bible to Theology (out in November, I think).
The question is – who are the four scholars?
Overall, they chose well.
Walter Kaiser – A Principlizing model
Daniel M. Doriani – A Redemptive-Historical model
Kevin Vanhoozer – A Drama-of-Redemption model
William Webb – [...]

Blogging through teaching Greek…(and thoughts on preping for first day)

I have decided to try and blog through my experience teaching NT Greek (for the sixth time!).  Though I have developed some habits and systems for how I teach Greek, I always want to be refining my teaching.  I may not post on every week’s worth of material, but I want to blog enough that [...]

Monograph series interviews – pages streamlined

Probably one of the most useful things I have done on my blog, as others have told me, is conduct interviews with young scholars who have published their phd theses with monograph series.
To make these interviews easily available, you will notice that they appear on the right sidebar of the blog under the master heading [...]

Fee Commentary (1-2 Thess.) Just Arrived in the Mail

First, you will notice in the title of this blogpost I said ‘mail’ and not ‘post’ – this is part of my re-integration into the American language.
Ok, so, I was indeed delighted to get a thicker book-package in the mail.  And, as I was expecting, it was Gordon Fee’s new First and Second Letters to [...]

My New Article on Paul and Metaphors

I am pleased to announce that I have a new article in Restoration Quarterly (vol. 51, Num. 3, 2009) entitled:
‘Towards a Set of Principles for Identifying and Interpreting Metaphors in Paul: Prosagoge (Romans 5:2) as a Test Case’ (pp. 169-181).
In my highest hopes, I wanted to do for metaphors and hermeneutics what Hays has done [...]

Festschrift for EP Sanders (Book Notice and Review)

Redefining First-Century Jewish and Christian Identities: Essays in Honor of Ed Parish Sanders (eds. F.E. Udoh et al., Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2009).
I really enjoy the idea of Festschriften and often essays devoted to a particular topic can be very useful for scholarship (as it often brings together world-class scholars who want to honor [...]

New interviews coming…

I have received lots of positive feedback from my posts of interviews with those who have published in the top 5-6 monograph series for New Testament.  To fulfill a special request, I will also be posting soon an interview with a researcher who published with the Princeton Theological Monograph Series.
Are there other high-class series that [...]