…Nick Norelli of Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth! Yes, I know that Nick gets far too many free books already, but this isn’t just because of his pretty face (he hasn’t got one). It’s because he puts some actual effort into these things. Witness, for example, his clever theory of Qumramic origins:
“My theory regarding [...]
Today is the last day to submit your entry for the Covenantal Blessings Book Giveaway! If you haven’t gotten around to formulating your theory of Qumramic origins yet, the time to do it is now. I will close the comments at midnight tonight, and the winner will be announced tomorrow morning, God willing.
Today, June 15 by the Church calendar, we commemorate the holy Prophet Amos, known to us from his prophecy in the biblical canon. As readers of this blog already know, one of my primary research interests is the history of biblical interpretation, particularly as it pertains to Apostolic (i.e., intracanonical) and Patristic exegesis, and their [...]
I. I was recently overjoyed to learn that a revised edition of J. Gresham Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism was released a short few weeks ago by Eerdmans. Thus far, all available copies of this work have been simple photostatic reprints of the 1923 edition. Not so here: the full text has been reset for this [...]
Lately I have been reading various books on apologetics: Tim Keller’s The Reason for God and Alister McGrath’s The Dawkins Delusion?, both of which are excellent, and more recently David Bentley Hart’s Atheist Delusions and Mel Lawrenz’s I Want to Believe. A common complaint in works of this kind is that the “fashionable enemies” of [...]
It appears that our friend Josh McManaway, stirred by the righteous example of many others, has passed over from the darkness of Blogger to the light of WordPress. However, unlike the glorious company of those who preceded him, Josh did not simply move his old blog, A New Testament Student, but rather has decided to [...]
Make no mistake about it: the late great John Henry Stek was a churchman. He attended his church’s seminary, was ordained to its Ministry of Word and Sacrament, and after a few years of active pastoral ministry, was called by it to teach at his alma mater. This churchly summons he attended to faithfully, and [...]
Wayne Leman informs us that the great John Stek, former chairman of the (T)NIV’s Committee on Bible Translation and Associate Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Calvin Theological Seminary, died last Saturday, June 6, 2009. Like countless others, I mourn the death of this master teacher and Bible translator, and celebrate his enduring legacy, which [...]
Since we have recently considered the utter uselessness of blurbs on account of their noxious sycophancy, it occurs to me that it would not be altogether inappropriate to provide further proof in support of my earlier argument.
After rather some time of (to borrow Felix Culpa’s felicitous expression) “studiously ignoring” the work of one David Bentley [...]
Moving to WordPress in fulfillment of my vow has certainly been the cause of manifold blessings for me personally, but surely my joy would not be fulfilled unless I endeavored to share them with all of you, my gentle snowflakes. For this reason, following the strategically impressive example of Mark Stevens, I have decided to [...]
Greetings, my gentle snowflakes! I am back, but not without having done some serious soul searching.
As all of you undoubtedly recall (for surely you all have grieved over my absence every waking moment of its duration), on the first week of March, which coincided with the First Week of Lent, my laptop’s keyboard suddenly gave [...]
