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New (and Very Big) Introduction to the Septuagint
There are already good introductions to the Septuagint: see Will Ross’s list here. I’ve reviewed a couple of them: T. Michael Law’s When God Spoke Greek and Mogens Müller’s First Bible of the Church:...
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Psalms of… Vengeance?
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes This post is an adaptation of a sermon I preached a few weeks ago, with Psalm 55 (read it here) as my preaching text. Can we pray them? Yes, we can! Recently the The...
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What’s New in Mounce’s Greek Grammar?
Earlier in 2019 Zondervan released updated editions of Basics of Biblical Hebrew Grammar (Pratico and Van Pelt, now in its 3rd edition) and Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar (Mounce, now in its 4th...
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Kevin J. Youngblood’s Excellent Jonah Commentary, Second Edition
I preached through Jonah in Advent 2014. It remains one of my favorite series to prepare and preach–unlikely liturgical pairing notwithstanding. In those days, I read as many Jonah commentaries as I...
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New Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ) Volume: Leviticus!
Who needs a Leviticus video game when you can now have the book as the newest BHQ volume? BHQ (Biblia Hebraica Quinta) is meant to supersede the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) as the scholarly,...
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A Review of T. Muraoka’s “Fully Fledged” Septuagint Lexicon
Introduction Takamitsu Muraoka’s work is a gift to all who would read the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. When I first began to love reading the Septuagint, T. Muraoka’s Two-Way Index was my...
View ArticleFear No Evil or See No Evil? One Way to Preach a Textual Variant
Last week’s Hebrew Bible lectionary gave us the beautiful Zephaniah 3:14-20. There is an interesting variant in the Septuagint reading of verse 15. Hebrew לֹא־תִֽירְאִ֥י רָ֖ע עֽוֹד = you will no...
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What Does It Mean to Call the Bible “Inspired”?
“St. Paul Writing His Epistles,” by Valentin de Boulogne (17th Cent.) I preach from the Bible whenever I preach. God spoke through and to humanity by the Word. My primary goal as a preacher is to...
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Yet Another Beautiful Hebrew-English Bible
Someone at Koren Publishers invited me to review their new Hebrew-English Tanakh (The Magerman Edition). After taking one look at a picture of the book, I was convinced. (Thanks to Koren for the review...
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Child Theology Webinar Series
A Little Child Shall Lead Them: A Biblical Theology of Children and the Kingdom of God The Boy Jesus in the Temple, by He Qi Hebrew and Christian Scriptures present a unified witness across millennia,...
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