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Strack-Billerbeck in English on Logos 26 Aug 2013 | 06:33 am
Just pre-ordered this really useful resource - get it now while it’s (relatively) cheap!
What is the hermeneutical task? 23 Aug 2013 | 01:50 pm
What is the hermeneutical task? As I see it (and I’m drawing on the work of others here, as well as adding my own elements), the hermeneutical task involves seeking a transforming engagement between ...
Bill Loader on interpreting the Bible: relativisation, revolution, or rigidity? 22 Aug 2013 | 11:26 am
I’ve just read a chapter by Bill Loader in the book Hermeneutics and the Authority of Scripture (ed. Alan Cadwallader). Loader looks for hermeneutical impulses within the New Testament itself, as its ...
Amy-Jill Levine on parables: reading them in solidarity with first century Jews 20 Aug 2013 | 06:44 pm
This evening I went to a public lecture by Amy-Jill Levine on parables, focusing particularly on that of the Prodigal Son. Just today in exegesis class I had spoken to the class about both the promis...
Pope Francis: “work confers dignity” 19 Aug 2013 | 04:52 pm
I’m reading the biography of Pope Francis by Rubin and Ambrogetti, which is made up of a series of interviews. I’ve been quite struck today by the pontiff’s insistence that work confers dignity. He ad...
Rex Kwon Do 19 Aug 2013 | 01:50 pm
Just watchin’ my son do Rex Kwon Do…
New Theology and Religious Studies BA Courses – The University of Nottingham 19 Aug 2013 | 01:39 pm
In my view, a foundational theology degree needs to grapple seriously with the Old and New Testaments of the Bible – so it’s fantastic to see the University of Nottingham offering these new BA courses...
It’s a Saturday at home 17 Aug 2013 | 12:32 pm
And that means coffee…
Hurtado, Deines, Chapple, Seifrid on OT in NT 15 Aug 2013 | 01:50 pm
A brief summary of our recent Trinity Symposium: “All That the Prophets Have Declared”… a book will be out through Paternoster in due course… The first main speaker was Professor Larry Hurtado (Unive...
On not being the best scholar 5 Aug 2013 | 12:21 pm
I was talking to a NT scholar the other day about envy. Sometimes I find it can be tempting to envy those who have a better position, a wider readership, more weight with the media, more accolades in ...
