Sailhamer’s Magnum Opus and New books

The good people of IVP (Adriana Wright) surprised me with a review copy of The Meaning of the Pentateuch: Revelation, Composition and Interpretation by John H. Sailhamer.  This book might be one of the most important works on the Pentateuchal scholarship. Sailhamer’s previous contribution to  the study of the Pentateuch includes his excellent book,  The [...]

God is not the Creator, claims OT Professor

Most OT professors acknowledge that God is Creator as it is explicity stated in Genesis and the rest of the Bible. The one million dollar question is how God created the world. More recently, Ellen van Wolde, a renown Professor of Old Testament in the Netherlands states boldly that “the first sentence of Genesis “in [...]

John Anderson interviews Walter Brueggemann

Click here    to follow.  The interview is succint;  Brueggemann’s answers are thought-provoking, imaginative,  and of course, post-modern as his approach to Old Testament (See his  Theology Of The Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy).  For example, he responds
The Old Testament invites the church to a narrative reality that is open, pluralistic, and beyond all codifications.  The [...]

John H. Walton and Genesis One

Today I received my copy of John H. Walton’s “The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate”. Prophetically speaking, this book will change  the way we read Genesis 1. As I begin reading it today I quickly discovered that the book is is nothing short of  mind-blowing. This is a stimulating, thought-provoking and [...]

MUST-READS: TOP 5 Books IN OLD TESTAMENT STUDIES (Part I)

Below I list the Top 5 books that are noteworthy in the field of OT studies which you must read if you’re a student  of the Bible, especially of the Old Testament. This is not an exhaustive list per se but it does, however,  cover the trajectories of the major sub-disciplines  (i.e. OT Theology, Introductory texts, [...]

Recommended single volume commentary on the Old and New Testaments

This is not meant to be an exhaustive list. I carefully selected   “supposedly” top three commentaries on the OT,  five 0n the NT.
Recommended Old Testament Commentaries
Genesis
Allen P. Ross, Creation and Blessing: A Guide to the Study and Exposition of Genesis
Wenham, G. J. Wenham, Genesis 1-15 &  Genesis 16-50 ( WBC)
Westermann, C. Genesis. 3 vols.
 
Exodus
B.S. Childs,  The Book [...]

Early Jewish Christian Appropriation of the Hebrew Bible

Enn has written a helpful post entitled: “Hey, Get Away from My Bible!“ Christian Appropriation of a Jewish Bible as a response to a recent email he received from an agnostic reader. Here are some observations he makes:
The first Christians handled their Bible in a way that helped them make sense of this astounding [...]

Interview with Peter Enns

 

 
Peter Enns is interviewed on WHYY’s Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane.  (HT: Finitum non capax infiniti) I still haven’t got through the book yet. In the interview Peter summarizes the content of the book.  At any rate, the interview is quite helpful . If you have the time listen to it.