I've been kind of super excited about this... I have finally thrown my tiny pebble into the pond! Now I'm just waiting to watch the ripples. Well, it's probably more like this: I have finally thrown my grain of sand into the ocean! Now I'm just waiting to be bitten by...
NTScholarship
The Kingdom of Christ
I'm embarrassed to say I did not know this, more embarrassed to admit that I never thought to ask: The move toward a Kingdom theology [among both covenantalists and dispensationalists] ... accounts for the name of the newer form of dispensationalism. It is called...
Kevin Bauder on Fundamentalism and Scholarship
I often use my blog as a handy way for me to remember something—and the links below are something I want to have easy access to. They are the 12 short essays on Fundamentalism and Scholarship produced by Kevin Bauder of Central Seminary a few years back. Kevin has...
Why Study the Biblical Languages
Ironically, technology has made study of the biblical languages both easier and less likely (technology giveth; technology taketh away). In my own experience, I can say it was very difficult to push myself to master the Hebrew verb states (or stems; i.e., Niphal,...
Moisés Silva on the Hermeneutical Spiral
Moisés Silva's essay in Revelation and Reason: New Essays in Reformed Apologetics offers a somewhat startling thesis: "My theological system should tell me how to exegete." (86) Many exegetes profess to come to the text sans system, but Silva argues that because this...
Randy Leedy on Greek Pedagogy
Logos Bible Software has put out a new first-year Greek/Hebrew course that is apparently selling like hotcakes and promises to eliminate memorization of vocab and paradigms and focus immediately on language use in exegesis and sermon prep. Rod Decker's most recent...
Why Study Greek at All?
Dr. Rod Decker knows Greek. Very well. And he's thought carefully about how and why to learn it, how and when—and when not—to use it in preaching. I urge students in Greek classes, especially higher level courses, to read this paper by Dr. Decker. In it you'll find...
Fish Is Brain Food
Stanley Fish is a legal scholar, and as best I can tell, he got into that line of work because of his fascination with interpretation in general—he started out as a literary critic and theorist. Law certainly furnishes many fascinating case studies, and when judges...
I Agree with Charles Hodge
Biographer Andrew Hoffecker describing Charles Hodge's time in graduate school: He eventually came to the conclusions that graduate students must make for surviving. First, one cannot master everything…. Second, he came to the realization that a fundamental feature of...
Simple Carson Quote
I worry about ministries that focus just on correcting everyone. What I hope to do in all my writing is to promote the truth and proclaim it positively. When we correct, we do it because we think that the glory of God is being diminished. Part of a positive...
NASB Less Literal
Comparing Bible translations is a very complex matter. One small example: The New American Standard Bible is generally (and, I think, rightly) considered to be the most “literal” of major English Bible translations. (“Literal” is a notoriously tricky word that I won’t...
Capitalizing Pronouns Referring to Deity
Note: I have written a somewhat lengthier and more definitive post on this topic for the Logos Bible Software blog. I write Bible textbooks for a living, and the various publishing houses for which I write (a grand total of two) have style manuals. Conservative...