Tyndale Tech Tips
David Instone-Brewer at Tyndale House, an evangelical study center at Cambridge, just released an excellent set of tips on word-processing. He has made it part of his mission to help biblical scholars (and all of us wannabes) use their computers wisely. There’s a little wisdom for everyone, so do a little searching; he has some other helpful posts on related topics.
The Fear of Aslan
I just wrote a little section in my dissertation on the fear of the Lord. Proverbs 1:7 reads, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.” Fear (יִרְאָה) in this verse is certainly used often in the phrases “fear of God” or “fear of the Lord,” but it is also the common Hebrew word for dread of a possible future occurrence—the standard-issue, universal experience of emotional fear. God promised the Israelites in the wilderness, “This day I will begin to put the dread and fear (יִרְאָה)...
Chapter 3 Approved
Praise the Lord: chapter 3 of the dissertation sailed through smoothly. Please pray that chapter 4 would do the same. Thank you to those who have prayed for me. I've updated my word-count ticker.
Schreiner on Jewish Expectations
I’ve always heard that the Jewish people of Jesus’ day expected their Messiah to be a political savior and not so much a spiritual one. Jesus will be both one day, of course, but His ministry in the first century certainly emphasized the spiritual. He therefore didn’t live up to Jewish expectations about the Messiah. I have sometimes wondered how sure we are that the Jews of Jesus’ day really thought this way, and now Thomas Schreiner has offered some proof. Twice so far in his New Testament...
True, man!
“The truth or superiority of neither Catholicism or Protestantism is to be determined by the parlous levels of ignorance, historical, ecclesiastical, and theological, prevalent among their respective adherents.” —Carl Trueman