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The personal blog of pastor, grammarian, and runner Brent Niedergall
The Atonement: An Introduction
A Book Review Jeremy Treat’s The Atonement: An Introduction, in Crossway’s Short Studies in Systematic Theology Series, equips readers to appreciate and grasp what Christ accomplished through his work and death. Unlike many other books on the atonement, this one does...
New Book: Meaning for Your Labor
Publication Announcement My new devotional, Meaning for Your Labor: A Daily Devotional from the Book of Ecclesiastes, is now available for purchase! Meaning for Your Labor is a 180-day devotional that guides readers through the entire Book of Ecclesiastes, verse by...
Habakkuk, Zephaniah, and Haggai: A Handbook on the Greek Text
A Book Review Habakkuk, Zephaniah, and Haggai: A Handbook on the Greek Text by Joshua L. Harper is the latest installment in Baylor’s series of handbooks on the Septuagint, edited by Sean Adams and Seth Ehorn. As with other publications in the Baylor Handbook on the...
Biblical Theology: A Canonical, Thematic, and Ethical Approach
A Book Review Andreas J. Köstenberger and Gregory Goswell have given us a massive theological work called Biblical Theology: A Canonical, Thematic, and Ethical Approach. In addition to a meaty introduction to the discipline of biblical theology and section overviews,...
New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity—Update
New Docs Update Professor James R. Harrison kindly reached out to update me on the latest developments in his major project to produce the seven final volumes in the New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity series. These changes include that there are now seven...
Text and Paratext
A Book Review The Bible is full of words, which we expect because Scripture is a text. The Bible also includes many paratextual features that, by definition, are not the words of Scripture. Gregory Goswell, in Text and Paratext: Book Order, Title, and Division as Keys...
Scribes and Scripture
A Book Review What paths and processes stand between the original written words of Scripture and modern Bibles printed today? The Bible’s history is complex and often misunderstood. You can find technical books about textual criticism and canonicity—specific aspects...
Jesus and the Gospels
A Book Review Craig Blomberg’s Jesus and the Gospels: An Introduction and Survey is now in its third edition. First published in 1997, Bloomberg’s work has been updated to benefit a new generation of students, professors, and pastors. According to the introduction,...
The King of Christmas
A Book Review The King of Christmas: All God’s Children Search for Jesus is the third book in a growing series of FatCat Books from Lexham Press. Author Todd Hains and illustrator Natasha Kennedy have, once again, made Cat-echism spiritually edifying, colorful, and...
Five Views on the New Testament Canon
A Book Review While the canon of Scripture is settled, a consensus on the questions of its formation and entailments is not. In Five Views on the Testament Canon, five biblical scholars respond to three questions: How did the 27 books of the New Testament come to be...