A feather in your theological cap.
The personal blog of pastor, grammarian, and runner Brent Niedergall
Book Review: The Whole Counsel of God
Many vocations come with a goal to aim for. A soldier seeks promotion to a certain rank. A UPS driver aspires to enter the “Circle of Honor” for making it 25 years without an accident. A lawyer hopes to make managing partner. And Tim Patrick and Andrew Reid set forth...
Discouragement, BDAG, and Fragment 144
Lexicons are wonderful tools. BDAG, for instance, is packed with valuable data. Almost every entry contains a string of cryptic abbreviations directing you to where the headword appears outside of the New Testament. Sometimes, especially for words with shorter...
Book Review—Exploring the Bible Together: A 52-Week Family Worship Plan
It’s 7:30 pm, do you know where your children are? Kicking a football into the neighbor’s yard, playing video games, watching Andy Griffith or Disney Plus? Families have some kind of evening routine, whether it’s done intentionally or by default. Most of us like the...
DIOTI Deep-Dive: Part 1
Chris Fresch recently raised an intriguing desideratum during the Amos session of the Cambridge Septuagint Series. Someone needs to analyze the pragmatics of the conjunction διότι. I won’t be the one to produce a clean linguistic analysis, but I would like to record...
Bel and the Dragon Reader: Part 10
Series Introduction I’m facilitating an online Koine Greek reading group and we’re working through the short and apocryphal book of Bel and the Dragon. The text we’re using is the Old Greek (OG) version from Henry Barclay Swete’s 1909 edition of The Old Testament...
HALOT vs. DCH: Battle of the Hebrew Lexicons—The Rematch
Welcome to the series where I pit biblical language lexicon against biblical language lexicon. Accordance Bible Software has kindly sponsored three matches between HALOT and DCH. These are the acronyms for the Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (HALOT)...
Book Review: A Concise Dictionary of Theological Terms
Pastors, students, theologians, and scholars rely upon reference works—big heavy ones and handy little concise ones. But pastors, students, and theologians aren’t the only ones who should own some helpful books for understanding God’s Word. What about Sunday school...
Announcement: New Max & Moritz in Biblical Greek Page
I've added a new page to promote the book I had the privilege of co-editing: Max and Moritz in Biblical Greek. You can view the page here.
Bel and the Dragon Reader: Part 9
Series Introduction I’m facilitating an online Koine Greek reading group and we’re working through the short and apocryphal book of Bel and the Dragon. The text we’re using is the Old Greek (OG) version from Henry Barclay Swete’s 1909 edition of The Old Testament in...
Book Review: Hebrew for Life
Ever heard the one about the two frogs on the farm who inadvertently ended up in a pail half full of milk? The first frog, viewing the situation as hopeless, soon gives up hope and succumbs to a milky grave. The second, refusing to be intimidated, kicks and kicks his...