A feather in your theological cap.
The personal blog of Bible curriculum editor, PhD candidate, and runner Brent Niedergall
A New YouTube Series on James
I've been answering some questions about James in an ongoing devotional series for my church. Check it out!
Need a CBGM Crash Course?
If you’re familiar with New Testament textual criticism, you’re well aware that the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method is touted to be about as easy to grasp as the Voynich manuscript or Kryptos sculpture. Joey McCollum has done us all a kind service by explaining...
Bel and the Dragon Reader: Part 11
Bel is back after a brief break! This time we look at verses 23–24. 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)...
Book Review: An Introduction to Biblical Greek
There’s something different about this one. John D. Schwandt’s An Introduction to Biblical Greek: A Grammar with Exercises is different from pretty much every other grammar I’ve ever seen before. Schwandt tells hopeful students they must learn to read and write in...
HALOT vs. DCH: Battle of the Hebrew Lexicons—The Final Fight
Welcome to the final installment of the series where I pit biblical language lexicon against biblical language lexicon. Accordance Bible Software has kindly sponsored three matches between the Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (HALOT) and the Dictionary...
Book Review: Preaching the Word with John Chrysostom
John Chrysostom is one of those guys most Christians don’t know much about. He lived a long time ago and it’s kind of fun to say his name. I’m a fan, but not everyone digs ancient church fathers. So it’s rather surprising that Lexham Press would publish a...
NMF and Textual Criticism
It’s becoming increasingly apparent that the advances of our digital age are making a dramatic impact within the field of New Testament textual criticism. Computer processing can perform analysis that would have previously been impossible. At the same time, this also...
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...