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The personal blog of Bible curriculum editor, PhD candidate, and runner Brent Niedergall
BDAG vs. Thayer: Battle of the Greek Lexicons
In a previous post, I compared the two most widely used Hebrew lexicons, BDB and HALOT. Now, I want to do the same thing for Greek lexicons. The question to answer this time is If I’m using Thayer, should I get BDAG? This may sound like a nonsensical, no-brainer...
Book Review—Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics
You know all those great books by C. S. Lewis? The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, Mere Christianity, and a bunch more. But what is Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics, other than a generally ignored and forgotten book of poetry by a...
Bel and the Dragon Reader: Part 7
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...
BDB vs. HALOT: Battle of the Hebrew Lexicons
I’ve been studying the book of Haggai for a Sunday school series I’m teaching, and I’ve used it as an opportunity to help answer a common question among pastors, If I already have BDB, should I get HALOT? This is a question about Hebrew lexicons. BDB is short for...
Bel and the Dragon Reader: Part 6
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...
Thoughts on Spirits in Bondage by C. S. Lewis
“I am the bomb…” —C.S. Lewis, Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics I’ve been slowly working my way through Letters of C. S. Lewis and in these letters, Lewis discusses his first book, Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics. He wrote to his father in 1918 about how he...
Biblical Studies Carnival 169 for March 2020
Introduction Welcome to the Biblical Studies Carnival 169 for March 2020! After weeks of social distancing, you can now peruse the best of biblical studies—the thrills, the fun, and all the excitement churned out across the Internet and curated here. And don’t miss...
Review of High Definition Commentary: Galatians
Every Sunday, more preachers than we would like to think stand behind pulpits and incorrectly explain various features of the Greek language in the New Testament. Grammatical misunderstandings of the aorist tense form and the present active imperative have been...
Bel and the Dragon Reader: Part 5
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: Who Is the Holy Spirit?
What do you do for a living? It’s one of the first things most of us do when we meet someone new. We conceptualize our identities in terms of what we do. Who is the Holy Spirit? Systematic theologies speak to His deity and personality, before moving on to His work....