Why Do the Biblical Languages Matter?
Every year at Vose Seminary, students have the opportunity to take a unit in either ancient Hebrew or Koine (i.e. “common”) Greek, the languages of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament respectively. Moreover, students may enrol in the Hebrew or Greek …
The Iliad
Homer, The Iliad Penguin Classics (London: Penguin, 1987), lv + 460pp. ISBN:978-0-14-044444-5. Finally I have taken down this epic of Western culture and literature, after its having sat waiting on my shelf for many years, and read it. What a tragic and …
The Lost Letters of Pergamum
Longenecker, Bruce W., The Lost Letters of Pergamum (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2003). 192pp. ISBN: 0-8010-2607-5. For some reason I was drawn again to this little epistolary novel which the subtitle tells us it is a “story from the New Testament world.” …
New Edition of “Election, Barth & the French Connection”
The second edition of Simon Hattrell’s (editor and translator) book on Karl Barth and Pierre Maury is now available from Wipf & Stock. This is an enlarged edition of the book with several additional essays including one by myself entitled “The Light …
Kierkegaard on Christian Scholarship
I found this marvellous quote from Kierkegaard in Richard Bauckham’s monograph on James: Christian scholarship is the human race’s prodigious invention to defend itself against the New Testament, to ensure that one can continue to be a Christian without letting the …
New Book by Carolyn Tan
Congratulations to Carolyn Tan on the publication of her book, The Spirit at the Cross. What was the Holy Spirit doing at the cross of Jesus Christ? Jesus’ death and resurrection are central to God’s reconciliation with humanity. Does the Holy …
Scripture on Sunday – 2 Corinthians 5:14
In the opening chapters of 2 Corinthians Paul is defending himself against some at Corinth who are questioning his motives and ministry, and perhaps accusing him to others in the church, evidently seeking to ingratiate themselves to the Corinthians in Paul’s place. …
The Christian’s Political Duty (10 Theses)
Last week I posted on Barth’s “conversation” at the Zofingia Student Association meeting on June 3, 1959. At this meeting Barth addressed the questions put to him, What are the role and duties of the Christian as a political citizen? Does Christianity …
The 2019 Annual Vose Lecture
On August 2, 2019 Ben Witherington III delivered the Annual Vose Lecture on the theme, “A Singular Jesus in a Pluralistic Culture.” In essence, the lecture was an applied New Testament apologetics within a Wesleyan Evangelical framework of thought. Witherington explored Jesus’ …
Scripture on Sunday – Of Hairdos and Hierarchies (1 Corinthians 11:2-16)
Read 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 One of the more difficult and obscure passages in the New Testament is 1 Corinthians 11:2-16, which seems so distant from the modern world in setting and argument. I read this passage during the week, and flummoxed (again!), …