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New Books in Biblical Studies
Jonathan Robker, “Balaam in Text and Tradition” (Mohr Siebeck, 2019)
Jonathan Robker
Balaam in Text and Tradition

Mohr Siebeck, 2019

New Books in Biblical StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in Jewish StudiesNew Books in Religion & Faith October 14, 2019 Michael Morales

Balaam plays a prominent role in the book of Numbers, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his religion? What was his occupation? The mystery of Balaam has interested exegetes and scribes for millennia. Join us as we talk to Jonathan Miles Robker about his book... Read More
Andrew Steinmann, “Genesis: An Introduction and Commentary” (IVP Academic, 2019)
Andrew Steinmann
Genesis
An Introduction and Commentary
IVP Academic, 2019

New Books in Biblical StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network October 10, 2019 Jonathan Wright

Genesis is a book of origins: of the world, of sin, of God’s promise of redemption, and of the people of Israel. It traces God’s pledge of a Savior through Abraham’s line down to his great-grandson Judah. It serves as a foundation for the New Testament and its teaching that... Read More
Esau McCaulley, “Sharing in the Son’s Inheritance” (T and T Clark, 2017)
Esau McCaulley
Sharing in the Son's Inheritance
Davidic Messianism and Paul's Worldwide Interpretation of the Abrahamic Land Promise in Galatians
T&T Clark, 2017

New Books in Biblical StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network October 7, 2019 Will Sipling

Dr. Esau McCaulley is the author of Sharing in the Son’s Inheritance: Davidic Messianism and Paul’s Worldwide Interpretation of the Abrahamic Land Promise in Galatians, published in 2017 by T&T Clark. Esau serves as assistant professor of New Testament at Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL. Further, he is an ordained... Read More
Hans Boersma, “Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition” (Eerdmans, 2018)
Hans Boersma
Seeing God
The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition
Eerdmans, 2018

New Books in Biblical StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network October 3, 2019 Will Sipling

Dr. Hans Boersma is the author of Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition, published in 2018 by Eerdmans. He holds the Saint Benedict Servants of Christ Chair in Ascetical Theology at Nashotah House Theological Seminary in Wisconsin in the United States, and previously was a professor at Regent... Read More
Patrick Schreiner, “Matthew, Disciple and Scribe” (Baker Academic, 2019)
Patrick Schreiner
Matthew, Disciple and Scribe

Baker Academic, 2019

New Books in Biblical StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network September 18, 2019 Jonathan Wright

In Matthew, Disciple and Scribe (Baker Academic, 2019), Patrick Schreiner provides a fresh look at the Gospel of Matthew, highlighting the unique contribution Matthew’s rich and multilayered portrait of Jesus makes to understanding the connection between the Old and New Testaments. Drawing from Matthew 13:52, Schreiner understands the author of the... Read More
Matthew E. Ferris, “If One Uses It Lawfully: The Law of Moses and the Christian Life” (Wipf and Stock, 2018)
Matthew E. Ferris
If One Uses It Lawfully
The Law of Moses and the Christian Life
Wipf & Stock, 2018

New Books in Biblical StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network September 13, 2019 Crawford Gribben

One of the most enduring debates within protestant theology has been the discussion about how the law of Moses relates to the Christian life. In this important new book, Matthew E. Ferris, a self-described “gentleman theologian,” puts the debate within the contexts of recent writing in New Testament studies as... Read More
M. David Litwa, “How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths” (Yale UP, 2019)
M. David Litwa
How the Gospels Became History
Jesus and Mediterranean Myths
Yale University Press, 2019

New Books in Biblical StudiesNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network August 19, 2019 Jonathan Wright

Did the early Christians believe their myths? Like most ancient—and modern—people, early Christians made efforts to present their myths in the most believable ways. In How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths (Yale University Press, 2019), M. David Litwa explores how and why what later became the four... Read More