New Release: Reading the Historical Books
Biblical history can be some of the most difficult material for beginning students to grasp. The conventions of contemporary history writing are quite different from those of ancient Israelite writers....
View ArticleWriting in the Ancient Near East – an Excerpt from Reading the Historical Books
The following is an excerpt from Reading the Historical Books, by Patricia Dutcher-Walls. ——– Writing was an activity developed in the ancient Near East around 3000 BCE, starting with cuneiform and...
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Denis Fortin reviewed Robin Jensen’s Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity for RBL. “Jensen does a magnificent job of presenting these five core motifs of baptism in early Christian documents and...
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Writing History in the Ancient World Introducing Reading the Historical Books Explaining Ancient History in a Digital Age About the Book: Biblical history can be some of the most difficult material...
View ArticleVideo: Patricia Dutcher-Walls on Reading Biblical History in the Classroom...
The Challenge of Reading Biblical History Using Reading the Historical Books in the Classroom Using Reading the Historical Books in the Church About the Book: Biblical history can be some of the most...
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Bruce Ellis Benson, author of Liturgy as a Way of Life, was interviewed by Alvin Rapien at The Poor in Spirit. “What is liturgy? Probably the simplest way of answering that is that it all about how we...
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Wesley Ellis, at Living in the Kingdom, reviewed Andrew Root’s forthcoming Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker. “Root looks to present Bonhoeffer’s youth ministry as a consistent lens for understanding his...
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Mathew Sims, at Grace for Sinners, reviewed James K. A. Smith’s Imagining the Kingdom. I cannot recommend Imagining the Kingdom highly enough. It’s a much needed corrective for the Church especially in...
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At RBL, Walter Moberly’s Old Testament Theology was reviewed by Trent Butler (here) and Wilhelm Wessels (here). This is a book that exudes so much knowledge about matters pertaining to the Hebrew Bible...
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George Guthrie, author of 2 Corinthians in the Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, was interviewed at Books at a Glance. (Part 1, and part 2). “New commentaries on 2 Corinthians do not...
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