New Testament Perspectives

Priorities. With life increasingly busy, this word nags at me like an irritating tag in a dress shirt. Many of you know that this blog has b...

As I was listening to Jonathan Pennington's On Script interview , I was struck by a comment he made about living a virtuous life. At the...

One of the pitfalls of being away from blogging for such a long period of time is the fact that I am late to many a dance. What I mean by th...

One of the things I have been meaning to do for some time is to study the Sermon on the Mount (Matt 5-7). Instead of being all over the boar...

If one desires to dust off an old book, one must grab it off the shelf and commence with the task. That's how I view the status of this ...

It is remarkable that nearly ten years have passed since the publication of Klyne Snodgrass' magnum opus, Stories With Intent (Eerdmans;...

Scripture is so precious to me that I have read it through from cover to cover scores of times, missing not a day in 50 years without stead...

While reading George Caird's masterful New Testament Theology , he brings to the fore an interesting and often overlooked aspect of the ...

One of the more helpful commentary series, the New International Version Application Commentary (NIVAC), published by Zondervan, is having a...

I ran across this quote from the great Ernst Käsemann on the indispensability of learning in community, a virtue seemingly lost in certain s...

The first new release under the editorship of Joel Green (not counting Gordon Fee's revised classic on 1 Corinthians) in the NICNT ser...

Eerdmans is slated to release two significant volumes for students of Johannine literature in early 2017. The first, a volume by noted s...

In some reflective reading this morning, I was perusing through my copy of C.F.D. Moule's The Phenomenon of the New Testament when I c...

Despite the fact that the New Perspective on Paul (NPP) is not really new anymore, does not mean that scholars/students of Paul are no longe...

Recently, I had an opportunity to read Andrew Lincoln's excellent essay "A Life of Jesus as Testimony: The Divine Courtroom and The...