This week’s link love: eclectic selections for your delectation

The regular weekend round-up of things that have caught my eye but I haven’t interacted with. Enjoy.

Dan Reid on the IVP blog gives a twittery tweeting taster of some definitions from the forthcoming Pocket Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship. If this is any guide it looks to have an ecumenically useful breadth that might not always in the past have been expected from this source

Following up on the notices of Martin Hengel’s death, Mike Bird posts a link to a good video interview with Hengel.

Pat McCullough asks the question whether “apocalyptic eschatology” is tautologous, and draws some good answers.

Jim Getz and Brandon Wason (twice) are among those noting and commenting on the proposed revision of the Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon. I found Jim and Brandon’s comments particularly helpful, but what I haven’t seen anywhere yet is a discussion whether this revision is an updating or a reworking.

Mark Goodacre seems to be alone in noting the death of under-appreciated and unassuming British scholar John Sweet. I met him on a few occasions when I was at Cambridge and my memory is of a pastoral and humble scholar.

Drew Tatusko, continuing to stir things on the sexuality front wonders about the appropriateness of lumping LGBT people all together in a community.

Michael Halcomb has a well-justified pop at street preaching, with some unbelievable quotations showing true Christian arrogance.

Daniel Kirk raises the perennial question about reading the Bible with the Church, and follows it up with four posts on Dunn on “Son of God“. (I think, BTW, that Christology by title is an unhelpful way to go about things) By contrast Esteban gives an interesting example of patristic reading. I put the two of them in the same paragraph in the hope of stirring a further debate.

I very rarely advance order a yet to be published book on the strength of a review but a good advance price and this excellent review by Rob Kashow have persuaded me to order the The Cambridge Introduction to Biblical Hebrew.

Finally, canvassing for the Conservative Party, Iain Dale discovers the sort of wife who would make fundamentalists very happy, but whose self-proclaimed “old-fashioned” approach to letting her husband tell her whom to vote for seems just a little bit scary to the rest of us.