From the daily archives:

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Is this an indictment of modern biblical scholarship?

November 14, 2009

Nijay Gupta partially reviews Gordon Fee’s commentary on the Thessalonian letters. In the course of his reflections he says this:

This seems to me to be a problem with new commentaries -though they are written by general experts (experts on Paul), ones like these are not by people who have spent their career on this one [...]

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Your Carnival needs you

November 14, 2009

A quick trawl of existing submissions for the next Biblical Studies Carnival at this halfway point in the month reveals exactly one genuine submission. Well done, Tommy Wasserman!
The rest include a blocked presumed phishing mail, and several pious postings that might be appropriate for the Christian Carnival, but are nothing to do with academic biblical [...]

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Messianic Judaism: just say no!

November 14, 2009

One of the subjects on which I am prone to irrational rants (I know, I know you can’t believe I would do any such thing) is so-called Messianic Judaism. It is the ghastly love-child of a certain type American dispensationalist fundamentalism and a theologically ignorant ahistorical romanticism.
Yesterday Claude Mariottini posted a link to an article [...]

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