ZECNT Blog Tour: Osborne on Matthew, Part 3

Thank you to Zondervan for a review copy of Grant Osborne’s commentary on Matthew and an opportunity to be a part of the ZECNT Blog Tour.  See also Part 1 and Part 2 of this review. While my first post of this series looked mostly at the overview of the series and the introduction, and [...]

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ZECNT Blog Tour: Osborne on Matthew, Part 2

I posted Part 1 of this review the other day, and I’ll post the third one next week.  All of these are a part of Zondervan’s ZECNT Blog Tour, with a review copy given by Zondervan.  In this post, I want to look briefly at some of the features of the commentary itself.  Each pericope [...]

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ZECNT Blog Tour: Osborne on Matthew, Part 1

A few weeks back I snagged a review copy of Grant Osborne’s new (and monstrous) commentary on Matthew as part of the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament Blog Tour.  When I first saw their post, I thought there would be no way I’d read the entire 1100+ pages by December 15, especially given the [...]

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5.5 Random Things #4

5.5.  This post is dedicated to not throwing up.  Why do I take you for granted? 5. Great quote posted by Marcus from Blomberg and Kamell’s commentary on James, one that all students of the Bible would do well to read. 4. I haven’t seen the movie yet, so I didn’t read his post, but [...]

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Ciampa & Rosner on 1 Corinthians for 50% Off

Westminster Bookstore is having a short (1 week) sale on Roy Ciampa and Brian Rosner’s 1 Corinthians commentary in the Pillar series.  Ciampa, as some of you know, was one of my NT profs at Gordon-Conwell, and I’m sure this commentary is very good (along with the 12 million other very good commentary on 1 [...]

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5.5 Random Things #1: The Comeback Edition

5.5.  This post is dedicated to the handful of folks who used to read my old blog, where I’d post occasional “5.5 Random Things”, often with links on various topics which may or may not be related to Bible geekdom.  Generally these are items of interest (to me, at any rate) that I don’t want to [...]

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One More Book for the Five Books

Sometime ago, Brian, my fellow infrequent contributor to BBG, offered up a post on five resources to help people understand the Pentateuch in a posted titled “Five Books for the Five Books.”  I wholeheartedly agree that the resources he listed are helpful, and would even now agree (I didn’t then, as you can see in [...]

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Oswalt on Isaiah 56-66

A     56:1-8 Foreign worshipers         B     56:9-59:15a Ethical righteousness                 C     59:15b-21 Divine Warrior                         D     60-62 Eschatological Hope                 C’    63:1-6 Divine Warrior         B’    63:7-66:17 Ethical righteousness A’    66:18-24 Foreign worshipers John Oswalt, The Book of Isaiah: Chapters 40-66, NICOT, p465

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Forthcoming Books: Former Prof Edition

I don’t highlight forthcoming books very often, but when a couple of my former professors are coming out with good ones, I feel the need to jump in (and when I’m having trouble coming up with other blogging ideas). Brian Rosner and Roy Ciampa, the latter being one of my NT professors, are coming out [...]

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Studying a Book of the Bible: Ezekiel as Test Case

In the comments of a previous post, Marcus asked what books I’m using in my study of Ezekiel.  For those who know me, it doesn’t take much to get me talking about books, especially commentaries.  But I thought I’d use this as an opportunity to stress how I use commentaries and other resources in the process [...]

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