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Suffering Servant and the Good News: a book review
The Gospel According to Isaiah 53: Encountering the Suffering Servant in Jewish and Christian Theology edited by Darrell Bock and Mitch Glaser The prophet Isaiah has long been mined by Christian...
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The Book of Hebrews is Not Uncharted Territory: a book review
No one knows who wrote the book of Hebrews (though everybody has a theory). It is tucked into the New Testament behind Paul’s epistles but it is unclear what its relationship to Paul is. Hebrews is a...
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Charting Paul’s Life and Ministry: a book review
This is the second book in the Kregel Charts of the Bible series I have reviewed for my blog. The previous volume focused on a particular book (Hebrews). Charts on the Life, Letters, and Theology of...
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Simply Preaching: a book review
When the opportunity to review a new preaching book by Alec Motyer presented itself, I jumped at the chance. A competent biblical scholar, Motyer has written several commentaries that I have on my...
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Gospel Transformation Bible: a bible review
The Gospel Transformation Bible is not a Study Bible, at least in the traditional sense. A team of scholars and pastors have joined together under Bryan Chappell’s and Dane Ortlund’s editorial...
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The Future of Biblical Interpretation: a book review
Interpretation of the Bible is called legion for they are many. There are many hermeneutical approaches and countless interpreters. Of course not all interpretations are equal, some fail to attend to...
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Thinking Ethically with a Bible in Your Hand: a book review
What contribution does the Bible make to the discipline of ethics? Why are some actions called ‘good’ and others decried as ‘evil’? Can the scriptures speak to ethical dilemmas which weren’t known to...
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Reading Barth with Charity: a book review
Certainly George Hunsinger is a charitable reader of Barth. You’d suspect so. He is well known as a Barth scholar and has been president of the Karl Barth Society of North America since 2003. He knows...
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The Post-Consumer Bible: a ★★★★★ book review
Glenn Paauw observes that the Bible is not only the best selling book of all time, it is also the best selling book every single year (13). There are Study Bibles with shiny new notes and cross...
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It’s Unclobbering Time!- a book review
When I hear the word clobber, I always think of Ben Grimm—the rock-giant dubbed “The Thing” from the pages of Fantastic Four. Ben would arrive on the scene in his blue Speedo, pummel the hoards of...
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