J. David Stark

Author: J. David Stark

  • Ammon, Biblische Theologie

    Google Books has two volumes of Christoph Friedrich Ammon’s Biblische Theologie (Erlangen: J. J. Palm, 1801) available in various full-text formats (vol. 1, vol. 2).

  • Vanhoozer, ed., Theological Interpretation of the New Testament

    For this week, Kevin Vanhoozer’s edited volume on the Theological Interpretation of the New Testament is free from Logos Bible Software when users join a Baker-related email list (HT: Tayler Beede). The volume provides a focused selection of the book-specific entries from the larger Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible.

  • Google Classroom

    As an interesting new addition to its Apps for Education platform, Google is working toward a full September release for “Classroom”: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUiLc0If0CI] For more information or to apply to join the initial Classroom preview group, please see the Google Classroom site.

  • Baird, History of New Testament Research

    With last year’s release of the third volume, From C. H. Dodd to Hans Dieter Betz, William Baird brought his helpful series on the recent history of New Testament Studies to a close. Cliff Kvidahl has an informative review that, despite some criticisms, rightly praises Baird’s work as “informative while remaining entertaining. [Baird] brings the reader through the life…

  • Qumran Sectarian Manuscripts Update in Logos

    After having the product available for over 10 years, Logos Bible Software has released a substantive update to their Qumran Sectarian Manuscripts database (ed. Martin Abegg). Most significant among this update’s improvements are that the resource: Now contains more than 100 scrolls than in the previous version (737 documents are now represented). Several texts in…

  • Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (Catch-up Ed.)

    The latest reviews in the Review of Biblical Literature include those below. In biblioblog time, some of these reviews date back almost to eternity past, but I’m going ahead and posting them here for future reference. Update (5/13): The following now includes the April 24 listings I’d missed out previously. March 14 Jewish Scriptures and…