Category: Weblog

  • On the Web (February 2, 2011)

    On the web: Andrew Criddle comments on an excerpt from Ephrem about the Gospels’ composition. Justin Milhoc reviews Andrew Cain’s The Letters of Jerome: Asceticism, Biblical Exegesis, and the Construction of Christian Authority in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 2009). Charles Jones notes the Roman Provincial Coinage Online database. Eric Sowell highlights the availability of much of J.-P.…

  • Logos Notes

    Logos 4.5 (SR3) is now available with a couple minor bug fixes. For the change log, see here. Also, February’s free resource is now available: The Works of B. B. Warfield (Vol. 1: Revelation and Inspiration).

  • Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (January 31, 2011)

    The latest reviews from the Review of Biblical Literature include: Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies J. Andrew Dearman, The Book of Hosea, reviewed by Heinz-Dieter Neef Károly Dániel Dobos and Miklós Köszeghy, eds., With Wisdom as a Robe: Qumran and Other Jewish Studies in Honour of Ida Fröhlich, reviewed by Korinna Zamfir Bruce Louden, Homer’s Odyssey and the Near East,…

  • Zahn on Romans and Galatians

    Theodor Zahn’s Kommentar zum Neuen Testament volume on Romans (1910) is available freely in several formats from Internet Archive, and his volume on Galatians (1905) is available freely in PDF format from Google Books. The bibliographic information for both is available here (BibTeX).

  • Zotero 3.0 Stable

    The stable release of Zotero 3.0 is now available: Zotero 3.0 marks a major departure from previous versions, most notably with the new ability run outside the Firefox browser. Available for Mac, Windows, and Linux, this standalone version of Zotero contains all the great functionality of the old Firefox-based Zotero but now enables users to integrate…

  • Not up to Seven Times

    The interchange in Matt 18:21–22 looks back to Jesus’ immediately preceding comments on handling a community member (ἀδελφός) who sins (Matt 18:15–20; Chrysostom, Hom. Matt., 61.1 [NPNF1 10:357]; cf. Matt 18:21; 19:1). Read within this context, Peter’s question ποσάκις ἁμαρτήσει εἰς ἐμὲ ὁ ἀδελφός μου καὶ ἀφήσω αὐτῷ; (Matt 18:21a; How many times* shall my brother sin against…