Ephesians Archives – J. David Stark

Oxyrhynchus Papyri Transcriptions from the Paulines

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Geoffrey Smith has made available offprints of new transcriptions for 5258 (¹³²), containing fragments of Eph 3:21–4:2, and 5259 (¹³³), containing fragments of 1 Tim 3:13–4:8. Dated to the third century, 5259 (¹³³) is the earliest published witness to 1 Timothy.

HT: Andreas Köstenberger, Brice Jones, Rick Brannan

Logos’s Free Book(s) of the Month for December 2015

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Logos Bible Software’s free book of the month for December is now live. The selection is Stephen Fowl’s Ephesians from the New Testament Library series. Also deeply discounted to $1.99 is Luke Timothy Johnson’s Hebrews volume from the same series.

Also available for free on the Logos platform via the Noet website is James Joyce’s Dubliners, with Joyce’s Ulysses coming in as the bonus deep-discount item at $0.99.

Bulletin for Biblical Research 22, no. 2

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The latest issue of the Bulletin for Biblical Research arrived in yesterday’s mail and includes:

Beat Weber, “Toward a Theory of the Poetry of the Hebrew Bible: The Poetry of the Psalms as a Test Case”
Grant LeMarquand, “The Bible as Specimen, Talisman, and Dragoman in Africa: A Look at Some African Uses of the Psalms and 1 Corinthians 12–14”
Craig Keener, “Paul and Sedition: Pauline Apologetic in Acts”
David Stark, “Rewriting Prophets in the Corinthian Correspondence: A Window on Paul’s Hermeneutic”
Ayodeji Adewuya, “The Spiritual Powers of Ephesians 6:10–18 in the Light of African Pentecostal Spirituality”

Adewuya’s article is a revision of his engaging lecture at this past November’s Institute for Biblical Research meeting in San Francisco. My own essay discusses “rewritten Bible,” or “rewritten scripture,” particularly with a view toward using this literature as an aide in discussions of Pauline hermeneutics.

New ZECNT Volumes

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Zondervan has recently added the following volumes to the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament series:

Grant Osborne, Matthew;
Thomas Schreiner, Galatians; and
Chilton Arnold, Ephesians.

According to Zondervan,

Written by notable evangelical scholars, each volume in the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament series treats the literary context and structure of the passage in the original Greek. The series consistently provides the main point, an exegetical outline, verse-by-verse commentary, and theology in application in each section of every commentary.

Critical scholarship informs each step but does not dominate the commentary, allowing readers to concentrate on the biblical author’s message as it unfolds. While primarily designed for those with a basic knowledge of biblical Greek, all who strive to understand and teach the New Testament will find these books beneficial. The ZECNT series covers the entire New Testament in twenty volumes; Clinton E. Arnold serves as general editor.

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