Tag: Old Testament

  • Cyril of Alexandria’s Commentary on the Twelve Prophets

    Cyril of Alexandria’s Commentary on the Twelve Prophets

    Cyril of Alexandria (d. 444) probably wrote his Commentary on the Twelve Prophets sometime before 428 (ODCC, s.v. “Cyril, St”; Robert C. Hill, trans., Cyril of Alexandria: Commentary on the Twelve, 1:4). The commentary is available in J.-P. Migne’s Patrologia Graeca via Documenta Catholica Omnia: Volume 71 Volume 72 The two-volume critical edition of Philip…

  • Biblical references in systematic theologies

    At theLAB, Rick Brannan has an interesting post about the most frequently cited verses in a selection of systematic theologies. Especially by comparison with the size of the two testaments, New Testament references vastly outnumber Old Testament references (90% to 10% in the top 100 most frequently cited texts). As a supplement to the analysis,…

  • 2017 Stone-Campbell Journal Conference

    Registration for the 2017 Stone-Campbell Journal Conference is now open. The 2017 meeting will be hosted by Johnson University in Knoxville, TN, and will focus on the theme of “Communicating the Old Testament.” This year’s conference marks the meeting’s 20th anniversary. The plenary lineup includes Ellen Davis (Duke Divinity School), Chris Heard (Pepperdine University), and…

  • Some Hermann Gunkel Works

    Several of Hermann Gunkel’s works are openly available online. Among these are: Ausgewählte psalmen Genesis Israel und Babylonien: der Einfluss Babyloniens auf die israelitische Religion Das Märchen im Alten Testament “Die Psalmen” (pgs. 241–61) from Deutsche Rundschau (1911) Die Sagen der Genesis (English: The Legends of Genesis) Schöpfung und Chaos in Urzeit und Endzeit: eine religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung…

  • Research@StAndrews

    Research@StAndrews:FullText is: [A] digital repository of research output from the University of St Andrews. Since 2006 the University has required theses to be submitted to the repository. . . . The Research@StAndrews Portal provides links to the full text of research publications which are stored in Research@StAndrews:FullText. From the School of Divinity, 160 theses are available.

  • More Online Resources

    As a follow up to noting Rob Bradshaw’s additions of Charles Simeon and John Lightfoot’s works in conveniently accessible PDF files, some other possibly helpful resources across which I’ve recently stumbled (sometimes apparently afresh) include: Keil and Delitzsch’s Old Testament commentary via Internet Archive; Various helpful texts via University of Pennsylvania’s Online Books Page; and…