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New Book Release: “And God Said” by Joel Hoffman

By Jason A. Staples

Fellow blogger Dr. Joel Hoffman has announced his newest book, And God Said: How Translations Conceal the Bible’s Original Meaning, which deals with some of the tricky aspects of Bible translation and the way that English translations often obscure the meaning of the ancient texts in their original context. Joel is an excellent writer;... »

Interview with Richard Hays of Duke University

By Jason A. Staples

I’m way late to the game on this (thanks to being busy with my real work and falling behind on my feeds), but it’s still worth posting: John Anderson has posted a wonderful interview with Duke NT professor Richard Hays, where Hays gives a lot of details about his background and influences. As a... »

Great Interview with Craig Keener by Nijay Gupta

By Jason A. Staples

Nijay Gupta has posted a two-part interview series with NT prof Craig Keener, author of the Romans commentary in the New Covenant Commentary Series (Cascade/Wipf & Stock) with some outstanding material. Part 1 is here and part 2 here. A couple dandy quotes: NKG: Based on your work on this commentary, can you give us... »

Evangelicals, Scholarship, and Discrimination

By Jason A. Staples

Dan Wallace's recent post at Parchment and Pen on anti-Evangelical discrimination within the biblical studies community has caused a bit of a tempest in the biblioblog teacup. My thoughts... »