New Testament

The ending of the Acts of the Apostles has proven a puzzle, to say the least.[1] In the fourth century, John Chrysostom asked, "But of [Paul's] affairs after the two years [i.e., of Acts 28:30], what say we? (The writer) leaves the hearer athirst for more: the heathen authors do the same (in their...

The ending of the Acts of the Apostles has proven a puzzle, to say the least.[1] In the fourth century, John Chrysostom asked, "But of [Paul's] affairs after the two years [i.e., of Acts 28:30], what say we? (The writer) leaves the hearer athirst for more: the heathen authors do the same (in their...

Unlocking Romans By J.R. Daniel Kirk 245 p. Eerdmans (November 2008) It is difficult to overestimate the influence of E. P. Sanders's scholarship on the academic study of Paul. Since Sanders published Paul and Palestinian Judaism (1977) and Paul, the Law, and the Jewish People (1983), it has become...

God's Word in Human Words: An Evangelical Appropriation of Critical Biblical Scholarship By Kenton L. Sparks 416 p. Baker (March 2008) Reviewed by S.M. Baugh When the evangelical movement began not so very long ago, its one, defining doctrine that unified people from diverse ecclesiastical...

View image Pauline Christology: An Exegetical-Theological Study By Gordon D. Fee 707 p. Hendrickson Publishers (March 2007) Reviewed by Josh Walker Gordon Fee, Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada, is one of the preeminent New Testament scholars in the...

In the second of a series of articles in which we examine Jesus' encounters with various individuals, this week we take a look at the conversation of Jesus with the Woman of Samaria in John 4. They met at well, Jacob's well. It is meant to bring to mind the fact that a courting ritual had taken...

There has been a long-standing discussion in the world of textual criticism concerning the degree to which scribes intentionally altered passages of the New Testament to better conform to their own theological preferences. Ever since the well-known statement from Westcott and Hort that, "there are...