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2019-08-26T03:13:25-04:00

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Mondays with Moo and McKnight on Romans 3:21-31

Last updated on: August 26, 2019 at 3:13 am By Michael F. Bird

This week I’m reading and lecturing on Rom 3:21-31 with Moo’s second edition of Romans and McKnight’s Reading Romans Backwards. Moo takes this section to be principally about the availability of God’s righteousness to all who respond in faith (p. 237) – hard to disagree with. He thinks Paul is probably dependent upon Jewish Christian tradition but not necessarily citing a traditional formulation (p. 240). Moo takes “but now” as temporal, indicating that a new era of redemptive history has begun (p.... Read more

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2019-08-28T01:27:43-04:00

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The Gospel of Matthew in Church History

Last updated on: August 28, 2019 at 1:27 am By Michael F. Bird

Matthew: Interpreted by Early Christian Commentators Edited and Translated by D. H. Williams Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2018. Available at Eerdmans By Laura Thierry For the uninitiated, entering the world of patristic and medieval Scriptural interpretation can feel a little like being a Muggle who suddenly finds themselves at Hogwarts: Everything is interesting, brilliant, even magical… but also just a little bit too uncomfortably odd. How, then, does a 21st century Christian attempt to work out the systems and mysteries that... Read more

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2019-08-13T07:47:01-04:00

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Seasoned Speech: Rhetoric in the Life of the Church

Last updated on: August 13, 2019 at 7:47 am By Michael F. Bird

Seasoned Speech: Rhetoric in the Life of the Church James E. Beitler III Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2019. Available at IVP. By Laura Thierry Rhetoric in the life of the Church tends to get a pretty bad wrap. Associated with manipulation, cunning, deceit, and emotionalism, we often find it easier to quote Paul’s words in 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 and flee from ‘plausible words of wisdom’. But is this the last word on the role of rhetoric in life of the... Read more

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2019-08-21T05:57:57-04:00

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Are the Gospels Mythic Historiography?

Last updated on: August 21, 2019 at 5:57 am By Michael F. Bird

This week I’ve read through M. David Litwa’s new book How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths (New Haven, CN: Yale University Press, 2019). This is a book I fundamentally disagree with, but it is an interesting read, and will probably elicit a whole lot of controversy about the relationship of the Gospels to Mythology. I would love to see an SBL panel on it and hopefully we can review for JSHJ. You can also listen to a podcast interview with... Read more

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2019-08-19T05:45:05-04:00

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Reflection on John Barclay’s Paul and the Gift

Last updated on: August 19, 2019 at 5:45 am By Michael F. Bird

I’ve now finished a second reading of John Barclay’s superb volume Paul and the Gift (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2015). This is certainly one of the most significant books in Pauline studies, up there with N.T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God, and E.P. Sanders’s Paul and Palestinian Judaism as a monumental and must-have book. The genius of Barclay is that he offers what I take to be a nuanced apocalyptic perspective on Paul that cuts through the dichotomy... Read more

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2019-05-03T01:39:26-04:00

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Paul’s Use of the Old Testament in Rom 12:9-21

Last updated on: May 3, 2019 at 1:39 am By Michael F. Bird

In my mind Rom 12:1-15:7 is not a convenient abstract of Pauline ethics and church life, it is rather, a vision for how the Roman house churches can indigenize the Pauline evangelical vision in Rome as it relates to relationships within the community and outside the community, in the seat of empire, surrounded on all sides by disbelieving Jews and suspicious pagans. What appears to be an eclectic collection of Pauline aphorisms is materially organized as Paul’s response to the... Read more

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2019-05-03T02:11:54-04:00

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Joel Marcus’ Retirement Lecture: The Parting of the Ways

Last updated on: May 3, 2019 at 2:11 am By Michael F. Bird

Duke Divinity School hosted a retirement lecture April 30 by Dr. Joel Marcus, professor of New Testament and Christian Origins. The lecture was titled “Thoughts on the Parting of the Ways Between Judaism and Christianity.” It includes some great autobiographical remarks by Marcus and a very good critique of the Paul within Judaism schule. Fascinating topic and worth listening to. Read more

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2019-05-03T01:25:30-04:00

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Tremper Longman on Genesis

Last updated on: May 3, 2019 at 1:25 am By Michael F. Bird

Tremper Longman III Genesis The Story of God Bible Commentary, Zondervan 2016. Available at Zondervan. By Jill Firth The Story of God Bible Commentary has a “story-centric” approach which locates the biblical text within the whole sweep of the biblical narrative. The series firstly examines the text in its original context, but also looks at each text from a New Testament perspective and considers how to “live the story.” Tremper Longman is the General Editor of the Old Testament series,... Read more

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2019-04-25T20:04:08-04:00

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Post-Commentary Reflections on Philippians

Last updated on: April 25, 2019 at 8:04 pm By Michael F. Bird

In partnership with Nijay Gupta, I have finished writing a commentary on Philippians for the NCBC series (ed. BW3). Coming Soon!!! Here are the basics of what I’ve learned and what surprised me: I’m pretty certain it was written in Ephesus not Rome. I can’t get into the compilation theory, I think there are much better ways of explaining the abrupt transitions at 3:1 and 4:10 without resorting to multiple letters stitched together. There are just so many recurring themes... Read more

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2019-08-04T21:41:32-04:00

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Mondays with Moo and McKnight – Romans 2

Last updated on: August 4, 2019 at 9:41 pm By Michael F. Bird

I’m continuing my Mondays with Moo series, but now adding Scot McKnight’s Reading Romans Backwards because it just arrived! Interestingly, Moo continued to argue the view that justification to the doers of the law is hypothetical (2:13), he sees no Gentile Christians (2:14-15) except allusively towards the end of the chapter (2:27-28): We think, therefore, that vv. 7 and 10 set forth what is called in traditional (especially Lutheran) language “the law.” Paul sets forth the binbilal conditions for attaining eternal... Read more

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