On December 4, 2024, McMaster Divinity College held a “pop-up conference,” an ad hoc afternoon, on the work and influence of C. S. Lewis, a figure who continues to make an impact today. The conference was called “Faith, Fantasy, and Philosophy: An Afternoon of C. S. Lewis,” with both invited speakers and parallel sessions. This […]
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We recently spent about a week in Boston during the annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) and Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), with the Institute of Biblical Research (IBR) meeting in between. Aside from the papers, we enjoyed reconnecting with our colleagues and friends from all over the world and enjoying the beautiful […]
We are looking to complete the fifth volume of the Johannine Studies series, published with Brill (as part of the new De Gruyter Brill), entitled John’s Gospel and Its Sources (co-edited by Stanley E. Porter and David I. Yoon), but we are wanting to include a few additional essays. The theme is broad, including any topic dealing […]
On April 27, 2023, McMaster Divinity College held a Church and Culture conference, with the theme of “Secularism and the Pursuit of Transcendence.” The plenary speakers were Christina M. Gschwandtner (Fordham), Charles Taylor (McGill), Merold Westphal (Fordham), Robert Wuthnow (Princeton), and Stanley E. Porter (McMaster), along with 45 presenters during 4 parallel sessions. This two-volume […]
Another book that was released last year was a Festschrift for Craig Evans, currently John Bisango Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins at Houston Christian University. Prior to joining HCU in 2016, Evans taught at Acadia Divinity College for 13 years, 21 years at Trinity Western University, and one year at McMaster University. As a long-time […]
For those who are interested in worship and music, we want to highlight a fairly recent book by Wendy J. Porter, Worship, Music, and Interpretation: Exploratory Essays, McMaster General Studies Series 16 (Eugene, OR: MDC Press/Pickwick, 2024). Although the subtitle seems to indicate that the contents in this book are tentative and exploratory, there is […]
We at D33 would like to wish our readers a Happy New Year! As the first post of 2025, we wanted to highlight the top five viewed blog posts in 2024. Here they are: Honorable mention: Library of New Testament Greek series by Bloomsbury/T&T Clark. This was also a post in 2024, announcing a new […]
As usual, we are excited about the upcoming Annual Meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society and the Society of Biblical Literature, with the customary Institute for Biblical Research occurring in between. The following are the papers and sessions that we at D33 are involved in. At ETS, on Thursday morning, 8:30–11:40am, Stan will be in […]
Barbara Aland (née Ehlers) was born on April 12, 1937, in Hamburg, Germany, during the time of the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler, and died on November 10, 2024, at the age of 87. She is best known for being the coeditor of the Novum Testamentum Graece since 1979, director of the Institut für Neutestamentliche […]
Volume 27 of the Linguistic Biblical Studies series published by Brill is officially out now! The volume is edited by Stanley E. Porter, Zachary K. Dawson, and Ryder A. Wishart, entitled The Literary-Linguistic Analysis of the Bible: The Enduring Legacies of Russian Formalism and the Prague Linguistic Circle, and explores various concepts in modern linguistics […]
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