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 […]
Category Archives: book reviews
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 are on a tear here at D33 with publishing books in 2023. We had to make up for lost time during the several years of dealing with Covid-19 and the associated lockdowns. By “we,” I mean mostly Stan. Most recently, Stanley Porter has come out with a book, Linguistic Descriptions of the Greek New […]
We would like to announce a new book by D33 blogger, Stanley E. Porter, that has just been released, Interpretation for Preaching and Teaching: An Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics (Baker Academic). The overview of the book states: Renowned biblical scholar Stanley Porter offers an accessible introduction to hermeneutics to help students and pastors better interpret […]
This book has been out for a couple of months now, but we would like to highlight this collection of essays, edited by Stanley E. Porter, Chris S. Stevens, and David I. Yoon, Studies on the Paratextual Features of Early New Testament Manuscripts (TENT 16; Leiden: Brill, 2023). The editors write, in the preface: This […]
We highlight another recently published book, edited by Stanley E. Porter and Alan E. Kurschner, The Future Restoration of Israel: A Response to Supersessionism, McMaster Biblical Studies Series 10 (Eugene, OR: Pickwick/MDC Press, 2023). The summary of the book is as follows: This volume is the most extensive of its kind as a major set […]
Linguistic Biblical Studies is one of the (if not the) leading monograph series that publishes in biblical linguistics, focusing on linguistically informed study of the Bible in its original languages. A variety of approaches are welcomed for submission and published in the series: “syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and text linguistics, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, […]
We are announcing a new book that is scheduled to be published this summer (18 Aug 2021), James Barr Assessed: Evaluating His Legacy over the Last Sixty Years (ed. Stanley E. Porter; BINS 192; Leiden, Brill). The blurb states: James Barr is a widely recognized name in biblical studies, even if he is still best […]
If you have $311 (USD) lying around and want to invest it in one of the most complete resources on historical Jesus studies, you will want to pick this up: Tom Holmén and Stanley E. Porter (eds.), The Handbook of the Study of the Historical Jesus. 4 vols. Leiden: Brill, 2011. xxii, 3652 pp. The […]
The first book in the Linguistic Exegesis of the New Testament (LENT) series has been recently out: James D. Dvorak and Zachary K. Dawson (eds.), The Epistle of James: Linguistic Exegesis of an Early Christian Letter (LENT 1; Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2019). The book contains a number of essays that address critical issues in Jamesian study […]
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