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 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 […]
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 […]
We have another book announcement, co-edited by D33 bloggers, Stan and Dave: The Johannine Prologue and Its Resonances. Ed. Stanley E. Porter and David I. Yoon. Johannine Studies 4. Leiden: Brill, 2024. The volume has 14 chapters, including the Introduction, which not only provides summaries of the other chapters but provides some background to the […]
We call your attention to a recently published book involving both D33 bloggers, Stan as a co-editor and contributor, and Dave as a contributor: Porter, Stanley E., Christopher D. Land, and James D. Dvorak, eds. Putting the Pieces Together: Formalizing Units and Structures in the Biblical Languages. MNTS 11. Eugene, OR: MDC Press/Pickwick, 2024. This […]
We call attention to a new series by Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, called the Library of New Testament Greek (LNTG). LNTG complements and supplements other academic book series in New Testament Greek linguistics, such as Linguistic Biblical Studies (Brill) and Studies in Biblical Greek (Peter Lang), among other venues where studies on Greek linguistics can be found. […]
The long awaited volume entitled The Arts and the Bible, edited by Stanley E. Porter and Wendy J. Porter (McMaster New Testament Studies Series 10; Eugene, OR: Pickwick/MDC Press, 2024, 504 pp.) is officially available at your favorite bookstore, online or in person. The description of the book is as follows: Throughout its history, the […]
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