Jonah as Literature | Sam Bierig
What does the book of Jonah want readers to think and do? Beyond the history and apologetics involved, many readers are unaware of the important literary cues in Jonah. Sam Bierig, Dean of Spurgeon Co...
31 Juli 201949min
Dispensational Hermeneutics | Cory Marsh
Dispensationalism: It's not just about the end times; it's also about exegesis. As Cory Marsh, Associate Professor of New Testament at the College at Southern California Seminary, points out, it's lar...
10 Juli 201940min
Intertextuality: What and When? | Brian Koning
Throughout Scripture, one author will recall the words or themes of an earlier author, whether through a quotation, allusion, or echo. How do exegetes identify these cases of intertextuality? What is ...
2 Juni 201943min
A Life of Missionary Scholarship | Todd Scacewater
It is more and more feasible for a lifelong missionary to contribute substantially to scholarship. David Clark is one such missionary scholar, leveraging his decades of Bible translation work to provi...
13 Maj 201939min
Bible Translation and Linguistics: Formal vs. Functional? | Todd Scacewater
It’s easy to simply refer to varying philosophies of Bible translation as either “formal” or “functional,” but are these valid categories? What are the values and setbacks of these different translati...
8 Apr 201933min
The State of Bible Reading (and Reader's Bibles) | Glenn Pauuw
The advent of English “reader’s Bibles” and audio Bibles is upon us. What should we make of it? With poor statistics on Bible literacy in the West, how can pastors and church members encourage more an...
25 Mars 201932min
Faith & Scholarship: A Conversation with Peter J. Williams
“I’ve sought to devote my life to being a believing biblical scholar” – Peter J. Williams (PhD, Cambridge University). Dr. Williams leads one of the leading institutions for biblical studies in the wo...
11 Mars 201934min
Limited Lexicons: Our Flawed Friends and Their Future
Have you ever stopped to consider whether your lexicon of choice was trustworthy? The erudite exegete might recognize the limitations of lexicons, but what are we supposed to do with them? In his grou...
25 Feb 201938min
