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9 May 2015

The launch of Peter Oakes’ exciting commentary on Galatians

My good friend Peter Oakes of the University of Manchester has kindly sent me details of the launch of his new commentary on Galatians in the Paideia series from Baker Academic. He has an impressive line-up of senior scholars saying very nice things about it (see below). Nijay Gupta has greeted it with enthusiasm, and Mike Bird and Antony Billington have written...

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5 May 2015

Accordance: wonderful Bible software!

Here’s a link to a video interview I did about the fab Accordance Bible software. I’ve been using it since version 1.0, and I continue to be utterly delighted with what it enables me to do. Now even available for those benighted souls who use Windoze!

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14 April 2015

How to book: the Greek verb conference, 10-11 July 2015 in Cambridge

The link for booking for the forthcoming interesting conference on the Greek verb is now up, so do go ahead and register—details here. You’ll need to set up an account on the Cambridge University ‘shop’ site, but that only takes a couple of minutes. More information in my earlier blog post, here.

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13 April 2015

Review: David Starling, UnCorinthian Leadership

David I. Starling UnCorinthian Leadership: Thematic Reflections on 1 Corinthians Eugene, OR: Cascade/Wipf & Stock, 2014 ISBN 978 1 62032 792 0; $15.00 (paperback; Kindle edition also available) I enjoyed meeting David Starling when he was on research leave at Tyndale House, the research centre in Cambridge where I’m Honorary Research Fellow, a little while ago. During that...

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9 March 2015

Anthony Thiselton’s chronicle of his life’s work—a good read!

I’ve today read Professor Anthony Thiselton’s enjoyable, brief (114 pages), and readable chronicle of his life and work, A Lifetime in the Church and the University (Eugene, OR: Wipe & Stock, 2015; ISBN 978 1 40197 540 7; $15.00). It’s a good read, lively, and sheds interesting light on Thiselton’s life and times. I’m grateful...

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26 February 2015

My article ‘The State They Were In: Luke’s View of the Roman Empire’ available to download

As a follow up to my review of the interesting Jesus is Lord: Caesar is Not, with kind permission from the editor, Peter Oakes, I’m making my article ‘The State They Were In: Luke’s View of the Roman Empire’ from Peter Oakes, ed., Rome in the Bible and the Early Church (Carlisle: Paternoster/Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2002) 1-41 available on this...

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