Tag Archives: New Testament Studies

Larry Hurtado on dating papyri

24 July 2016 by Steve Walton
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Here’s a valuable introduction to how scholars date ancient papyri—and our oldest copies of the biblical texts are papyri—by Larry Hurtado from his excellent blog. Well worth reading if this is an area of mystery to you—and well worth recommending to students as a helpful ‘way in’ to the topic.

How I researched and wrote a conference paper

5 July 2016 by Steve Walton
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Our St Mary’s education journal ReflectED has just published an article of mine reflecting on the process of writing a conference presentation, called ‘Thinking it through: researching and writing a conference paper’. It’s freely available online in the full pdf issue here. The reference is: Steve Walton, ‘Thinking it through: Researching and Writing a Conference Paper’, ReflectED 7 (2016), 3-5. The article is based on a talk I gave at our St Mary’s University School of Education, Theology and Leadership research conference last June. In the Continue reading →

A great offer from Baylor University Press

7 June 2016 by Steve Walton
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Baylor University Press are offering a 50% off deal on their books, aimed at grad students, but appearing to be open to anyone with the code, over the coming weekend, 10–12 June. Details  below—there are some great books on offer here! It applies to all books published before 2015. Grad students, it’s time to build your library! Our summer sale is three days only–Friday, Saturday, Sunday (June 10-12). Anyone with a code can save 50 percent on Baylor University Press books published before 2015. Share code BJUN with colleagues or friends! See the Continue reading →

How to get published—advice from Katya Covrett of Zondervan

2 June 2016 by Steve Walton
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Here’s a very helpful part I of an article on how to get published in theology by the excellent Katya Covrett, Executive Editor at Zondervan (picture above) and also part 2 here. This is good, wise advice from someone who deals with lots of book proposals, and it’s worth careful attention if you would like to publish your work. It’s a follow-up to an earlier, very good article on why there are so few published female biblical scholars here. I recommend all three articles highly. Continue reading →

First thoughts on Muraoka’s grammar of Septuagint Greek from Will Ross

28 May 2016 by Steve Walton
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My good friend Will Ross, a Cambridge PhD student working on the Septuagint, has provided a ‘first thoughts’ review of Takamitsu Muraoka’s new grammar of Septuagint Greek, A Syntax of Septuagint Greek (Leuven: Peeters, 2016). Muraoka is a master of Greek, especially on the LXX, and has already provided us with a superb lexicon (see Will’s video introduction) and Hebrew-Greek index of the LXX, both of which must be considered the ‘state of the art’. Here’s the ‘blurb’ on the book: This is the first ever comprehensive Continue reading →