Well, I'm on my way back home from ETS and SBL. The week is always fun (sort of my Bible geek recharge for the year), but this year it was more so because Trey was along. We took the Naked Bible Podcast on the road. We wound up interviewing nearly twenty scholars (8.5...
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Naked Bible Podcast Episode 125 – Bible Study Tools & an Interview with Johnny Cisneros
Everyone interested in the study of Scripture wants to feel adequate to the task. But there are many obstacles—real and merely imagined—to being competent in Bible study. In this episode, I interview my long-time friend and colleague, Johnny Cisneros. With skills in...
Important New Article on the Septuagint
I'm happy to announce and recommend this article by Ed Glenny: “The Septuagint and Biblical Theology." I'm even happier that it's freely accessible to all of you. Ed was my first Bible teacher way back in the day at Bible college. Listeners to the Naked Bible Podcast...
Vatican Library Provides Online Access to High Resolution Images of New Testament Papyri
Jean-Baptiste Piggin of the Macro-Typography blog has a nice listing of available manuscripts here. If you're interested in New Testament textual criticism, papyrology, and the transmission of the Greek New Testament, you'll want to take a look. If you read Greek, you...
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 99: Debunking New Testament Manuscript Conspiracies
The episode is now live. This episode is in response to listener requests. Mike and Trey interview Rick Brannan, the information specialist for Greek New Testament products and databases at Logos Bible Software, about how we got the New Testament, the KJV-only idea,...
Were the Gospels Originally Written in Aramaic or Hebrew?
I'm often asked this question, so it was nice to come across this paper by Jan Joosten online. Joosten Aramaic or Hebrew behind_the_Gospels Joosten is an excellent scholar in Aramaic, Syriac, Greek, and Hebrew. This is a worthwhile (and sane) introduction to the...
A New Kind of Commentary: The High Definition New Testament (HDNT) Commentary Series
Readers here at Naked Bible recall that I've blogged before about the different types of commentaries. I only recommend commentaries that engage the text. Unfortunately, many commentaries that engage the text are filled with ancient language words and phrase and...
Dan Wallace on the Great Commission
Noted Greek grammarian and textual criticism scholar (and all-around nice guy) Dan Wallace recently posted a three-part treatment of the Great Commission. This is what pastors should be doing on any given Sunday. No, pastors don't need to be Greek scholars. They just...
The THEOI Project
This looks like a useful, growing, resource. THEOI means "gods" in Greek. According to the site, it's purpose is: . . . exploring Greek mythology and the gods in classical literature and art. The aim of the project is to provide a comprehensive, free reference guide...
New Resource Help for Reading the Greek New Testament
Well-known Greek grammarian and NT professor Dan Wallace recently posted his endorsement of A New Reader's Lexicon of the Greek New Testament on his blog. For those who don't have Bible software (like Logos) where you can make your own vocab lists by chapter as you...
Should the Septuagint be Considered Inspired?
That's the question proposed for consideration in a post by a friend of mine, Gabe Martini ("Is the Septuagint a Divinely Inspired Translation?"). Nothing like a provocative headline! I thought you Septuagint fans out there would like it. Gabe is Orthodox and so he's...
The Cosmos in the Antikythera Mechanism: ET Flunked Astronomy
That's the title of a new, freely accessible scholarly paper on the Antikythera mechanism you can find here. Here's the abstract: The Antikythera Mechanism is a fragmentarily preserved Hellenistic astronomical machine with bronze gearwheels, made about the second...
Patristic Citations of the New Testament Text
The Evangelical Textual Criticism blog recently drew attention to some useful resources and strategies for detecting and researching citations of the Greek NT in the Greek church fathers. Have a look!
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 032: Word Study Techniques, Part 1
The latest episode continues the series on Bible study at the word level. This episode focuses on why knowing how a word is used by a single author can be important. The nature of the example I use ("unmarried" / agameō in 1 Cor 7) requires saying something about a...
Understanding the Göttingen Septuagint
The Göttingen Septuagint is the premier critical-scholarly edition of the Septuagint. If you've ever seen or used it, you know it can be intimidating. Fortunately, Abram K-J (Words on the Word blog) has created a primer in two parts on how to read and understand the...