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Archive of entries posted on December 2013

Best Reads of 2013

31 December 2013, 12:37 pm

Several years ago I began keeping an annotated list of every book I read each year. It has been a very useful discipline and resource for later. As part of my own review of this past year I will post here what have been the best books I have read this past year. Included in […]

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Johnny Cash & the Psalms

12 December 2013, 1:33 pm

Mike Garrett alerted me to a recent interview of Rosanne Cash, Johnny Cash’s daughter, at Garden & Gun. Towards the end of the interview she is asked about her favorite memories of her dad, and I was taken with the place of the Psalms. Here is that part of the interview: Your dad has been […]

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Early Medieval Psalter Found in Irish Bog

11 December 2013, 5:27 pm

This is a fascinating story about the discovery of a 1200 year old psalter. The video below tells the story and its significance. One striking comment from the video is, “You can’t have Christianity without writing.”

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2013 Bibles & Bible Reference Survey

9 December 2013, 4:06 am

The 2013 version of my annual survey of new study Bibles and Bible reference works for Preaching Magazine is now available. The photo above shows the books which are covered in this installment. I hope it is helpful to you as you study the text. And perhaps the timing will help you with requests for […]

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Edged Out of the Canon

8 December 2013, 5:50 pm

Last week I posted at PastoralEpistles.com on the marginalization of the Pastoral Epistles, drawing from the book, 1 Timothy Reconsidered (edited by K. P. Donfried; Peeters, 2008). The essays by Luke Timothy Johnson and Karl Donfried were my particular focus. Johnson noted that the Pastorals have been “increasingly moved to the edge or even out […]

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