Phillip Long

I read books, drink strong coffee, and listen to excellent music, often at the same time.

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Remembering Fergus Millar -- on how to disagree
the-tls.co.uk
Judaism
Book Review: Craig A. Evans, and David Mishkin, eds. A Handbook on the Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith
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Evans, Craig A. and David Mishkin, eds. A Handbook on the Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2019. 354 pp.; Pb; …
Old Testament
Book Review: John Goldingay, Old Testament Ethics: A Guided Tour
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Goldingay, John. Old Testament Ethics: A Guided Tour. Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Academic, 2019. 278 pp. Pb; $28.00. Link to IVP Academic Goldingay …
Logos
50% off Commentary Sale at Logos
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Logos is running a great sale on their top rated commentaries. This includes both the Old Testament series and the New Testament series. Most of these …
Paradoxes
Book Review: René Breuel, The Paradox of Happiness: Finding True Joy in a World of Counterfeits
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Breuel, René. The Paradox of Happiness: Finding True Joy in a World of Counterfeits. Bellingham, Wash.: Lexham Press, 2018. 95 pp.; Pb; $12.99. Link …
Old Testament
Book Review: Adrio König, Christ Above All: The Book of Hebrews
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König, Adrio. Christ Above All: The Book of Hebrews (Transformative Word). Bellingham, Wash.: Lexham, 2019. 100 pp.; Pb; $12.99. Link to Lexham This …
The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew by Brandon W. Hawk and The Protevangelium of James, by Lily C. Vuong
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Tony Burke announced the first two volumes of the North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature series are now available. …
Logos
(Another) Logos Free Book of the Month – Saint Augustine: On Genesis
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This is the first two of five explanations of the beginning of the Book of Genesis Augustine wrote between 388 and 418. The first book is a …
Books
My New Book: Galatians: Freedom through God’s Grace
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I have been working on this book for a long time, and I am glad to have it in print.You can also order it through the Wipf & Stock website (it is a …
Old Testament
Behind the Scenes of the Old Testament: a Conversation
drdavidlturner.com
Recently I sat down with Jonathan Greer and John Hilber to talk about Behind the Scenes of the Old Testament, a recent book they edited with John …
New Testament
Tracking Down Stolen Manuscripts: Guest Post by Jennifer Knust
ehrmanblog.org
I have asked my friend and colleague Jennifer Knust (Professor of early Christianity at Duke) to write some guest posts for us on the blog. Jenny has …
Jesus
Keener’s Commentary on Galatians
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Craig Keener’s massive commentary on Paul’s epistle to the Galatians has recently appeared: Galatians: A Commentary (Baker Academic, 2019). At xlvii + …
Hobby Lobby
Did Oxford Scholar Dirk Obbink Secretly Sell Bible Fragment to Hobby Lobby Family?
The Daily Beast - Candida Moss
A little over a year ago The Daily Beast published an article asking whether one of the oldest passages of the Gospels had actually been found in a …
Old Testament
Reading Backwards, by Richard Hays
exegeticaltools.com - June 27, 2019
Richard Hays’s Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul (1989) was a ground-breaking work in the field of “intertextuality” (or inner-biblical …
Conspiracies
Apocryphal Gospels, Conspiracy Theories, and the Mainstream Media
michaeljkruger.com
One thing that I have observed over the years is that major media outlets love apocryphal gospels. Whenever the person of Jesus is discussed–usually …
Corinthians
Head Coverings and 1 Corinthians 11:2-16
margmowczko.com - Marg
Do women need to cover their heads when they go to church? In previous centuries, the answer to this question would have been “yes.” Here are a few …
Canaan
The Mittani Empire and the Bible
claudemariottini.com - Claude Mariottini
CNN is reporting that a 3,400-year-old Mittani palace has been discovered in Iraq. According to the report, archaeologists also found ten clay …
Pauline Authorship according to British New Testament Scholars
evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com
Here’s a nice, concrete graph from a survey that Paul Foster took of attendees at the 2011 British New Testament Conference. What I like is that …
Christianity
The ‘First-Century Mark’ Saga from Inside the Room
christianitytoday.com - Jerry Pattengale
My reflections after eight years of silence. When one of the world’s top Greek scholars at a top university spread “first and second century” New …
Review: Jongkind's Intro to the Tyndale House GNT
thetextofthegospels.com
Today, let’s take a look at An Introduction to the Greek New Testament, by Dirk Jongkind, a Cambridge professor (Ph.D. 2005,Cambridge). The Greek New …
Xkcd
xkcd: Sickness
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((The three panels are arranged diagonally, upper left to bottom right.)) [[Two people are walking past a tree. One has a hat.]] Hat person: So, has …
Slavery
Locking Up and Abusing Brown Children is Exactly Who We Are
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Witnessing the horrors our nation is currently inflicting on people arriving at our southern border who are fleeing calamities and seeking refuge, …
Gideon: Against All Odds – Dependence
claudemariottini.com - Claude Mariottini
The angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon to commission him to fight against the Midianites and their allies who had oppressed the people of Israel …
Jews in Arab countries suffered unbearable discrimination. Why do our stories remain untold?
jta.org - Miriam Shepher
LOS ANGELES (JTA) – Thursday is World Refugee Day. And according to the United Nations page devoted to this commemoration, every minute 20 people …
Romans: theology or history?
wordpress.com - Alex
Most traditional theologically-focused interpretive constructs identify only one eschatological horizon in the New Testament: the end of history. …
Law
The Concept of Evil in 4 Maccabees: Stoic Absorption and Adaptation (Part 2)
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To support my thesis that the concept of evil in 4 Maccabees has Stoic coloration and influence, it is necessary to present first the Stoic concept …
The Concept of Evil in 4 Maccabees: Stoic Absorption and Adaptation (Part 1)
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In 4 Maccabees the reader encounters an extended retelling of the martyrdom stories narrated in 2 Maccabees 6–7. The author of 4 Maccabees vividly …
Jerusalem
What Kinds of Fish Were Eaten in Ancient Jerusalem? -
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Fishbone remains discovered in eight different excavations in Jerusalem, from the Iron age to the early Islamic period, give us a sense of what fish …
Old Testament
Laying On of Hands in the Old Testament
claudemariottini.com - Claude Mariottini
Several years ago, a friend of mine who was seeking ordination as a Baptist minister asked me if the concept of ordination was biblical. His question …
Theology
Logos Flash Sale on New Studies in Biblical Theology
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June 21–23 only, enjoy great savings on D. A. Carson’s New Studies in Biblical Theology from IVP Academic. Individual volumes are $9.99, or get the …

Phillip Long

I read books, drink strong coffee, and listen to excellent music, often at the same time.