He is Sufficient

Rick Mansfield’s guest author “Larry” has evidently discontinued his promising series on Study Bibles with only three of the original ten titles completed. My bookshelf has been enriched by the addition of the Jewish Study Bible that Larry reviewed and I was looking forward to learning about the other titles. One of those promised titles [...]

Rick reported yesterday that his “sneak preview” copy of the final TNIV Reference Bible had arrived and that he would review it shortly. Evidently he meant that he was going to hit the “Publish” button shortly, as his TNIV Reference Bible: Hands-on Review has now been posted on This Lamp. It’s well worth reading all [...]

Kevin Sam has posted a more optimistic article on the future of the TNIV than the thoughts that I’ve previously expressed here and here: Personally, I believe the TNIV is still going to be a very strong evangelical translation because it is entrenched in evangelicalism and is like family to many evangelicals. However, the TNIV [...]

Denver and the Mile High Orchestra made it to the final four of the Next Great American Band reality show, avoiding elimination for another week. The show was taped Wednesday night as spoiled here and recapped here. They played Queen’s “Sleeping on the Sidewalk”, again a song I’m not familiar with, but it was a [...]

In my post about surveying Bible translations with respect to a three-legged stool of interpretation foci, John Hobbins made the following comment: If NIV/TNIV gets it act together, translates the so-called Apocrypha, and produces a study Bible that is attentive to the history of interpretation, it might become a worthy competitor of NRSV. There have [...]

Bryan Lilly at ἀκολουθέω Χριστόν (“I follow Christ”) has wrapped up his series of articles on “Attempting to Understand 666 in its Context” of Revelation. In addition to the first three articles [here], be sure to check these out as well: Part 4: Resurrection of the Beast Part 5: 666 (and 616) Part 6: Conclusion [...]

“And fathers, don’t stir up anger in your children, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.” Ephesians 6:4 (HCSB) Children can be exasperating. Especially sons who roll out of bed running and don’t stop go, go, going until their eyelids are finally too heavy at the end of the day [...]

Discussion in the Bible translation world often focuses around two acronyms: FE and DE, formal equivalence and dynamic equivalence, respectively. FE, also known as word-for-word translation, places greater emphasis on translating the original words of the source text. FE sacrifices an idiomatic understanding of the text in an attempt to keep literal accuracy and communicate [...]

There are a number of particularly insightful posts on Ancient Hebrew Poetry at the moment that are well worth investigating. John has made several comments that I wanted to tie together into a new thought. In his article, “Is Blogging about the Bible a Waste of Time?“, John advances the position that “interpretation of the [...]