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‘Love and the Law: A Pronomian Pocket Guide to John 14:15’ by Benjamin Szumskyj
Clover, SC: Pronomian Publishing, 2025. There are numerous rising voices in the pronomian (pro-Torah hermeneutic) world as it itself grows, and the future is full of promise for this branch of scholarship offering new trajectories and ideas into the larger scholarly and layperson conversations of Law, Pauline theology, etc. One of these voices is Benjamin…
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‘Jesus and the Law of Moses: The Gospels and the Restoration of Israel within First-Century Judaism’ by Paul Sloan
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2025. The discussion over Jesus, Paul, and the Law proliferates continuously, and particularly within recent decades in the wake of new perspectives and within-Judaisms. What will soon become a household name somewhere along that spectrum is Paul Sloan, and his recent work Jesus and the Law of Moses: The Gospels…
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“Some Random Fishermen”… Back Then!: Studying as Supplementing Common Biblical Knowledge
There is a common saying among Christendom, (clearly) amongst laypersons in particular, that Jesus called mere fishermen to be His apostles and, therefore, one doesn’t have to be deeply intellectual, scholarly, or have any special attributes to know, understand, and communicate God and the Scriptures. Accompanying this mindset is something similar to the idea of…
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‘The Spirit, New Creation, and Christian Identity in Galatians: Towards a Pneumatological Reading of Galatians 3:1-6:17’ by Grant Buchanan.
Library of New Testament Studies 681. New York: T&T Clark, 2023. The topic of pneumatology in Paul has received significant and increasing attention over the last few decades, blossoming (worthily) into a field which is proving to yield an abundance of fruit for further understanding Paul’s soteriology and general theology, as well as Trinitarian frameworks…
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Reading with the Writing: A Sunday Church Experience and the Beauty of Reading the Greek
Very often we tend to treat the bible as if it is a mechanical and polished document to be put under a microscope and examined at its every joint and coupling, yet fail to step back and realize that it is, in many of its parts, very human letters sent to other very human recipients….
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‘Galilean Spaces of Identity: Judaism and Spatiality in Hasmonean and Herodian Galilee’ by Joseph Scales
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 214. Leiden: Brill, 2024. In the last couple of decades the scholarly landscape has come to be dominated by studies on im/purity within the Second Temple Period (STP). Contributions from brilliant minds (with brilliant studies) such as Yonatan Adler, Ronald Denies (1993), Yitzhak Magen (2002), Jonathan…
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Chrisoteriocclesiology: Paul’s Corporate, Participatory Christological Soteriology
That’s a mouthful: “chrisoteriocclesiology.” As might be rather obvious, this term (that I have just now coined) combines three central aspects of Paul’s, but really any NT writer’s, theology: Christology, i.e. the study of the nature of Christ; soteriology, i.e. the study of salvation; and ecclesiology, i.e. the study of the nature, makeup, and identity…
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‘Christ-Faith and Abraham in Galatians 3-4: Paul’s Tale of Two Siblings’ by Johnathan M. Harris
Biblical Interpretation Series 214. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Set within emerging interests for a third option in the Pistis Christou Debate, Johnathan M. Harris (hereafter H) gives what I find to be the most persuasive argument, even though the thesis of his work is more concerned with Abraham in Galatians. One comes across numerous monologues that…
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