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Psalm 144

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:50:00 +0000

I am working on a commentary on the Psalms. I have decided to compile some helpful links that I discovered during my research. It includes a mix of exegetical and sermonic links. Here is what I have for Psalm 144 (in no particular order). Feel free to mention any that you find helpful in the comments section.

Analysis by C. J. Labuschagne: https://www.labuschagne.nl/ps144.pdf

William Barrick’s notes: https://drbarrick.org/files/studynotes/Psalms/Ps_144.pdf

Danny Akin (outline, manuscript): https://www.danielakin.com/the-song-of-a-king-for-himself-and-his-people-psalm-144

Jim Hamilton, sermon video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTzrXun5u0c

The Samson Story: The "Eyes" Have It

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:10:00 +0000

Emilie Amar-Zifkin has an interesting post here related to Samson's story in Judges 13-16.

The Latest Issue of the Review of Biblical Literature

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:20:00 +0000

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below but unfortunately you must be a SBL member to read them.

Matthew J. Albanese, Translation Technique and Literary Structures in Greek Isaiah 13:1–14:23 (SBL Press)
Ken M. Penner

Garrick V. Allen, Words Are Not Enough: Paratexts, Manuscripts, and the Real New Testament (Eerdmans)
Juan Chapa

Peter Anthony, Patristic Perspectives on Luke’s Transfiguration: Interpreting Vision (T&T Clark)
J. Tyler Brown

Shay Bar and Adam Zertal, The Manasseh Hill Country Survey Volume 7: The South-Eastern Samaria Shoulder, from Wadi Rashash to Wadi ‘Aujah (Brill)
Joshua Schwartz

Mark J. Boda and Dalit Rom-Shiloni, eds., Crossing Borders between the Domestic and the Wild: Space, Fauna, and Flora (T&T Clark)
Ken Stone

Channing L. Crisler, An Intertextual Commentary on Romans, Volume 3: Romans 9:1–11:36 (Pickwick)
Brian J. Abasciano

Moshe Garsiel, The Book of Samuel: Studies in History, Historiography, Theology and Poetics Combined—Part Two: A Study of the Narratives Depicting Four National Leaders and Their Dynasties (Gorgias)
Gary A. Rendsburg

Ahreum Kim, The Countercultural Victory of 1 John in Greco-Roman Context: Conquering the World (T&T Clark)
Alicia D. Myers

Karen Langton, The Womb and the Simile of the Woman in Labor in the Hebrew Bible: Embodying Relationship with YHWH (Routledge)
Rebecca Harris

James P. Ware, The Final Triumph of God: Jesus, the Eyewitnesses, and the Resurrection of the Body in 1 Corinthians 15 (Eerdmans)
William Horst

Walton on Reading the Gospels

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:09:30 +0000

Steve Walton has made his slides on "Reading the Gospels" available here.

The Latest Issue of the Review of Biblical Literature

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:11:02 +0000

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below but unfortunately you must be a SBL member to read them.

Mordechai Z. Cohen, Rashi, Biblical Interpretation, and Latin Learning in Medieval Europe: A New Perspective on an Exegetical Revolution (Cambridge University Press)
Jeffrey L. Morrow

Nijay K. Gupta, The Affections of Christ Jesus: Love at the Heart of Paul’s Theology (Eerdmans)
Oda Wischmeyer

JiSeong James Kwon, Wisdom Discourse and Torah in Second Temple Judaism: Challenging the Integration Paradigm (SBL Press)
Gregory E. Sterling

Søren Lorenzen, Spoken into Being: Self and Name(s) in the Hebrew Bible (Mohr Siebeck)
Brandon R. Grafius

Jennifer Houston McNeel, Under Her Wings: Mothers and Motherhood in the New Testament (Eerdmans)
Judith M. Gundry Volf

Timo Nisula, Anni Maria Laato, and Pablo Irizar, eds., Religious Polemics and Encounters in Late Antiquity: Boundaries, Conversions, and Persuasion (Brill)
Joseph E. Sanzo

Charles L. Quarles, New Testament Textual Criticism for the 21st Century: A Practical Guide (Hendrickson)
Jeff Cate

Christoph Tödter, Hoffnung auf Vollendung: Das Verständnis der Seele in der religiösen Innerlichkeit der Psalmen (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt)
Paavo N. Tucker

Abeneazer G. Urga, Edward L. Smither, and Linda P. Saunders, eds., Reading Hebrews Missiologically: The Missionary Motive, Message, and Methods of Hebrews (William Carey Publishing)
Ilho Kim

Chad Venters, The Sheep and the Goats: A Matthean Teaching in Historical Context (Lexington/Fortress Academic)
Kathy Barrett Dawson

Song of Solomon Humor

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:27:00 +0000

Babylon Bee strikes again.

Free eBook: Source Criticism

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:43:28 +0000

Wipf and Stock is offering a free eBook copy of Source Criticism by Joel Baden. Act quickly because the deal ends on 5/15. Here are the instructions to get your copy.

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Blogaversary

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:05:00 +0000

This is a bit late, but on April 12 I completed 18 years of blogging. Much has changed personally since my first blog post in 2008 but my interests are about the same. I am grateful for all who have stopped by over the years.

Numbers 5:11–31

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:50:00 +0000

Numbers 5:11–31 is a difficult passage for many faithful interpreters. The trial by ordeal stipulated in the text seems strange to many modern readers. Hanna Lis does not resolve the issues but her treatment here is interesting both in her survey of rabbinic interpretations and in her suggestion of the purpose of the practice.

The Latest Issue of the Review of Biblical Literature

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:46:00 +0000

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below but unfortunately you must be a SBL member to read them.

Shay Bar and Adam Zertal, The Manasseh Hill Country Survey Volume 6: The Eastern Samaria Shoulder, from Nahal Tirzah (Wadi Far'ah) to Ma’ale Ephraim Junction (Brill)
Joshua Schwartz

Philip Freeman, Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor (Yale University Press)
Elijah Wreh

Christian Grappe, Manuel d’exégèse du Nouveau Testament (Labor et Fides)
Luca Marulli

Nijay K. Gupta, The Affections of Christ Jesus: Love at the Heart of Paul’s Theology (Eerdmans)
Jerry L. Sumney

Peter C. W. Ho, Habakkuk and Zephaniah: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary (Langham Global Library)
S. D. (Fanie) Snyman

Mark Reasoner, Five Models of Scripture (Eerdmans)
David Brown

Stephen J. Shoemaker, Creating the Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Study (University of California Press)
Kurt Anders Richardson

Josey Bridges Snyder, Lot’s Wife in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions (SBL Press)
Susanne Scholz

Nancy Nam Hoon Tan, Resisting Rape Culture: The Hebrew Bible and Hong Kong Sex Workers (Routledge)
Addison R. Schievelbein

Emmanuel Weiss, De 2 à 4 Maccabées: Étude d'une réécriture (Mohr Siebeck)
Maria Brutti

Seven Principles for Preaching Ecclesiastes

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:36:00 +0000

Eric Davis covers one to three here and four to seven here.

The Master's University Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Wed, 06 May 2026 01:24:00 +0000

The latest issue is available for free here.

HT: Todd Bolen

The Latest Issue of the Review of Biblical Literature

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Sun, 03 May 2026 02:28:00 +0000

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below but unfortunately you must be a SBL member to read them.

Johann Cook, Wolfgang Kraus, and Martin Rösel, eds., Septuagint Theology and Its Reception: Stellenbosch Congress on the Septuagint, 2022 (SBL Press)
Rodrigo de Sousa

Juliane Eckstein, Peter Juhás, Róbert Lapko, and Reinhard Müller, eds., Challenges for Ancient and Modern Bible Translators (Gorgias)
Łukasz Popko

Deirdre N. Fulton, Kenneth A. Ristau, Jonathan S. Greer, and Margaret E. Cohen, eds., The Formation of Biblical Texts: Chronicling the Legacy of Gary N. Knoppers (Mohr Siebeck)
Francisco Martins

Jo Henderson-Merrygold, Introducing a Hermeneutics of Cispicion: Reading Sarah and Esau’s Gender (Failures) Beyond Cisnormativity (T&T Clark)
Anne Létourneau

Scott McLaren, ed., The Bible in the Age of Empire: A Cultural History (T&T Clark)
Robert Wafawanaka

Douglas J. Moo, The Letters to the Colossians and to Philemon (Eerdmans)
Roy R. Jeal

Clemens Schneider, Die Wüste, das Meer und die Verwandlung Zions: Eine kritische Kontextualisierung des neuen Exodus in Jesaja 40–52 (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt)
Anja Klein

Terje Stordalen and Øystein S. LaBianca, eds., Levantine Entanglements: Cultural Productions, Long-Term Changes and Globalizations in the Eastern Mediterranean (Equinox)
Piotr Bienkowski

Ambra Suriano, Narrative Paths Through Mamre and Sodom: The Oak and the Gate (T&T Clark)
Fabrizio Ficco

Samson L. Uytanlet and Bennet Lawrence, eds., Exploring the New Testament in Asia: Evangelical Perspectives (Langham Global Library)
Melissa C. M. Tan

Free Logos Resources for May

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:11:00 +0000

Logos is offering these freebies this month: Understanding Biblical Theology by Edward Klink and Darian Lockett, The Abuse of Conscience by Matthew Levering. You can get these free resources and also other deals here and here. If you are a subscriber, you can also get God’s Rascal: The Jacob Narrative in Genesis 25–35 by Dale Ralph Davis for free here.

The Latest Issue of the Review of Biblical Literature

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:11:00 +0000

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below but unfortunately you must be a SBL member to read them.

Seth Bledsoe, The Wisdom of the Aramaic Book of Ahiqar: Unravelling a Discourse of Uncertainty and Distress (Brill)
Bryan D. Estelle

Renate Marian van Dijk-Coombes, The Standards of Mesopotamia in the Third and Fourth Millennia BCE: An Iconographic Study (Mohr Siebeck)
Noemi Borrelli

Harvey D. Egan, SJ, Paul: Christianity’s Premier Apostolic Mystic (Cascade)
Gudrun Nassauer

Manfred Hutter, Religionsgeschichte Anatoliens: Vom Ende des dritten bis zum Beginn des ersten Jahrtausends (Kohlhammer)
Andrea Trameri

Sara Kipfer, Extreme Klimaereignisse und Hungerkatastrophen in den Prophetenbüchern (Brill)
Bob Becking

Nathan Mastnjak, Before the Scrolls: A Material Approach to Israel’s Prophetic Library (Oxford University Press)
Andrew B. Perrin

Carol A. Newsom, The Spirit within Me: Self and Agency in Ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism (Yale University Press)
Michael B. Johnson

Jenny Read-Heimerdinger and Josep Rius-Camps, Luke’s Demonstration to Theophilus: The Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles according to Codex Bezae (T&T Clark)
Paolo Costa

Norman Roth, The Bible and Jews in Medieval Spain (Routledge)
Joshua Schwartz

Carolyn Roberts Thompson, Reading German for Theological Studies: A Grammar and Reader (Baker Academic)
David J. Fuller

Psalm 143

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:46:00 +0000

I am working on a commentary on the Psalms. I have decided to compile some helpful links that I discovered during my research. It includes a mix of exegetical and sermonic links. Here is what I have for Psalm 143 (in no particular order). Feel free to mention any that you find helpful in the comments section.

Analysis by C. J. Labuschagne: https://www.labuschagne.nl/ps143.pdf

William Barrick’s notes: https://drbarrick.org/files/studynotes/Psalms/Ps_143.pdf

John Piper, How to Argue with God: https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/how-to-argue-with-god

Jim Hamilton, sermon video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrwr76QGFDY

Epistolary Humor

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:55:00 +0000

HT: Gary Urie

John 10

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:45:00 +0000

Ian Paul has a good discussion of John 10 here.

Spurgeon's Preaching

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:48:00 +0000

For a variety of reasons, I have a great interest in, and appreciation of, the preaching of Charles Spurgeon. So I found Trevin Wax's summary of an eyewitness account of Spurgeon preaching to be both fascinating and encouraging. You can read it here.

Did the Author of Hebrews Really Not Know Where He Was Quoting From? (Hebrews 2:6 and 4:4)

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:52:00 +0000

Ken Berding does a nice job here addressing what the author of Hebrews meant in 2:6 and 4:4.

The Latest Issue of the Review of Biblical Literature

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:35:00 +0000

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below but unfortunately you must be a SBL member to read them.

Soham Al-Suadi and Peter-Ben Smit, eds., T&T Clark Handbook to Early Christian Meals in the Greco-Roman World (T&T Clark)
Jin Hwan Lee

Jennifer Miyuki Babcock, Ancient Egyptian Animal Fables: Tree Climbing Hippos and Ennobled Mice (Brill)
Angela McDonald

Kristine Henriksen Garroway, Hyun Chul Paul Kim, and John W. Martens, eds., Violence against Women and Children in the Hebrew Bible: Between Trauma and Resilience (T&T Clark)
Yael Nu’emah-Kremer

Thomas Kazen, Dirt, Shame, Status: Perspectives on Same-Sex Sexuality in the Bible and the Ancient World (Eerdmans)
Klaus-Peter Adam

David Lincicum, The Commentarial Impulse: Interpretation and Actualization in the Pauline Tradition (Eerdmans)
A. Andrew Das

Daniel Olariu, Theodotion’s Greek Text of Daniel: An Analysis of the Revisional Process and Its Semitic Source (Brill)
Martijn Beukenhorst

Hyun Ho Park, Intergroup Conflict, Recategorization, and Identity Construction in Acts: Breaking the Cycle of Slander, Labeling and Violence (T&T Clark)
Shelly Matthews

Emma Louise Parker, The Importance of Outsiders to Pauline Communities: Opinion, Reputation and Mission (T&T Clark)
William Horst

Paul R. Raabe, Isaiah 13–27 (Concordia)
Paul D. Wegner

Jonathan Yogev, The Rephaim: Sons of the Gods (Brill)
Alistair T. Robertson

Owls in the Ancient Near East and the Bible

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:34:00 +0000

Phillip Michael Sherman has a fascinating view of owls in the ANE and the Bible here.

Free Logos Resources for April

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:48:00 +0000

Logos is offering these freebies this month: Obadiah and Joel, in the ICC series, by Julius Brewer and Hear the Ancient Wisdom. You can get these free resources and also other deals here and here. If you are a subscriber, you can also get God with Us by Mark Allan Powell for free here.

Psalm 142

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:44:00 +0000

I am working on a commentary on the Psalms. I have decided to compile some helpful links that I discovered during my research. It includes a mix of exegetical and sermonic links. Here is what I have for Psalm 142 (in no particular order). Feel free to mention any that you find helpful in the comments section.

Analysis by C. J. Labuschagne: https://www.labuschagne.nl/ps142.pdf

William Barrick’s notes: https://drbarrick.org/files/studynotes/Psalms/Ps_142.pdf

H. B. Charles Jr., sermon: https://hbcharlesjr.com/resource-library/sermon-outlines/who-cares-psalm-142

The Latest Issue of the Review of Biblical Literature

noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:33:00 +0000

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below but unfortunately you must be a SBL member to read them.

Keith Bodner and Benjamin J. M. Johnson, eds., Characters and Characterization in the Book of Judges (T&T Clark)
Michelle Knight

Stephen J. Chester, Paul through the Eyes of the Reformers: Living under Grace (Eerdmans)
R. Ward Holder

Young Bok Kim, Hebrew Forms of Address: A Sociolinguistic Analysis (SBL Press)
Christian Locatell

W. G. Lambert and Ryan D. Winters; Andrew George and Manfred Krebernik, eds., An = Anum and Related Lists: God Lists of Ancient Mesopotamia, Volume I (Mohr Siebeck)
Nicole Brisch

Meir Lubetski and Edith Lubetski, eds., Epigraphy, Iconography, and the Bible (Sheffield Phoenix)
Elijah Wreh

Paul Moser, Paul’s Gospel of Divine Self-Sacrifice: Righteous Reconciliation in Reciprocity (Cambridge University Press)
Gilha Lee

Susan Niditch, Ethics in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond (Oxford University Press)
Joseph Ryan Kelly

Sarah Ruden, Perpetua: The Woman, the Martyr (Yale University Press)
Susan E. Hylen

Irene Salvo and Tanja S. Scheer, eds., Religion and Education in the Ancient Greek World (Mohr Siebeck)
Michel Pauw

Karen J. Wenell, Locating the Kingdom of God: Performing Sacred Boundaries (T&T Clark)
Eric Stewart