David Scholer on Libronix
I am certain that this was planned long before his passing, but it is interesting to note for those who love their Bible programs (like I do). I just noticed that Logos Bible Software is offering the Eerdmans Bible Reference Collection (5 Vols.) in their pre-publication program (basically, you purchase early so they can develop the product and send it to you when it’s ready). David Scholer’s 1973 edition of A Basic Bibliographic Guide for New Testament Exegesis (the second edition) is among the five volumes in the collection.
I have a tentative third edition that was printed for use in Fuller Seminary courses. I don’t know if he was working on publishing an updated version of it. The third edition is quite helpful. The problem with publishing bibliographies, of course, is that they go out of date so quickly. So, the second edition is not the best thing for keeping up on recent scholarship, but it will point out the interesting things that were going on in New Testament studies back then.
In a review published by the Catholic Biblical Quarterly in 1974, James T. Clemons writes:
Intended for theological students and seminary-educated persons, this guide should be quite serviceable for all those engaged in NT interpretation. Titles, almost entirely limited to books in English, are divided into 12 sections, including bibliographic surveys and tools; texts of OT and NT; concordances, lexicons, and grammars; introductions; dictionaries and encyclopedias; literature, history, and religions of the NT world, subdivided into pagan, Jewish, and early Christian; translations and commentaries; and interpretive principles of exegesis. Publication dates range from late 19th century through mid-1972.
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S. has provided a basic tool and can only be commended for his work. I shall make good use of it in several areas of investigation and gladly call its values to the attention of my students.
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Elsewhere . . .- Blog titles beginning with "A" to "Z" on your reader Mark Goodacre
- Of making many books there is no end Chris Brady
- Free Online: The Liddell-Scott Jones Lexicon S and C
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- Steven J. Friesen and the Identity of Satan’s Throne in Pergamum alan
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- Bloomsbury buys Continuum Mark Goodacre
- Imperial America Peter J. Leithart
- C.F.D. Moule on the Birth of the New Testament d. miller
- Responding to Kostenberger (with comparisons to Marshall) Jeremiah
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A James Revolution!
Pretty much every book or commentary–and most articles–on James highlight the fact that James is one of the most neglected books of the New Testament, relegated to that catch-all category, the “catholic epistles”. For most protestants, following Luther’s declaration about it being an “epistle of straw,” James takes a backseat to Paul. The Anabaptists seem to be one of the only Christian groups to really place an emphasis on James–though I’d be interested to look into how that plays out in the life and practice of actual communities. Well, it seems the scholarly community is catching up with what the Anabaptists have known all this time: James is an amazingly rich text, ripe for all sorts of reflection.
I would like to do some in-depth research on James this summer and have been requesting some James commentaries to review on my blog. I am excited about one of the most recent commentaries on James by seasoned Catholic New Testament scholar, Patrick J. Hartin, in the Sacra Pagina series (April 2009). I am also taking a look into Hartin’s older work, A Spirituality of Perfection (1999). Incidentally, I am reading through an essay of Hartin’s for my Monday seminary on Wisdom and Apocalyptic with Boustan: “Who Is Wise and Understanding among You? (James 3:13): An Analysis of Wisdom, Eschatology, and Apocalypticism in the Letter of James,” in Conflicted Boundaries in Wisdom and Apocalypticism (2005) edited by Benjamin Wright and Lawrence Wills (a collection of papers given for the Wisdom and Apocalypticism SBL group). Also from that collection, Patrick Tiller’s “The Rich and Poor in James: An Apocalyptic Ethic.” All these Patricks interested in James!
Testifying to the new interest in James, Abby Cox of T & T Clark was quite generous in sending along a collection of essays edited by Robert Webb and John Kloppenborg, Reading James With New Eyes: Methodological Reassessments of the Letter of James (2007)–part of a series looking into new methods of reading those neglected New Testament epistles. From what I am assuming will be a much different perspective, Chris Fann of Zondervan is sending out the James volume (2008) in the newer Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament series, written by Craig L. Blomberg and Mariam J. Kamell.
But wait, there’s more! If Jeremy Pierce’s list is still accurate (commentary assignments shift fairly often, from what I understand), we are in for some real commentary treats on the letter of James. Upcoming commentators include John S. Kloppenborg (Hermeneia), Dale Allison (ICC replacement), Joel Green (New Testament Library), Scot McKnight (NICNT replacement), A.K.M. Adam (Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament), John Painter (Paideia Commentaries on the New Testament), Wesley Hiram Wachob (Rhetoric of Religious Antiquity). The methodological diversity represented here is very exciting. If the names associated with these volumes is any indication, we are indeed in the midst a James revolution in biblical scholarship!