Saturday, November 24, 2007

New Blogs 18

My good friend Matt Montonini has a new blog called New Testament Perspectives which will be a good read.
Also, for me, other highlights at SBL were:

1. Denny Burke in his ETS presentation being the first individual in history to point out that I am not a heretic when it comes to justification (I owe Denny a beer!). He also gave a good paper on Rom. 4.25 and pointed out that I don't know the difference between a noun and a verb.
2. Jason Hood gave an excellent paper on evangelicals and the atonement which I hope he publishes some time soon.
3. I saw Stan Porter buy a copy of the Scofield reference Bible. After the initial "what the ..." Stan explained that it is an important book in terms of the history of interpretation.
4. I saw Todd Penner of Austin College wearing socks and sandals (he evidently got the idea from N.T. Wright last year).
5. Talking to Matt Montonini's wife Faith on the phone.

4 comments:

  1. Mike,

    Thanks for that. My wife thought it was cool talking to you.

    Cheers,

    Matt

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  2. Re: #1 "I owe Denny..." Well, you better get that registered officially over here, then! :)

    David Reimer

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  3. Now wait a sec--sandals I was wearing--yes. But I never wear socks with sandals! And I've never stolen an idea from Wright either. And now I see Jim West has this rubbish posted on his website (but now contextualized within a larger explication of "Wrightian" dogma). Ah, this must have been how the gospel tradition got started... a bloke crashes a wedding to obtain a free glass of wine...and next, people are talking about how he's turning water into wine...and dying on crosses. What will they think of next?

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  4. Anonymous10:03 AM

    verbs have different morphology, just in case you were wondering.

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