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Bruce Waltke s Commentary on Micah is on sale for $12.90 in Accordance for a while longer. Even at its list price of $27.90, it s a bargain.It s been a while since I used it in depth, but whenever I have plunged its depth, I ve been astounded at Waltke s attention to detail, analysis of the text, and careful treatment of the grammar (and so much more). He has other Micah volumes available, even: Tyndale and McComiskey. But this stand-alone volume is the one it seems he really wanted to write, the volume that was far too long for inclusion in any series. He says in the preface that he treated each pericope as if it were a doctoral dissertation.When I wrote a lengthy exegesis paper on a Micah passage in seminary, this commentary was close at hand. I used the library copy extensively, then bought myself a hard copy afterwards to celebrate. (I do love the smell of Eerdmans books.) When it became available in Accordance, I quickly made it one of a handful of double purchases, where I get a book in print and Accordance, so that I could access it electronically, as well.No kickback for me on this post just one of the best commentaries I ve ever used for in-depth, original language work (especially text criticism), so wanting to give it its due.Share this:TweetEmailMoreLike this:Like Loading... I ve loved this prayer of Thomas Merton s since I visited Abbey of Gethsemani as a teenager:My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.I do not see the road ahead of me.I cannot know for certain where it will end.Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it.Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.Share this:TweetEmailMoreLike this:Like Loading... Kevin J. Youngblood s Excellent Jonah Commentary, SecondEdition I preached through Jonah in Advent 2014. It remains one of my favorite series to prepare and preach unlikely liturgical pairing notwithstanding.In those days, I read as many Jonah commentaries as I could get my hands on. Kevin J. Youngblood s rose to the top. Then it was part of a series called Hearing the Message of Scripture. Now it has been released in its second edition, with the series name being changed to the less exciting Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament, to bring OT volumes in line with the NT volumes of the same overall series.Zondervan was gracious to send me a review copy of the Second Edition.The changes are minor, and they are really only three:The re-branded series nameTransliterated Hebrew is replaced with actual Hebrew text (yay!)The author s translation and visual layout of the text includes the original Hebrw text now, tooHere, for example, is how that text layout section has changed (the new edition is the one on the bottom):Otherwise, the text is identical to the first edition. (Even the Bibliography has not been updated, from what I can see.) So if you own the first edition, there s no need to also get the second. But if you don t own this commentary, by all means, check it out from a library or purchase it. Even if you don t know Hebrew, this is an excellent guide to a beautiful and challenging biblical book.For my full review of the first edition (which all applies to the second edition), see here.Share this:TweetEmailMoreLike this:Like Loading... Photo by Anya MarinaCloser has always been one of my favorite songs by matt pond PA. So I was pumped when it was the first-released single on their new album, A Collection Of Bees Part 1, 12 tracks of rarities, demos, and a re-recording. It’s impossible to improve on the 2002 version of Closer, with the strings from Rachel’s, but the just-released demo is great, too. It took me right back to my Chicago suburbs 2003 existence where I first heard it.It’s the strongest track on the new album, but the whole thing is great listening.I lost track of mpPA after their 2007 Last Light. That album didn’t hit me the way The Green Fury and The Nature of Maps (both released in 2002) did. It didn’t feel as cohesive as Emblems (2004) or Several Arrows Later (2005), although all four of these albums are hard to top. I got back into mpPA again withThe Lives Inside the Lines in Your Hand (2013, released by just “Matt Pond”). And I just bought Last Light at a used CD store the other day! I like it now more than I first did.I reminisce because A Collection Of Bees Part 1 is a perfect opportunity to re-visit the band’s discography. The album spans quite a few records. I haven’t seen this anywhere yet, so here’s the track listing, followed by where (as best as I can tell) one would have first heard that track, or a version of it:1. Starlet (Acoustic), The Lives Inside the Lines in Your Hand (2013)2. Stopping, Threeep (2010)3. Blue Fawn (First Light Demo), called “First Light” on Auri Sacra Fames (2008)4. Love To Get Used (Demo), The Lives Inside the Lines in Your Hand (2013)5. Wild Heart, Fleetwood Mac cover6. First Fawn (Brooklyn Fawn Demo), called “Brooklyn Fawn” on The Dark Leaves (2010)7. Lily 3 (Acoustic), bonus track from The Lives Inside the Lines in Your Hand (2013)8. Remember Me, Threeep (2010)9. Closer (Demo), The Nature of Maps (2002)10 .The Colour Out of Space, Threeep (2010)11. Round and Round, Free the Fawns (2016, obscure release!), maybe somewhere else, too?12. The Wrong Man, Threeep (2010)Even tracking down where these songs come from, I realize how much music this band has put out over the years! It’s awesome to revisit it all because of this new album, which itself holds together quite nicely.You can hear the album here, and visit mpPA’s site here. I hope there is more where this came from.Thanks to the powers-that-be for the advance release download of this fine album, so I could write a review. Share this:TweetEmailMoreLike this:Like Loading... Göttingen Septuagint in Accordance (Lowest SalePrice) Accordance Bible has put its Göttingen Septuagint on sale, at its lowest price ever. There are 19 volumes, which span 34 Septuagint books. As Brian Davidson notes, Logos has five LXX volumes not in Accordance (Judith; Tobit; 3 Maccabees; Wisdom of Solomon; and Susanna, Daniel, and Bel et Draco), while only Accordance has the 2014 2 Chronicles. Neither has yet digitized the recently released Ecclesiastes volume.$499 for the in-progress critical edition is not cheap, but serious students of the Septuagint will receive at least that much value from the modules. The Genesis print volume alone retails for about $250. The Accordance versions are morphologically tagged, so you never have to guess at a parsing or translation equivalent. As with all Accordance texts, Göttingen integrates seamlessly with lexicons, parallel texts, and other resources.Here s what the recently released 2 Chronicles volume looks like, with its apparatus open at bottom and two English translations of the Septuagint also open:I ve noted elsewhere that the critical apparatus in the Göttingen Septuagint is a text criticism workout. I ve posted here and here about how to understand and use its apparatuses. Accordance hyperlinks all the abbreviations (everything in blue and underlined in the screenshot above is a hyperlink). The expanded abbreviations don t mitigate the need for Latin and German in understanding the apparatus!Apparatus Search FieldsWhat especially sets Accordance apart from Logos is Accordance s use of search fields in the apparatus, so that you can select a search field and run a more targeted search. I ve found this most useful for when I m trying to get a handle on how a particular manuscript might have treated the text. You can also search the apparatus by Greek content, so could see, for example, all of the Greek words that get treatment in the apparatus.When I read through LXX Isaiah (mostly using Accordance) a few years ago, I made heavy use of Accordance s Compare and List Text Differences features. This way you can see at a glance where Göttingen and Rahlfs or Swete differ on the book you re looking at.Do you want to really geek out on using the Septuagint in Accordance? Here s a post I wrote for their blog the other day, on using Accordance to generate a list of Greek vocabulary that New Testament readers might want to consider when coming to the Septuagint.Disclosure: Accordance set me up with the 2 Chronicles volume to review. And I lead Webinars for them. That did not influence the objectivity of this post.Share this:TweetEmailMoreLike this:Like Loading... Source: German Federal ArchiveDietrich Bonhoeffer from his Cost of Discipleship:Because the first and last concern of truthfulness is the revealing of persons in their whole being, in their evilness before God, such truthfulness is resisted by the sinner. That is why it is persecuted and crucified. The truthfulness of the disciples has its sole basis in following Jesus, in which he reveals our sins to us on the cross. Only the cross as God’s truth about us makes us truthful. Those who know the cross no longer shy away from any truth. Those who live under the cross can do without the oath as a commandment establishing truthfulness, for they exist in the perfect truth of God.There is no truth toward Jesus without truth toward other people. Lying destroys community. But truth rends false community and founds genuine fellowship. There is no following Jesus without living in the truth unveiled before God and other people.Share this:TweetEmailMoreLike this:Like Loading...

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