A Review of “Hebrews and the End of the Exodus,” by Matthew Thiessen (Pt. 1)
Matthew Thiessen. “Hebrews and the End of the Exodus.” Novum Testamentum 49 (2007): 353-69. A few posts back I mused on the topic of the wilderness experience of Israel and how the author of Hebrews seemed to indicate that his reader were sharing in the same experience.  In his excellent article, Matthew Thiessen confirmed a lot of my suspicions about Auctor’s use of Ps 95 and the wilderness theme in Hebrews.  Thiessen states that his purpose in writing this article  was “to examine Hebrews to determine in which period of Israel’s history the author believed himself and his readers to be living” (354).  He g

Peter O’Brien on Hebrews
I was skimming through the upcoming Eerdmans publications and noticed that Peter T. O’Brien’s commentary on Hebrews is coming down the pipe in the very near future (anticipated realease: 3/1/2010).  This work is part of the Pillar New Testament Commentary series, which has produced a number of well written and useful commentaries.  This would be O’Brien’s second work i

A Blast from the Past
I decided to check the stats of this blog to see what the most visited post of mine was.   And by a landslide it was this one.  I wrote this one way back in August of 2006, just over three years ago.  It has been visited more than 1800 times, that is more than three times the next two.  I guess there are a lot of people out there who want to know who Auctor is and why he wrote (preached) Hebrews.  If only I knew who he was, then I could cash in and retire. Thanks again for reading my posts.

Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary, Old Testament, Vol.1: A Review (Pt. 1)
Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary: Old Testament: Vol. 1, Genesis-Deuteronomy. Edited by John H. Walton Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan 2009 Reviewed by Clifford B. Kvidahl *This is the first in what w

You’ve Got Mail Yet Again
A special thanks to Andrew Rogers at Zondervan for two review copies: