“The Two Johannine Verbs for Sending: A Study of Johns Use of Words with Reference to General Linguistic Theory,” in Linguistics and the New Testament: Critical Junctures (ed. Stanley E. Porter and D. A. Carson; JSNTSup 168; Studies in New Testament Greek 5; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), 125-43. Is there a distinction in meaning… Read More
Syntactical Background Studies to 1 Tim. 2.12 in the New Testament and Extrabiblical Greek Literature
“Syntactical Background Studies to 1 Tim. 2.12 in the New Testament and Extrabiblical Greek Literature,” in Discourse Analysis and Other Topics in Biblical Greek (ed. Stanley E. Porter and D. A. Carson, JSNTSup 113; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), 156-79. The injunction in 1 Tim 2:12, “I do not permit a woman to teach or… Read More
Review: Spirit in the Writings of John: Johannine Pneumatology in Social-scientific Perspective
This book is a dissertation written under Professor R. Piper at the University of St Andrews. At the outset, the author acknowledges her debt to scholars such as Elliott and Malina for the method of social-scientific criticism and to Berger and Luckmann for the sociology of knowledge. She also notes her dependence on Philip Esler… Read More
Review: Echoes of a Prophet: The Use of Ezekiel in the Gospel of John and in Literature of the Second Temple Period
Echoes of a Prophet is the author’s slightly revised dissertation completed under the auspices of Marianne Meye Thompson at Fuller Theological Seminary. Overall, this is a helpful contribution to the burgeoning field of Johannine studies and to the exploration of the use of the OT in the NT. While not groundbreaking, the present work does… Read More
Review: Text in a Whirlwind: A Critique of Four Exegetical Devices at 1 Timothy 2.9–15
This work was originally a doctoral dissertation in 1995. Interaction with some later works has been incorporated, though it appears that the major argument of the volume essentially predates 1995. It is the author’s thesis that “several contextual, linguistic, grammatical and literary components in 1 Tim. 2.9–15 have universally been either ignored or misunderstood” (18)…. Read More