The Importance of Matthew
James Gray, who notes that he is currently reading Why Four Gospels?, gives four major reasons why Matthew is such an important gospel.
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MCTS Notes on the Four Gospels
The Midwest Center for Theological Studies blog has some notes on the four gospels, which largely rely on Why Four Gospels?. (HT: The Voice of One Crying Out in Suburbia)
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Arthur Sido Review
Arthur Sido provides a very positive review at The Voice of One Crying Out in Suburbia.
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Ivan Monroy Review
Ivan Monroy reviews the previous edition of Why Four Gospels?
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The Purpose of Luke
9:55 AM Why the Gospel of Luke? Through hindsight we can determine the assignment that Luke received from Paul by comparing the Gospels of Luke and Matthew and by noting Luke’s deviations. In the first place, Luke carefully followed the main structure of Matthew throughout and generally adhered to the order of its various sections…
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Pastoral Musings Review
Posted here. Takeaway? “… a short book with a big punch.”
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Motivation for Matthew
10:12 AM On the original motivation for Matthew: As soon as the first wave of converts had been baptized and their instruction organized by the Twelve, the apostles’ thoughts turned to the practical question of how to unify and consolidate their teaching about Jesus. The apostles realized that they somehow needed to promulgate those passages…
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Dave Black on Textual Criticism
Dave Black has written a new essay on textual criticism. Here’s an extract: In textual criticism, one enters a discipline that is as much art as it is science, so that what is all too clear to one scholar may be opaque to another. My friend Dan Wallace — who, incidentally, also took Harry Sturz’s…
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Review at Thinking in Christ
This review is of the previous edition, but should nonetheless be helpful.
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Matt Capps Notes the Release
… on his Matt Capps Blog.