Diagram of Synoptic Relationships (David Pawson)

 

 https://www.davidpawson.com/synopticrelationshipdiagram/Synoptic_Relationships.pdf

Announcing the Pillar Old Testament Commentary Series

Pillar NT Commentary Series (PNTC) are well known to seminarians (evangelical). The volumes by Carson and Moo were sort of must-have...

Now comes  the Pillar Old Testament Commentary Series. 

 

The inaugural title:

Psalms 1–72

Duane A. Garrett

Available April 30, 2026

• Other titles by Richard Averbeck, Paul House, Gary Smith and John Oswalt should not be missed!
• Read here for more details 

TGC Bible commentary

The Gospel Coalition (TGC) Bible commentary (brief commentary on the whole Bible, incomplete) --all by Evangelical scholars

[pdf/epub/Kindle] Free ebook on Suffering and Hope in the Letters of Paul

Shall Be Bright at Last: Reflections on Suffering and Hope in the Letters of Paul

and Martha Byrne Van Houten
Edited by Nijay Gupta

Description

These nine essays on suffering offer exercises in Christian hope. The contributors reveal honest and tender wounds of the many harsh realities of life in a broken world awaiting full redemption. They meditate on Paul's holy words that teach us to pray with expectation and live by faith. They encourage fellow pilgrims to trust the path and stick together.
Shall Be Bright at Last is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
CC BY-NC-SA

ISBN

978-0-9998292-4-0

Publication Date

1-2020

Publisher

George Fox University Library

[Logos/Kindle] Crucial Questions Series (28 vols.)

• a nice set of booklets by a trusted evangelical preacher, now 28 vols (was 20 vols)

Crucial Questions Series (28 vols.)

by Sproul, R. C.

• Reformation Trust, Ligonier Ministries 2009–2017

Runs on Windows, Mac and mobile.

$0.00 HKD

---Kindle version (only individual titles)

free e-course on Bible Study Methods by Mark Strauss

Bible Study Methods from BiblicalTraining

This course will introduce you to the basics questions of how to study your Bible.

About this Course

What is Bible study? Why do we study these specific 66 books? What type of literature are we studying? What are the practical steps we should take? How do we determine a word’s meaning? How do we apply the text to our lives? These questions and more are answered in this course.

• Teacher: Mark Strauss

• Length: 5 hours
• Price: FREE
• Institution: Bethel Seminary
• Subject: Biblical Studies
• Skill Level: Intermediate
• Languages: English

Audio download ; Transcriptions ; Student Workbook (PDF)

FREE Instructor & Student Guide (suitable for adult Sunday school)

FREE Instructor & Student Guides on a variety of topics offered by Bethlehem College & Seminary

Curricula

Bethlehem College & Seminary offers free PDFs of our core curriculum with both Instructor & Student Guides.
Also available are a number of teaching video resources from Bethlehem College & Seminary professors. These teaching videos will enhance any home small group study or Sunday school class time.

Biblical Womanhood
Shepherds Under God
God Centered Living
Mining God's Word

Theological Foundations I
Theological Foundations II
New Testament Survey
Old Testament Survey I
Old Testament Survey II ... more

free devotional for Lent [pdf]

Be Inspired – 40 Days of Devotional for Lent 
by Scott Carroll and Todd A. Hillard.
Chinese Bible International, 2017
 
感動之旅: 預苦期四十日靈修默想. 
作者：斯科特．卡羅爾、托德．希拉德. 
譯者：吳偉強、范梓樺、黃婉蓮
漢語聖經協會, 2017.

她觸動妳心─聖經人物查經本

她觸動妳心─聖經人物查經本
作者：梁美心
頁數：25

免費下載

	這套查經材料共有十二課，是梁美心博士本於其暢銷著作《她觸動妳心：聖經中的女性故事》（以下簡稱「原書」）而撰寫的。每課都是一個獨立單元，以聖經人物（新舊約參半）的經歷為主軸，幫助信徒明白經文信息，反思與神的關係，並在生活中實踐信仰。組長可順序使用全部材料，也可自行編排次序，例如交替查考舊約和新約人物，也可按需要抽取一些人物來查考。 每課的流程是：一．本課目標；二．破冰；三．人物簡介；四．查經，主要用歸納式研經法（觀察–解釋–應用）；五．彼此代禱。完成一課約需1至1小時15分鐘。 無論備課或想深化查經領受，皆可參考「原書」內相關人物的釋經，所有答案基本上也能在該書找到。試讀「原書」[按此]。

Bible Project videos in Cantonese

The Bible Project -excellent evangelical presentation of each book of the Bible and biblical themes (videos and posters inside)---now available in Cantonese, 粵語! 

• 好正!!!
• 暫時主要是舊約

[pdf] new free ebook on biblical hermeneutics by Poythress

Vern S. Poythress, Reading the Word of God in the Presence of God (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2016).

Every time we read the Bible, we’re reading in the presence of God. How should this incredible truth shape how we read?
Moving quickly from principle to practice, Vern Poythress helps us rethink how we interpret the Bible by showing us the implications of entering into God’s presence as we study. This handbook outlines distinct steps for practicing faithful biblical interpretation by focusing on our fellowship with the God who speaks to us through his Word.

Author

Vern S. Poythress (PhD, Harvard University; ThD, University of Stellenbosch) is professor of New Testament interpretation at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he has taught for nearly four decades. In addition to earning six academic degrees, he is the author of numerous books and articles on biblical interpretation, language, and science.

How did Jesus become a God and other scholarly videos

LARRY HURTADO How did Jesus become a God

• An important topic by my Doktorvater and also other topics: 

Scholarly videos by Creative Christian Learning, St. John's College, Nottingham:

• New Testament & Christian Origins
• Old Testament 
• Faith & Modernity

new NT & OT introductions with free chapters [pdf]

A Biblical-Theological Introduction to the New Testament

The Gospel Realized

Edited by Michael J. Kruger
Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2016.

• Free chapters: Introduction and Matthew

"Addressing both spiritual and academic issues with a view to pastoral equipping and biblical exposition, this wide-ranging compendium will benefit readers in both classroom and personal settings.”

Robert W. Yarbrough, Professor of New Testament, Covenant Theological Seminary

A Biblical-Theological Introduction to the Old Testament

The Gospel Promised

Edited by Miles V. Van Pelt
Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2016.

• Free chapters: Introduction and Genesis

“For expository preachers and teachers of the Bible, this volume is truly a gold mine. With this volume, no preacher should ever feel that preaching Christ from the Old Testament is too hard or too speculative.”

Graeme Goldsworthy, Former Lecturer in Old Testament, Biblical Theology, and Hermeneutics, Moore Theological College

[pdf] a concise guide to reading the Bible in an evangelical way

SEEING  CHRIST IN ALL OF SCRIPTURE: Hermeneutics at Westminster Theological Seminary. 
Edited by Peter A. Lillback 
with contributions from Vern S. Poythress, Iain M. Duguid, G. K.  Beale, and Richard B. Gaffin Jr.
Philadelphia: Westminster Seminary Press, 2016.

“As true heir of Old Princeton, Westminster Theological Seminary

has borne the torch of Reformed theological inquiry and pedagogy

like no other North American seminary. Recent debate among its own faculty over two approaches to Scripture—Christocentric and Christotelic, respectively—called forth this book. With compelling appeal to Vos and Machen, and with succinct hermeneutical statements by current faculty, the authors rearticulate what Christocentric interpretation means and will continue to mean at Westminster.”

—Robert W. Yarbrough, Professor of New Testament, Covenant Theological Seminary

[Kindle/epub/pdf] free e-booklet on Biblical Theology

Free e-booklet after a brief survey:
What Is Biblical Theology?: A Guide to the Bible's Story, Symbolism, and Patterns
by James M. Hamilton

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Crossway (November 30, 2013)

How Do You Read the Bible? The Bible recounts a single story—one that began at creation, encompasses our lives today, and will continue till Christ’s return and beyond. In What Is Biblical Theology?, Jim Hamilton introduces us to this narrative, helping us understand the worldview of the biblical writers so that we can read the Old and New Testaments as those authors intended. Tracing the key patterns, symbols, and themes that bind the Bible together, this book will help you understand Scripture’s unified message and find your place in the great story of redemption.

Are the Gospels based on eyewitness testimony? Bart Ehrman vs Richard Bauckham

Unbelievable? Are the Gospels based on eyewitness testimony? Bart Ehrman vs Richard Bauckham

Saturday 9th April 2016 - 02:30 pm

Bart Ehrman's new book "Jesus Before the Gospels" makes the case that the stories about Jesus would have changed and evolved before they were written down as the Gospels.
Richard Bauckham, author of "Jesus and the Eyewitnesses", defends the view that the Gospels were written by those with access to eyewitness testimony of Jesus' first followers. They debate who wrote Mark, whether the the Gospels came from anonymous traditions and how they received their titles.

• Get the MP3
• listen online

 

[pdf] edited volume on the topic of Jerusalem (1992)

Jerusalem: Past And Present in the Purposes of God
P.W.L. Walker ed.
Cambridge: Tyndale House, 1992.

Table of Contents

I	A Christian Approach to Old Testament Prophecy Concerning Israel - Chris Wright - pp.1-19.
II	Jerusalem in the Old Testament - Gordon McConville - pp.21-51.
III	Jerusalem in the New Testament - Tom Wright - pp.53-77.
IV	Jerusalem in the Early Christian Centuries - Peter Walker - pp.81-97.
V	Jerusalem in Judaism and for Christian Zionists - Margaret Brearley - pp.99-124.
VI	Jerusalem in Islam and For Palestinian Christians - Naim Ateek
VII	Jerusalem and Justice: A Messianic Jewish Perspective - Baruch Maoz pp.151-173
VIII	Jerusalem and the Church's Challenge - Peter Walker - pp.175-204.

[pdf] Evangelical view of revelation and the Bible (1958)

Revelation and the Bible: Contemporary Evangelical Thought
Carl F.H. Henry, editor.
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1958.

3 SBL monographs are now in open access format

Political Memory in and after the Persian Empire Jason M. Silverman and Caroline Waerzeggers, editors Various disciplines that deal with Achaemenid rule offer starkly different assessments of Persian kingship. While Assyriologists treat Cyrus’s heirs as legitimate successors of the Babylonian kings, biblical scholars often speak of a “kingless era” in which the priesthood took over the function of the Davidic monarch. Egyptologists see their land as uniquely independently minded despite conquests, while Hellenistic scholarship tends to evaluate the interface between Hellenism and native traditions without reference to the previous two centuries of Persian rule. This volume brings together in dialogue a broad array of scholars with the goal of seeking a broader context for assessing Persian kingship through the anthropological concept of political memory. Paper $59.95, ISBN 9780884140887 Hardcover $79.95, ISBN 9780884140900 Open Access eISBN 9780884140894 516 pages • Ancient Near East Monographs 13

Epigraphy, Philology, and the Hebrew Bible: Methodological Perspectives on Philological and Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Jo Ann Hackett Jeremy M. Hutton and Aaron D. Rubin, editors Colleagues and former students honor Professor Jo Ann Hackett in this collection of essays focused on her interests in Northwest Semitic languages, epigraphy, and Canaanite religions of the Iron Age. Each section offers subject-specific chapters reflecting on methodology, while at the same time seeking to build connections between these three disciplines. Each contribution exemplifies the unifying theme of the collection: the continuing value and necessity of philological and comparative study of the Hebrew Bible. Paper $49.95, ISBN 9780884140795 Hardcover $64.95, ISBN 9780884140818 Open Access eISBN 9780884140801 408 pages • Ancient Near East Monographs 12

The Book of the Twelve and the New Form Criticism Mark J. Boda, Michael H. Floyd, and Colin M. Toffelmire, editors Contributors to this volume explore the theoretical issues at stake in recent changes in form criticism and the practical outcomes of applying the results of these theoretical shifts to the Book of the Twelve. The volume combines self-conscious and wide-ranging reflection on discourse linguistics, metaphor theory, redaction criticism, and various other methods with practical examination of specific texts in an effort to demonstrate the practical consequences of theoretical decisions and the value of certain methodological stances. Paper $39.95, ISBN 9781628370607 Hardcover $54.95, ISBN 9781628370621 Open Access eISBN 9781628370614 378 pages • Ancient Near East Monographs 10

conservative books on NT int., Gen, and Dan. now go online

A few noteworthy (conservative) books now go online:

1. I. Howard Marshall ed. New Testament Interpretation: Essays on Principles and Methods. Carlisle: Paternoster, 1972, revised 1979.  
2. A.R. Millard & D.J. Wiseman eds, Essays on the Patriarchal Narratives. Downers Grove: IVP, 1980.   
3. D. J. Wiseman ed.,  Notes on Some Problems in the Book of Daniel. London: The Tyndale Press, 1965.