Martin Hengel, Gentleman and Scholar, dies aged 82

The Daily Telegraph carries the obituary of the Professor Martin Hengel who died aged 82 on the 2nd of July 2009. I particularly liked this paragraph:

Yet although Hengel was responsible for a radically different approach to the New Testament, his conclusions were always comparatively conservative and reassuring to evangelicals and others seeking confirmation of their Christian beliefs. His criticism of those attempting to apply modern methods of literary criticism to the Bible were often scathing, and he remained firmly in the faith of Lutheran pietism.

You can read the obituary in full here.

G.T. Manley's "The Book of the Law" now on-line

The following book is now available in Deja Vu format:

G.T. Manley, The Book of the Law: Studies in the Date of Deuteronomy. London: Tyndale, 1957. Hbk. pp.192.

A viewer for this file format can be found here.

Codex Sinaiticus Now on-line

The Daily Telegraph reports today that the complete text of Codex Sinaiticus is now available on-line.

You can read the Telegraph's article here and visit the British Library website here.

It is wonderful to see another important biblical resource made available to everyone with Internet access.

Blog Interview on-line on the Exiled Preacher's Blog

Guy Davies, aka The Exiled Preacher, recently invited me to be interviewed for his Blog. You can read the interview in full here. I think that Guy has a real gift for asking good questions!

I. Howard Marshall on Aspects of the Biblical View of History

The following article is now available in both iPaper and PDF:

I. Howard Marshall, "Aspects of the Biblical View of History," Faith and Thought 110.1, 2 (1983): 54-68.

I. Howard Marshall on the Jewish Dispersion in New Testament Times

The following article is now available in both iPaper and PDF:

I. Howard Marshall, "Dispersion in New Testament Times," Faith and Thought 100.3 (1972-3): 237-258.

This article provides some extremely valuable insights into a significant area of New Testament background and early Christian missions.

David Clines on the Theology of the Flood Narrative

The following article is now available in both iPaper and PDF:

D.J.A. Clines, "The Theology of the Flood Narrative," Faith and Thought 100.2 (1972-3): 128-142.

Arthur Jones on the Dogma of Evolution

The following article is now available in iPaper and PDF:

Arthur Jones, "The Dogma of Evolution," Faith and Thought 98.2, 3 (1970): 25-42.

Table of Contents for Anvil journal now complete from 1984-2008

I have completed - with the help of All Nations College Library - a complete table of contents for the Anglican journal Anvil. It can be found on-line here.

New File Format for On-line Articles - Feedback Requested

One of the constant challenges when placing material on-line is to produce readable text that can be spidered by search engines, produced quickly and is of a small enough file size to be accessed by those in the developing world using dial-up connections. OK - that's a whole bundle of challenges rolled into one!

I was recently introduced to a new file format - Deja Vu (.djvu) which produces files which combine an image with an OCRed text overlay. Deja Vu is superior to the Adobe equivalent in that the files are much smaller and can be produced from images scanned at only 200 dpi.

I have been testing the new format on articles from the Bulletin of the Evangelical Theological Society. So far I have been able to upload 2 entire volumes in the same time it would have taken to upload about 4 articles using my usual method of Scan & OCR -> MS Word format -> Print -> Proofread -> PDF.

I will probably add PDF's versions in the course of time, but at least something will be available quickly. You will probably need to download a browser plugin to read the articles - a link is included on the page.

Take a look and let me know what you think.

Mark Greene on Aspects of the Samson Story (Judges 13-16)

The following article is now available in PDF:

Mark Greene, "Enigma Variations: Aspects of the Samson Story (Judges 13-16)," Vox Evangelica 21 (1991): 53-80.

This is one of the best articles I have read for some time and should provide plenty of inspiration to anyone preparing a sermon on Samson - indeed to anyone remotely interested in the book of Judges - highly recommended.

Frank E. Gaebelein on the Unity of the Bible

The following article is now available in both iPaper and PDF:

Frank E. Gaebelein, "The Unity of the Bible," Carl F.H. Henry, ed., Revelation and the Bible. Contemporary Evangelical Thought. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1958 / London: The Tyndale Press, 1959. pp.389-401.