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Below are a list of included resources in this prize pack:
Daniel Wallace — Basics of New Testament Syntax
Two volumes from Crossway’s Knowing the Bible Series — Proverbs and Matthew
Olesberg — The Bible Study Handbook
David Olson — Discovering Your Leadership Style
Abdu Murray — Grand Central Question
John Piper — Brothers, We Are Not Professionals (Updated + Expanded)
David Platt, Daniel Akin, Tony Merida — 1 & 2 Timothy / Titus Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary
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One thing I would like to see would be a comparative review of Bible reference tools, like, for example, Bible dictionaries.
Of course, of course!! That’s a seriously great idea.
I wonder how we could pull something like that off. What are a few of the Bible Dictionaries that come to mind? IVP (the black series)? What others?
The “Bible dictionaries” list would consist of the New Bible Dictionary (outstanding, but probably in need of an update); Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary (excellent, and newer than most other Bible dictionaries); Tyndale Bible Dictionary; Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary; etc.
From there, however, you start venturing into more specialized types of dictionaries which would be more difficult to compare to other volumes (since there’s often only one dictionary of each kind), including the series that you mentioned (divided into the dictionaries of “Jesus”, “Paul”, “Latter New Testament”, etc.).
These would also include the Evangelical Dictionary of Theology; Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology; New Dictionary of Theology; Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible; Dictionary of Biblical Imagery; Dictionary; Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters; etc. All of these would, of course, be related to the “Bible dictionaries”, but would also be something quite different.
Excellent! That’s a solid library of dictionaries you’ve collected. What makes that hard — and this is something that I’ve run into as I have entered into the world of “reviews” — is that “comparing” resources sometimes pins them up against one another more than is necessary.
A great way to go about it would be create a systematic approach, highlighting the strengths, weaknesses, doctrines, traditions, etc. of the contributors and the set as a whole.
I’d love to take on the challenge of such a task if I could create a guide that we can analyze each dictionary with. I like your input, Josh … come around here more often and I think Brave Reviews will only improve.
By the way, have you gotten my email saying you won last month’s giveaway … ? 🙂
Expositional Preaching by David Helm
I should spend some time focusing on the entire 9Marks series — but I have heard some good things about Helm. Have you already read this book?
Paul! I wanted to mention that our friends over at Servants of Grace just read through and reviewed Helm’s book. I thought of you when I saw the post.
Here’s a link:
http://www.servantsofgracebookreviews.org/book-review-expositional-preaching-how-we-speak-gods-word-today/
Do you ever review fiction books?
I haven’t really ventured down that road — there have been a few that I’ve featured on the site but I really don’t dig into fictional that much. Are there some that I need to add to the arsenal? Thanks for asking, Joey
A new book from Kregel, Seeking the City by Brand and Pratt. I just got it, but it’s going to be sometime before I get to it, and would like to see a good sumamry of it.
Seeking the City … This looks incredible! (http://amzn.to/1nkLlHP)
Thanks for the feedback, Allen.
I’d like to see a review comparing Introduction to Global Missions by Zane Pratt, Jeff K. Walters and M. David Sills with other intro to world missions texts.
I have a few missions textbooks and easy readings, I have also reached out to B&H in hopes to get a copy of Walter/Sills/Pratt’s text.
Thanks for this suggestion. This is the second comment looking for a “comparative” approach — I really like that idea a lot.
Hey Jason I came to find your comment on me posting about the review for ESV Women’s Devotional. Do you know what happened to it?
I’m not sure if this is Justin or Jennifer, but your reply is on this page! 😀
It appears as though some have commented in the Facebook comments (above) and some have commented in the Disqus comments (here, below). Your reply is above!
I’m sorry about the confusion, but I just recently transferred the site over to Disqus comments and will be doing away with the Facebook comments after this giveaway.
Yes I found it, thanks.
Did you find it? I have yet to hear back from Crossway about it.
I’d like to see a review of any of John Crotts’ books.
I’d rather read the book than read a review… but that’s just me.
That’s cool! Most people would, right?
Brave Reviews is a database of reviews/summaries for those who can’t keep up with all of the new books being published (which includes just about everybody). Rather than spending time and money on new books, this is a service to offer folks both insights into new books and updates as to what is being published. We aren’t here to deter reading books but rather the complete opposite — more reading!
Now that you have a better understanding, are there books (or a book) that you’d like to see a summary/review of?
a summary of Daniel Wallace’s NT Syntax
Looks like we need to get some of these resources summarized/reviewed. Wallace’s Syntax is a staple resource, so important!
Thankful for books giveaway contest!