Compiling a Vocabulary List in Accordance

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A friend of mine was preparing to preach on Deuteronomy 10:12-22 and asked if I could help him compile a vocabulary list from that section and where he could find where these words are used else where in the Hebrew Bible. Here is a step by step tutorial of how I compiled the vocabulary list and concordance.

First, make sure that you have selected Words in order to enable your search commands.

Next, you want to enter the Range of the text you are wanting for a vocabulary list and concordance. 

For my friend, he was wanting to examine Deuteronomy 10:12-22

Next, you want to connect your Range with the And and Wildcard commands. After you hit search the entire Range will be selected red.

Next, click on Analysis 

When you click on Analysis, your vocabulary list can then be ordered how you prefer–alphabetical or by frequency.

From there I went back to the Analysis tab and selected Concordance in order for him to find where each word was used else where.


Dan Wallace on the Discovery of 7 Early Manuscripts

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Jim West recently posted a video of Dan Wallace being interviewed on the discovery of 7 early NT manuscripts. This is, to say the least, a very important find for NT studies. Watch the video here:

Dan Wallace on 7 Early MSS

via Dan Wallace on the Discovery of 7 Early Manuscripts.

A Journal for Biblical Textual Criticism

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I am a bit late on this update but sometime ago, Larry Hurtado (Emeritus New College, University of Edinburgh) wrote a blog highlighting a peer reviewed journal for textual criticism that is completely online. I agree with Professor Hurtado that all journals need to be going to an online format. One benefit of this would valuable resources to research students at the many institutions with smaller endowments and smaller libraries.

The journal’s name is TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism is devoted to research in both Old and New Testaments and can be accessed here.

As a side note, I will be adding this and other online journals to the resource page for easy access.

David’s Census

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I just got word that my paper, “Intertextuality Between 1 Chronicles 21:1-17 and Genesis 13 and the Problem of David’s Census,” has been accepted for presentation at this year’s ETS meeting. I’ll be presenting in the Textual Strategies in the Hebrew Bible section at 4:40 on Wednesday.

I’m excited but also nervous – those Hebrew Bible folks are intimidating!

Jesus and the Last Days

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Last night I attempted to explain to my New Testament class that the Old Testament anticipates certain things to happen in the “last days” that are fulfilled in Jesus in the Gospels and Acts – e.g. the coming Davidic King, the new Temple, the resurrection, etc. After I demonstrated (hopefully successfully) that the “last days” anticipated by the Old Testament are inaugurated by Jesus’ life, death, resurrection, ascension, and giving of the Spirit, and culminated by his return, I made this summary statement: “In Christ, the end of time has entered into the middle of time.” In other words, we are now living in the end times because of Christ’s life and work.

I came across this quote today from G. K. Beale’s new NT theology that summarizes what I was attempting to say:

. . . Christ’s resurrected body was the first newly created body to to pass to the other side of the new creation. The coming new creation penetrated back into the old world through the resurrected, new-creational body of Jesus. Although his postressurection existence was on this old earth for a time, he ascended to the unseen heavenly dimension of the beginning new creation, which will finally descend visibly at the end of time, when the old cosmos disintegrates (Rev. 21:1-22:5).

The Intersection of N.T. Wright and Bob Dylan

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I am not sure how old this video of N.T. Wright playing and singing Bob Dylan is but it was recently shared with me so I thought I would post it here.

What you don’t see is that after Wright plays and sings Dylan he then explains to those present how for decades everyone has misunderstood both Dylan and his songs. He then goes on for a short bit about how if Luther would have been alive to hear Dylan he would of misunderstood him as well.