Happy New Year! 2021 is the Year of the Ox. It’s supposed to be a year of fortune, celebrating the virtues of honesty, reliability, hard work and trustworthiness. The ox is the opposite of being…
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Nice Deal on Amazon Prime for My Book Moral Transformation + Upcoming Reviews
Still admittingly quite pricey, my monograph Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy of Mind which was published this past April 2020 is nevertheless now at the lowest price I have seen it this year with 30%…
The Word Became Flesh so He Can Remake the World
It has been one long slug of a maranthon this 2020. Advent sped by so quickly and I can’t believe it’s already Christmas Eve. 2020 has been a year of heartache, loss, suffering and…
Top 5 Academic Bible & Theology Podcasts of 2020
For the 2020-21 academic year, I drive back and forth from home on the northside of Chicago to the Henry Center on the Trinity International University Campus. It’s part of my residential fellowship I received…
Celebrating 12 Years with the Intertextuality in the New Testament Section
I’m still trying to catch my breath after 2 weeks of the virtual annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature 2020. Whew! It was as good a conference could be through Zoom, heard some…
A Virtual Photoshoot at Virtual SBL 2020
As many of you know a week ago would have been the Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting in Boston. In a pandemic year, the conference understandably turned virtual (which is coming up this Nov…
Setting the Table for Asian American Biblical Interpretation
In less than a week, on Monday November 30, 2020 (5-7pm EST), the Asian American Biblical Interpretation (AABI) research group of the Institute of Biblical Research will hold its inaugural session with a program of…
1st Published Review of Moral Transformation from NTA
The marketing crew at Mohr Siebeck just sent me what is the 1st published review (or rather summary) by the editors of New Testament Abstracts (64/2 2020) of my monograph Moral Transformation in Greco-Roman Philosophy…
Intertextuality in the New Testament at SBL 2020
The Intertextuality in the New Testament Section of the Society of Biblical LIterature (for whom I serve as co-chair and steering committee member) is excited to announce four sessions at the first ever virtual meeting…
An Interview at Nijay Gupta’s Crux Sola
Thank you to fellow New Testament scholar and friend Nijay Gupta for interviewing me regarding my recently published book with Mohr Siebeck. Nijay asked me four great questions: 1) How did you become interested…