James N. Beevers

Husband, Father of 3, Lecturer in New Testament @UnionTCollege. Formerly teaching @WestminsterTS. PhD on Hebrews.

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Perhaps I have judged postmillenialism too harshly.
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@Waxa0x @oriontsx @BaT_MaN_23 Silicon from sand qualifies. If the people stay quiet, these circuits will still testify. Luke 19:40 holds.

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@BohdanKuryliak Congratulations! Having read the short summary, did you interact with Vern Poythress's work on an integrative/perspectival approach to historicism, preterism, idealism, and how each aspect contributes a unique element to the past, present, and future relevance of Rev?

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@drandrewmking Stealing this for today's Greek class.

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If (1) you are a Christian who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired, infallible part of the Bible, and (2) the New Testament makes totalizing interpretive claims about what the Old Testament was always about and where it was always intended to lead (e.g., Luke 24:27, 46-47; John 5:39; Acts 10:43; 1 Pet 1:11), and (3) you care about non-contradiction and hold this summary of the Old Testament to be true (including Jesus's claim that salvation through Christ and the ingathering of the gentiles was the central import of the Old Testament), and (4) you then find yourself able to go back and see precisely these trajectories, promises, types, shadows, etc. that the first Christian interpreters were picking up on, then you will automatically find yourself "interpreting the Old Testament" in light of the New, while of course always affirming that this is not an alien meaning being foisted on the text, but was always the divine intention beginning with Adam.

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@ChristophHeilig @DrPJWilliams This might be where our views of interpretation and the task of NT scholarship diverge. Die Deutschen suchen ja seit 300 Jahren nach der objektiven "wissenschaftlichen" Exegese, aber Interpretation bleibt eine Kunst und nicht die Anwendung einer Formel.

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@ChristophHeilig Does this not presumes that proper interpretation and application are ancillary, rather than central to the true nature of "New Testament Studies?" (by which I presume you mean detail-based arguments on literary relationships, manuscripts, textual criticism, etc.) .

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@RothRoot @crossway If memory serves, Logos's dataset is a combination of four or five print resources that we all used individually in our dataset, so Logos itself was not listed as an independent witness for the curating of the full list.

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Here's a little sneak peak at an upcoming project we are working on for @crossway . We've tried to collect all previously suggested links between OT and NT by collating roughly 30 historic "NT use of OT" sources (e.g., NA28 margins, Carson & Beale, Dittmar, etc.) and are marking each proposed link for lexical and semantic overlap and grading as allusion, quotation, citation, or summation, along with a confidence score.

This link was proposed by just one 1855 author (Henry Gough) but will feature in the project. #TheTapestryofScripture

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Good question. The reason it was *not* included is that it doesn't differentiate between vague links, cross references, thematically similar passages, and true intentional re-use.

If we had added it, it would have added 500,000 cross references to sift through by hand in hopes of finding a potential true inner biblical connection (allusion, quotation, etc.) that was missed by the rest of the literature.

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For those interested in the project: Jonathan Gibson and Peter Orr are the senior editors. Each contributing editor is assigned to evaluate and mark up the proposed links within their assigned section of the canon. I'm covering Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, and 2 Peter.

We are hoping to have it out by 2029. One exciting aspect is that it will be mirrored OT/NT, so you can open the project to an OT passage and see everywhere it is picked up, interpreted, or alluded to in the NT.

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@sambostock @crossway Great catch. When assigning the confidence score, our methodology does take the wider context of each OT passage into account. That additional link from 1:7 certainly bumps the score slightly higher.

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Great note. For this project, we did supplement the proposals from "NT use of OT" resources by combing through at least one technical commentary on each NT book, to catch any additional suggestions in the commentary lit. that haven't have made their way into the field-specific NT/OT literature.

For James, we did not check Spitta, so if Gough hadn't proposed this one, we would have missed it.

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@samuel_parkison @ivpacademic And yet, by the end of it, your prose will be tighter, your arguments more cogent, and you will have treated the reader's time as more valuable than if no word count limit had been imposed.

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@WesleyLHuff I think you're somewhat understating the numbers even when it comes to true quotations.

Hopefully our semi-exhaustive handbook that will catalogue all previously suggested links (in the works for Crossway) will be out in the next year or two to shed more light on this!

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Introducing Dr James Beevers: Lecturer in New Testament

Please join us in welcoming Dr James Beevers to the UTC Faculty. We’re very excited for all that he will contribute to our College community as we head into a new academic year.

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Hugely excited to finally be able to share this. I'll be starting this year as the new Lecturer in New Testament @UnionTCollege. Thrilled to see what the Lord has in store for us and eager to contribute to the training of ministers and scholars in the PCI.

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@JoshuaBarzon Counterpoint: We don't know who wrote Hebrews

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@residentreformr @MarkAntiBabylon Worth pointing out that Wright himself has backtracked many of the original strong New Perspective claims (ethnocentrism as the primary/exclusive target of Paul's gospel), making it almost impossible to pin him down and critique his views. But you've got the jist of a lot of it.