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Book Thoughts #7: „A Beginner’s Guide to New Testament Studies” by Nijay Gupta

July 4, 2020 July 4, 2020 / By Filip J. Sylwestrowicz / Biblical Studies, Book Thoughts / Leave a Comment

Nijay Gupta’s A Beginner’s Guide to New Testament Studies is aimed to introduce ‘relative newcomers’ to major debates in the field. The author has selected thirteen controversial issues and summarised major approaches to them. He avoids as much as possible technical language and attempts to lay succinctly the heart of each debate. At the end …

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What I Have Learned about Manuscript Evidence

May 11, 2020 May 11, 2020 / By Filip J. Sylwestrowicz / Biblical Studies / Leave a Comment

Five years ago, I wrote a short paper on Luke 22:43-44 for my seminary textual criticism class. As far as I remember, I got a good mark. But my paper was not good at all. I mostly relied on the apparatus of Nestle Aland and textual commentaries by Metzger and Comfort. I am still wondering …

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Book Thoughts #4: „The Text of the New Testament” by Bruce M. Metzger and Bart D. Ehrman

May 7, 2020 June 5, 2020 / By Filip J. Sylwestrowicz / Biblical Studies, Book Thoughts / 2 Comments

When I took a New Testament Text class in seminary five years ago, we used a different textbook than Metzger and Ehrman. I have wanted to read through The Text of the New Testament ever since. It did not help, however, that I am rather a slow reader and my seminary reading list was always …

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Why I Am Writing my Thesis on Curses?

April 23, 2020 May 11, 2020 / By Filip J. Sylwestrowicz / Biblical Studies / Leave a Comment

I am currently in the midst of writing my MPhil thesis on curses in Pauline letters. This means, among other things, that I spend a lot of time reading, thinking and writing about curses. And not just the imprecations that are found in the letters of Paul but also Greco-Roman curses that are roughly contemporary …

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Book Thoughts #3: „An Introduction to the Greek New Testament, Produced at Tyndale House, Cambridge” by Dirk Jongkind

April 20, 2020 December 11, 2020 / By Filip J. Sylwestrowicz / Biblical Studies, Book Thoughts / 1 Comment

I had read Dirk Jongkind’s book in June last year and intended to share my thoughts soon afterwards. But many things have occupied me since then that distracted me from updating this blog. Now, finally, I was able to catch up with things. I suppose better late than never.