https://www.logos.com/free-book-of-the-month
These are really good because Eerdmans Critical Commentaries normally cost an arm and a leg.
Thanks, FL!
Thank you Logos!
Thank you Francis, thanks FL!
I want to keep my appendages so I picked them up at the sale price. [:)]
Thank you! Great resources 👍😁👌
DAL
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Nothing for me
Many thanks for the Isaiah commentary!
Thank you! Great resources 👍😁👌 DAL
DAL. Great because of the prices or because you rate them as great books?
Thank you! Great resources 👍😁👌 DAL DAL. Great because of the prices or because you rate them as great books?
Price and food for thought. The volume on Isaiah discusses Deutero-Isaiah. I don’t believe on a Deutero-Isaiah nor a Trito-Isaiah, but if you’re writing a paper this volume can be helpful if you supplement it with other books on the subject. I haven’t had a chance to look at Exodus but it looks interesting. I’ve never read any of the volumes on Forms of the OT Literature, but the price seems right to at least have a volume or two to get a feel for them. These are expensive volumes to buy at regular price, so this is the chance to get them and enjoy dynamic price discounts too 👍😁👌
I read in a Facebook group post
Author does not believe the Bible is inspired.
Isaiah 40–66: A Commentary (Eerdmans Critical Commentary | ECC)...Shalom Paul’s comprehensive, all-inclusive study of the oracles of an anonymous prophet known only as Second Isaiah who prophesied in the second half of the sixth century B.C.E.
I read in a Facebook group post Author does not believe the Bible is inspired. Isaiah 40–66: A Commentary (Eerdmans Critical Commentary | ECC)...Shalom Paul’s comprehensive, all-inclusive study of the oracles of an anonymous prophet known only as Second Isaiah who prophesied in the second half of the sixth century B.C.E.
Yep, good for research only not for preaching or “prophesying” 😂
For anyone interested in reading an interview with Shalom M. Paul: http://www.oxfordbiblicalstudies.com/resource/interview_4.xhtml
I'm not sure who at Faithlife is in charge of selecting the FBOM but I would like to suggest more conservative leaning resources. [Y]
Thank you for sharing the link. It gives some insight into his depth of knowledge as well as that of those he studied with. I'm looking forward to digging into it!
I'm not sure who at Faithlife is in charge of selecting the FBOM but I would like to suggest more conservative leaning resources
Without intending to start a theological debate violating the forums guidelines (although if anyone wants to, I am open to private discussion via faithlife messaging or to a group discussion on faithlife groups), may I suggest that while conservative resources are more faith-friendly, they can also, in many cases, play ostrich with regard to some real difficulties and thus, ignore or bury important issues that only "liberal" scholars deal with substantially?
From my experience with the academia, I am convinced that many scholars who may be qualified as "not believing that the Bible is inspired" originally come from confessional circles which unfortunately only keep recycling traditional statements and apologies for what they believe (including what "inspired" means). This works for believers who are just looking to be told they are okay and right but it doesn't when someone start looking more carefully at how the Scriptures actually work. Since most faith-friendly scholars are happy to defend the traditions from an inside crowd standpoint, those who find that this is not really dealing properly with the issues at hand, are left with the views of the scholars who are not faith-friendly and more likely to lean that way in the end.
So, instead of insisting on conservative resources, I think it is healthier for the Church to stop doing the ostrich thing and start tackling the issues head-on. What matters is not to want to justify for ourselves what we already believe but also to offer a credible witness to those who don't. How we understand and formulate what it means for the Bible to be inspired is a very important aspect of that.
Sorry for this disgression, I just wanted to give a bit of justification for saying "conservative only" may not be the solution. For further discussion, as I said above, I'm all game for private messaging or group discussion on faithlife community groups.
“Author does not believe the Bible is inspired.”Does this mean anything more than “Author is not a conservative Evangelical”?
Author does not believe the Bible is inspired. I'm not sure who at Faithlife is in charge of selecting the FBOM but I would like to suggest more conservative leaning resources.
I'm not sure who at Faithlife is in charge of selecting the FBOM but I would like to suggest more conservative leaning resources.
Lots of people in Biblical studies are of this mindset. You have to read with considerable discernment. I'm passing on offers even if they are free if the stuff strikes me as just off on some rabbit trail. You know perfectly well that so much of it coincides with Solomon's lament in Ecclesiastes 12:12.
Not to argue with anyone but to stress my preference when it comes to Logos resources.
As a pastor who came to Christ out of a liberal background, I believe the scriptural admonition "Let all things be done for edification" is a great rule of thumb, and so my vote is for more "conservative", or what I would call faith building, resources.
I don't believe that any of use should be uniformed or live with our theological heads in the sand, but the bulk of intellectual influence today slants heavily towards the liberal, the critical, and the negative. I agree with the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote: “Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.”
Certainly the powers that be in today's education and media institutions broadcast "uncertainties" to us on a daily basis. My job is to counteract that influence, so I appreciate resources that help me to stand my ground in that arena.
If you google "liberal church decline" you will find many articles and reasons why a conservative approach to theology, is at least in my estimation, the healthier theological approach, and what the world of today is most in need of. However, I do realize that many here on these forums approach the use of their Logos resources from a different perspective than I do.
Peace,
Over time, Faithlife provides a reasonable mix of resources with the only obvious bias being the Verbum vs. the Logos selections. What we, as consumers, do not know is which publishers agree to contracts that are favorable to "extreme" discounting and which do not. Let's be thankful that the publishers and Faithlife pull off the free book program at all.
And did you do any fact checking ... Facebook is certainly not a reliable source.
An Interview with Shalom M. Paul
Let's be thankful that the publishers and Faithlife pull off the free book program at all.
Absolutely - Faithlife is great! I think between ebooks and Logos I must have gotten 6 free books in the last month. I am very appreciative.
Author does not believe the Bible is inspired. I'm not sure who at Faithlife is in charge of selecting the FBOM but I would like to suggest more conservative leaning resources. Over time, Faithlife provides a reasonable mix of resources with the only obvious bias being the Verbum vs. the Logos selections. What we, as consumers, do not know is which publishers agree to contracts that are favorable to "extreme" discounting and which do not. Let's be thankful that the publishers and Faithlife pull off the free book program at all.
What MJ said 👍😁👌
Some Free Books of the Month I've already owned. Some I already intended to acquire at some point. Some I was interested in. Some I probably never would have gone out to purchase, but I appreciate having them for free. Others I appreciate only because they might some day be part of a collection or base package that I want to buy, and I'll take all the dynamic pricing discounts I can get.
I think a variety of freebies is both good marketing and good for my library. For example, the Verbum monthly freebies are much more likely to be works I appreciate than are the Logos ones... but the Verbum freebies are also ones I am much more likely to already own, so those ones do me no good!
If all of the Verbum monthly freebies were books I think highly of, I'd benefit even more rarely from them. For some of you, it is perhaps the same with Logos freebies.
I suppose "conservative" depends on where you stand, but when I look at the list of FBOM from the last year, it is dominated by things I would call Conservative to Moderate, even if I wouldn't put this month's offering into that category. Yeah - having NT Wright in both Feb and April was a bit much, but in general, it looks like a good variety to me.
My original comment and replies on Reformed Logos Users fb group:
Chad Rudolph Author does not believe the Bible is inspired. The NT says Isaiah wrote all of Isaiah.
Isaiah 40–66: A Commentary (Eerdmans Critical Commentary | ECC)
...Shalom Paul’s comprehensive, all-inclusive study of the oracles of an anonymous prophet known only as Second Isaiah who prophesied in the second half of the sixth century B.C.E.
"Jesus also referenced Isaiah 42:1–4 in Matthew 12:17: “This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah.”
https://www.gotquestions.org/Deutero-Isaiah.html
What is the Deutero-Isaiah theory? Was the Book of Isaiah written by multiple Isaiahs? | GotQuestions.org
PC: Chad Rudolph Any insights into the chargeable ones? I don't know the authors. I picked up the free one, just because it is free. I certainly wouldn't have paid for it .
Chad Rudolph They also look like liberal higher criticism; late dates books, denies authorship, denies accuracy. Red flags: "form-critical analysis" or "Eerdmans Critical Commentary" or "contradictions" or "anonymous prophet" or BCE.
PC: Chad Rudolph I agree. I'm inclined not to buy them. Certainly wouldn't view them as my default options. Sometimes you hear of liberal authors having something useful to say.
MS: Chad Rudolph That’s a shame. I grabbed them but now I’ll have to give them all a closer look
HV: FYI Professor Paul was trained and ordained at Jewish Theological Seminary and taught there from 1961 untill 1971 (source: he.wikipedia.org). This is a "Conservative Jewish" institution, i.e. traditional but not "Orthodox Jewish". HE.WIKIPEDIA.ORG
PC: Hendrik-Jan van der Wal So he's definitely not going to be pointing to Jesus then!
Welcome to the Logos forums, Chad. I have several favorite commentators who are Jewish. What you failed to mention is the high regard in which S. Paul was held to be offered the task: From an interview:
[quote]SP: That's a very good question. In 1971, when Professor Frank Moore Cross started a new [Bible commentary] series called Hermeneia, he invited me to participate. At that time I did not realize that I was the only Jewish scholar, and the first Israeli one at that. And I said, "Frank, I'd be very happy to do it. I have a tremendous amount of material on Second Isaiah." And he said, "Shalom, one of our editors has opted for it, and I have to give him priority" (by the way his commentary came out only 25 years later). So he said, "Would you write the commentary on Amos because you already have some preliminary studies on the book?" So I must say, in this case, Amos was selected for me. And of course I walls very happy to write on the first of the classical literary prophets.
As for Second Isaiah, this anonymous prophet is the most lyrical of the Hebrew prophets, the most replete with pathos, the most revolutionary both theologically and ideologically, and the most picturesque. In addition, all would agree that at least chapters 40 to 48 were written in Babylonia. And here I was able to use my knowledge of the Neo-Babylonian culture. He was there just at the time of Nabonidus, and at the time of Cyrus, whom he mentions twice in his book. In his do-it-yourself, make-an-idol chapter, we see that he advances step-by-step as we now know from idol-making texts from Mesopotamia. So that was a great connection, to be sure, to apply Mesopotamian know-how to prophecy as we."
