
Books on the background to the Bible are all the rage these days. Christians have a real thirst for learning about the social, cultural and religious background of God's Word. Unfortunately, this demand has also produced a supply of inaccurate and sensationalistic material...

Idioms can really be a pain, can’t they? Idioms are phrases in which the individual words don’t bear their normal meaning, but together they have a special meaning. The trick is to learn which words form idioms. Take for example Mark 6:8. “He...

There have been a number of book reviews of Zondervan Academic titles posted lately. Here's the roundup so far. If I missed any please include them in the comments section. Happy reading this Thanksgiving...

"I am under vows to you, O God;I will present my thank offerings to you.For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling,that I may walk before Godin the light of life."- Psalm 56:12-13 (NIV) Happy Thanksgiving from the Zondervan Academic team...

This is a bit off-topic, but thought I would share about my paper at ETS on the ESV/TNIV. Basically I think it went well, and hopefully set the tone for further debate...

Zondervan Academic team members attended the annual Institure for Biblical Research (IBR)meeting and reception after ETS ended on Friday. Dr. Tremper Longman III delivered an address entitled, "Of the Making of Commentaries, There is No End." Dr...

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Zondervan's International Bible Backgrounds Commentary on the Old Testament is a new resource for studying and understanding the world of the Hebrew Bible...and it's one of the best in print. The ...

Thursday was a day filled with meetings, sales, papers, and special events for the Zondervan Academic team. Here are a fewsnapshots of what we were up to: Our annual author breakfast: this is a fun event we host every year at ETS. It's a great time to catch up and swap stories...

Another highlight from the first day of ETS was a visit from Dr. Hal Poe, co-author of The Inklings of Oxford. He stopped by just to chat and ended up signing an autograph for another of Z Academic's scholars: truly, it was an Inklings-like meeting of the minds...

Zondervan Academic From booth set up, to special receptions, ETS is always a busy affair. This video captures a little bit of what the Zondervan Academic team does at conventions. Can you name all the scholars in the video?
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Dr. Andreas Kostenberger visited the Zondervan Academic booth today for a special reception celebrating the release of A Theology of John's Gospel and Letters - the first volume in the new Biblical Theology of the New Testament (BTNT) series. Dr...

Zondervan Academic Zondervan Academic takes "The Big Easy"! This album is a pictorial record of ETS 2009.
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Zondervan Academic We're at the annual ETS and SBL meetings in New Orleans this week. Watch the Koinonia blog for video and picture updates. http://koinoniablog.net

The conversation about internet church services continued this week in an article on CNN.com, "Online Churches draw Believers, Critics."Koinonia contributor, Douglas Estes, was quoted in the article as well as another Zondervan author, Craig Groeschel...


















