On December 1, 2009, the BioLogos Foundation published the following announcement: The BioLogos Foundation is happy to announce that biblical scholar Pete Enns has joined our team as a senior fellow of biblical studies. Enns is an evangelical Christian scholar and author of several books and commentaries, including the popular Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and [...]
October 24-25 Emmanuel Baptist Church & University of Victoria Victoria, British Columbia “Seeing the NT as Christian Talmud: Toward Understanding the Nature of Christian Scripture” – at EBC, October 24, 10-12 noon “It Was a Rough Century: Challenges to Conventional Notions of the Bible from the 1800s until Today” – at U.Vic., October 25, 7 [...]
In Part 1 of my review of God’s Word in Human Words by Kenton Sparks, I set out what I saw as the central tenets of the book. We now continue with my report on a panel discussion of the book in which I participated this past fall. PART 2: SBL Panel Discussion On November [...]
I will be speaking on “Ancient Near Eastern Texts: Blueprint for Genesis” at Eastern University, St. Davids, PA, at the McInnis Auditorium on Tuesday, April 7, from 7 to 9 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Student Activities Board.
Be the first on your block (OK, probably the first in your state) to display the Official Poster of my October 22 appearance at Duke Divinity School. Duke Event Poster (PDF)
I just received my copy of the Counterpoints book I wrote with Walter Kaiser, Jr. and Darrell Bock, Three Views on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Zondervan). The official release date, as I understand it, is October 3. Previous to its release each author only saw his own essay, the other two [...]
Wednesday, Oct. 22nd, 7pm Duke Divinity School Westbrook Building 0016 Peter Enns – Author of the controversial Inspiration and Incarnation, Enns was until recently a professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary. His academic interests include: Old Testament Theology, Biblical Theology, Wisdom Literature (esp. Ecclesiastes), the NT’s use of the OT, Second Temple literature, [...]
I realize I have not posted for a while. I’ve been busy watching the Yankees limp to the end of the season and their Stadium to non-existence. It’s been a rough summer. I left off in the middle of a series of posts on responses to some general criticisms of I&I. I will continue that [...]
A reminder that I will be speaking at Messiah College, near Gettysburg, PA, tonight at 7 p.m. Details here.
Genesis and Evangelicals A free lecture sponsored by The Central Pennsylvania Forum for Religion and Science and the Messiah College Honors Program Featured speaker: Dr. Peter Enns Evangelicalism has tended to have an uneasy relationship with biblical scholarship of the last several generations. In this lecture, Prof. Enns will look at one specific example of [...]
