Matt Jones' Random Acts of Verbiage

I am in the middle of the second week of classes here at Regent so I thought I would share with you the classes I am taking.

Interdisciplinary Studies 530 - World Religions - John Stackhouse
The Ways of Religion - Roger Eastman, ed.
The Sacred Paths - Theodore M. Ludwig
No Other Gods Before Me? - John G. Stackhouse, ed.
“Religious Institutions” - chapter by Raymond Currie & John Stackhouse

Language 551 - Intro Greek II - Polly Long
Basics of Biblical Greek - William D. Mounce

Bible 502 - New Testament Foundations - Bob Derrenbacker
Bible - New Revised Standard Version wtih Apocrypha
Introducing the New Testament: Its Literature and Theology - Paul Achtemeier, et al.
Gospel Parallels (5th ed.) - Burton Throckmorten
The New Testamentand the People of God - N.T. Wright (not required)

Bible 503 - Biblical Interpretation - Rikk Watts
How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth (2nd ed.) - Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart
New Testament Exegeis, A Handbook for Students and Pastors (3rd ed.) - Gordon Fee
Old Testament Exegesis (3rd ed.) - Douglas Stuart
Handbook of Biblical Criticism (3rd ed.) - Richard and Kendall Soulen
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (rev. ed.) - W. Bauer, et al.
5 English Translations of the Bible (KJV, NASB, NRSV, NIV and one of GNB, REB, or NJB)
Additional (not required):
How to Read the Bible Book by Book - Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart
Biblical Interpretation: An Integrated Approach (rev. ed.) - W. Randolph Tate
many others (but those are the two I have)

I will also be making use of some pretty amazing software form Logos: Logos Bible Software Series X: Scholar’s Library. This was a great present from my parents for Christmas that will be really useful, especially in Biblical Interpretation. I have already been amazed at the power of this software and the amout of resources available in it. Check it out!

Since this isn’t the most interesting post, I suppose I could bring up something controversial: the King James is a fairly poor translation and is not very accurate to the original Greek text. Enjoy!

Shalom

And check out some of the discussion over at the original post. [UPDATE: The original post and comments are no longer available. Sorry!]