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Multi-View Jesus Remixed

As I promised last week, here is a redacted conversation between our questers (Price, Crossan, Johnson, Dunn and Bock)of The Historical Jesus: Five Views, which is due to be published soon. Modern conventions of authenticity make me reluctant to exercise a freer editorial hand. But think of it as a sort of trailer for the book.

Multi-View Jesus

It is often said in our editorial halls that IVP’s multiple-view books are a signature item, representative of our editorial ethos. As they would say in the world of tweets, “They are just so-o-o IVP.”

1968, 1990, 2000, 2009

What do these dates have in common? (I’m not after something mathematical.)

The 2109 Paper Book Festival

Last weekend I attended the annual Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival (in Port Townsend, Washington), the finest of its kind on the West Coast, if not the world. It is a grand celebration of an old technology and traditional material—wood. Which is to say, it’s a celebration of boats with wooden hulls rather than the now prevalent fiberglass, or “plastic,” which began to make its appearance in the 1960s and now dominates recreational boat building. It’s a celebration of boats made in the old way and the retrieval of dwindling skills.

There were new wooden boats on display, indicators of the resurrection of this tradition. But most of them are old, many of them beautiful specimens in “bristol” condition and top working order (testimony to a passion calling for boundless patience, sweat and money). The tradesmen who are maintaining this craft of building and repairing wooden boats—many of them in or around Port Townsend—are present, giving demonstrations and seminars and advertising their services. There are sailboat races, musicians performing nautical tunes, “pirates” wandering the grounds and a swelling tide of tall nautical tales being exchanged.

This set me to imagining a day—say, one hundred years hence—when people gather for an annual Paper Book Festival.

An OT Theology Sampler

I’m looking over the third volume of John Goldingay’s Old Testament Theology before we send it to the printer. And I’m repeatedly enticed to descend from my cruising altitude of 30,000 feet—from which I’m viewing the broad topography of the book for meta-errors—to land on an attractive patch of text and explore again the terrain at ground level. Here are some of those enticements, random places that caught my eye:

George Weigel Interview

C-SPAN has an interesting interview with Catholic theologian and author George Weigel. He talks about the own practice of writing and has some good advice for writers. In addition, you get a tour of his library and his thoughts on Bible translations!

Only Superlatives Will Do!

Back in June I mentioned and excerpted John Goldingay’s forthcoming Old Testament Theology, Volume 3: Israel’s Life. We’re getting ready to send it to the printer, and this week I was selecting excerpts from endorsements (some call them blurbs) to put on the back cover. The real estate on the back cover is shrinking, folks—even the ISBNs and bar codes are crowding out the good stuff. so to offset my frustration of not being able to allow the endorsers their full due, here, dear readers, are the endorsements in full!