We have updated and refreshed all of the links on the NTGateway Maps page.

Here, you can find links to a number of very useful maps – including standard resources such as maps of the ministry of Jesus and the missionary journeys of Paul, but also links to maps of Roman Empire at various points in its expansion, and of the later spread of Christianity (including a digitization of Adolf von Harnack’s book on this topic). You can access these resources here.

Alan Bill has produced a huge (750 page!) PDF document giving a bibliography of materials on Gospel Origins up to the year 2,000. I have added a link to the New Testament Bibliographies page.

I have refreshed the links on our Bible Translations page, which will direct you to a number of useful online Bibles. I have also added a link to the Oremus Bible Browser.

The resources on the Noncanonical Texts page have been updated and refreshed, both on the General Resources page and the Gospel of Thomas page, including the addition of:

Pitts Theology Library, Early Christian Apocrypha: a useful guide to reliable literature on early Christian apocrypha.

We hope you find these refreshed resources useful.

Thanks to Ian Boxall for letting us know about the new website for Scripture Bulletin. The news site includes full, free-for-all reproductions of articles. The latest issue is Vol. XL No. 1 (January 2010). I have updated the old link on the Journals page.

A few additions on the Luke-Acts: Books and dissertations page – mostly classics, including Bruno Bauer (1850), but also one or two more recent works.

Bruno Bauer, Die Apostelgeschichte: Eine Ausgleichung des Paulinismus und des Judenthums innerhalb der christlichen Kirche. (Berlin: Gustav Hempel, 1850). [German]

Walter Fletcher Burnside, The Acts of the Apostles: The Greek text edited with introduction and notes for the use of schools. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1916).

Henry Joel Cadbury, The Style and Literary Method of Luke. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1920).

Adolf Harnack, Luke the Physician: The Author of the Third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. (London: Williams & Norgate; New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1909).

Adolf Harnack, Lukas der Arzt: Der Verfasser des dritten Evangeliums und der Apostelgeschichte. (Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1906).

Archie Wang Do Hui, The Concept of the Holy Spirit in Ephesians and its Relation to the Pneumatologies of Luke and Paul. PhD diss. University of Aberdeen, 1992. [Free access on registration; uk.bl.ethos.385583 ]

Teresa Leann Reeve, Luke 3:1–4:15 and the Rite of Passage in Ancient Literature: Liminality and Transformation. Ph.D. diss. University of Notre-Dame, 2007.

Dietrich Schirmer, ‘Wohin sollen wir gehen?’ Gesellschaftliche Visionen beim Evangelisten Lukas. (Berlin: Institut für Theologie und Politik, 2009). [German]

Bernhard Weiss, Der Codex D in der Apostelgeschichte: Textkritische Untersuchung, Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung (1897). [German]

We have added several commentaries on 1 and 2 Thessalonians to the Thessalonians page on the NTGateway:

James Denney, The Epistles to the Thessalonians. Expositor’s Bible Commentary. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906.

John Eadie, A Commentary on the Greek Text of the Epistles of Paul to the Thessalonians. London: Macmillan, 1877.

Charles J. Ellicott, St. Paul’s Epistles to the Thessalonians: with a Critical and Grammatical Commentary, and a Revised Translation. London: Longman et al., 1866.

Benjamin Jowett, The Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians, Romans: with Critical Notes and Dissertations (Volume 1). London: John Murray, 1859.

George Milligan, St Paul’s Epistles to the Thessalonians: The Greek Text with Introduction and Notes. London: Macmillan, 1908.

Alfred Plummer, A Commentary on St. Paul’s First Epistle to the Thessalonians. London: Robert Scott, 1918.

The first volume of Jowett’s commentary is cross-listed on the Galatians page, and the second volume can be found on the Romans page.

Thanks to Jenny Read-Heimerdinger for pointing that the page on General Bibliographical Helps had disappeared. In the revamp of the site, we accidentally duplicated the Ancient World Bibliography page. The General Bibliographical Helps page has now been restored.

As part of our effort to make the NTGateway site as useful to as many people as possible, we have started to add a number of our own introductory essays to the site. This means that those just starting with the New Testament can get a quick overview of the book they are interested in before proceeding to recommended introductory reading that is available online. The first three of these new introductory pages (on Matthew, Mark, and Galatians) are now up:

Introduction to Mark’s Gospel
Introduction to Matthew’s Gospel
Introduction to Galatians

I have also refreshed the links on the Introductory Materials pages for Mark and Matthew, and added an Introductory Materials page for Galatians.

Logos Bible Software today announced the release of the newest version of Logos Bible Software, Logos 4. Three years in development, Logos 4 is not simply an upgrade to the previous version of Logos, this is a complete re-imagining of what Bible study software ought to be. It is streamlined, powerful, and uncomplicated—it is the perfect tool for everyone from the seasoned scholar to the man or woman simply wanting to get more from his or her time in God’s word.

With far too many upgrades, features, and resources to cover in a single post, you can visit www.logos.com/4 to see what Logos 4 can do to take your study of the Bible to the next level.