{"id":4199,"date":"2008-09-04T00:10:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T00:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2008\/09\/good-idea.html"},"modified":"2008-09-04T00:10:14","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T00:10:14","slug":"good-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2008\/09\/good-idea.html","title":{"rendered":"Good Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a good idea when seasoned scholars produce a synthetic book that puts a life of study and writing into one big bundle, which is what I. Howard Marshall did when he wrote <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FNew-Testament-Theology-Witnesses-Gospel%2Fdp%2F0830827951%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1220221563%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">New Testament Theology<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/><\/em>. It&#8217;s an even better idea when they offer to even more readers a concise version &#8230; which is what he has now done with his award-winning study: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FConcise-New-Testament-Theology%2Fdp%2F0830828788%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1220221388%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">A Concise New Testament Theology<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/><\/em>. Bless you, Howard. This is a gift to the church. Students and serious Bible study students are given a great entry into NT theology with this new concise version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a good idea when seasoned scholars produce a synthetic book that puts a life of study and writing into one big bundle, which is what I. Howard Marshall did when he wrote New Testament Theology. 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