Bay Area Theological Library Lamplighter Lectures: December 7-8, Tremper Longman, "Holy War in the Old and New Testaments"

This weekend my former professor and my continued friend, Tremper Longman, is delivering the next series of Lamplighter Lectures for the Bay Area Theological Library. If you live here in the Bay Area and you don't have weekend plans, I highly encourage you to register for these lectures and go listen to Tremper teach.

Here's the schedule and more info about Tremper Longman:

Friday & Saturday, December 7–8, 2007:
“Holy War in the Old and New Testaments”

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The Lectures

Friday, 7:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.

Session One 
God and the Canaanite Genocide:
The Nature of Holy War

Session Two 
Reverse Holy War and Future Holy War:
Further Old Testament Perspectives

Saturday, 9:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.

Session Three 
Jesus as Holy Warrior

Session Four 
The Ethics (or Not) of Holy War

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The Speaker

Dr. Tremper Longman IIIis the Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies at Westmont College.He earned a B.A. in Religion at Ohio Wesleyan University,an M.Div. from Westminster Theological Seminary,and a Ph.D. in ancient Near Eastern studies from Yale University.

Tremper has authored or co-authored twenty books and written numerous articles.A number of these works are interdisciplinary.His Literary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation (Zondervan, 1987);Complete Literary Guide to the Bible (contributor and co-editor along with Leland Ryken; Zondervan, 1993)and numerous articles approach the study of the Bible through literary criticism.He also co-authors books with the psychologist Dan Allender(Bold Love [NavPress, 1991];Cry of the Soul [NavPress, 1994],Intimate Allies [Tyndale House Publishers, 1995],Bold Purpose (Tyndale House Publishers, 1997]),a church curriculum called The Intimate Mystery of Marriage (InterVarsity Press, 2005),and most recently Breaking the Idols of Your Heart: How to Navigate the Temptations of Life (IVP, 2007).His interest in history and historiography is expressed inA Biblical History of Israel [co-authored with Iain Provan and Phil Long; Westminster John Knox, 2003]).He has also written commentaries onSong of Songs (Eerdmans),Ecclesiastes (Eerdmans),Daniel (Zondervan),and Nahum (Baker).A commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations is forthcoming with Hendriksen Press.For InterVarsity Press, he has produced three books:How to Read Psalms,How to Read Proverbs,and How to Read Genesis.In addition, he is one of the main translators of the popular New Living Translationand has served as a consultant on other popular translations of the Bible includingThe Message, the New Century Version, and the Holman Standard Bible.