The following Schweich lectures are now available on-line in PDF:
Édouard Naville [1844-1926], The Text of the Old Testament. The Schweich Lectures 1915. London: Oxford University Press, 1916. Hbk. pp.82.
Please click <<HERE>> for the link. You will find more of the Schweich Lectures available <<HERE>>
As the first academic term of the year draws to a close it’s a good time to take a breath and both look back on what has been achieved so far in 2014 and to give a brief preview of what is still to come.
Africa Journal of Evangelical Theology appeared on-line for the first time in January, followed by over 880 public domain articles from the Journal of Theological Studies (old series), Christian Brethren Research Fellowship Journal and Christian Brethren Review. Most recently the entire run of Calvary Baptist Theological Journal has been uploaded. On my shelves I have copies of The Expository Times, The Expositor, Palestine Exploration Quarterly and a number of others which I will working on as time permits.
Articles, Books & Monographs
Tyndale House in Cambridge kindly shared a large amount of material that they had scanned but not uploaded to the Web for me to make available. This included the Complete Works of the Rev Charles Simeon, the Works of the Rev John Lightfoot and two primary texts of Origen’s Hexapla, which allowed me to create a new resources page on that subject here. The Schweich Lectureship on Biblical Archaeology has been in existence since 1908 and a number of the earlier volumes are now in the Public Domain. I now have access to almost all of these. As they are uploaded they will be linked from this page on the Biblical Archaeology website.
Perhaps the most interesting development so far in 2014 on the BiblicalStudies Blog has been the series of interviews with staff of Bible Colleges around the world. This was triggered in response to an apparently arbitrary list of “top Bible colleges” appearing online. The interview series gives the opportunity for a wide range of institutions from around the world to set out what they have to offer potential students.
I don’t think that there has been any period in the 13 years I have been developing Theology on the Web in which I have uploaded so much material. There is every reason to think, however, that once the journals I currently have in hand are completed, new material to digitise will become much harder to find. This is because there are a finite number of journals out there and most have already been made available either for free or via a commercial subscription service. For that reason I am now considering the possibility of digitising more books which are no longer in copyright. As file size is still a key factor in many countries where bandwidth is limited I will be trying to make the resulting PDFs as small as possible.
It has been an encouraging year as far a finance is concerned. Although I have only four regular supporters, this is well up on last year (when I had only one). Also, a recent one-off gift allowed me to purchase volumes of the Schweich lectures (already mentioned above), which I would otherwise been unable to do. If you wish to support the development of the sites, please go here.
So, thank you for your ongoing support and encouragement. I appreciate all the message and comments I get on the blog and via social media and look forward to seeing what the rest of 2014 will bring.
I am Dan Wallace, professor of New Testament Studies. I am also the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts
DTS was begun in 1924 by Lewis Sperry Chafer and W. H. Griffith-Thomas. Their vision was to have a seminary in which every book of the Bible was taught. That is still part of the curriculum. DTS also does not have an MDiv. Its flagship degree is the four-year ThM. It has especially strong Old Testament and New Testament departments. DTS requires 2 & ½ years of Greek and 2 years of Hebrew for its ThM students. We also have a PhD program and a DMin program, among others. Enrolment is about 2000 students, many of whom are at extension schools or online students.
DTS is an evangelical seminary not affiliated with any denomination. We accept students from all denominations. Its distinctive is its premillennialism, though students do not need to adhere to this doctrine. DTS is a dispensational school, but only one unit on dispensationalism is required.
Many on the outside think that DTS is a fundamentalist school that crams dispensationalism down students’ throats or at least heavily promotes it. This has not been the case in my 39 years of association with the school. DTS has serious scholars who make a contribution in many areas. We have first-rate Old Testament and New Testament scholars, patristic scholars, theologians, church historians, etc. The faculty are members of several scholarly societies including Society of New Testament Studies, Institute for Biblical Research, Society of Biblical Literature, and the Evangelical Theological Society, to name a few.
I’m not sure I understand the question. Courses are courses; students are full-time and part-time.
About half of tuition is paid by donors; students have to raise the rest. There is an increasing number of scholarships for students, and full-time students get a discount on courses.
Absolutely! A large percentage of our students come from overseas—from South Korea, Kenya, India, China, and about 50 other countries I believe.
DTS chiefly prepares people for full-time vocational ministry—including the pastorate, missions, translation work, and teaching. Many parachurch organizations are populated with DTS grads. We do have courses specifically intended to enrich laypeople.
See #6.
The ThM is the most distinctive thing about DTS, with its rigorous requirements in Greek and Hebrew and instruction in every book of the Bible.
DTS’s library is excellent. I believe the holdings are about 400,000, and these are focused on the Bible, theology, philosophy, Greek, Hebrew, archaeology, biblical backgrounds, church fathers, etc. Every incoming students gets a large package of Logos Bible software to use during their time at the school. If they graduate, they get to keep it. The library system includes first-rate Interlibrary Loan, several computers with a variety of Bible software loaded in them, excellent resources in German, French, and to some degree Latin, Spanish, and other languages.
Yes, it does. But I don’t teach these courses so I can’t speak to this well. I know that we have quite a few Chinese students taking on-line courses and what we offer on-line increases every year.
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My thanks to Dr Wallace for taking part in this series.