Dr David Instone-Brewer is a specialist in New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism at Tyndale House, Cambridge. Recently, Andy Cheung spoke with him concerning his work and research, especially the controversy surrounding David's research into biblical grounds for divorce, which featured in Christianity Today and other Christian media outlets in 2007.

This week, MBCDS Tutor Andy Cheung interviewed Dr Hall Harris, the Project Director of the NET (New English Translation), an excellent recent production of the Bible. The entire interview is reproduced here. This article follows a recent review of the NET Bible on the college blog, and an interview with Dr Ed Blum, editor of the Holman Christian Standard Bible.

Last month, Midlands Bible College and Divinity School tutor Andy Cheung, who is currently working on a PhD at the University of Birmingham on Bible translation, published some brief thoughts on the Holman Christian Standard Bible. The General Editor of the HCSB, Dr Edwin Blum, came across the comments and contacted Andy Cheung. Dr Blum very kindly agreed to be interviewed by Andy Cheung on behalf of the college concerning the HCSB, which can be found below. This was an insightful and intriguing interview which we are sure you will find helpful.

As well as currently engaging in research exploring Christianity in and theological responses to modern Israel, King's Evangelical Divinity School (formerly Midlands Bible College and Divinity School) Principal Dr Calvin L. Smith is also presently researching Protestantism in Fidel Castro's Cuba to accompany his monograph on Protestantism in revolutionary Nicaragua, which was published by Brill Academic (Leiden and Boston) as part of their Religion in the Americas series in 2007.  Calvin has just been offered a second book contract, also with Brill, for his Cuba research. It will likewise be published as part of Brill's Religion in the Americas series, and the manuscript will be delivered to the publisher in July 2009 with a publication date for later that year.