Recently added articles from Interpretation:
Editorial
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... This issue of Interpretation casts a retrospective look at a towering figure in twentieth-century biblical scholarship, Gerhard von Rad. It contains not only important articles describing his life as a German biblical scholar throughout the tumultuous times before, during, and after World War ...
Gerhard von Rad as a Theologian of the Church
Jul 01, 2008; Oeming, Manfred ... Gerhard von Rad was both a professor and a preacher. He understood and taught the Old Testament as a text to be preached and closely connected with the New Testament to form a theological basis for Christian faith. Without doubt Gerhard von Rad is one of the most important and most ...
Theology as Witness: Gerhard von Rad's Contribution to the Study of Old Testament Theology
Jul 01, 2008; Schuele, Andreas ... In his seminal Theology of the Old Testament, Gerhard von Rad argues that the testimonial character of the Old Testament provides it with a coherent framework of theological interpretation. Von Rad defines "testimony" as the dynamic interplay between Israel's memory and the expectation of a God ...
Reading the Bible in Nazi Germany: Gerhard von Rad's Attempt to Reclaim the Old Testament for the Church*
Jul 01, 2008; Levinson, Bernard M ... From 1933 until 1945, the Hebrew Bible and the connection between Christianity and Judaism came under attack in Nazi Germany. Gerhard von Rad defended the importance of the Old Testament in a courageous struggle that profoundly influenced his interpretation of the book of ...
Abraham's Sacrifice: Gerhard von Rad's Interpretation of Genesis 22
Jul 01, 2008; Schmid, Konrad ... From the perspective of Heilsgeschichte, Gerhard von Rad saw clearly that Genesis 22 deals with the possible annihilation of the covenant promise. A fresh approach to Genesis corroborates this view and demonstrates that innerbiblical exegesis has shaped the message of Genesis 22. Gerhard ...
"But We Were in the Wilderness, and There God Speaks Quite Differently": On the Significance of Preaching in the Theology and Work of Gerhard von Rad1
Jul 01, 2008; Hauger, Martin ... Gerhard von Rad's concept of preaching is based on a biblical and homiletical hermeneutic that draws on some key insights of Karl Barth's dialectical theology. Von Rad's sermons were deeply informed by the older, liberal tradition and its concern for a distinctly "modern" way of preaching. This ...
Sermon on Luke 24:13-35 by Gerhard von Rad1
Jul 01, 2008; Hauger, Martin ... INTRODUCTION This sermon on the Emmaus story was delivered on Easter Monday in 1939. Von Rad usually preached in the Confessing Congregation in Jena where he attended worship and belonged to the brotherhood. The Confessing Congregation formed in 1934 when the pastorates in Jena were ...
Between Text & Sermon: Ezekiel 34:11-19
Jul 01, 2008; Adams, Samuel L ... ALL EARTHLY LEADERS AND THEIR SUBJECTS ARE broken and capable of sinful acts. This is especially true during periods of conflict, when cruelty and anxious power-grabbing can characterize a particular era. In his famous assessment of this issue, Reinhold Niebuhr pointed to the fact that human ...
Between Text & Sermon: Ephesians 1:15-23
Jul 01, 2008; Haberer, Jack ... THE PETITIONARY PRAYER FOR WISDOM and enlightenment at the end of Eph 1 appears at first glance to be an elevating excursus sandwiched between a glorious witness to God's saving program (1:2-14) and an exposition of the Savior's gift of grace (2:1-10). While those elements are present in this ...
New Testament Theology: Honoring Diversity and Unity
Jul 01, 2008; Achtemeier, Paul J ... New Testament Theology: Honoring Diversity and Unity by Frank J. Matera Westminster John Knox, Louisville, 2007. 485 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-664-23044-9. ACCORDING TO FRANK MATERA, currently Andrews-Kelly-Ryan Professor of Biblical Studies at The Catholic University of America in ...
Between Text & Sermon: Matthew 22:1-14
Jul 01, 2008; Lester, Carter ... SLAVES WHO ARE DOING NOTHING MORE OFFENSIVE than passing out invitations to a wedding banquet are slaughtered and killed by the invitees. A king has meat thrown on to the grill in preparation for a feast to celebrate the wedding of his son-and then takes the time to send out his troops to burn ...
Der Prolog der hebräischen Bibel: Der literar- und theologiegeschicthliche Diskurs der Urgeschichte [Genesis 1-11]
Jul 01, 2008; Clifford, Richard J ... Der Prolog der hebräischen Bibel: Der literar- und theologiegeschicthliche Diskurs der Urgeschichte [Genesis 1-11] by Andreas Schuele Theologischer Verlag, Zürich, 2006.442 pp. ISBN 978-3-290-17359-3. IT IS NO SECRET THAT a mini-revolution has taken place in pentateuchal scholarship over ...
Prophecy and Hermeneutics: Toward a New Introduction to the Prophets
Jul 01, 2008; Mays, James Luther ... Prophecy and Hermeneutics: Toward a New Introduction to the Prophets by Christopher R. Seitz Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, 2007. 264 pp. $22.99. ISBN 978-0-8010-3258-5. CHRISTOPHER SEITZ TELLS us that the occasion for writing this book was the challenge of writing an introduction to the ...
Reading the Bible with the Dead: What You Can Learn from the History of Exegesis that You Can't Learn from Exegesis Alone
Jul 01, 2008; Burgess, John P ... Reading the Bible with the Dead: What You Can Learn from the History of Exegesis that You Can't Learn from Exegesis Alone by John L. Thompson Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2007. 336 pp. $20.00. ISBN 978-0-8028-0753-3. SPURRED ON BY THE pioneering work of James Kugel and others, the history of ...
1 Chronicles: A Commentary
Jul 01, 2008; Adams, Samuel L ... 1 Chronicles: A Commentary by Ralph W. Klein Hermeneia. Fortress, Minneapolis, 2006. 561 pp. $55.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-8006-6085-7. THIS VOLUME, THE FIRST of a two-part contribution to the Hermeneia series, is the product of a distinguished career devoted to the complexities of 1 and 2 ...
Abraham: Trials of Family and Faith
Jul 01, 2008; Petersen, David L ... Abraham: Trials of Family and Faith by Terence E. Fretheim Studies on Personalities of the Old Testament. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, 2007. 262 pp. ISBN 978-1-57003-694-1. PART OF THE SERIES Studies on Personalities of the Old Testament, this book focuses on both ...
Rachel Weeping: Jews, Christians, and Muslims at the Fortress Tomb
Jul 01, 2008; Towner, W Sibley ... Rachel Weeping: Jews, Christians, and Muslims at the Fortress Tomb by Fred Stricken Michael Glazier/Liturgical, Collegeville, Minn., 2007.174 pp. $18.95. ISBN 978-0-8146-5987-8. THE RACHEL WE FIRST meet (Gen 29:9-20) is young, vibrant, and even a bit naughty (Gen 31:35)! But then come ...
The Theology of the Book of Jeremiah
Jul 01, 2008; Bracke, John M ... The Theology of the Book of Jeremiah by Walter Brueggemann Old Testament Theology. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2007. 213 pp. $18.99. ISBN 978-0-521-69629-5. THIS BOOK INAUGURATES a new Cambridge Press series, Old Testament Theology, that intends to allow "specialists [to] ...
A Commentary on Micah
Jul 01, 2008; Biddle, Mark E ... A Commentary on Micah by Bruce Waltke Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2007. 490 pp. $32.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-8028-4933-5. FOLLOWING A BRIEF introductory discussion of historical setting, authorship, text, and structure, including a fifteen-page select bibliography, Bruce Waltke offers a ...
Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life
Jul 01, 2008; Mays, James Luther ... Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel: The Ultimate Victory of the God of Life by Jon D. Levenson Yale University Press, New Haven, 2006. 274 pp. $40.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-300-11735-6. JON LEVENSON ARGUES that the rabbinical doctrine of the resurrection of the dead taught in the ...