Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society back issues from March 2000:
Editorial
Mar 01, 2000; ... "Millennium"-few words have stirred people's imagination more in recent history than this hard-to-spell Latin term. Evangelicals naturally associate it with eschatology, the topic of our 1999 annual meeting. For others, the expression has evoked the notion of closing one chapter in human history ...
Do we act as if we really believe that "the Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the word of God written?
Mar 01, 2000; ... (FOREIGN TEXT OMITTED . . . ) I. INTRODUCTION Do we act as if we really believe that "the Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the Word of God written"? I am quoting, of course, from our ETS doctrinal statement that each of us affirms by personal signature every year ....
Remembering: A central theme in Biblical worship
Mar 01, 2000; ... Of all the capacities of the human brain, the acquisition, retention, and recall of information are undeniably among the most marvelous and mysterious. Experts in intelligence declare that every impression experienced by an individual, verbal or otherwise, is stored away in the cognitive memory ...
Confusing word and concept in "spiritual gifts": Have we forgotten James Barr's exhortations?
Mar 01, 2000; ... Bell and Howell; Information and Learning; Foreign Text omitted ( ...) I. INTRODUCTION "Spiritual gifts" have generated more discussion, both popular and scholarly, than any of us could (or would want to) read. But where did we obtain our idea of what a "gift" is? Is it from ...
Can use of proper hermeneutical methods transcend gender bias in interpretations?
Mar 01, 2000; ... I. INTRODUCTION Christians can transcend interpretive differences among themselves regardless of gender or culture. With proper hermeneutic skills we discover the meaning of Biblical passages and transcend gender bias in interpretation. There are two reasons why the Christian can ...
Biblical texts-past and future meanings
Mar 01, 2000; ... I. THE TEST OF CRUCIALITY Millard Erickson has remarked: "I think that the issue of contemporizing the biblical message is possibly the single most important issue facing evangelical hermeneutics today."1 He is referring to what 1 would call the test of cruciality. That is, in order to ...
Historical criticism and the evangelical: Another view
Mar 01, 2000; ... Throughout the centuries of the Church's history since the earliest written records, leaders of orthodox Christianity have championed a view of Gospel origins that conceives the Synoptics in terms of literary (inter) dependence. Without exception, 1 they have reported that the three Synoptic ...
Historical criticism: A brief response to Robert Thomas's "over view"
Mar 01, 2000; ... Thomas's basic thesis has merit: the view that the Gospel writers wrote independently from one another should be taken much more seriously than it has of late, and evangelicals should be careful to make certain that when using the techniques of historical criticism they don't fall prey to the ...
The Catholic Roots of the Protestant Gospel: Encounter Between the Reformation
Mar 01, 2000; ... The Catholic Roots of the Protestant Gospel: Encounter Between the Reformation. By Stephen Strehle. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996. 146 pp., $67.50. With this new work that analyzes the various formative influences of medieval Catholic theological and philosophical thinking upon the central ...
Biblical Interpretation: An Integrated Approach
Mar 01, 2000; ... Biblical Interpretation: An Integrated Approach. By W. Randolph Tate. Revised ed. Peabody: Hendrickson, 1997, xxvi + 276 pp:, $24.95. One of the fun things about following hermeneutical theory in the I990s is watching critics from diverse fields and backgrounds wade into the field of ...
Recent Reference Books in Religion: A Guide for Students, Scholars Researchers, Buyers and Readers
Mar 01, 2000; ... Recent Reference Books in Religion: A Guide far Students, Scholars, Researchers, Buyers and Readers. By William M. Johnston. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1996, 318 pp., n.p. The principal aim of the Guide is to inform the researcher about the functions and goals of the wide variety of ...
New Testament Greek / New Testament Greek Workbook
Mar 01, 2000; ... New Testament Greek. 2nd ed. By Gerald L. Stevens. Lanham: University Press of America, 1997, xv + 496 pp., $29:00; New Testament Greek Workbook. 2nd ed. By Gerald L. Stevens. Lanham: University Press of America, 1997, xii + 290 pp., $19.95 paper. It has been said that the ratio of ...
Biblical Greek Exegesis: A Graded Approach to Learning Intermediate and Advanced Greek
Mar 01, 2000; ... Biblical Greek Exegesis: A Graded Approach to Learning Intermediate and Advanced Greek. By George H. Guthrie and J. Scott Duvall. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998,186 pp. $24.99 paper. This book is the most recent addition to Zondervan's series of textbooks on NT Greek. Designed to be used ...
The Graeco-Roman Context of Early Christian Literature
Mar 01, 2000; ... The Graeco-Roman Context of Early Christian Literature. By Roman Garrison. JSNTSup 137. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1997, 123 pp., $35.00. The nine essays in this collection explore the apparent significance of specific parallels between the social and linguistic setting of early ...
The New Testament and Other Early Christian writings: A reader
Mar 01, 2000; ... The New Testament and Other Early Christian Writings: A Reader. By Bart D. Ehrman. New York: Oxford University, 1998, iv + 412 pp., $23.50 paper. Ehrman has collected into one volume all the extant writings generated by Christians during the first century of Christianity, approximately ...
New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity. Vol 8. A Review of the Greek Inscriptions and Papyri Published 1984-1985
Mar 01, 2000; ... Bell & Howell Information and Learning: Foreign text omitted. ... New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity. Vol. 8. A Review of the Greek Inscriptions and Papyri Published 1984-1985. Edited by S. R. Llewelyn. The Ancient History Documentary Research Centre, Macquarie ...
Greco-Roman Perspectives on Friendship
Mar 01, 2000; ... Greco-Roman Perspectives on Friendship. Edited by John T. Fitzgerald. SBL Resources for Biblical Study 34. Atlanta: Scholars, 1997, 330 pp., $44.95. Today we are inundated with a plethora of commentaries, reviews of secondary scholarship, and rehashing of old arguments that confirm ...
Texts and Traditions: A Source Reader for the Study of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism
Mar 01, 2000; ... Texts and Traditions: A Source Reader for the Study of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism. Compiled, edited, and introduced by Lawrence H: Schiffman. Hoboken: KTAV, 1988, 777 PP., $29.50 paper. Teachers who have the great pleasure of guiding students through the Jewish literature of the ...
Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age
Mar 01, 2000; ... Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age. By John J. Collins, OTL. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997, xii + 275, pp., $35.00. In this volume Collins (University of Chicago Divinity School) deals primarily with Sirach (Ben Sira) and the Wisdom of Solomon. The discussion is enriched ...
The Jewish Messiah
Mar 01, 2000; ... The Jewish Messiah. By Dan Cohn-Sherbok. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1997, xx + 211 FP., $24.95. Many modern Christians tend to speak of "messianic expectations" in the same way in which they speak of "first-century Judaism," as if there were some sort of established set of beliefs or ...
Hillel and Jesus: Comparative Studies of Two Major Religious Leaders
Mar 01, 2000; ... Hillel and Jesus: Comparative Studies of Two Major Religious Leaders. Edited by James H. Charlesworth and Loren L. Johns. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1997, xxxi + 486 pp., $50.00. This volume represents a number of essays presented at an international symposium in Jerusalem, June 1992, ...
Jesus of Nazareth: Message and History
Mar 01, 2000; ... Jesus of Nazareth: Message and History. By Joachim Gnilka. Translated by S. S. Schatzmann. Peabody: Hendrickson, 1997, xiii + 346 pp., $24.95. Gnilka, of the University of Munich, is best known to Biblical scholars for his massive German commentaries on Matthew and Mark. Now English ...
Mary Magdalene Beyond the Myth
Mar 01, 2000; ... Mary Magdalene Beyond the Myth. By Esther de Boer. Translated by John Bowden. Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1997, 147 pp., $15.00 paper. In readable and colloquial prose, de Boer has written an overview of information on Mary Magdalene. She presents general traditions on Mary ...
The Immerser: John the Baptist within Second Temple Judaism
Mar 01, 2000; ... The Immerses: John the Baptist within Second Temple Judaism. By Joan E. Taylor. Studying the Historical Jesus 2. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997, xvi + 360 pp., $30.00 paper. Taylor (University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand) is concerned that John the Baptist has been (mis)appropriated ...
Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period
Mar 01, 2000; ... Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period. By Richard N. Longenecker. end ed. Grand Rapids/Vancouver: Eerdmans/Regent College, 1999, xli + 238 pp., $20.00. First issued in 1975, Longenecker's classic treatment on the NT writers' use of Scripture in its ancient context has served a ...
A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on The Gospel According to Saint Matthew. Vol III: Matthew XIX-XXVIII
Mar 01, 2000; ... A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on The Gospel According to Saint Matthew. Vol. III: Matthew XIX-XXVIII. By W. D. Davies and Dale C. Allison, dr. International Critical Commentary. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1997, xviii f 789 pages, $69.95. Students of the Gospel of Matthew have ...
Jesus and the Sabbath in Matthew's Gospel
Mar 01, 2000; ... Jesus and the Sabbath in Matthew's Gospel. By Yong-Eui Yang, JSNTSup 139. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1997, 352 pp., $70.00. This is a dissertation written under the supervision of R. T. France and G. N. Stanton, and examined externally by I. H. Marshall and D. Wenham. Yang also ...
The Temptations of Jesus in Mark's Gospel
Mar 01, 2000; ... The Temptations of Jesus in Mark's Gospel. By Susan R. Garrett. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998; x + 212 pp., $20:00 paper. According to Garrett, the Gospel of Mark presents Jesus as tested or tempted throughout his ministry-by Satan, by his earthly adversaries and even by his own ...
The Gospel of Luke
Mar 01, 2000; ... The Gospel of Luke. By Joel 8. Green. NICNT. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans; 1997, xcii 928 pp.> $50.00. This massive study replaces the 1951 commentary by N. Geldenhuys, the inaugural volume in the NICNT series. Green is currently Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Asbury ...
The Missions of Jesus and the Disciples according to the Fourth Gospel
Mar 01, 2000; ... The Missions of Jesus and the Disciples according to the Fourth Gospel. By Andreas J. Kostenberger. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998, xvi + 271 pp., $30.00. The present work is a modification of the author's doctoral dissertation. Kostenberger gives a detailed analysis of the concept of ...
Johannine Ecclesiology
Mar 01, 2000; ... Bell & Howell Information + Learning Foreign Text Omitted Johannine Ecclesiology. By John Ferreira. JSNTSup 160. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1998, 246 pp., $10.00. This work is a revision of a doctoral dissertation written at the University of Queensland. In his ...
Social-Science Commentary on the Gospel of John
Mar 01, 2000; ... Social-Science Commentary on the Gospel of John. By Bruce J. Mauna and Richard L. Rohrbaugh. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998, x + 328 pp., $19.00. The sequel to the authors' Social-Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels, the present work applies recent sociological insights to the study ...
Acts
Mar 01, 2000; ... Acts. By F. Scott Spencer. Readings: A New Biblical Commentary. Sheffield: Academic; 1997, 266 pp., $19.50 paper. Spencer is a well-established Luke-Acts scholar. His doctoral dissertation under J. D. G. Dunn at Durham was published in the JSNT Supplement Series under the title The ...
To Every Nation Under Heaven: The Acts of the Apostles
Mar 01, 2000; ... To Every Nation Under Heaven: The Acts of the Apostles. By Howard Clark Kee. The New Testament in Context Commentaries. Harrisburg: Trinity Press international, 1997, 361 pp., $24.00 paper. Among the spate of commentaries on Acts to appear in this last decade of the 20th century, Kee's ...
Paul Between Damascus and Antioch: The unknown Years
Mar 01, 2000; ... Paul Between Damascus and Antioch: The unknown Years. By Martin Hengel and Anna Maria Schwemer. Translated by John Bowden. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997, 530 pp., n.p. This co-authored work is the sequel to Hengel's earlier work, The Pre-Christian Paul (1991). Like its ...
First Cornithians / II Corinthians
Mar 01, 2000; ... First Corinthians. By Richard B. Hays. Interpretation. Louisville: John Knox, 1997, xiv + 299 pp., $24.00; ff Corinthians. By Simon J. Kistemaker. New Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1997, x + 495 pp., $34.99. With Hays's volume the Interpretation series on the NT books ...
First Cornithians
Mar 01, 2000; ... First Corinthians. By Richard B. Hays. Interpretation: Louisville; John Knox, 1997, 299 pp., n.p.: Although this is a commentary designed for the preacher-pastor rather than the scholar, Hays backs up his homiletical appropriation with solid exegesis of the text of 1 Corinthians. In the ...
The Second Epistle to the Corinthians
Mar 01, 2000; ... The Second Epistle to the Corinthians. By Paul Barnett. NICNT. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997, tat + 682 pp., $45.00. This volume is part of an endeavor by Eerdmans to rework volumes in the New International Commentary series in light of the advances made in NT scholarship over the last ...
Galatians
Mar 01, 2000; ... Galatians. By J. Louis Martyn. AB 38A. New York: Doubleday,1998, xxiv + 614 pp., $89:95. Martyn opens his introduction to Galatians by inviting the reader to become engaged in the drama unfolding in the life of the apostle and the churches to which he wrote. Following this metaphor, the ...
Interpreting the Epistle to the Hebrews / Hebrews
Mar 01, 2000; ... Interpreting the Epistle to the Hebrews. By Andrew H. Trotter, Jr. Guides to New Testament Exegesis. Grand Rapids; Baker, 1997, 223 pp., $13.99 paper. Hebrews. By Thomas G. Long. Interpretation. Louisville: John Knox, 1997, xii + 153 pp., $21.00. Trotter provides an excellent manual of ...
James / James
Mar 01, 2000; ... James. By Kurt A. Richardson. New American Commentary 36. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1997, 272 pp., $27.99; James. By David P. Nystrom. NIV Application Commentary. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1997,338 pp., $22.99. The near simultaneous publication of two commentaries on the epistle ...
Revelation
Mar 01, 2000; ... Revelation. By J. Ramsey Michaels. IVP New Testament Commentary. Downers Grove; InterVarsity, 1997, 265 pp:, $17.99. Michaels daringly begins his brief commentary with this quote from The Devil's Dictionary: Revelation is "a famous hook in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he ...
Challenges to New Testament Theology: An Attempt to Justify the Enterprise
Mar 01, 2000; ... Challenges to New Testament Theology: An Attempt to Justify the Enterprise. By Peter Balla. WUNT 95. Tubingen: Mohr (Paul Siebeck, 1997. xvi f 284 pp., DM 98.00 paper. This book is "a version of [the author's] thesis brought up-to-date" (p. viii). The title is an accurate indication of ...
Text and Truth: Redefining Biblical Theology
Mar 01, 2000; ... Text and Truth: Redefining Biblical Theology. By Francis Watson. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997, viii + 344 pp., $45.00. Francis Watson picks up where he left. off in his 1994 volume Text, Church and World (reviewed in JETS 40 [1997] 148-150) by defining Biblical theology as "a ...
Walking in the Way: An Introduction to Christian Ethics
Mar 01, 2000; ... Walking in the Way: An Introduction to Christian Ethics. By Joe E. Troll. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1997, 344 pp., n.p. This introductory text in Christian ethics consists of three main parts. The first is an introduction that addresses questions about the nature of Christian ...
The Case for Freewill Theism: A Philosophical Assessment
Mar 01, 2000; ... The Case for Freewill Theism: A Philosophical Assessment. By David Basinger. Downers Grove: InterVarsity; 1996, 154 pp., $14:99 paper. "The purpose of this hook," writes David Basinger, "is to subject freewill theism (FWT) to a philosophical assessment" (pp. 12-13). Just what is ...
Missionaries to the Skeptics. Christian Apologists for the Twentieth Century: C.S. Lewis, E.J. Carnell and Reinhold Niebuhr
Mar 01, 2000; ... Missionaries to the Skeptics. Christian Apologists for the Twentieth Century: C. S. Lewis, E. J. Carnell and Reinhold Niebuhr. By John A. Sims. Macon: Mercer University Press, 1995; vii + 234 pp., $22.95. In this unique volume, Dr. John Sims, veteran teacher of apologetics at Lee ...
Vital Ministry Issues: Examining Concerns and Conflicts in Ministry? / Vital Church Issues: Examining Principles and Practices in Church Leadership
Mar 01, 2000; ... Vital Ministry Issues: Examining Concerns and Conflicts in Ministry. Edited by Roy B. Zuck. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1994, 288 pp., $12.99 paper. Vital Church Issues: Examining Principles and Practices in Church Leadership. Edited by Roy B. Zuck. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1998, 248 pp., $12.99 paper ....
Lessons in Leadership
Mar 01, 2000; ... Lessons in Leadership: Edited by Randal Roberts. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1999; 282 pp:, $13.99 paper. Roberts has compiled an anthology of new articles from fifty authors to address the perplexing issues of providing leadership in the church today. leach article is placed in alphabetical ...
Memorials
Mar 01, 2000; ... Robert John Campbell was born on November 17, 1924 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the first of five children to grace the family of Dwight and Evelyn (Pseisser) Campbell. Reared in a Christian home, Robert was saved at the age of eight at a Sunday School rally and was active in the youth activities of ...