Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society back issues from December 2001:
Inspiration, inerrancy, and the OT canon: The place of textual updating in an inerrant view of scripture
Dec 01, 2001; ... For good reason, there are often strong emotions attached to the issues of inspiration, inerrancy, the autographa, and the canon. This article does not seek to overturn a conservative or evangelical understanding of the biblical doctrine of inspiration and inerrancy. I wholeheartedly endorse the ...
Recent developments in redaction criticism: From investigation of textual prehistory back to historical-grammatical exegesis?
Dec 01, 2001; ... I. INTRODUCTION From "scissors and paste" collectors to individual composers or theologians-thus has been the shift in scholars' perception of the role of the evangelists in the composition of the Synoptic Gospels.1 Whereas source criticism fragments the Gospels into diverse ...
Ayoentein in the aeschylus scholium
Dec 01, 2001; ... (ProQuest Information and Learning: Greek characters omitted.) In the current debate between the egalitarian and the complementarian1 interpretations of Scripture's teaching regarding the role of women in church and family both sides in the debate agree that 1 Tim 2:12 looms large. The ...
The apocalyptic Luther: His Noahic self-understanding
Dec 01, 2001; ... I. INTRODUCTION In defining apocalypticism in the period of the European reformations R. B. Barnes suggests that its main element, its most salient feature, is the expectancy of the imminent end of history. On the basis of that teaching apocalypticism seeks to offer insight into "the ...
The fourth great awakening or apostasy: Is American evangelicalism cycling upwards or spiraling downwards?
Dec 01, 2001; ... In his 1999 presidential speech to the Evangelical Theological Society, Professor Wayne Grudem, in an otherwise excellent address, suggested that evangelicalism has been evolving toward a more mature sense of the essentials of the faith over its history. University of Chicago Nobel laureate ...
Mormon theism, the traditional christian concept of God, and Greek philosophy: A critical analysis
Dec 01, 2001; ... One of the charges leveled against traditional Christian theology is that its concept of God, otherwise known as the classical Christian concept of God, is the result of Greek philosophical thought significantly shaping, indeed corrupting, the way in which church Fathers, councils, theologians, ...
Dispensational premillennialism in reformed theology: The contribution of J.O. Buswell to the millennial debate
Dec 01, 2001; ... I. INTRODUCTION Hear a Jewish proverb: "The nations of the world wish to irritate the Lord, but they can't. What do they do? They vex Israel instead." This seems to be the case, not just in the political, but also the theological arena, especially in the field of eschatology ....
Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible
Dec 01, 2001; ... Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible. By Emanuel Tov. Revised, second ed. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001, xl + 456 pp., $50.00. The initial publication of this work in 1992 marked a major step forward in the modern study of OT textual criticism (reviewed in JETS 39 [1996]: 337-39). It ...
Invitation to the Septuagint
Dec 01, 2001; ... Invitation to the Septuagint. By Karen Jobes and Moises Silva. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000, 351 pp., $29.99. The authors are to be commended for this anticipated contribution to the burgeoning field of Septuagint studies. A clear, comprehensive, and updated primer to the field has been ...
Mission in the Old Testament: Israel as a Light to the Nations
Dec 01, 2001; ... Mission in the Old Testament: Israel as a Light to the Nations. By Walter C. Kaiser, Jr. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000, 101 pp., $9.99 paper. "Probably the last thing a person is likely to think about in connection with the Old Testament is a missionary message to the Gentiles" (p. 7) ....
The Bible in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Bible in Cross-Cultural Perspective. By Jacob A. Loewen. Pasadena: William Carey Library, 2000, 334 + xiv pp., n.p. This volume, Jacob Loewen's final book, is "about discovering more of the message of the Bible through the eyes of peoples of different cultures" (p. 245). An ...
A Dictionary of the English Bible and Its Origins
Dec 01, 2001; ... A Dictionary of the English Bible and Its Origins. By Alec Gilmore. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000, 192 pp., $19.95 paper. According to the introduction, the author, who is a Baptist minister living in Sussex, England, aims to cover two subject areas: the original manuscripts ...
An Introduction to Theological Research: A Guide for College and Seminary Students
Dec 01, 2001; ... An Introduction to Theological Research: A Guide for College and Seminary Students. By Cyril J. Barber and Robert M. Krauss, Jr. New York: University Press of America, 2000, 172 pp., $24.50. The authors cite a threefold aim for the Guide: (1) Reduce research time; (2) enable access to ...
Numberical Secrets of the Bible: Rediscovering the Bible Codes
Dec 01, 2001; ... Proquest Information and Learning: Foreign Characters Omitted. Numerical Secrets of the Bible: Rediscovering the Bible Codes. By Casper J. Labuschagne. North Richland Hills: Bibal, 2000, xv + 192 pp., $19.95 paper. The present volume is what the author describes as "a total ...
Jeremiah's and Ezekiel's Sign-Acts
Dec 01, 2001; ... Jeremiah's and Ezekiel's Sign-Acts. By Kelvin G. Friebel. JSOTSup 283. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999, 535 pp., $90.00. The contents of this volume represent a major revision and updating of Kelvin Friebel's dissertation completed ten years ago under the supervision of ...
Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence
Dec 01, 2001; ... Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence. By Robert E. Van Voorst. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000, xiv + 248 pp., $22.00 paper. Van Voorst's knowledge of the classical sources-Thallos, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius, Tacitus, Mara bar Serapion, Lucian of ...
Reading the Writing in the Time of Jesus
Dec 01, 2001; ... Reading and Writing in the Time of Jesus. By Alan Millard. The Biblical Seminar 69. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000, 288 pp., n.p. paper. There is some overlap between this recent offering from Alan Millard and Bruce Metzger's The Text of the New Testament, for both describe ...
Israel in the Development of Christian Thought
Dec 01, 2001; ... Israel in the Development of Christian Thought. By Ronald E. Diprose. Rome: Istituto Biblico Evangelico Italiano, 2000, 200 pp, n.p. The author is the academic dean at the Instituto Biblico Evangelico Italiano. His training includes degrees from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and ...
New Wine into Fresh Wineskins: Contextualizing the Early Christian Confessions
Dec 01, 2001; ... New Wine into Fresh Wineskins: Contextualizing the Early Christian Confessions. By Richard N. Longenecker. Peabody: Hendricksen, 1999, x + 207 pp., $14.95. The previous works of distinguished NT scholar Richard Longenecker should already be well known to readers of JETS. In this volume ...
Serve the Community of the Church: Christians as Leaders and Ministers
Dec 01, 2001; ... Serve the Community of the Church: Christians as Leaders and Ministers. By Andrew D. Clarke. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000, vii + 305 pp., $30,00. Clarke is lecturer in NT at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. A previous book (Secular and Christian Leadership in Corinth: A ...
The Parables of Jesus: A Commentary
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Parables of Jesus: A Commentary. By Arland J. Hultgren. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000, xxix + 522 pp., $35.00. Hultgren's volume consists of an introduction to the parables; an interpretation of 38 individual parables; a chapter on the evangelists as interpreters of Jesus' parables; ...
In the Company of Jesus: Characters in Mark's Gospel
Dec 01, 2001; ... In the Company of Jesus: Characters in Mark's Gospel. By Elizabeth Struthers Malbon. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2000, xx + 244 pp., $29.95 paper. The study of characterization in Mark's Gospel is an area of research in which Elizabeth Struthers Malbon has shown considerable ...
From a Broken Covenant to Circumcision of the Heart: Pauline Intertextual Exegesis in Romans 2:17-29
Dec 01, 2001; ... From a Broken Covenant to Circumcision of the Heart: Pauline Intertextual Exegesis in Romans 2:17-29. By Timothy W. Berkley. SUDS 175. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000, x + 260 pp., $45.00. The point of departure for this 1998 Marquette dissertation is Richard Hays's Echoes ...
The Letter to the Ephesians
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Letter to the Ephesians. By Peter T. O'Brien. Pillar New Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999, xxxiii + 536 pp., $40.00. Peter O'Brien has long been a highly respected and trusted name in evangelical biblical scholarship. With the publication of this commentary on ...
The Letter to Philemon: A New Translation with Notes and Commentary
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Letter to Philemon: A New Translation with Notes and Commentary. By Markus Barth and Helmut Blanke. Eerdmans Critical Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000, xviii + 561 pp., $40.00. Eerdmans has added a new acronym to everyone's list of abbreviations with the publication of the ...
The Letters of John
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Letters of John. By Colin G. Kruse. Pillar New Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000, xxii + 255 pp., $28.00. Other commentaries in this series that have appeared so far are Leon Morris's on Matthew and Romans, D. A. Carson's on John, Peter O'Brien's on Ephesians, and ...
Is there a Meaning in this Text? The Bible, the Reader, and the Morality of Literary Knowledge
Dec 01, 2001; ... Is there a Meaning in this Text? The Bible, the Reader, and the Morality of Literary Knowledge. By Kevin Vanhoozer. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998, 496 pp., $29.99. The Bible is the Word of God. In and through its richness and complexity, a single divine utterance makes itself heard. As ...
A Concise Dictionary of Theology
Dec 01, 2001; ... A Concise Dictionary of Theology. By Gerald O'Collins, S.J., and Edward G. Farrugia, S.J. New York: Paulist, 2000, xi + 304 pp., $19.95 paper. A concise dictionary should define terms briefly, clearly, and accurately while canvassing the contours of the theological map. It must be ...
The Fundamentals for the Twenty-First Century: Examining the Crucial Issues of the Christian Faith
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Fundamentals for the Twenty-First Century: Examining the Crucial Issues of the Christian Faith. By Mal Couch (ed.). Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2000, 656 pp., $29.99. This collection of writings on theological themes is meant to do for the twenty-first century what The Fundamentals, ...
Bible Doctrines: A Pentecostal Perspective
Dec 01, 2001; ... Bible Doctrines: A Pentecostal Perspective. By William W. Menzies and Stanley M. Horton. Springfield: Logion, 1993, 304 pp., $20.95. Systematic Theology, rev. ed. Edited by Stanley M. Horton. Springfield: Logion Press, 1995, 703 pp., $34.99. These two recently-reprinted volumes ...
Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context
Dec 01, 2001; ... Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a Postmodern Context. By Stanley J. Grenz and John R. Franke. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2000, xi + 312 pp., $24.95 paper. In this book, Stan Grenz and John Franke offer a constructive account of theological method informed by ...
The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God
Dec 01, 2001; ... The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God. By John Piper. Revised and expanded. Sisters: Multnomah, 2000, 340 pp. + 30 pp. study guide, $14.00, paper. No greater delight exists than the unsurpassable and all-satisfying delight of contemplating, savoring, and ...
God's Lesser Glory: The Diminished God of Open Theism
Dec 01, 2001; ... God's Lesser Glory: The Diminished God of Open Theism. By Bruce A. Ware. Wheaton: Crossway, 2000, 240 pp., $15.99 paper. Bruce Ware is Senior Associate Dean of the School of Theology and Professor of Christian Theology at Southern Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. Perhaps best known as ...