Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society back issues from December 2004:
THE NECESSITY, PROBLEMS, AND PROMISE OF SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM FOR DISCUSSIONS OF NEW TESTAMENT ESCHATOLOGY
Dec 01, 2004; ... I. THE NECESSITY OF SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM The study of second Temple Judaism has reframed evangelical biblical theology. The reason is the presupposition of this paper: Jesus and his apostles read the sacred Scriptures of Israel through the lens of second Temple Judaism.1 As the world of ...
JONATHAN EDWARDS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Dec 01, 2004; ... It is hard to imagine that anyone interested in Jonathan Edwards, the great eighteenth-century American theologian, revivalist, and missionary, did not know that 2003 was the 300th anniversary of his birth. This milestone was marked by numerous commemorative conferences, symposia, lecture ...
BIBLICAL METAPHORS AND THE DOCTRINE OF THE ATONEMENT
Dec 01, 2004; ... Metaphors have been a topic en vogue for several decades. Factors include the so-called "linguistic turn" of Western thought-Michel Meyer, who teaches at the University of Brussels, suggests "one could speak of a 'rhetoric turn' with Habermas and Perelman, Eco and Gadamer"1-the emphasis on the ...
The Bible and the Historian: Breaking the Silence About God in Biblical Studies
Dec 01, 2004; ... The Bible and the Historian: Breaking the Silence About God in Biblical Studies. By Paul S. Minear. Nashville: Abingdon, 2002, 280 pp., $30.00 paper. Long-time Yale professor and one-time ecumenical visionary Paul Minear was born in 1906, so it would be remarkable if in 2002 (at the age ...
A Concise Dictionary of New Testament Greek
Dec 01, 2004; ... A Concise Dictionary of New Testament Greek. By Warren C. Trenchard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, xvii + 177 pp., $43.00. Warren Trenchard has set out to produce a Greek lexicon that is up to date and full of detailed lexical information, yet, in accordance with its ...
Life in Biblical Israel
Dec 01, 2004; ... Life in Biblical Israel. By Philip J. King and Lawrence E. Stager. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001, xxiv + 440 pp., $39.95. As veteran field archaeologists, both King and Stager are well qualified to co-author this volume-a part of the publisher's Library of Ancient Israel series ...
Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period
Dec 01, 2004; ... Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period. Edited by Andrew G. Vaughn and Ann E. Killebrew. SBL Symposia Series 18. Atlanta: SBL, 2003. 510 pp., $49.95 paper. The city of Jerusalem has always held a special place in the hearts and minds of Bible readers. Partly this is ...
Zephaniah: A Commentary
Dec 01, 2004; ... Zephaniah: A Commentary. By Marvin A. Sweeney. Hermeneia. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003, xvii + 227 pp., $47.00. This commentary represents the results of Sweeney's extensive study and publications on the reign of Josiah, the twelve minor prophets, and the composition of Zephaniah. It is ...
Deuteronomy
Dec 01, 2004; ... Deuteronomy. By Richard D. Nelson. OTL. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2002, xv + 424 pp., $44.95. This commentary serves to update the discussion of Deuteronomy for the OTL series, in which Gerhard von Rad published Deuteronomy in 1966. Westminster John Knox hopes to have a complete ...
The Brother of Jesus: The Dramatic Story and Significance of the First Archaeological Link to Jesus and His Family
Dec 01, 2004; ... The Brother of Jesus: The Dramatic Story and Significance of the First Archaeological Link to Jesus and His Family. By Hershel Shanks and Ben Witherington III. New York: HarperCollins, 2003, 240 pp., $24.95. In the fall of 2002, who could have missed the news that splashed across news ...
Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity
Dec 01, 2004; ... Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity. By Larry Hurtado. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003, xxii + 746 pp., $55.00. Since 1979 Larry Hurtado, Professor of New Testament Language, Literature, and Theology at the University of Edinburgh, has been publishing studies of ...
Psalm 118 in the Gospel of John: An Intertextual Study of the New Exodus Pattern in the Theology of John
Dec 01, 2004; ... Psalm 118 in the Gospel of John: An Intertextual Study of the New Exodus Pattern in the Theology of John. By Andrew C. Brunson. WUNT 2/158. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003, xiii + 451 pp., euro69.00. For those exploring the use of the OT in the NT there are typically two extremes that cause ...
The Mutilation of Mark's Gospel
Dec 01, 2004; ... The Mutilation of Mark's Gospel. By N. Clayton Croy. Nashville: Abingdon, 2003, 230 pp., $20.00 paper. Did Mark originally end at 16:8, or not? And what about the awkward beginning of Mark's Gospel? clayton Croy posits that "through some mishap, the Second Gospel lost its original ...
Paul: A Jew on the Margins
Dec 01, 2004; ... Paul: A Jew on the Margins. By Calvin J. Roetzel. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2003, xii + 116 pp., $14.95 paper. In Paul, A Jew on the Margins Calvin Roetzel brings together four previously published essays, along with two new contributions, in an effort to highlight the ...
Understanding the Book of Hebrews: The Story Behind the Sermon
Dec 01, 2004; ... Understanding the Book of Hebrews: The Story Behind the Sermon. By Kenneth Schenck. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003, vii + 144 pp., $19.95 paper. Schenck uses the principles of narrative criticism to explain the implicit "story" behind Hebrews in order to facilitate a ...
JESUS AS THE IMAGO DEI: IMAGE-OF-GOD CHRISTOLOGY AND THE NON-LINEAR LINEARITY OF THEOLOGY
Dec 01, 2004; ... That Jesus is central to Christianity is one of the least contested assertions in theology today. Furthermore, nearly all evangelical theologians deduce from the centrality of Jesus the principle that Christology must form the center of Christian theology. Evangelicals are less likely to be of ...
WHEN WAS SAMARIA CAPTURED? THE NEED FOR PRECISION IN BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGIES
Dec 01, 2004; ... I. FACTORS THAT PRODUCE WRONG CHRONOLOGIES The major factors that continue to produce confusion in the field of OT chronology are (1) the scholar imposes his schemes and presuppositions on the information available from the Scripture texts rather than first determining the methods used ...
Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics
Dec 01, 2004; ... Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics. By Markus Bockmuehl. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2003, xvi + 314 pp., $29.99 paper. Sooner or later any student of the NT must address the issue of how the Jewish and Gentile sectors of the early church ...
1, 2 Peter, Jude
Dec 01, 2004; ... 1, 2 Peter, Jude. By Thomas R. Schreiner. NAC. Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 2003, 512 pp., $29.99. Schreiner, Professor of New Testament and Associate Dean for Scripture and Interpretation at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, is also preaching pastor at Trinity Baptist Church ...
Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship/The Inklings Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Lives, Thought and Writings of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield and Their Friends
Dec 01, 2004; ... Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship. By Colin Duriez. Mahwah: HiddenSpring, 2003, xii + 244 pp., $15.00 paper. The Inklings Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Lives, Thought and Writings of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield and Their Friends. By Colin ...
At the Beginning of Life: Dilemmas in Theological Bioethics
Dec 01, 2004; ... At the Beginning of Life: Dilemmas in Theological Bioethics. By Edwin C. Hui. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2002, 416 pp., $25.00. Edwin C. Hui is professor of biomedical ethics and Christianity and Chinese Culture at Regent College, Vancouver. With both the M.D. and a Ph.D., he joins his ...
DIVINE ASEITY, DIVINE FREEDOM: A CONCEPTUAL PROBLEM FOR EDWARDSIAN-CALVINISM
Dec 01, 2004; ... The purpose of this paper is to consider whether the Calvinist's typical understanding of why God created the world is consistent with the assertion of God's independence and self-sufficiency-an attribute theologians have labeled "aseity." The essence of the problem is this: the Calvinist's ...
The Book Study Concordance of the Greek New Testament
Dec 01, 2004; ... The Book Study Concordance of the Greek New Testament. By Andreas Köstenberger and Raymond Bouchoc. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2003, viii + 1528 pp., $59.00. Release of a variety of uniquely helpful study tools in recent years has facilitated work on the Greek NT. To their number ...
Daily Life in Biblical Times
Dec 01, 2004; ... Daily Life in Biblical Times. By Oded Borowski. Archaeology and Biblical Studies 5. Atlanta: SBL, 2003, xi + 148 pp., $15.95 paper. This book provides an overview of daily life in Israel during the Iron Age (1200-586 BC). The five major sections of the book are devoted to rural life, ...
The Challenge of Bible Translation: Communicating God's Word to the World
Dec 01, 2004; ... The Challenge of Bible Translation: Communicating God's Word to the World. Edited by Glen G. Scorgie, Mark L. Strauss, and Steven M. Voth. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003, 428 pp., $24.99. This book is a collection of essays on Bible translation presented in honor of Ronald F. Youngblood, ...
Nelson's Old Testament Survey
Dec 01, 2004; ... Nelson's Old Testament Survey. By Charles Dyer and Eugene Merrill. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2001, 861 pp., $34.99. It is hardly conceivable that an OT survey could still be published that would contribute in a manner beyond what is already available, but Dyer and Merrill have indeed ...
Beginning Biblical Hebrew
Dec 01, 2004; ... Beginning Biblical Hebrew. By Mark D. Futato. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2003, vii + 351 pp., $35.00. Writing from his prison cell in 1535, Tyndale requests "the use of my Hebrew Bible, Hebrew Grammar, and Hebrew Lexicon, that I may employ my time with that study" (quoted in F.W. Danker, ...
Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther
Dec 01, 2004; ... Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther. By Leslie C. Alien and Timothy S. Laniak. New International Biblical Commentary 9. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2003, 290 pp., $14.95 paper. A recent volume in Hendrickson's NIBC series contains commentaries by Leslie Alien (on Ezra and Nehemiah) and Timothy Laniak (on ...
The Use of the Septuagint in New Testament Research
Dec 01, 2004; ... The Use of the Septuagint in New Testament Research. By R. Timothy McLay. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003, xiv + 207 pp., $30.00. To what extent did the Septuagint influence NT theology? R. Timothy McLay explores this and other questions in his book, The Use of the Septuagint in New ...
Christianity in the Making, vol. 1: Jesus Remembered
Dec 01, 2004; ... Christianity in the Making, vol. 1: Jesus Remembered. By James D. G. Dunn. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003, xvii + 1019 pp., $55.00. In Jesus Remembered, James Dunn argues that the quest for the historical Jesus was often guided by the assumption that the Jesus of history was considerably ...
The Gospel of Matthew and its Readers: A Historical Introduction to the First Gospel
Dec 01, 2004; ... The Gospel of Matthew and its Readers: A Historical Introduction to the First Gospel. By Howard Clarke. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003, xxiv + 297 pp., $22.95 paper. "This is, yes, another commentary on St. Matthew's gospel" (p. x), though it is a very unique and interesting ...
Slave of All: The Paradox of Authority and Servanthood in the Gospel of Mark
Dec 01, 2004; ... Slave of All: The Paradox of Authority and Servanthood in the Gospel of Mark. By Narry F. Santos. JSNTSup 237. London: Sheffield Academic Press, 2003, xii + 337 pp., $130.00. Paradox in Mark's Gospel is a topic that is both there and not there. It is "there" in the sense that paradox is ...
Magic and Paganism in Early Christianity: The World of the Acts of the Apostles
Dec 01, 2004; ... Magic and Paganism in Early Christianity: The World of the Acts of the Apostles. By Harts-Josef Klauck. Translated by Brian McNeil. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003, xii + 136 pp., $15.00 paper. This short study originated in a lecture that was presented throughout South Africa in 1994 and ...
Where to Live: The Hermeneutical Significance of Paul's Citations from Scripture in Galatians 3:1-14
Dec 01, 2004; ... Where to Live: The Hermeneutical Significance of Paul's Citations from Scripture in Galatians 3:1-14. By Andrew H. Wakefield. Academia Biblica 14. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003, ix + 227 pp., $39.95 paper. Wakefield's goal is defining a "matrix" for viewing this section ...
1 Peter, Jude and 2 Peter
Dec 01, 2004; ... 1 Peter, Jude and 2 Peter. By Donald P. Senior and Daniel J. Harrington. SacPag 15. Collegeville: Liturgical, 2003, xv + 315 pp., $39.95. I remember reading somewhere many years ago that the post-Vatican II Catholic acceptance of the historical-critical method was some measure of ...
The Significance of Parallels Between 2 Peter and Other Early Christian Literature
Dec 01, 2004; ... The Significance of Parallels Between 2 Peter and Other Early Christian Literature. By Michael J. Gilmour. Academia Biblica 10. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002, xi + 176 pp., $29.95 paper. Any reader of this journal will be aware of the uncertainties surrounding the ...
Zondervan Bible Study Library: Scholar's Edition 5.0
Dec 01, 2004; ... Zondervan Bible Study Library: Scholar's Edition 5.0. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003, $349.99, CD-ROM. The release of the scholar's edition of Zondervan Bible Study Library marks another milestone in the progress of software publication in biblical studies. Personally, I am amazed at how ...
Jonathan Edwards: A Life
Dec 01, 2004; ... Jonathan Edwards: A Life. By George Marsden. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003, xx + 640 pp., $35.00. Two thousand three marked not only the tercentennial of the birth of Jonathan Edwards, but also a landmark year for Edwards studies. A number of local, regional, and national ...