Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society back issues from December 2008:
METAPHORS OF MARRIAGE AS EXPRESSIONS OF DIVINE-HUMAN RELATIONS
Dec 01, 2008; ... ProQuest: ... denotes Greek characters omitted (or Cyrillic characters omitted.) Figurative language makes up a great deal of human communication. As a general category, all figures of speech are at times classified under the term "metaphor." Thus Williams can point out that "metaphor ...
THE ORDER OF THE BOOKS IN THE HEBREW BIBLE
Dec 01, 2008; ... ProQuest: ... denotes non-US.ASCII text omitted.) The Bible as a literary work is made up of text and paratext. Paratext may be defined as everything in a text other than the words, that is to say, those elements that are adjoined to the text but are not part of the text itself if the ...
THE NARRATIVE FUNCTION AND VERBAL ASPECT OF THE HISTORICAL PRESENT IN THE FOURTH GOSPEL
Dec 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.) I. INTRODUCTION Scholars have long recognized the frequent occurrence of the historical present in classical and first-century Greek narratives.1 In the NT, the historical present occurs most often in the Gospels of Mark and John.2 While ...
1 CORINTHIANS 14:34-35: EVALUATION OF PROPHECY REVISITED
Dec 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-US.ASCII text omitted.) Thomas Schreiner wrote: "I believe the role of women in the church is the most controversial and sensitive issue within evangelicalism today."1 Whether this is so or not, there can be little doubt that this topic has generated intense ...
JESUS CHRIST, GOD MANIFEST: TITUS 2:13 REVISITED
Dec 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-US.ASCII text omitted.) (ProQuest: ... denotes Greek characters omitted (or Cyrillic characters omitted.) Gordon Fee's new work, Pauline Christology,1 is likely to be the standard reference on the subject for years to come. Fee devotes about 450 pages ...
HEBREWS 6:4-6 FROM AN ORAL CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE
Dec 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes Greek characters omitted (or Cyrillic characters omitted.)) I. INTRODUCTION Few biblical passages have caused more confusion and argumentation than Heb 6:4-6: "For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, and ...
THE SUFFERING OF GOD AS AN ASPECT OF THE DIVINE OMNISICIENCE
Dec 01, 2008; ... I. INTRODUCTION On Super Tuesday of 2008, while presidential hopefuls were trying to take the country by storm, the states of Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky were experiencing storms of a more horrific kind. One center of destructive turbulence was Union University where I ...
A THEOLOGY OF SEXUAL ABUSE: A REFLECTION ON CREATION AND DEVASTATION
Dec 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-US.ASCII text omitted.) I. INTRODUCTION: NOT ALL WOUNDED ARE COMING HOME The Creator's original intention for human beings that combined royal, priestly, and shepherding notions can, paradoxically, appear all the more vibrant when we contemplate its ...
THE PLIGHT OF THE NEW ATHEISM: A CRITIQUE
Dec 01, 2008; ... Contemporary trends, both popular and scholarly, have had a significant impact on religious issues over recent decades. There was the New Age Movement. Overlapping with that and extending far past it is Postmodernism. Now the New Atheism is in full bloom. Although the overall percentages are ...
Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?
Dec 01, 2008; ... Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? By Lester L. Grabbe. London: T & T Clark, 2007, 306 pp., $29.95. It is really the subtitle rather than the title that best introduces this book by Lester Grabbe, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism, University of Hull, ...
The Quest for the Historical Israel: Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israel
Dec 01, 2008; ... The Quest for the Historical Israel: Debating Archaeology and the History of Early Israel. By Israel Finkelstein and Amihai Mazar. Edited by Brian B. Schmidt. Archaeology and Biblical Studies 17. Atlanta: SBL, 2007, x + 220 pp., $24.95 paper. This book originates from invited lectures ...
Ezra and Nehemiah
Dec 01, 2008; ... Ezra and Nehemiah. By Matthew Levering. Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2007, 236 pp., $29.99. Matthew Levering's preface expresses gratitude to and admiration for colleagues at Notre Dame University, Brazos Press, and his own Ave Maria University, whose work is renewing the Christian Church. To ...
Psalms
Dec 01, 2008; ... Psalms. By James H. Waltner. The Believers Church Bible Commentary. Scottdale, PA: Herald, 2006, 838 pp., $34.99 paper. With Waltner's contribution, Herald Press has published its twentieth volume in twenty years in their Believers Church Bible Commentary series. They are not only to be ...
Proverbs: A Mentor Commentary
Dec 01, 2008; ... Proverbs: A Mentor Commentary. By John A. Kitchen. Inverness, Scotland: Mentor, 2006, 789 pp., n.p. In recent years several commentaries have appeared on the book of Proverbs: van Leeuwen (1997), Murphy (1998), Clifford (1999), Fox (2000), Waltke (2004-2005), and Longman (2006), to name ...
Jonah
Dec 01, 2008; ... Jonah. By R. Reed Lessing. Concordia Commentary. St. Louis: Concordia, 2007, xiii + 451 pp., $42.99. How does one evaluate the merit of a commentary, especially one on a text that has received as much written attention as the book of Jonah? Lessing's commentary is not a groundbreaking ...
Judaism and the Gentiles: Jewish Patterns of Universalism (to 135 CE)
Dec 01, 2008; ... Judaism and the Gentiles: Jewish Patterns of Universalism (to 135 CE). By Terence L. Donaldson. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2007, xvi + 563 pp., $59.95. Terence Donaldson, Professor of New Testament Studies at Wycliffe College in Toronto, seeks to demonstrate that "Judaism was in ...
The Ancient Synagogue from Its Origins to 200 C.E.: A Sourcebook
Dec 01, 2008; ... The Ancient Synagogue from Its Origins to 200 C.E.: A Sourcebook. By Anders Runesson, Donald D. Binder, and Birger Olsson, Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 72. Leiden: Brill, 2008, xi + 328 pp., $199.00. This book is the product of a multidisciplinary research project on ancient ...
The Gospel of Matthew
Dec 01, 2008; ... The Gospel of Matthew. By R. T. France. NICNT. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007, lxiv + 1169 pp., $65.00. Serious students of the Gospel of Matthew will enthusiastically welcome this volume, the product of decades of research and writing by a premier Matthean scholar. R. T. France is Hon ....
The Sinner in Luke
Dec 01, 2008; ... The Sinner in Luke. By Dwayne H. Adams. Evangelical Theological Society Monograph Series. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2008, xxvi + 204 pp., $25.00 paper. The Pharisees question the disciples' eating with the tax collectors and sinners (hamartolos). Jesus overhears and responds that "he did ...
Peter in the Gospel of John: The Making of an Authentic Disciple
Dec 01, 2008; ... Peter in the Gospel of John: The Making of an Authentic Disciple. By Bradford B. Blaine, Jr. Academia Biblica 27. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007, xii + 224 pp., $29.95 paper. As its title indicates, Bradford Blaine's monograph examines the characterization of Peter in the ...
Acts
Dec 01, 2008; ... Acts. By Darrell L. Bock. BECNT. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007, xxi + 848 pp., $49.99. The relative paucity of quality commentaries on Acts makes Darrell Bock's volume a welcome addition to the Baker Exegetical Commentary series. Like the other volumes in this series, this one charts a ...
Discerning the Spirits: Theological and Ethical Hermeneutics in Paul
Dec 01, 2008; ... Discerning the Spirits: Theological and Ethical Hermeneutics in Paul. By André Munzinger. SNTSMS 140. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, xv + 239 pp., $95.00. The discipline of biblical epistemology has been enhanced by several major studies in recent years. In addition to ...
Saint Paul as Spiritual Director: An Analysis of the Concept of the Imitation of Paul with Implications and Applications to the Practice of Spiritual Direction
Dec 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes Greek characters omitted (or Cyrillic characters omitted.)) Saint Paul as Spiritual Director: An Analysis of the Concept of the Imitation of Paul with Implications and Applications to the Practice of Spiritual Direction. By Victor Copan. Paternoster Biblical ...
Our Mother Saint Paul
Dec 01, 2008; ... Our Mother Saint Paul. By Beverly Roberts Gaventa. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2007, xi +218 pp., $24.95 paper. Traditional works about Paul and women follow a predictable pattern of exegeting and applying texts such as 1 Cor 11:2-16, Gal 3:26-28, and 1 Tim 2:11-15. As imperative ...
Ephesians and Colossians
Dec 01, 2008; ... Ephesians and Colossians. By Charles H. Talbert. Paideia Commentaries on the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007, xix + 296 pp., $24.99 paper. Just a few years ago, it was possible to speak of a very bleak scenario with regard to scholarship on Ephesians and Colossians. Because many ...
Paul, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Early Church
Dec 01, 2008; ... Paul, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Early Church. By James W. Aageson. Library of Pauline Studies. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2008, xv + 235 pp., $24.99 paper. From Elaine Pagel's Gnostic Gospels to Dan Brown's DaVinci Code (and the many "discoveries" and associated "documentaries" ...
Not By Paul Alone: The Formation of the Catholic Epistle Collection and the Christian Canon
Dec 01, 2008; ... Not By Paul Alone: The Formation of the Catholic Epistle Collection and the Christian Canon. By David R. Nienhuis. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2007, xviii + 264 pp., $39.95. Is it possible to have a genuine, saving faith without the concomitant proof of a transformed life? St ....
1 Peter
Dec 01, 2008; ... 1 Peter. By Joel B. Green. The Two Horizons New Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007, xiv + 331 pp., $20.00 paper. It seems that we cannot get enough of them. Publishers offer up multiple commentary series, populated with tomes both old and new, even occasionally revised ....
And I Turned to See the Voice: The Rhetoric of Vision in the New Testament
Dec 01, 2008; ... And I Turned to See the Voice: The Rhetoric of Vision in the New Testament. By Edith M. Humphrey. Studies in Theological Interpretation. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007, 238 pp., $22.99 paper. This book offers ground-breaking insights into key NT passages: Matt 17:1-8; Mark 9:2-8; Luke ...
In the Name of Jesus: Exorcism among Early Christians
Dec 01, 2008; ... In the Name of Jesus: Exorcism among Early Christians. By Graham H. Twelftree. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007, 351 pp., $26.99 paper. Graham Twelftree, an expert on the subject of Jesus as an exorcist and miracle worker, presents us here with a meticulously detailed exegetical study on ...
Protestant Theology at the Crossroads: How to Face the Crucial Tasks for Theology in the Twenty-First Century
Dec 01, 2008; ... Protestant Theology at the Crossroads: How to Face the Crucial Tasks for Theology in the Twenty-First Century. By Gerhard Sauter. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007, xxiv + 180 pp., $24.00 paper. Gerhard Sauter, a self-professed German confessional "mongrel," is professor of systematic and ...
The Genius of Luther's Theology: A Wittenberg Way of Thinking for the Contemporary Church
Dec 01, 2008; ... The Genius of Luther's Theology: A Wittenberg Way of Thinking for the Contemporary Church. By Robert Kolb and Charles P. Arand. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008, 240 pp., $21.99 paper. The title of this book is doubly audacious: first, in claiming something ingenious about Luther's theology (a ...
The Great Commission: Evangelicals and the History of World Missions
Dec 01, 2008; ... The Great Commission: Evangelicals and the History of World Missions. By Martin I. Klauber and Scott Manetsch, eds. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2008, xii + 228 pp., $14.99 paper. The Great Commission is the fruit of a conference on the history of evangelical missions held at ...
Opening the Covenant: A Jewish Theology of Christianity.
Dec 01, 2008; ... Opening the Covenant: A Jewish Theology of Christianity. By Michael S. Kogan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, xiv + 284 pp., $29.95. In an age of dialogue and pluralism, Michael Kogan wants to take things one step forward, as he sees it. With a survey of selected Jewish views of ...