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Biblical Foundations Book Awards Runner Up and Finalist What does
the epistle to the Hebrews mean when it calls Jesus "Son"? Is "Son"
a title that denotes his eternal existence as one person of the
Trinity? Or is it a title Jesus receives upon his installation on
heaven's throne after his resurrection and ascension? In this
Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture (SCDS) volume, which
promotes fresh understandings of Christian belief through creative,
faithful readings of the canonical text, pastor and New Testament
scholar R. B. Jamieson probes the complexity of the Christology
presented in the epistle to the Hebrews. Exploring the paradox of
this key term, Jamieson argues that, according to Hebrews, "Son"
names both who Jesus is eternally and what he becomes at the climax
of his incarnate, saving mission. Jesus is, in short, the eternal
Son who became the messianic Son for us and for our salvation. This
volume thereby offers a case study showing how the church's core
convictions about Christ lead us not away from the text, but deeper
into it. Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture, edited by
Daniel J. Treier and Kevin J. Vanhoozer, promotes evangelical
contributions to systematic theology, seeking fresh understanding
of Christian doctrine through creatively faithful engagement with
Scripture in dialogue with church.
Jarvis J. Williams argues that the Jewish martyrological ideas,
codified in 2 and 4 Maccabees and in selected texts in LXX Daniel
3, provide an important background to understanding Paul's
statements about the cursed Christ in Gal. 3.13, and the
soteriological benefits that his death achieves for Jews and
Gentiles in Galatians. Williams further argues that Paul modifies
Jewish martyrology to fit his exegetical, polemical, and
theological purposes, in order to persuade the Galatians not to
embrace the 'other' gospel of their opponents. In addition to
providing a detailed and up to date history of research on the
scholarship of Gal. 3.13, Williams provides five arguments
throughout this volume related to the scriptural, theological and
conceptual, lexical, grammatical and polemical points of contact,
and finally the discontinuities between Galatians and Jewish
martyrological ideas. Drawing on literature from Second Temple
traditions to directly compare with Gal. 3.13, Williams adds new
insights to Paul's defense of his Torah-free-gentile-inclusive
gospel, and his rhetoric against his opponents.
What does it look like to read the texts we now call the gospels
like first- and second-century readers? There is no evidence of
anyone regarding the gospel as a book published by an author until
the end of the second century. So, put differently, what does it
mean to read the gospels "before the book"? For centuries, the ways
people discuss the gospels have been shaped by later ideas that
have more to do with the printing press and modern notions of the
author than ancient writing and reading practices. In Gospels
before the Book, Matthew D. C. Larsen challenges several subtle yet
problematic assumptions about authors, books, and publication at
work in early Christian studies. He then explores a host of
under-appreciated elements of ancient textual culture such as
unfinished texts, accidental publication, post-publication
revision, and the existence of multiple authorized versions of the
same work. Turning to the gospels, he argues that the earliest
readers and users of the text we now call the Gospel according to
Mark treated it not as a book published by an author, but as an
unfinished, open, and fluid collection of notes (hypomnmata). In
such a scenario, the Gospel according to Matthew would not be
regarded as a separate book published by a different author, but as
a continuation of the same unfinished gospel tradition. Similarly
it is not the case that, of the five different endings in the
textual tradition we now call the Gospel according to Mark, one is
"right" and the others are "wrong." Rather each represents its own
effort to fill a perceived deficiency in the gospel. Larsen offers
a new methodological framework for future scholarship on early
Christian gospels.
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