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Exodus (Hardcover)
Brevard S. Childs
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R2,189
Discovery Miles 21 890
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This critically acclaimed series provides fresh and authoritative
treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through
commentaries and general surveys. The authors are scholars of
international standing.
In this important addition to the Old Testament Library, now
available in a new casebound edition, renowned scholar Brevard
Childs writes on the Old Testament's most important theological
book. He furnishes a fresh translation from the Hebrew and
discusses questions of text, philology, historical background, and
literary architecture, and then proceeds with a critically
informed, theological interpretation of the text. The Old Testament
Library provides fresh and authoritative treatments of important
aspects of Old Testament study through commentaries and general
surveys. The contributors are scholars of international standing.
This monumental work is the first comprehensive biblical theology
to appear in many years and is the culmination of Brevard Child's
lifelong commitment to constructing a biblical theology that
surmounts objections to the discipline raised over the past
generation.Childs rejects any approaches that overstress either the
continuity or discontinuity between the Old and New Testaments. He
refuses to follow the common pattern in Christian thought of
identifying biblical theology with the New Testament's interest in
the Old. Rather, Childs maps out an approach that reflects on the
whole Christian Bible with its two very different voices, each of
which retains continuing integrity and is heard on its own terms.
Taking a pioneering approach to commentary writing, Brevard
Childs gives an entirely original treatment to the book of Exodus.
Apart from the philological notes and translation, this commentary
includes a form-critical section, looking at the growth of the
tradition in its previous stages; a consideration of the meaning of
the text in its present form; and a consideration of its meaning in
its total Old Testament context.
The Old Testament Library provides fresh and authoritative
treatments of important aspects of Old Testament study through
commentaries and general surveys. The contributors are scholars of
international standing.
A key emphasis of Brevard Childs's distinguished career has been to
show not only that the canon of Scripture comprises both Old and
New Testaments but also that the concept of -canon- includes the
way the Christian church continues to wrestle in every age with the
meaning of its sacred texts. In this new volume Childs uses the
book of Isaiah as a case study of the church's endeavor throughout
history to understand its Scriptures. In each chapter Childs
focuses on a different Christian age, using the work of key figures
to illustrate the church's changing views of Isaiah. After looking
at the Septuagint translation, Childs examines commentaries and
tractates from the patristic, Reformation, and modern periods. His
review shows that despite an enormous diversity in time, culture,
nationality, and audience, these works nevertheless display a
-family resemblance- in their theological understandings of this
central Old Testament text. Childs also reveals how the church
struggled to adapt to changing social and historical conditions,
often by correcting or refining traditional methodologies, while at
the same time maintaining a theological stance measured by
faithfulness to Jesus Christ. In an important final chapter Childs
draws out some implications of his work for modern debates over the
role of Scripture in the life of the church. Of great value to
scholars, ministers, and students, this book will also draw general
readers into the exciting theological debate currently raging in
the Christian church about the faithful interpretation of
Scripture.
Brevard Childs here turns his sharp scholarly eye to the works of
the apostle Paul and makes an unusual argument: the New Testament
was canonically shaped, its formation a hermeneutical exercise in
which its anonymous apostles and postapostolic editors collected,
preserved, and theologically shaped the material in order for the
evangelical traditions to serve successive generations of
Christians. Childs contends that within the New Testament the
Pauline corpus stands as a unit bookended by Romans and the
Pastoral Epistles. He assigns an introductory role to Romans,
examining how it puts the contingencies of Paul's earlier letters
into context without sacrificing their particularity. At the other
end, the Pastoral Epistles serve as a concluding valorization of
Paul as the church's doctrinal model. By considering Paul's works
as a whole, Childs offers a way to gain a fuller understanding of
the individual letters.
This Introduction attempts to offer a different model for the
discipline from that currently represented. It seeks to describe
the form and function of the Hebrew Bible in its role as sacred
scripture for Israel. It argues the case that the biblical
literature has not been correctly understood or interpreted because
its role as religious literature has not been correctly assessed.
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