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How should Christians read prophetic literature? Questions abound
both in the academy and the church as to how to engage the
prophets, particularly in light of the New Testament. The Gospel
writers and the church fathers all read and appealed to the Old
Testament, but are we as modern-day readers supposed to take the
same approach? The Prophets and the Apostolic Witness is a dialogue
among scholars that identifies the interpretive methods used
throughout history while also charting a constructive way forward
for our own approach to reading the Major Prophets. This
comprehensive volume brings together experts on Isaiah, Jeremiah,
and Ezekiel to illuminate the following topics: How the Apostles
Read the Major Prophets as Christian Scripture Limits on Reading
the Major Prophets as Christian Scripture Reading the Major
Prophets in the Footsteps of the Apostles The History of
Interpretation of the Major Prophets as Christian Scripture
Preaching the Major Prophets as Christian Scripture This
collaborative endeavor offers fresh and helpful insights to
scholars, students, and pastors alike as they engage with the text
of the Major Prophets.
Today's biblical scholars and dogmaticians are giving a significant
amount of attention to the topic of theological exegesis. A
resource turned to for guidance and insight in this discussion is
the history of interpretation, and Karl Barth's voice registers
loudly as a helpful model for engaging Scripture and its subject
matter. Most readers of Barth's theological exegesis encounter him
on the level of his New Testament exegesis. This is understandable
from several different vantage points. Unfortunately, Barth's
theological exegesis of the Old Testament has not received the
attention it deserves. This book seeks to fill this lacuna as it
encounters Barth's theological exegesis of Isaiah in the Church
Dogmatics. From the Church's inception, Isaiah has been understood
as Christian Scripture. In the Church Dogmatics we find Barth
reading Isaiah in multi-functional and multi-layered ways as he
seeks to hear Isaiah as a living witness to God's triune revelation
of himself in Jesus Christ.
Today's biblical scholars and dogmaticians are giving a significant
amount of attention to the topic of theological exegesis. A
resource turned to for guidance and insight in this discussion is
the history of interpretation, and Karl Barth's voice registers
loudly as a helpful model for engaging Scripture and its subject
matter. Most readers of Barth's theological exegesis encounter him
on the level of his New Testament exegesis. This is understandable
from several different vantage points. Unfortunately, Barth's
theological exegesis of the Old Testament has not received the
attention it deserves. This book seeks to fill this lacuna as it
encounters Barth's theological exegesis of Isaiah in the Church
Dogmatics. From the Church's inception, Isaiah has been understood
as Christian Scripture. In the Church Dogmatics we find Barth
reading Isaiah in multi-functional and multi-layered ways as he
seeks to hear Isaiah as a living witness to God's triune revelation
of himself in Jesus Christ.
Veteran Old Testament teacher Mark Gignilliat explores the
theological and hermeneutical instincts that are necessary for
reading, understanding, and communicating Scripture faithfully. He
takes seriously the gains of historical criticism while insisting
that the Bible must be interpreted as Christian Scripture, offering
students a "third way" that assigns proper proportion to both
historical and theological concerns. Reading and engaging Scripture
requires not only historical tools, Gignilliat says, but also
recognition of the living God's promised presence through the
Bible.
Mark Gignilliat discusses critical theologians and their theories
of Old Testament interpretation in this concise overview, providing
a working knowledge of the historical foundation of contemporary
discussions on Old Testament interpretation. Old Testament
interpretation developed as theologians and scholars proposed
critical theories over time. These figures contributed to a large,
developing complex of ideas and trends that serves as the
foundation of contemporary discussions on interpretation. Mark
Gignilliat brings these figures and their theories together in A
Brief History of Old Testament Criticism. His discussion is driven
by influential thinkers such as Baruch Spinoza and the critical
tradition, Johann Semler and historical criticism, Hermann Gunkel
and romanticism, Gerhard von Rad and the tradition-historical
approach, Brevard Childs and the canonical approach, and more. This
concise overview is ideal for classroom use as it provides a
working knowledge of the major critical interpreters of the Old
Testament, their approach to the subject matter, and the
philosophical background of their approaches. Further reading lists
direct readers to additional resources on specific theologians and
theories. This book will serve as a companion to the forthcoming
textbook Believing Criticism by Richard Schultz.
Paul's reading of the Old Testament continues to witness to the
significance of reading the Old Testament in a Christian way. This
study argues that a theological approach to understanding Paul's
appeal to and reading of the Old Testament, especially Isaiah,
offers important insights into the ways in which Christians should
read the Old Testament and a two-testament canon today. By way of
example, this study explores the ways in which Isaiah 40-66's
canonical form presents the gospel in miniature with its movement
from Israel to Servant to servants. It is subsequently argued that
Paul follows this literary movement in his own theological
reflection in 2 Corinthians 5:14-6:10. Jesus takes on the unique
role and identity of the Servant of Isaiah 40-55, and Paul takes on
the role of the servants of the Servant in Isaiah 53-66. From this
exegetical exploration conclusions are drawn in the final chapter
that seek to apply a term from the history of interpretation to
Paul's reading, that is, the plain sense of Scripture. What does an
appeal to plain sense broker? And does Paul's reading of the Old
Testament look anything like a plain sense reading? Gignilliat
concludes that Paul is reading the Old Testament in such a way that
the literal sense and its figural potential and capacity are not
divorced but are actually organically linked in what can be termed
a plain sense reading.
Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in 2 Corinthians and Philippians
advances the interpretation of 2 Corinthians and Philippians by
exploring how the Apostle Paul quotes, alludes to, or "echoes" the
Jewish Scriptures. Identification of allusions is at the forefront,
as are questions about the Torah, God's righteousness,
reconciliation, new creation, new covenant, Christology, lament
language, cultic metaphors, canon, rhetoric, and more.
In this International Theological Commentary on the book of Micah,
Mark S. Gignilliat begins by reflecting upon the nature of such
commentary in relation to biblical interpretation, before situating
Micah within current critical engagement with the book of the
Twelve and focusing specifically on Micah's relation with Jonah and
Nahum. The main body of the commentary is devoted to the
interpretation and exegesis of Micah, engaging widely with
theologians and biblical scholars. Gignilliat addresses literary
issues involving the structure, grammar, and textual variants of
given passages and - in keeping with the goals of the International
Theological Commentary - provides analysis of Scripture's literal
sense in relation to its theological subject matter. This volume
offers scholars, clergy and lay readers alike a unique combination
of critical exegesis and rigorous theological interpretation.
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