Interpretation articles from January 1993

Interpretation archives from January 1993

Conflict in Luke: Jesus, Authorities, Disciples.
January 1, 1993... by Jack Dean Kingsbury. Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 1991. 180 pp. $10.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8006-2472-6. For more than a decade, scholars have employed the techniques of narrative criticism with important results for our understanding of the...

Paul and the Jewish Law: Halakha in the Letters of the Apostle to the Gentiles.
January 1, 1993... by Peter J. Tomsom. Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum, Section III. Jewish Tradition in The Reformation made justification "apart from the works of the law" (Rom. 3:28) the centerpiece of Paul's theology. Later, F. C. Baur...

God with Us: A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament.
January 1, 1993... by Christoph Barth. Edited by Geoffrey W. Bromilley. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, 1991. 403 pp. $34.95. ISBN 0-8028-368-1. Old Testament theology has been a field reserved for specialists, upper level seminary students, or...

Interpretation and Obedience: From Faithful Reading to Faithful Living.
January 1, 1993... By Walter Brueggemann. Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 1991. 325 pp. $14.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8006-2478-5. In these essays, Brueggemann, as usual, brings the reader into a conversation with a delightful array of material not limited by the...

Abiding Astonishment: Psalms, Modernity, and the Making of History.
January 1, 1993... By Walter Brueggemann. Literary Currents in Biblical Interpretation. Westminster/John Knox Press, Louisville, 1991. 94 pp. $8. 95 (paper). ISBN 0-664-25134-X. In these essays, Brueggemann, as usual, brings the reader into a conversation...

The Canaanites and Their Land: The Tradition of the Canaanites.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Niels Peter Lemche. JSOT Sup. Series 110. JSOT/Sheff eld Academic Press, Sheffeld, 1991. 191 pp. $42.50. ISBN 1-85075-310-5. The aim of this study is to question the widely held assumption that Israelite culture and religion are to be...

Early Israel: A New Horizon.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Robert Coote. Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 1990. 197 pp. $11.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8006-2450-5. This is a provocative book. It takes the study of the origins of Israel beyond where Mendenhall and Gottwald have gone. Coote has eight...

From Father to Son: Kinship, Conflict, and Continuity in Genesis.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Devora Steinmetz. Literarsl Currents in Biblical Interpretation. Westminster/ John Knox Press, Louisville, 1991. 214 pp. $15. 95 (paper). ISBN 0-664-25116-1. Steinmetz's thesis is that the transfer of blessing and promise from father to...

Psalms 51-100.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Marvin E. Tate. Word Biblical Commentary, Vol. 20. Word Books, Publisher, Dallas, 1990. 560 pp. n.p. ISBN 0-8499-0219-3. Tate's commentary on Psalms 51--100 is perhaps best characterized by its utilization of scholarship from the entire...

Wisdom in Revolt: Metaphorical Theology in the Book of Job.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Leo G. Perdue. JSOT Sup. Series 112, Bible and Literature Senes 29. The Almond Press, Sheffield, 1991. 296 pp. $52.50. ISBN 1-85075-283-4. Perdue observes that "Old Testament theology must begin with the metaphors . . . present in...

The Sage in Israel and the Ancient Near East.
January 1, 1993... Edited by John G. Gammie and Leo G. Perdue. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, 1990. 545 pp. $42.50. ISBN 0-93146446-3. The purpose of this collection of essays is to study the social loci, functions, and, to the extent possible, the identity of the...

Compromising Redemption: Relating Characters in the Book of Ruth.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Danna N. Fewell and David M. Gunn. Literary Currents in Biblical Interpretation. Westminster/John Knox Press, Louisville, 1990. 141 pp. $11.95 (paper). With these two volumes, Westminster/ John Knox Press inaugurates a new series under...

The Betrayal of God: Ideological Conflict in Job.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By David Penchansky. Literary Currents in Biblical Interpretation. Westminster/John Knox Press, Louisville, 1990. 124 pp. $11.95 (paper). With these two volumes, Westminster/ John Knox Press inaugurates a new series under the editorship of...

Ezekiel.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Bruce Vawter and Leslie J. Hoppe. International Theological Commentary. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, 1991. 218 pp. $15. 95 (paper). ISBN 0-8028-0331-8. This concise commentary illustrates two basic characteristics of...

The Old Testament in Early Christianity: Canon and Interpretation in the Light of Modern Research.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By E. Earle Ellis. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 54. J. C.B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck], Tubingen, 1991. 190 pp. DM 78. ISBN 3-16145660-2. In the first of the book s three parts, Ellis analyzes ancient Jewish writers,...

Second Temple Studies, vol. 1, Persian Period.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... Edited by Philip R Davies. JSOT Sup. Series 117. JSOT/Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, 1991. 192 pp. $29.50. ISBN 1-85075-315-6. These essays attempt to apply recognized sociological paradigms to, or discern the workings of, Judaic...

Seeing and Hearing God with the Psalms: The Prophetic Liturgy of the Second Temple in Jerusalem.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Raymond Jacques Tournay. Translated by J. Edward Crowley. JSOT Sup. Series 118. JSOT/Sheffeld Academic Press, Sheffeld, 1991. 311 pp. $50.00. ISBN 1-85075-313-X. In order to understand the Book of Psalms, it is important to restore the...

The Chronicler in His Age.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Peter R. Ackroyd. SOT Sup. Series 101. SOT/Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, 1991. 397pp. $60.00. ISBN 1-85075-254-0. Ackroyd's latest book is an exploration of the political and religious environment in which the Chronicler lived and...

Reading Isaiah.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Edgar W. Conrad. Overtures to Biblical Theology 27. Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 1991. 185 pp. $12.95 (paper). ISBN0-8006-1560-3. The steady march away from historical criticism takes another step in Conrad's analysis of the Book of...

Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah: A Commentary.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By J. J. M. Roberts. The Old Testament Library. Westminster/John Knox Press, Louisville, 1991. 223 pp. $19.95. ISBN 0-664 21937-3. In the general introduction to the commentary, Roberts sides with historical critics over against literary...

A Time to Mourn, a Time to Dance: The Expression of Grief and Joy in Israelite Religion.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Gary A. Anderson. The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 1991. 139 pp. $28.50. ISBN 0-27100729-X Anderson analyzes two experiences, joy and sorrow, not so much as emotional states but as forms of behavior in ancient...

Far More Precious than Jewels: Perspectives on Biblical Women.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Katheryn Pfisterer Darr. Gender and the Biblical Tradition. Westminster/ John Knox Press, Louisville, 1991. 223 pp. $15. 95 (paper). ISBN 0-66425107-2. In this contribution to the Gender and the Biblical Tradition series, Pfisterer Darr...

Self-Deception and Wholeness in Paul and Matthew.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Dan O. Via, Jr. Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 1990. 173 pp. $10. 95 (paper). ISBN 0-80062435-1. Via, Professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School, probes Paul's letters and the Gospel of Matthew for their contribution to our...

The Gospel of John.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Kenneth Grayston. Narrative Commentaries. Trinity Press International, Philadelphia, 1990. 177 pp. $14.95 (paper). Professor emeritus of the theology at the University of Bristol (England), the author is known to commentary readers through...

What Are They Saying About John?(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Gerald S. Sloyan. Paulist Press, New York/Mahwah, 1991. 125 pp. $6.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8091-3238-9. In this book, Sloyan attempts to provide the reader with a broad overview of the current available scholarship on the Gospel of John. The...

James and the Q Sayings of Jesus.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Patrick J. Hartin. JSNT Sup. Series 47. JSOT/Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, 1991. 266 pp. $45.00. ISBN 1-85075-267-2. This book represents a study of the relationship of the Epistle of James to the Jewish wisdom tradition and the...

Her Price Is Beyond Rubies: The Jewish Woman in Greco-Roman Palestine.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Leonie J. Archer. JSOT Sup. Series 60. JSOT/Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, 1990. 335 pp. $46.50. ISBN 1-85075-079-3. Archer's book is an important one and aims to describe the lifestyle of the so-called ordinary, or average, woman in...

Ancient Christian Gospels: Their History and Development.
January 1, 1993... By Helmut Koester. SCM Press, London/ Trinity Press International, Philadel phia, 1990. 448 pp. $29. 95. ISBN 0334-02450-1. In this important book, Koester presents an overall picture of his views on the Gospels. His basic point of departure...

Disinheriting the Jews: Abraham in Early Christian Controversy.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Jeffery S. Siker. Westminster/ John Knox Press, Louisville, 1991. 274 pp. $18. 95 (paper). ISBN 0-664-25193-5. Why did christian conceptions of Jews between the time of Paul and Justin Martyr change? Why was Paul inclined to see Jews as...

The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... Edited by Jerome H. Neyrey. Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, 1991. 436 pp. $19. 95. ISBN 0-943575-48-6. This volume is the result of a five-year collaboration of a group of scholars who are united under the banner "The Context Group:...

The Romans Debate.
January 1, 1993... Edited by Karl P. Donfried. Revised and expanded edition. HendriGkson Publishers, Peabody, 1991. 372 pp. $19. 95. ISBN 943575-42-7. This second and significantly enlarged version of a book that originally appeared in 1977 has greatly...

Theocracy in Paul's Praxis and Theology.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Dieter Georgi. Translated by David L. Green. Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 1991. 112 pp. $8.95 (paper). ISBN 1-8006-2468-8. This short book originated as a series of theses presented at a conference on theocracy. Later, it was expanded into...

The Bible and the Literary Critic.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Amos N. Wilder. Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 1991. 186 pp. $12.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8006-2436-X This insightful and delightful collection of essays might also have taken its title from the title of one of the chapters: "Between Reminiscence...

A History of Bible Translation and the North American Contribution.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Harry M. Orlinsky and Robert G. Bratcher. SBL Centennial Publications Scholars Press, Atlanta, 1991. 359 pp. $29. 95 (paper). ISBN 1-55540-572-X Orlinsky and Bratcher are well qualified to write on translation. The former was...

Unity Through Diversity: Its Foundation, and a Contribution to the Discussion Concerning the Possibilities of Its Actualization.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Oscar Cullmann. Translated by M. Eugene Boring. Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1988. 84 pp. $7. 95 (paper). ISBN 0-800-2047-X Because of his special interest in Protestant-Catholic relations, Cullmann was invited to the Second Vatican...

Upon the Dark Places: Anti-Semitism and Sexism in English Renaissance Biblical Translation.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Ilona N. Rashkow. Bible and Literature Series 28. Almond/Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, 1990. 180pp. $50.00. ISBN 1-85075-251-6. Taken from the preface to the Geneva Bible, the title is ironically apt for Rashkow's study on the overt...

God, Language, and Scripture: Reading the Bible in the Light of General Linguistics.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Moises Silva. Foundations of Contemporary Interpretation, Vol. 4. Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, 1990. 160 pp. $12. 95 (paper) . ISBN 0-310-40951-9. A number of years ago, when I, as a linguist, embarked on formal biblical...

The Second Naivete: Barth, Ricoeur, and the New Yale Theology.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Mark I. Wallace. Studies in American Biblical Hermeneutics 6. Mercer University Press, Macon, 1990. 130 pp. $16. 95 (paper). ISBN 0-8655-380-1. Wallace's comparison of the hermeneutic theories of Barth, Ricoeur, and the "Yale School"...

Mary for All Christians.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By John Macquarrie. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, 1990. 160 pp. $12. 95 (paper). ISBN 0-80280543-4. The Archdiocese of Sydney invited me in 1976 to its ecumenical Marian Congress. For two weeks we discussed Mary's place in the...

The Making of the Creeds.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Frances Young. SCM Press, London/ Trinity Press International, Philadelphia, 1991. 115 pp. $10.95 (paper). ISBN 0-33402488-9. In view of the excellent works on the early creeds of the church that are already available, the first question...

A Reading of Calvin's Institutes.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Benjamin A. Reist. Westminster/John Knox Press, Louisville, 1991. 124 pp. X7.95 (paper). ISBN 0-662-25155-2. As Reist explains, his book's primary intended audience is those laypersons and students who wish to make a beginning "on the...

God's Power: Traditional Understandings and Contemporary Challenges.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Anna Case-Winters. Westminster/John Knox Press, Louisville, 1990. 246 pp. $19.95 (paper). ISBN 0-66425106-4. In the closing lines of her book, Case-Winters says, "I do not cherish any hope of having settled the issues surrounding divine...

Learning About Theology from the Third World.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By William A. Dyrness. Academic Books/Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, 1990. 221 pp., n. p. (paper). ISBN 0-310-20971-4. Dyrness, professor of theology and former president of New College, Berkeley, presents a compelling argument...

The God of Christians.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... By Ronaldo Munoz. Translated by Paul Burns. Theology and Liberation Series. Orbis Books, Maryknoll, 1990. 192 pp. $16.95 (paper). ISBN0-88344-696-0. Munoz is a Chilean theologian who is living and working among his people. He writes in the...

The Variety of American Evangelicalism.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... edited by Donald W. Dayton and Robert K. Johnston. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1991. 285 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-87049-659-X This relevant book introduces the reader to the wide variety of evangelical traditions in the United States:...

Carriers of Faith: Lessons from Congregational Studies.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... edited by Carl S. Dudley, Jackson W. Carroll, and James P. Wind. Westminster/John Knox Press, Louisville, 1991. 192 pp. $12. 95 (paper). ISBN 0-664-25204-4. In this collection of eleven essays by seventeen authors, we have yet another...

Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... by George R. Marsden. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, 1991. 208 pp. @12. 95 (paper). ISBN 0-8028-0539-6. A Collection of previously published essays, Marsden's work contains an introductory history of American evangelicalism and...

The Muslims of America.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... edited by Yvonne Yazbek Haddad. Religion in America Series. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1991. 249 pp. $39. 95. ISBN 9-19-506728-2. This volume, in a series that addresses some of the less conventional topics in American...

The Covenant Never Revoked: Biblical Reflections on Christian-Jewish Dialogue.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... by Norbert Lohfink. Translated by John J. Scullion, S. J. Paulist Press, New York/Mahwah, 1991. 96 pp. $7. 95 (paper). ISBN 08091-3228-1. This slender volume bringing us a gift of great substance is to be welcomed by all who are interested in...

Philip Schaff, Historian and Ambassador of the Universal Church: Selected Writings.
January 1, 1993... edited by Klaus Penzel. Mercer University Press, Macon 1991. 391 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-86554 3763. Philip Schafe is well known among historians for founding in 1888 the American Society of Church History. He is less well-known, outside of the...

The Theater of His Glory: Nature and the Natural Order in the Thought of John Calvin.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1993... by Susan E. Schreiner. Labyrinth Press, Durham, 1991. 164 pp. $30. 00. ISBN 0 9394651-9. Schreiner believes that Calvin's theology can be understood in light of his doctrine of providence. She recognizes that the search for a systematic...