Interpretation articles from January 1994

Interpretation archives from January 1994

Let Justice Roll Down: The Old Testament, Ethics, and Christian Life.
January 1, 1994... by Bruce C. Birch. Westminster/John Knox Press, Louisville, 1991. 383 pp. $19.99 (paper). ISBN 0-664-24026-7. Curiously, books on biblical ethics appear relatively seldom. Over the past century, for example, there have been dozens of...

Judaism: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow.
January 1, 1994... by Hans Kung. The Religious Situation of Our Time. Crossroad, New York, 1992. 753 pp. $39.50. ISBN 0-8245-1191-6. Kung is the brilliant head of an impressive German academic enterprise that regularly produces large, deeply researched theology...

In the Beginning: Creation and the Priestly History.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1994... by Robert B. Coote and David Robert Ord. Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 1991. 182 pp. $12.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8006-2527-7. This book examines the P document and is part of a series of similar works on J and E that Coote has written either...

Israel in Egypt: Reading Exodus 1-2.
January 1, 1994... by Gordon F. Davies. JSOT Sup. Series 135. JSOT/Sheffield AGademic Press, Sheffield, 1992. 204 pp. $37.50. ISBN 1-85075-337-7. Davies gives us a thorough and often helpful analysis of the first two chapters of the Book of Exodus. Having...

The Origins of Biblical Law.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1994... by Calum M. Carmichael. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1992. 267 pp. $28.50. ISBN 0-8014-2712-6. Using the ancestral narratives (Jacob/ Joseph cycles) as his information base, Carmichael attempts to show that biblical law, the Decalogues,...

Satire and the Hebrew Prophets.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1994... by Thomas Jemielity. Literary Currents in Biblical Interpretation. Westminster/ John Knox Press, Louisville, 1992. 256 pp. $17. 99 (paper). ISBN 0-66425229-X The author, a professor of English at Notre Dame University, has long had an...

The Law of the Temple in Ezekiel 40-48.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1994... by Steven Shawn Tuell. Harvard Semitic Monographs 49. Scholars Press, Atlanta, 1992. 194 pp. $29. 95. ISBN 1-554-717-X This study, the revision of a dissertation written at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia under the direction of S. Dean...

I Have Built You an Exalted House: Temple Building in the Bible in Light of Mesopotamian and Northwest Semitic Writings.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1994... by Victor (Avigdor) Hurowitz. JSOT Sup. Series 115. JSOT/ASOR Mon. Series 5. JSOT/Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, 1992. 398 pp. $75.00. ISBN 1-85075-282-6. Scholars of the Hebrew Bible have long proposed that Israel's temple-building...

Ezra-Nehemiah.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1994... by Mark A. Throntveit. Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching. John Knox Press, Louisville, 1992. 129pp. $16.95. ISBN0-8042-3111-7. The goal of the Interpretation series is to produce commentaries that integrate...

Literary Forms in the New Testament: A Handbook.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1994... by James L. Bailey and Lyle D. Vander Broek. Westminster/John Knox Press, Louisville, 1992. 224 pp. $14.99 (paper). ISBN 0-664-251544. Dividing the new testament corpus under three headings (The Pauline Tradition, The Gospels and Acts, and...

The Gospel According to Matthew.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1994... by Leon Morris. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids/Inter-Varsity Press, Leicester, England, 1992. 781 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-8028-3696-8. After a brief introduction, the commentary approaches Matthew's Gospel in chronological fashion:...

Mark and Luke in Poststructuralist Perspectives: Jesus Begins to Write.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1994... by Stephen D. Moore. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1992. 192 pp. $25. 00. ISBN 0-300-05197-2. In this book, Moore makes special use of the thought and literary techniques of the French thinkers Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan,...

Images of Judaism in Luke-Acts.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1994... by Joseph B. Tyson. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, 1992. 218 pp. $29.95. ISBN0-87249-7941. Tyson uses reader-response criticism to determine how the "implied author" of Luke-Acts portrays Judaism to the "implied reader." By...

The Prayer Texts of Luke-Acts.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1994... by Steven F. Plymale. American University Studies Series VII, Theology and Religion, Vol. 18. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., New York, 1991. 134 pp. $35. 95. ISBN 0-8204-1685-4. This volume is based on a dissertation done at Garrett-Evangelical...

John Among the Gospels: The Relationship in Twentieth-Century Research.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1994... By D. Moody Smith. Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 1992. 210 pp. $12.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8006-2530-7. In this survey of views of the relationship between the Fourth and the synoptic Gospels, Smith addresses one of the most controversial topics...

Sacred Violence: Paul's Hermeneutic of the Cross.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1994... By Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly. Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 1992. 230 pp. $24. 95 (paper). ISBN 0-8006-2529-3. Hamerton-Kelly provides a new application of the methodology of Rene Girard to the Pauline corpus of the New Testament. He finds the...

Sacred Space: An Approach to the Theology of the Epistle to the Hebrews.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1994... By Marie E. Isaacs. JSNT Sup. Series 73. JSOT/Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, 1992. 253 pp. $45.00. ISBN 1-85075-356-3. The author, pastor as well as lecturer in biblical studies at Heythrop College, London, is not the first (and she...

The Johannine Epistles: Introduction and Commentary.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1994... Bu Rudolf Schnackenburg. Translated by Reginald and Ilse Fuller. Crossroad, New York, 1992. 320 pp. $39.50. ISBN 0-82451 1176-X Schnackenburg's major commentary on the Johannine letters first appeared in Herders theologischer Kommentar in...

After the Thousand Years: Resurrection and Judgment in Revelation 20.
January 1, 1994... By J. Webb Mealy. JSNT Sup. Series 70. JSOT/Sherfield Academic Press, Sheffield, 1992. 273 pp. $60.00. ISBN 1-85075-363-6. This is a very industrious investigation of Revelation 20. The author is not afraid of taking on all the difficult...

The Tree of Gnosis: Gnostic Mythology from Early Christianity to Modern Nihilism.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1994... By Ioan P. Couliano. Translated by H. S. Wiesner and Ioan P. Couliano. HarperSan Francisco/HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1992. 296 pp. $24. 95. ISBN 0-06-061615-6. The Romanian-born author of this volume was an emerging new voice in...

The Separated Ones: Jesus, the Pharisees, and Islam.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1994... By Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood. SCM Press, London, 1991. 194 pp. $17.50 (paper). ISBN 0-334-02498-6. Maqsood begins with the presuppositions that the Gospels frequently present the theology or "propaganda material" of the early church rather...

The Diversity of Religions: A Christian Perspective.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1994... By Joseph A. DiNoia. The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, 1992. 199 pp. $17. 95 (paper). ISBN 0-81320769-X Many theologians, historians of religion, and even some missiologists have concluded that deep down all religions are...

A Case for Peace in Reason and Faith.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1994... By Monika K. Hellwig. Glazier/ Liturgical Press, Collegeville, 1992. 110 pp. $6. 95 (paper). ISBN 0-81465834-2. This slim volume is insighfful and well written, making it accessible to a wide audience. In spite of its brevity, it casts a wide...

Ishaku: An African Christian Between Two Worlds.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1994... By Lamar Williamson. Fairway Press, Lima, Ohio, 1992. 134 pp. n.p. (paper). ISBN 1-55673-394-1. This story of the life of Ishaku Jean, an African Christian, and of his martyr-like death in 1964 during the "Simba" rebellion in what was then...

To Understand God Truly: What's Theological About a Theological School.(Brief Article)
January 1, 1994... By David H. Kelsey. Westminster/John Knox Press, Louisville, 1992. 271 pp. $16. 99 (paper). ISBN 0-664-25397-0. Probably the most frequently qouted and analyzed source for current discussions about theological schooling is Kelsey's book....