Interpretation articles from October 2001

Interpretation archives from October 2001

Editorial.
October 1, 2001... STANLEY H. SKRESLET Associate Professor of Christian Mission Union-PSCE Almost as soon as the Word of God incarnate "pitched its tent" in the midst of human culture, matters of context thrust themselves onto the agenda of the...

THE GOSPEL IN CONTEXT.
October 1, 2001... AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE "I am related... therefore I exist encapsulates the African worldview. To experience newness of life through Christ is to experience a heightened sense of koinonia. People who find themselves in a particular...

From Liberation to Evangelization.
October 1, 2001... New Latin American Hermeneutical Keys In Latin America, Catholics, historic Protestants, and Pentecostals are interpreting scripture in new ways. Their diverse perspectives and methodologies challenge the global faith community to learn...

The Bible in Political Context.
October 1, 2001... New Republics from Old Yugoslavia and the Former Soviet Union Biblical translators and interpreters operate not only with theological assumptions about their place in God's scheme but also with political assumptions about their place in...

A Theology of the Way (Tao).
October 1, 2001... As Jews and Christians serve the unutterable YHWH, Asians have revered the nameless Tao. A Tao-based theology that regards Jesus as the Way of God directly addresses the pain many Asian Americans face today. Members of marginalized ethnic...

Meeting Jesus Again in the First Place.
October 1, 2001... Palestinian Christians and the Bible Palestinian theologians seek to free their people from exclusive notions of election and promise through approaches to scripture that draw on the experience of the Israeli occupation. Scripture may be...

Luke 1:68-79.
October 1, 2001... REASONABLE DOUBTS "How will I know that this is so?" (Luke 1:18). The angel Gabriel is a little rough on Zechariah, making him mute for nine months. After all, the old man was just reacting the way any of us would have: reminding God...

John 5:31-47.
October 1, 2001... ON AUGUST 14, 1912, IN COATESVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, John Jay Chapman spoke at a prayer meeting that commemorated the lynching of a black man the year before: "We are met to commemorate the anniversary of one of the most dreadful crimes in...

Acts 15:22-31.
October 1, 2001... WHAT IS THE DECENT LIFE TODAY? Can the people of a local congregation define for their community the meaning of decency, not only in sexual matters but in all dimensions of life? Some years before creating his best-selling The Joy of Sex,...

Titus 2: 11-14.
October 1, 2001... AS A LECTION FOR THE LITURGY OF CHRISTMAS EVE, this passage offers a remarkable summary of our Christian theology of hope. As a young companion of Paul, Titus was to teach this message to the despised and apparently hopeless people on the...

Numbers 21-36: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Baruch Levine Anchor Bible 4A. Doubleday, New York, 2000. 614 pp. $45.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-385-41256-8. NUMBERS TRACES THE MARCH OF ISRAEL in the wilderness on its way from Egyptian bondage to Canaan's promised land. The book is filled...

Speaking Parables: A Homiletic Guide.(Review)
October 1, 2001... by David Buttrick Westminster John Knox, Louisville, 2000. 254 Pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-664-2219 1-2. WE HAVE COME TO EXPECT SMART, street-wise scholarship, homiletical savvy, and biting wit from the pen of David Buttrick. This preacher's...

The Prophetic Books and Their Theological Witness.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... by Odil Hannes Steck Translated by James D. Nogalski, Chalice, St. Louis, 2000. 246 pp. $29.99. ISBN 0-8272-2957-7. STECK PROPOSES AN APPROACH for determining the theological message of Old Testament prophetic books and applying them...

The Blood of Abel: The Violent Plot in the Hebrew Bible.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... by Mark McEntire Mercer University Press, Macon, 1999. 181 pp. $18.00. ISBN 0-86554-629-0. JOINING A GROWING NUMBER of scholars whose concern with the problem of biblical violence is informed by the work of Rene Girard, McEntire...

Wise, Strange, and Holy: The Strange Woman and the Making of the Bible.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... by Claudia Camp JSOTSup 320, Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, 2000. 372 pp. $84.00 (cloth). ISBN 1-84127-166-7. STRANGENESS, whether it exists in the form of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, or cultic activity, is the core concern of...

The Hospitality of God: A Reading of Luke's Gospel.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... by Brendan Byrne Liturgical Press, Collegeville, 2000. 209 pp. $19.95. ISBN 0-8146-2390-5. BYRNE OFFERS an interpretation of Luke that lifts up God's generous hospitality toward humankind as the narrative's overarching motif. He notes...

Colossians and Ephesians.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... by Margaret Y. MacDonald Sacra Pagina 17. Liturgical Press, Collegeville, 2000. 390 pp. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN 0-8146-5819-9. BIBLICAL COMMENTARIES drawing insights from the social sciences are entering the mainstream, and this volume is...

Honor, Patronage, Kinship and Purity: Unlocking New Testament Culture.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... By David A. deSilva InterVarsity, Downers Grove, III., 2000. 336 pp. $24.99. ISBN 0-83033-1572-4. DESILVA EXPLORES the cultural context of the New Testament to arrive at "more authentic" readings that enable us to discern "more richly...

Decolonizing Biblical Studies: A View from the Margins.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... by Fernando F. Segovia Orbis. Maryknoll, N.Y., 2000. 177 pp. $24.00. ISBN 1-57075-338-5. THIS VOLUME GATHERS EIGHT previously published essays, providing one of the best available overviews of the changing landscape of biblical...

God Who Creates: Essays in Honor of W. Sibley Towner.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Edited by William P. Brown and S. Dean McBride, Jr. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2000. 273 pp. $24.00. ISBN 0-8028-4626-2. BROWN AND MCBRIDE HAVE brought together a wide array of perspectives on the presence and significance of creation in...

Deus Trinitatis: The Doctrine of the Triune God.(Review)
October 1, 2001... by David M. Coffey Oxford University Press, New York, 1999. 204 pp. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-19-512472-3. COFFEY DOES NOT CONSIDER this ecumenical study a comprehensive statement on the doctrine of the Trinity but the logical extension...

Recovering the Scandal of the Cross: Atonement in New Testament and Contemporary Contexts.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... by Joel B. Green and Mark D. Baker InterVarsity, Downers Grove, III., 2000. 229 pp. $15.99. ISBN 0-8308-1571-6. GREEN AND BAKER ADDRESS a formidable topic: how to interpret the significance of the cross for contemporary culture. Their...

Theology and the Arts: Encountering God Through Music, Art, and Rhetoric.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... by Richard Viladesau Paulist, New York, 2000. 270 pp. $17.95. ISBN 0-8091-3927-8. VILADESAU QUICKENS THE conversation between theology and art, aesthetics and concrete religious life. Through the mediation of beauty, the arts, says...

Recreating the Church: Communities of Eros.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... by Pamela Dickey Young Trinity Press International, Harrisburg, 2000. 158 pp. $17.00. ISBN 1-56338-320-9. THIS BOOK ARISES out of the crisis of churches at the turn of the century. The author's concerns emerge from the experience of...

Parables for Preachers: The Gospel of Luke. Year C.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... by Barbara E. Reid Liturgical Press, Collegeville, 2000. 351 pp. $11.95. ISBN 0-8146-2552-5. WHEN PREACHING A PARABLE, Reid urges in this resource for Year C of the common lectionary, one does not stop with exegetical research that...