Interpretation articles from October 2005

Interpretation archives from October 2005

Editorial.
October 1, 2005... IN CONTRAST TO MUCH of contemporary culture--at least in North America--where an image is most often understood to refer to something politicians and advertising gurus manipulate to their own advantage, this issue of Interpretation investigates...

Clones of God: Genesis 1:26-28 and the image of God in the Hebrew Bible.
October 1, 2005... In Morris West's novel, The Clowns of God, (1) a Pope is forced by the Curia to abdicate because he has had a vision of the imminence of the apocalypse. In actual fact, the great powers do threaten the world with nuclear extinction. Draconian...

Keeping it real: the image of God in the New Testament.
October 1, 2005... "Bring me a denarius and let me see it." And they brought one. Then he said to them, "Whose head is this, and whose title?" And they answered, "The emperor's." Jesus said to them, "Give to the emperor the things that are the...

Which way is up? An experiment in Christian theology and modern cosmology.
October 1, 2005... Which way is up? Most often, you and I answer this question in a rather immediate frame of reference. "Up" is above me. "Down" is below, the direction in which things fall. But, of course, on our modern picture of Earth and the cosmos, this...

Biblical images of God and the reader's "I" as imago dei: the contribution of Edith Stein.
October 1, 2005... As Edith Stein (1891-1942) recalls in her unfinished autobiography, her older sisters often found her expression inscrutable and teased her, calling her "a book sealed with seven seals." (1) Biblical imagery gives texture to the story of her...

Psalm 8.(Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to be drilled for oil)
October 1, 2005... U.S. SENATORS RECENTLY VOTED TO ALLOW drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a victory that has left environmentalists bruised. Record oil prices, escalating gas prices, and Americans' fear of losing our hold on the comfortable and...

Matthew 3:1-12.(wisdom)
October 1, 2005... COMMON WISDOM HAS IT THAT THE THREE most important things in real estate are location, location, and location. The same is true for people. "Since the divorce she's been in a really bad place." "Our group just isn't there yet. We're stuck." "I...

Matthew 26:6-13.(Dr. Ann Thyle, dedicated life treating poor patients)
October 1, 2005... SEVERAL WINTERS AGO ON A WOMEN'S RETREAT, a gift appeared at my door--a framed print entitled, "She Who Loves the Lord." It is a picture of a woman who has no features on her face. The artist explains that she started creating these drawings...

Hebrews 2:10-18.(God's solidarity)
October 1, 2005... "He himself was tested by what he suffered"--this is altogether low, and mean, and unworthy of God.... God is incapable of suffering. But he describes here what belongs to the Incarnation, as if he had said, "Even the very flesh of...

The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1 by J. Richard Middleton Brazos Press, Grand Rapids, 2005. 304 pp. $21.99. ISBN 1-58743-110-6. WELL MAY WE ASK, "DOES the world need yet another book on Gen 1:26-28 and the image of...

Jeremiah 21-36: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Jeremiah 21-36: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary by Jack R. Lundbom The Anchor Bible 21B. Doubleday, New York, 2004. 649 pp. $68.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-385-41113-8. Jeremiah 37-52: A New Translation with Introduction...

The Gospel of Mark: A Commentary.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Gospel of Mark: A Commentary by Francis J. Moloney, S.D.B. Hendrickson, Peabody, MA, 2002. 398 pp. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN 1-56563-682-1. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MOST READERS OF Interpretation will associate Francis Moloney...

Paul: His Story.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Paul: His Story by Jerome Murphy-O'Connor Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. 259 pp. $21.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-19-926653-0. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] JEROME MURPHY-O'CONNOR has been providing insightful studies on Paul for four...

Reforming Theological Anthropology: After the Philosophical Turn to Relationality.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Reforming Theological Anthropology: After the Philosophical Turn to Relationality by F. LeRon Shults Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2003. 248 pp. $35.00. ISBN 0-8028-4887-7. THE AMBIGUITY OF THIS book's title nicely captures its double...

Women and Men in the Fourth Gospel: A Genuine Discipleship of Equals.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Women and Men in the Fourth Gospel: A Genuine Discipleship of Equals by Margaret Beirne Sheffield Academic, London, 2003. 240 pp. $110.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-8264-6667-2. THIS LITERARY STUDY of the Fourth Gospel argues for the...

Identity and Experience in the New Testament.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Identity and Experience in the New Testament by Klaus Berger, translated by Charles Muenchow Fortress, Minneapolis, 2003, 298 pp. $27.00 ISBN 0-8006-2779-2. THIS BOOK PRESENTS what the author, Klaus Berger, calls an historical...

The Psalms: Strophic Structure and Theological Commentary.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Psalms: Strophic Structure and Theological Commentary by Samuel Terrien Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2003. 971 pp. $95.00. ISBN 0-8028-2605-9. PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY, this one-volume commentary is the author's final work. Although...

Isaiah 28-39: A Continental Commentary.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Isaiah 28-39: A Continental Commentary by Hans Wildberger Fortress, Minneapolis, 2002. 781pp. $75.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-8006-9510-0. THIS BOOK IS AN English translation of the third and final volume of Hans Wildberger's magisterial...

Zephaniah: A Commentary.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Zephaniah: A Commentary by Marvin A. Sweeney Hermeneia. Fortress, Minneapolis, 2003. 227 pp. $47.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-8006-6049-8. IN RECENT YEARS we have witnessed resurgent interest in the prophetic books, especially the Book of...

The Septuagint.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Septuagint by Jennifer M. Dines T & T Clark, London, 2004. 196 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-567-08464-7. DINES ARGUES IN The Septuagint for the importance of the Greek translations of Hebrew Scripture for understanding the period in...

Proclaiming the Gospel: First-Century Performance of Mark.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Proclaiming the Gospel: First-Century Performance of Mark by Whitney Shiner Trinity, Harrisonburg, 2003. 214 pp. $23.00. ISBN 1-56338-396-9. "WHEN I READ THE mockery [of Jesus on the cross] silently, I usually think of the...

Ingesting Jesus: Eating and Drinking in the Gospel of John.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Ingesting Jesus: Eating and Drinking in the Gospel of John by Jane S. Webster Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, 2003. 184 pp. $27.95. ISBN 1-58983-046-6. IN A REVISION of her doctoral dissertation, Jane S. Webster has taken...

Cities of Paul: Images and Interpretations from the Harvard New Testament Archaeology Project.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Cities of Paul: Images and Interpretations from the Harvard New Testament Archaeology Project edited by Helmut Koester Fortress, Minneapolis, 2005. CD-ROM, $199.00. ISBN 0-8006-3673-2. THIS IS A VALUABLE, thoroughly prepared...

Preaching Paul.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Preaching Paul by Brad R. Braxton Abingdon, Nashville, 2004. 192 pp. $18.00. ISBN 0-687-02144-8. BRAXTON OFFERS A GUIDE for preaching the letters of Paul for those who are either unfamiliar with Pauline scholarship or unclear about...

Grace: A Preaching Commentary.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Grace: A Preaching Commentary by Stephen Farris Abingdon, Nashville, 2003. 150 pp. $19.00. ISBN 0-687-09046-6. IT SHOULD COME as no surprise that a book entitled Grace in a series dedicated to preaching is a book about preaching...

Voicing the Vision: Imagination and Prophetic Preaching.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Voicing the Vision: Imagination and Prophetic Preaching by Linda L. Clader Morehouse, Harrisburg, 2003. 168 pp. $16.95. ISBN 0-8192-1932-0. PEOPLE OF FAITH HAVE long known that engaging the imagination is essential for belief. As...

Teaching the Bible in the Church.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Teaching the Bible in the Church by John M. Bracke and Karen B. Tye Chalice Press, St Louis, 2003. 166 pages. $19.99. ISBN 0-8272-3643-3. THIS BOOK takes seriously both teaching and the Bible without privileging one over the...

Holiness.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Holiness by John Webster Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2003. 116 pp. $18.00. ISBN 0-8028-2215-0. Holy Scripture: A Dogmatic Sketch by John Webster Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003. 144 pp. $19.00. ISBN 0-521-53846-7....

Gathered Before God: Worship-Centered Church Renewal.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Gathered Before God: Worship-Centered Church Renewal by Jane Rogers Vann Westminster John Knox, Louisville, 2004. 192 pp. $19.95. ISBN 0-664-22630-2. IN THIS INSIGHTFUL book, Jane Rogers Vann focuses on ten Protestant...

Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation by George E. Tinker Fortress, Minneapolis, 2004. 144 pp. $17.00. ISBN 0-8006-3681-3. THIS VOLUME IS, AS George Tinker says in the preface, "a beginning point...

From Every People and Nation: The Book of Revelation in Intercultural Perspective.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... From Every People and Nation: The Book of Revelation in Intercultural Perspective edited by David Rhoads Augsburg Fortress, Grove City, 2005. 282 pp. $22.00. ISBN 0-8006-3721-6. African American, Hispanic/Cuban, Central American...

Persons in Community: Theological Voices from the Pastorate.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Persons in Community: Theological Voices from the Pastorate edited by William H. Lazareth Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2004. 197 pp. $18.00. ISBN 0-8028-2203-7. These essays from pastor-theologians examine the concept of people as the...

Ezekiel's Hierarchial World: Wrestling with a Tiered Reality.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Ezekiel's Hierarchial World: Wrestling with a Tiered Reality edited by Stephen L. Cook and Corrine L. Patton Symposium. Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, 2005. 288 pp. $39.95. ISBN 1-58983-136-5. Essays on Ezekiel tackle the...

Celebrating Romans: Template for Pauline Theology.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Celebrating Romans: Template for Pauline Theology edited by Sheila E. McGinn Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2004. 296 pp. $36.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-8028-2839-6. This collection in honor of Robert Jewett reviews and advances five approaches...

In Search of the Common Good: Theology for the Twenty-First Century.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... In Search of the Common Good: Theology for the Twenty-First Century edited by Patrick D. Miller and Dennis P. McCann T & T Clark, Harrisburg, 2005. 360 pp $40.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-5670-2770-8. Christian theology, biblical studies,...

Constructive Theology: A Contemporary Approach to Classical Themes.(Book Notes)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Constructive Theology: A Contemporary Approach to Classical Themes edited by Serene Jones and Paul Lakeland Fortress, Minneapolis, 2005. 309 pp. $30.00. ISBN 0-8006-3683-X. Leading North American theologians from the Workgroup on...