Brevard Childs

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  Struggle To Understand Isaiah As Christian Scripture

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  A key emphasis of Brevard Childs’s distinguished career has been to show not only that the canon of Scripture comprises both Old and New Testaments but also that the concept of “canon” includes the way the Christian church continues to wrestle in every age with the meaning of its sacred texts. In this new volume Childs uses the book of Isaiah as a case study of the church’s endeavor throughout history to understand its Scriptures.

  In each chapter Childs focuses on a different Christian age, using the work of key figures to illustrate the church’s changing views of Isaiah. After looking at the Septuagint translation, Childs examines commentaries and tractates from the patristic, Reformation, and modern periods. His review shows that despite an enormous diversity in time, culture, nationality, and audience, these works nevertheless display a “family resemblance” in their theological understandings of this central Old Testament text. Childs also reveals how the church struggled to adapt to changing social and historical conditions, often by correcting or refining traditional methodologies, while at the same time maintaining a theological stance measured by faithfulness to Jesus Christ. In an important final chapter Childs draws out some implications of his work for modern debates over the role of Scripture in the life of the church.

  Of great value to scholars, ministers, and students, this book will also draw general readers into the exciting theological debate currently raging in the Christian church about the faithful interpretation of Scripture.

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  Biblical Theology Of The Old And New Testaments

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  This monumental work is the first comprehensive biblical theology to appear in many years and is the culmination of Brevard Child’s lifelong commitment to constructing a biblical theology that surmounts objections to the discipline raised over the past generation.

  Childs rejects any approaches that overstress either the continuity or discontinuity between the Old and New Testaments. He refuses to follow the common pattern in Christian thought of identifying biblical theology with the New Testament’s interest in the Old. Rather, Childs maps out an approach that reflects on the whole Christian Bible with its two very different voices, each of which retains continuing integrity and is heard on its own terms.

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  Introduction To The Old Testament As Scripture

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  Preface
  Abbreviations

  PART ONE: THE OLD TESTAMENT: INTRODUCTION

  The Discipline Of Old Testament Introduction
  The Problem Of The Canon
  Canon And Criticism
  Text And Canon

  PART TWO: THE PENTATEUCH

  Introduction To The Pentateuch
  Genesis
  Exodus
  Leviticus
  Numbers
  Deuteronomy

  PART THREE: THE FORMER PROPHETS

  Introduction To The Forms Prophets
  Joshua
  Judges
  Samuel
  Kings

  PART FOUR: THE LATTER PROPHETS

  Introduction To The Latter Prophets
  Isaiah
  Jeremiah
  Ezekiel

  The Book Of The Twelve

  Hosea
  Joel
  Amos
  Obadiah
  Jonah
  Micah
  Nahum
  Habakkuk
  Zephaniah
  Haggai
  Zechariah
  Malachi

  PART FIVE: THE WRITINGS

  Introduction To The Writings
  The Psalms
  Job
  Proverbs
  Ruth
  Song Of Songs
  Ecclesiastes
  Lamentations
  Esther
  Daniel
  Ezra And Nehemiah
  Chronicles

  PART SIX: CONCLUSION

  The Hebrew Scriptures And The Christian Bible

  Index Of Authors

  Additional Info
  This Introduction attempts to offer a different model for the discipline from that currently represented. It seeks to describe the form and function of the Hebrew Bible in its role as sacred scripture for Israel. It argues the case that the biblical literature has not been correctly understood or interpreted because its role as religious literature has not been correctly assessed.

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  Churchs Guide For Reading Paul

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  Here Brevard Childs turns his sharp scholarly gaze from the Old Testament scholarship he is known for to the works of the apostle Paul. He offers an unusual argument: the New Testament was canonically shaped, its formation a hermeneutical exercise in which its anonymous apostles and postapostolic editors collected, preserved, and theologically shaped the material in order for the evangelical traditions to serve successive generations of Christians. Childs contends that within the New Testament the Pauline corpus stands as a unit bookended by Romans and the Pastoral Epistles. He assigns an introductory role to Romans, examining how it puts the contingencies of Paul’s earlier letters into context without sacrificing their particularity. At the other end, the Pastoral Epistles serve as a concluding valorization of Paul as the church’s doctrinal model. By considering Paul’s works as a whole, Childs offers a way to gain a fuller understanding of the individual letters.

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  Book Of Exodus

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  In a pioneer approach to commentary-writing, Dr. Childs gives an entirely original treatment of the book of Exodus. He first explores the text in all its forms. Then he goes beyond the text to consider later exegesis, Jewish & Christian; the use of Exodus passages in the NT; the later traditions of exegesis; and, finally, more theological reflections.

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