Category: Interpreting The Old Testament
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An Old Testament Theology
Earlier this week, we took a peek at Frank Thielman’s Theology of the New Testament. The companion volume also published by Zondervan is Bruce Waltke’s An Old Testament Theology: A Canonical and Thematic Approach. Much like my experience in seminary with NT Theologies, my reading of an OT Theology did not happen. My class choices…
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Genesis And Christian Theology
Genesis has almost always been fascinating to me. Part of it I’m sure is its mysterious nature, reaching back to the dawn of time like it does. I’ve just always found the early chapters of Genesis intriguing. Now that I’m up and running with Eerdmans, I noticed they released a collection of essays earlier this…
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How To Form A Chiasm From the Canon of Scripture
In case you’re wondering, a chiasm is a way of structuring a presentation to highlight the middle portion. It takes its name for the Greek letter “Chi” which looks like our X. A chiastic structure would look something like this: Point A Point B Point C Point B’ Point A’ The first and last points…
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How To Read The Bible Like A Postmodern
It’s not often I’ll be able to offer a “How-To” guide for everyone. This post is for people who are living in this age of postmodernity and want to read the Bible in light of the general cultural climate. And, this is for people who are living in the age of postmodernity and don’t want to…
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All Roads Lead To The Text: Eight Methods of Inquiry Into The Bible
As promised, today I’m not only reviewing All Roads Lead To The Text, but also offering an opportunity to get a free copy for yourself! If you’d like to be entered into the drawing, simply (1) share this post on Facebook or Twitter (tagging me so I can track it) and then (2) leave a…
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Reading The Bible With The Dead
Whether or not you’ve noticed, we’re kind of in the midst of a collection of reviews on biblical interpretation. This is an on-going interest for me as both a seminary graduate and Bible teacher. I think it may draw my attention so much because it is a nexus point of biblical studies, philosophical inquiry, and…
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Biblical Hermeneutics: Five Views
Originally, I thought I would review this Spectrum Multiviews book the way I went through Justification: Five Views. However, for two reasons I decided to just condense it to a single post. First, the essays in this book were shorter, and the work as a whole also lacked the longer editorial background chapters of the…
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How To Tell A Puzzle From A Mystery
Two weeks ago I introduced Malcolm Gladwell with his bibliography. Last week I gave you some food for thought from Blink, and now we’ve got some more thought snacks from What the Dog Saw. Unlike Gladwell’s other books, this one is a collection of essays published elsewhere rather than a coherent narrative. How To Tell…
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The Promise-Plan of God: A Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments
Last week, we looked into Walt Kaiser’s Recovering The Unity of The Bible. Today, we’ve got his older and more comprehensive work The Promise-Plan of God. The first part of this book is comes from Kaiser’s older book Toward an Old Testament Theology and presents a biblical theology of the Old Testament books. The second part then…
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Recovering The Unity of The Bible: One Continuous Story, Plan, and Purpose
I’ve been familiar with the name Walt Kaiser since early on in college. One of my first professors used several of his sources, but I hadn’t personally read anything by him until now. Originally delivered as a set of 16 lectures at Cambridge Summer School of Theology, Recovering the Unity of the Bible is a very reader-friendly…