Following will be the abbreviation for one of his seven letters. Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, who died as a martyr in Rome early in the second century. Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra, a medieval Jewish scholar who wrote many works, including a commentary on the Hebrew Bible. Shepherd of Hermas, a Christian work written in Rome sometime during the 1st and 2nd centuries a.d. Who is the Heir?, a philosophical work by Philo (see Embassy above) 260-341Īgainst Flaccus, a philosophical work by Philo (see Embassy above) Praeparatio evangelica ( Preparation for the Gospel), a work by Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, who lived ca. On the Embassy to Gaius, a philosophical work by Philo, a Jewish philosopher who lived from 20 b.c. 500-550.Ī copy of the Damascus Document, which is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, found in the Cairo genizah Indicates a tractate from the Babylonian Talmud, which contains the Mishnah and rabbinic interpretive expansions. Jewish Antiquities, a history of the Jewish people written by Josephus (see Ag. 37/38 until the early years of the second century. Miqsat Maàaseh Torah from Qumran Cave 4, one of the Dead Sea ScrollsĪgainst Apion, a defense of the Jewish people written by Josephus, a Jewish historian who lived from a.d. This scroll details rules for admission into the Qumran community.Ģ Baruch, a Jewish apocalyptic work written early in the second centuryĢ Enoch, an Jewish pseudepigraphic work that expands upon Gen 5:21-32 Rule of the Community, one of the first Dead Sea Scrolls recovered. Thanksgiving Hymns, hymns composed for worship within the Qumran community 37-71 (also called Ethiopic Enoch)ġ Kingdoms, the book of the LXX which corresponds to 1 Samuel The older (classical) system is listed first, and the Loeb citation system then follows in parentheses.ġ Enoch, a Jewish pseudepigraphic work that includes what are thought to be Christian interpolations in chaps. (Biblical theology is) that approach to Scripture which attempts to see Biblical material holistically and to describe (1948), Lehman (1971, 1974), Terrien (1978), VanGemeren (1988/1995), and Childs (19).Two citation systems for Philo and Josephus are used in the notes. Specifically, disagreements have persisted about goal, orientation, and methodology.īiblical theology attempts to embrace the message of the Bible and to arrive at an intelligible coherence of the whole despite the great diversity of the parts.īiblical theology provides a theological synopsis of the biblical material. The purpose instead is to sketch the dynamic that accounts for the oscillation of this discipline’s fortunes, a dynamic inherent in the issues surrounding it. Hayes and Prussner, Old Testament Theology Hasel, Old Testament Theology, 10-27 Hogenhaven, 13-27 Ollenburger, “From Timeless Ideas to the Essence of Religion,” 3-19 Reventlow, 1985 Smith, Old Testament Theology, 21-24). The purpose of this essay, however, is not to chronicle the history of OT theology. Sanders, 1987 Hasel, “The Future of Old Testament Theology,” 373-83 Moberly, 159-66 Smith, 64-69). Even the term, “Old Testament Theology,” is under attack a substitute designation is “Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures” (for discussions and assessments cf. Especially in the twentieth century, OT theology has by turns been riding the crest or has plunged, about to disappear, into the proverbial watery trough. Like a nation’s economy, which has its downturns and upturns, so the discipline of Old Testament (OT) theology has in the last two hundred years seen both good and bad days. The Flowering and Floundering of Old Testament Theology
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