Bryan D. Estelle
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“Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation” By Elaine Pagels
Deciding which religious books are going to rule your life is no small issue. In a word, it is called “canon” (kanon), the “measure” by which a religious community seeks to comply in its religious thought, ethics, life, and even discipline. Therefore, when a church discourses on such matters, it cuts to the very heart […]
Handbook on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament: Exegesis and Interpretation By G. K. Beale
Gregory Beale has written a gem of a handbook for pastors, scholars, and all those concerned with a serious engagement of the New Testament’s reading and use of the Old Testament. Beale is known particularly for his work on quotes and allusions of the Old Testament (OT) that appear in the New Testament (NT). This […]
The Art of Synecdoche
What The Iliad and The Odyssey were to the Greeks and what The Aeneid was to the Romans, the book of Exodus was to the Hebrews. It was the story within which they defined their own lives as a story. Let the reader understand: the Exodus event was paradigmatic or world defining for the […]
If I Were a Horse – “Kinship by Covenant: A Canonical Approach to the Fulfillment of God’s Saving Promises”
Scott Hahn has written a useful volume for the academic community with a well-researched book on the subject of covenant. The final product of years of sustained labor and reflection, this is a reworking of Hahn’s doctoral dissertation and will be of immense interest to all students of the Bible, professional and otherwise, because it […]
Noah
Recovering the Message of Scripture In this special section of our “Rightly Dividing the Word” issue, nine pastor-theologians help shed light on some popular texts of Scripture that tend to lose their true redemptive-historical significance in a culture of interpretive narcissism. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God. (Gen. […]
