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Church History
John D. Cox Our Price: $6.95 |
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Rendtorff's approach involves an intensive interchange with international scholarship, including Jewish biblical studies, and emphasis on the question of the canon. Important themes of Old Testament theology are developed, among them revelation and history, creation and salvation history, covenant, and paradigms of exegesis. Table of Contents
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| Foreword | ||
| Translator's Note | ||
| Abbreviations | ||
| 1 | Old Testament Theology: Some Ideas for a New Approach | 1 |
| 2 | Rabbinic Exegesis and the Modern Christian Bible Scholar | 17 |
| 3 | Between Historical Criticism and Holistic Interpretation: New Trends in Old Testament Exegesis | 25 |
| 4 | Toward a Common Jewish-Christian Reading of the Hebrew Bible | 31 |
| 5 | The Importance of the Canon for a Theology of the Old Testament | 46 |
| 6 | The Place of Prophecy in a Theology of the Old Testament | 57 |
| 7 | The Image of Postexilic Israel in German Old Testament Scholarship from Wellhausen to von Rad | 66 |
| 8 | Christological Interpretation as a Way of "Salvaging" the Old Testament? Wilhelm Vischer and Gerhard von Rad | 76 |
| 9 | "Where Were You When I Laid the Foundation of the Earth?" Creation and Salvation History | 92 |
| 10 | Revelation and History: Particularism and Universalism in Israel's View of Revelation | 114 |
| 11 | "Covenant" as a Structuring Concept in Genesis and Exodus | 125 |
| 12 | The Birth of the Deliverer: "The Childhood of Samuel" Story in Its Literary Framework | 135 |
| 13 | The Composition of the Book of Isaiah | 146 |
| 14 | Isaiah 6 in the Framework of the Composition of the Book | 170 |
| 15 | Isaiah 56:1 as a Key to the Formation of the Book of Isaiah | 181 |
| 16 | Ezekiel 20 and 36:16ff. in the Framework of the Composition of the Book | 190 |
| 17 | What Is New in the New Covenant? | 196 |
| 18 | Forty Years On: Four Decades of Old Testament Scholarship as I Have Experienced Them in Heidelberg and Elsewhere | 207 |
| Acknowledgments | 221 | |
| Index of Biblical References | 225 | |
| Index of Names | 233 |
