Brevard Childs
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Struggle To Understand Isaiah As Christian Scripture
$35.99Add to cartA 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
$44.00Add to cartThis 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
$44.00Add to cartPreface
AbbreviationsPART ONE: THE OLD TESTAMENT: INTRODUCTION
The Discipline Of Old Testament Introduction
The Problem Of The Canon
Canon And Criticism
Text And CanonPART TWO: THE PENTATEUCH
Introduction To The Pentateuch
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
DeuteronomyPART THREE: THE FORMER PROPHETS
Introduction To The Forms Prophets
Joshua
Judges
Samuel
KingsPART FOUR: THE LATTER PROPHETS
Introduction To The Latter Prophets
Isaiah
Jeremiah
EzekielThe Book Of The Twelve
Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
MalachiPART FIVE: THE WRITINGS
Introduction To The Writings
The Psalms
Job
Proverbs
Ruth
Song Of Songs
Ecclesiastes
Lamentations
Esther
Daniel
Ezra And Nehemiah
ChroniclesPART SIX: CONCLUSION
The Hebrew Scriptures And The Christian Bible
Index Of Authors
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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. -
Churchs Guide For Reading Paul
$31.99Add to cartHere 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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Isaiah
$80.00Add to cartInternationally renowned scholar Brevard Childs writes on what is arguably the Old Testament’s most important theological book-Isaiah. Childs provides a fresh translation from the original Hebrew and discusses questions of text, language, historical background, and literary architecture. His critically informed, theological interpretaion of the text provides a creative and reading of Isaiah.
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Book Of Exodus
$83.00Add to cartIn 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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Old Testament Theology In A Canonical Context
$39.00Add to cartChilds, eminent Yale professor of divinity, provides a fresh approach to Old Testament theology that frees the text for a more powerful theological role within the Christian church. Moving beyond prior historical-critical studies, Childs’ canonical approach provides “a major check against the widespread modern practice of treating it solely from a philological, historical, or literary perspective.”