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  Genesis As Torah

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  Should Genesis rightly be identified as law–that is, as torah or legal instruction for Israel? Peterson argues in the affirmative, concluding that Genesis serves a greater function than merely offering a prehistory or backstory for the people of Israel. As the introductory book to the Torah, Genesis must first and foremost be read as legal instruction for Israel. And how exactly is that instruction presented? Peterson posits that many of the Genesis accounts serve as case law. The Genesis narratives depict what a number of key laws in the pentateuchal law codes look like in practice. When Genesis is read through this lens, the rhetorical strategy of the biblical author(s) becomes clear and the purpose for including specific narratives takes on new meaning.

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  Genesis As Torah

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  Should Genesis rightly be identified as law–that is, as torah or legal instruction for Israel? Peterson argues in the affirmative, concluding that Genesis serves a greater function than merely offering a prehistory or backstory for the people of Israel. As the introductory book to the Torah, Genesis must first and foremost be read as legal instruction for Israel. And how exactly is that instruction presented? Peterson posits that many of the Genesis accounts serve as case law. The Genesis narratives depict what a number of key laws in the pentateuchal law codes look like in practice. When Genesis is read through this lens, the rhetorical strategy of the biblical author(s) becomes clear and the purpose for including specific narratives takes on new meaning.

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  Johns Use Of Ezekiel

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  Introduction
  1. The Uniqueness Of John’s Gospel
  2. John 1 And Ezekiel 1-3 Juxtaposed
  3. John’s Use Of Signs And Ezekiel’s Sign Acts
  4. John’s Placement Of The Cleansing Of The Temple In Light Of Ezekiel 8-11
  5. John’s “I Am” Sayings In Light Of Ezekiel
  6. John 17, 20, And Ezekiel 37: Unity, Resurrection, And The Insufflation
  7. Jesus’ Rebuilt “Temple” And Ezekiel 40-43
  8. Conclusions And Implications
  Bibliography
  Indices

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  Scholars have long puzzled over the distinctive themes and sequence of John’s narrative in contrast to the accounts in the Synoptic Gospels. Brian Neil Peterson now offers a remarkable explanation for some of the most unusual features of the Fourth Gospel, including the exalted language of the Johannine prologue; the focus upon Jesus as Word; the imagery of light and darkness, of glory and “tabernacling”; the role-and rejection-of prophecy; the early placement of Jesus’ “cleansing” of the temple and his relation to it; the emphasis on “signs” confirming Jesus’ identity; and the prominence of Jesus’ “I Am” sayings.

  Peterson finds important connections with motifs, themes, and even the macrostructure of the book of Ezekiel at just the points of John’s divergence from the synoptic narrative. His examination of events and sequence in the Fourth Gospel produces a novel understanding of John as steeped in the theology of Ezekiel-and of the Johannine Christ as the fulfillment of the vision of Ezekiel.

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  Authors Of The Deuteronomistic History

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  Contents:
  Preface
  Part 1: The Deuteronomistic History: An Introduction To Issues Of Authorship, Date, And Influences
  1: The Deuteronomistic History Since Martin Noth
  2: The Deuteronomist(s) According To Noth: An Assessment
  3: Deuteronomy As The Linchpin To The Deuteronomistic History
  4: Grammatical Constructions Showing Later Editing In The Deuteronomistic History
  Part 2: An Analysis Of The Texts
  5: The Editing Of The Book Of Deuteronomy
  6: The Editing Of The Book Of Joshua
  7: The Book Of Judges: An Apology For Kingship
  8: 1 Samuel: History Vs. Polemic
  9: 2 Samuel: The Apology Continues: David’s Fall From Grace
  10: 1 And 2 Kings
  11: Conclusions
  Appendix: Character Parallels Between Saul, Ishbosheth, And The Judges

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  Peterson engages one of the most enduring controversies in current critical scholarship on the Hebrew Bible, the identities and provenances of the authors of the various “editions” of the Deuteronomistic History. Critically reviewing the presuppositions of scholars reaching back to Martin Noth, and using careful analysis of motif and characterization at each redactional level in each book of the Deuteronomistic History, Peterson asks where we might locate a figure with both motive and opportunity to draw up a proto-narrative including elements of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and the first part of 1 Kings.

  Posing his questions in the form of a “Whodunit?” Peterson identifies a particular candidate in the time of David who had both knowledge and a theological and political agenda, qualified to write the first edition. He then extends the method to identify the particular circle who became the custodians of the Deuteronomistic narrative and supplies successive redactions, informed by the original formative vision, down to the time of Jeremiah. Careful argumentation yields surprising results at each stage.

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  Proclaiming The Gospel

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  This volume captures central emphases of the Lutheran tradition for use in preaching, especially its distinctive use of the Bible, its Archimedean theological insights, and its notion of preaching’s place within the larger liturgical and societal setting. Working from across the whole array of seminary disciplines, the faculty of Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary forges this practical resource around a single vision: the Church of Christ lives from the power of the Word of God, both the law and the gospel. Preaching this Word is a means of grace by which God creates and shapes a redeemed community. This book reflects biblically, theologically, historically, and practically on what it means for the church to preach the gospel of God in the contemporary world.

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