Two Testaments, One Story

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:27:47 GMT

Christianity Today has an interview with G.K. Beale and D.A. Carson on their recent publication, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament.

A Survey of the Usage of “Tsedek/Tsedekah” in the Hebrew Old Testament

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:40:07 GMT

Introduction

While the issue of authority no doubt underlay the Protestant Reformation, so that the basis upon which men began to question the corruption of Rome was only the “formal principle” of sola scriptura; and while the sole weapon which the Reformers ever wielded against their doctrinal foes was the grammatico-historical hermeneutic; it is no less certain that the one great battlefield upon which the war was waged was constituted of the biblical word groups for “righteousness”: in the Old Testament tsedek/tsedekah, and in the New Testament dikaiosis/dikaiosune. It is no accident that the question of justification, or how a sinner may be declared righteous before a holy God, is the question to which sola scriptura must ultimately give rise: for from the beginning of the scriptures, man’s plight is cast in the direst of terms, and the basic direness is the result of a lack of righteousness, and all the troubling effects to which that condition must succumb, when the righteous Judge appears upon the scene. In other words, the “formal principle” of the Reformation, namely sola scriptura, could not but give rise to its “material principle,” justification by grace alone through faith alone.

Review: Preaching and Teaching the Old Testament

Thu, 31 May 2007 00:55:07 GMT

Here’s my review of Walter Kaiser’s Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament. Overall it is an excellent resource and provocative in a number of areas. If nothing else, chapter four on “The Art and Science of Expository Preaching” is reason enough to read the book.

Helpful Reference Tools for Biblical Studies

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:10:06 GMT

Because of the positive responses I have received to last week’s blog on my favorite NT commentaries I have decided to share with you also what I consider to be some of the most helpful reference tools for biblical studies. Once again, please don’t hesitate to tell me if I left anything out!

REFERENCE WORKS

Introductions and Surveys

Old Testament

Arnold, Bill and Bryan Beyer. Encountering the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1999.

Dillard, Raymond B. and Tremper Longman III. An Introductio to the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1994.

Hill, Andrew and John Walton. A Survey of the Old Testament. 2d ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000.

LaSor, William, David A. Hubbard, and Frederick W. Bush. Old Testament Survey: The Message, Form and Background of the Old Testament. 2d ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.

Longman, Tremper and Raymond B. Dillard. An Introduction to the Old Testament. 2d ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007.

New Testament

Carson, D. A. and Douglas J. Moo. An Introduction to the New Testament. 2d ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005.

Elwell, Walter A. and Robert W. Yarbrough. Encountering the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998.

Gundry, Robert H. A Survey of the New Testament. 4^th ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003.

Guthrie, Donald. New Testament Introduction. Rev. ed. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1990.

Köstenberger, Andreas J., L. Scott Kellum, and Charles L. Quarles. The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown. A Comprehensive Introduction to the New Testament. Broadman: B & H, 2008. [forthcoming]

Background

Both Testaments

Drane, John, ed. Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Bible. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1998.

Metzger, Bruce M. and Michael D. Coogan, eds. The Oxford Guide to People & Places of the Bible. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Packer, J. I., Merrill C. Tenney, and William White, Jr. The Bible Almanac. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1980.

Porter, J. R. The Illustrated Guide to the Bible. London: Barnes & Noble, 2000.

Old Testament

Hoerth, Alfred J., Gerald L. Mattingly, and Edwin M. Yamauchi. Peoples of the Old Testament World. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994.

Kaiser, Walter. A History of Israel: From the Bronze Age Through the Jewish Wars. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1998.

Long, V. Philips, David Baker, and Gordon Wenham, eds. Windows into Old Testament History. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.

Long, V. Philips, Tremper Longman III, and Iain W. Provan. A Biblical History of Israel. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2003.

Merrill, Eugene H. Kingdom of Priests: A History of Old Testament Israel. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1996.

Millard, Alan. Discoveries from Bible Times. Oxford: Lion, 1990.

New Testament

Arnold, Clinton E., ed. Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary. 4 vols. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002.

Barnett, Paul. Jesus and the Rise of Early Christianity: A History of New Testament Times. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1999.

Barrett, C. K. New Testament Background: Selected Documents. 2d ed. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1989.

Evans, Craig A. and Stanley E. Porter, eds. Dictionary of New Testament Background. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2000.

Ferguson, Everett. Backgrounds of Early Christianity. 2d ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993.

Porter, Stanley E., ed. Dictionary of New Testament Background. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2000.

BIBLICAL LANGUAGES

Introductory Grammars

Hebrew

Fuller, Russell T. and Kyoungwon Choi. Invitation to Biblical Hebrew: A Beginning Grammar. Invitation to Theological Studies Series. Grammar and Workbook. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2006.

Pratico, Gary D. and Miles V. Van Pelt. Basics of Biblical Hebrew. Grammar, Workbook, and Study Aids. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001.

Ross, A. P. Introducing Biblical Hebrew. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2001.

Seow, C. L. A. Grammar for Biblical Hebrew. Nashville: Abingdon, 1995.

Greek

Baugh, Steven M. A New Testament Greek Primer. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian & Reformed, 1995.

Black, David A. Learn to Read New Testament Greek: Expanded Edition. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1994.

Mounce, William D. Basics of Biblical Greek. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1993.

Intermediate/Advanced Grammars

Hebrew

Joüon, Paul and T. Muraoka. A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew. 2 vols. Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1993.

Kautzsch, E., ed. Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar. Translated by A. E. Cowley. 2d ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1910.

Waltke, Bruce K. and M. O’Connor. An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1990.

Greek

Baugh, Steven M. A First John Reader: Intermediate Greek Reading Notes and Grammar. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian & Reformed, 1999.

Mounce, William D. A Graded Reader of Biblical Greek. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996.

Mounce, William D. The Morphology of Biblical Greek. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1994.

Wallace, Daniel B. Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996.

Textual Criticism

Old Testament

Scott, William R. A Simplified Guide to the BHS. 3d ed. N. Richland Hills, TX: Bibal, 1987.

Würthwein, Ernst. The Text of the Old Testament: An Introduction to the Biblia Hebraica. 2d ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.

New Testament

Metzger, Bruce M. A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament. 2d ed. New York: United Bible Society, 1994.

Metzger, Bruce M. and Bart Ehrman. The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration. 4^th ed. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Lexical and Syntactical Study

See also Bible Software above and Dictionaries below.

General

Carson, D. A. Exegetical Fallacies. 2d ed. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1996.

Cotterell, Peter and Max Turner. Linguistics and Biblical Interpretation. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1989.

Silva, Moisés. Biblical Words and Their Meaning: An Introduction to Lexical Semantics. Rev. ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1994.

Both Testaments

Green, Jay P., gen. ed. The Interlinear Bible. 2d ed. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1986.

Hebrew

Brown, Francis, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs. The New Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius Hebrew-English Lexicon. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1979.

Harris, R. Laird, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce Waltke. Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament. 2 vols. Chicago: Moody, 1980.

Kohlenberger, John R. and James A. Swanson. Hebrew-English Concordance to the Old Testament. Zondervan. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998.

Rudolph, W. and H. P. Rüger, eds. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. 2d ed. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1983.

Wigram, George V. The New Englishman’s Hebrew Concordance. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1986.

Greek

Bauer, Walter, Frederick W. Danker, William F. Arndt, and F. Wilbur Gingrich. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3d ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. (BDAG)

Goodrick, Edward W., John R. Kohlenberger, and James A. Swanson. Exhaustive Concordance to the Greek New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995.

Köstenberger, Andreas J. and Raymond P. Bouchoc, The Book Study Concordance. Broadman & Holman, 2003.

Louw, Johannes P. and Eugene A. Nida. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament. 2 vols. New York: United Bible Society, 1988, 1989.

Wigram, George V. and Ralph D. Winter. Word Study New Testament and Concordance. 2 vols. Wheaton: Tyndale House, 1978.

Dictionaries

Both Testaments

Alexander, T. Desmond, Brian S. Rosner, D. A. Carson, and Graeme Goldsworthy, eds. New Dictionary of Biblical Theology. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2000.

Freedman, David Noel, ed. The Anchor Bible Dictionary. 6 vols. Garden City: Doubleday, 1992.

Marshall, I. Howard, Alan R. Millard, J. I. Packer, and Donald J. Wiseman, eds. New Bible Dictionary. 3d ed. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1996.

Ryken, Leland, James C. Wilhoit, and Tremper Longman III, eds. Dictionary of Biblical Imagery. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1998.

Vanhoozer, Kevin J. Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005.

Old Testament

VanGemeren, Willem A., gen. ed. New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis. 5 vols. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1997.

New Testament

Balz, Horst and Gerhard Schneider, eds. Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament. 3 vols. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990–93.

Brown, Colin, ed. New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology. 4 vols. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1986.

Green, Joel B., Scot McKnight, and I. Howard Marshall, eds. Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1992.

Hawthorne, Gerald F., Ralph P. Martin, and Daniel G. Reid, eds. Dictionary of Paul and His Letters. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1993.

Theologies

Biblical Theology

Goldsworthy, Graeme. According to Plan. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2002.

Hafemann, ed. Biblical Theology: Retrospect and Prospect. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2002.

Scobie, Charles H. H. The Ways of Our God: An Approach to Biblical Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.

Old Testament

Dempster, Stephen. Dominion and Dynasty: A Biblical Theology of the Hebrew Bible. NSBT. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2003.

Dumbrell, William J. The Faith of Israel: A Theological Survey of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2001.

House, Paul R. Old Testament Theology. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1998.

Kaiser, Walter. Toward an Old Testament Theology. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1978.

Martens, Elmer A. God’s Design: A Focus on Old Testament Theology. 2d ed. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994.

New Testament

Caird, George B. New Testament Theology. Completed and edited by L. D. Hurst. Oxford: Clarendon, 1994.

Guthrie, Donald. New Testament Theology. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1981.

Ladd, George Eldon. A Theology of the New Testament. Rev. ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993.

Marshall, I. Howard. New Testament Theology: Many Witnesses, One Gospel. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2004.

Thielman, Frank. Theology of the New Testament: A Canonical and Synthetic Approach. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005.

Systematic Theology

Akin, Daniel, ed. A Theology for the Church. Nashville: B & H, 2007.

Erickson, Millard J. Christian Theology. 2d ed. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998

Grudem, Wayne A. Systematic Theology. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1994.

Hermeneutics

Duvall, J. Scott and J. Daniel Hays. Grasping God’s Word: A Hands-On Approach to Reading, Interpreting, and Applying the Bible. 2d ed. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005.

Goldsworthy, Graeme. Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics: Foundations and Principles of Evangelical Biblical Interpretation. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2006.

Klein, William W., Craig L. Blomberg, and Robert L. Hubbard. Introduction to Biblical Interpretation. 2d ed. Dallas: Word, 2004.

Osborne, Grant R. The Hermeneutical Spiral: A Comprehensive Introduction to Biblical Interpretation. 2d ed. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2006.

Vanhoozer, Kevin J. Is There a Meaning in This Text? Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998.

Vanhoozer, Kevin J. The Drama of Doctrine: A Canonical-Linguistic Approach to Christian Theology. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2005.

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