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Seeing the Word Refocusing New Testament Study

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ISBN-10: 0801027616

ISBN-13: 9780801027611

Edition: 2006

Authors: Markus Bockmuehl, Joel Green, Christopher Seitz, Craig G. Bartholomew

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At a time of deep disagreements about the nature and purpose of biblical study, Markus Bockmuehl advocates the recovery of a plural but common conversation on the subject of what the New Testament is about.Seeing the Word begins with an assessment of current New Testament studies, identifying both persistent challenges and some promising proposals. Subsequent chapters explore two such proposals. First, ground for common conversation lies in taking seriously the readers and readings the text implies. Second, Bockmuehl explores the text's early effective history by a study of apostolic memory in the early church.All serious students of the Bible and theology will find much of interest, and…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Baker Academic
Publication date: 9/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 298
Size: 5.59" wide x 8.66" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.792

Markus Bockmuehl (PhD, University of Cambridge) is the Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of Keble College. He previously taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of St. Andrews. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including "Simon Peter in Scripture and Memory", "Seeing the Word", and "This Jesus: Martyr, Lord, Messiah".

Craig Bartholomew (MA, Potchefstroom University, PhD, Bristol University) is professor of philosophy and biblical studies at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Reading Ecclesiastes: Old Testament Exegesis and Hermeneutical Theory. He has also edited In the Fields of the Lord: A Calvin Served Reader and co-edited Christ and Consumerism: A Critical Analysis of the Spirit of the Age. He is the series editor for the Scripture and Hermeneutics Series.

Introduction : watching luke paint the virgin
The troubled fortunes of New Testament scholarship
The wisdom of the implied exegete
Humpty dumpty and the range of implied readings
The icon of Peter and Paul between history and reception
What's under the microscope?
Living memory and apostolic history
Seeing the son of David
Epilogue : seeing the word of life