Comments on: Opening the New Testament and Finding the Old II http://therabbittrail.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/opening-the-new-testament-and-finding-the-old-ii/ The Official Blog of Bookman Ministries Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:01:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Just How Old Was Saul? « The Rabbit Trail http://therabbittrail.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/opening-the-new-testament-and-finding-the-old-ii/#comment-52 Just How Old Was Saul? « The Rabbit Trail Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:54:55 +0000 http://therabbittrail.wordpress.com/?p=21#comment-52 [...] Testament passage which is dependent upon a discussion in an earlier blog entry which can be found here. Quite simply, that discussion considered a peculiar Hebrew idiom, the most familiar expression of [...] [...] Testament passage which is dependent upon a discussion in an earlier blog entry which can be found here. Quite simply, that discussion considered a peculiar Hebrew idiom, the most familiar expression of [...]

]]> By: Dante Spencer http://therabbittrail.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/opening-the-new-testament-and-finding-the-old-ii/#comment-44 Dante Spencer Thu, 29 May 2008 19:07:58 +0000 http://therabbittrail.wordpress.com/?p=21#comment-44 What you're doing here fits within the heading of the NT's use of the OT, one of my favorite areas. On this I follow the lead of GK Beale in his Themelios article , "The Right Doctrine from the Wrong Texts?" He contends (contra RN Longenecker) that not only does the NT use the OT in context (they were not eisegetical), but that we should learn our method of exegesis from the NT authors. If our hermeneutics do not seem to agree with the apostles, the problem is with us, not them. Right now I happened to be reading a book that also speaks to what you're doing, though coming at it from a different angle. It is Richard Bauckham's "God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the NT." I think you too would enjoy it. What you’re doing here fits within the heading of the NT’s use of the OT, one of my favorite areas. On this I follow the lead of GK Beale in his Themelios article , “The Right Doctrine from the Wrong Texts?” He contends (contra RN Longenecker) that not only does the NT use the OT in context (they were not eisegetical), but that we should learn our method of exegesis from the NT authors. If our hermeneutics do not seem to agree with the apostles, the problem is with us, not them.

Right now I happened to be reading a book that also speaks to what you’re doing, though coming at it from a different angle. It is Richard Bauckham’s “God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the NT.” I think you too would enjoy it.

]]> By: pgepps http://therabbittrail.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/opening-the-new-testament-and-finding-the-old-ii/#comment-29 pgepps Fri, 23 May 2008 19:23:43 +0000 http://therabbittrail.wordpress.com/?p=21#comment-29 Sure makes sense to me, though I'd never noted the commonness of that pattern before. I wonder about the clarity of the Hebrew/Greek division, though, given the attachment of many Hebrew thinkers to numerical and other speculation concerning the minutiae (if particularly that of Torah). The general proposition that the NT writings inhabit as primary context the terms and idiom of Hebrew Scripture, though, seems unassailable. Sure makes sense to me, though I’d never noted the commonness of that pattern before. I wonder about the clarity of the Hebrew/Greek division, though, given the attachment of many Hebrew thinkers to numerical and other speculation concerning the minutiae (if particularly that of Torah). The general proposition that the NT writings inhabit as primary context the terms and idiom of Hebrew Scripture, though, seems unassailable.

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