Biblical Theology
The Convergence of the Canon
Ben Witherington III

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Sivuja: 504

Kustantaja: Cambridge University Press, 2019

ISBN-13: 9781108712682

ISBN-10: 1108712681

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In Biblical Theology, Ben Witherington examines the theology of the Old and New Testaments as a totality. Going beyond an account of carefully crafted Old and New Testament theologies, he demonstrates the ideas that make the Bible a sacred book with a unified theology. Witherington brings a distinctive methodology to this study. Taking a constructive approach, he first examines the foundations of the writers' symbolic universe – what they thought and presupposed about God – and how they revealed those thoughts through the narratives of the Old and New Testaments. He also shows how the historical contexts and intellectual worlds of the Old and New Testaments conditioned their narratives, and, in the process, created a large coherent Biblical world view, one that progressively reveals the character and action of God. Thus, the Yahweh of the Old Testament, the Son in the Gospels, and the Father, Son, and Spirit in the New Testament writings are viewed as persons who are part of the singular divine identity.

Anyone who has thought about how to write a biblical theology will agree that it is a daunting task. There is no one obvious methodology that can begin to do justice to the complex unity and variegated diversity of all sixty-six books of the Bible. There are a host of difficult questions about how to relate the two testaments or the various parts of each testament to each other. It is no wonder that very few biblical scholars have either the competence or the audacity to attempt such a task. Ben Witherington has plenty of both. His whole career as a teacher and writer, wide-ranging in both activities, has prepared him for it, and he relishes the work of moving back and forth between detailed exegesis and big ideas. — Highly recommended!

Biblical Theology is a magisterial work., the sort of book that could only have been written by a first-class scholar after decades of reading and reflection, of inquiry and scholarship. In turn, it will stand for decades more as a benchmark in its field.

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Ben Witherington III on Uuden testamentin professori (Asbury Theological Seminary, Skotlanti) ja yksi maailman huippututkijoista evankelikaalisen perinteen piirissä. Hän on kirjoittanut yli neljäkymmentä omaa alaansa koskevaa teosta.