Recently added articles from Interpretation:
Editorial
Oct 01, 2009; Anonymous ... In the past half century, studies on the Gospel of John have increasingly explored the role of the church in the gospel's message. This issue connects readers with this ongoing work by offering essays from four major contributors to Johannine scholarship that address different aspects of the ...
The Quest for the Church in the Gospel of John
Oct 01, 2009; Culpepper, R Alan ... From the earliest centuries, the Gospel of John has been embraced as the church's gospel. The first commentaries on any book of the New Testament were written on the Gospel of John. Nothing matches the beauty and lofty Christology of its poetic prologue, words that more than any others guided ...
The Gospel of John: The "End" of Scripture
Oct 01, 2009; Moloney, Francis J ... The explicit citations of the sacred Scriptures of Israel in the Gospel of John are plotted to culminate in Jesus' final word from the Cross. The words of Jesus are regularly presented as the fulfillment of Scripture, and his words are even read as Scripture. The Gospel of John is a presentation ...
Temple Imagery in John1
Oct 01, 2009; Coloe, Mary L ... The narrative of the Fourth Gospel shows the tranference of the meaning of Israel's temple as the dwelling place of God. The temple shifts in meaning from a building to the person of Jesus and then to the community of believers. When reading a gospel, the first thing to note is its ...
Judaism in the Gospel of John
Oct 01, 2009; Reinhartz, Adele ... The Gospel of John is a sublime theological work describing an exalted vision of the cosmic harmony between God and humankind as mediated by the Divine Word. At the same time, the gospel also vilifies nonbelievers and identifies them with a historical group, "the Jews," in a manner that ...
Between Text & Sermon: John 7:37-39
Oct 01, 2009; Reid, Barbara E ... PEOPLE ARE SAYING THAT THE NEXT wars will not be fought over acquisition of oil, but over access to water for drinking and irrigation. In the future, there may be more struggles around the globe like that of the people of Cochambamba, Bolivia, who in the year 2000 protested the selling of their ...
Between Text & Sermon: John 7:53-8:11
Oct 01, 2009; Gench, Frances Taylor ... SCHOLARS GENERALLY AGREE THAT THE STORY of "the woman caught in adultery" was not originally part of the Gospel of John, but also believe that the story is a truly ancient one with all the earmarks of an authentic incident from Jesus' life. Why, then, did it become a free-floating story without ...
Between Text & Sermon: John 11:28-37
Oct 01, 2009; Harris, J S Randolph ... IT BEGAN AS AN ORDINARY ASH WEDNESDAY SERVICE. The congregation sang "Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days," prayed, confessed, and read together Ps 51. Then it came time for the imposition of ashes. The congregation lined up and walked up the center aisle of the sanctuary, where they each ...
The Word of Life: A Theology of John's Gospel
Oct 01, 2009; Gench, Frances Taylor ... The Word of Life: A Theology of John's Gospel by Craig R. Koester Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2008. 259 pp. $21.00. ISBN 9780-8028-2938-2. CRAIG KOESTER PROVES AN adept guide to John's theological landscape in this latest book. His earUer respected study, Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel: ...
I & II Kings: A Commentary
Oct 01, 2009; Viviano, Pauline A ... I & II Kings: A Commentary by Marvin A. Sweeney Westminster John Knox, Louisville, 2007. 476 pp. $49.95 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-664-22084-6. MARVIN SWEENEY'S COMMENTARY is a welcome addition to the well-respected Old Testament Library series. It provides a careful and thoughtful analysis ...
Preaching from Memory to Hope
Oct 01, 2009; Campbell, Charles L ... Preaching from Memory to Hope by Thomas G. Long Westminster John Knox, Louisville, 2009. 152 pp. $19.95. ISBN 978-0-664-23422-5. THIS NEW VOLUME BRINGS together Thomas Long's 2006 Lyman Beecher lectures (Chs. 1, 2, and 5), along with two essays examining and critiquing the rise of ...
The Fourth Gospel in Four Dimensions: Judaism and Jesus, the Gospel and Scripture
Oct 01, 2009; Bridges, Linda McKinnish ... The Fourth Gospel in Four Dimensions: Judaism and Jesus, the Gospel and Scripture by D. Moody Smith University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, 2008. 288 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978-1-57003-763-4. D. MOODY SMITH, the acknowledged "dean of Johannine studies," has been interpreting interpreters ...
Anatomies of Narrative Criticism: The Past, Present, and Futures of the Fourth Gospel as Literature
Oct 01, 2009; Gench, Frances Taylor ... Anatomies of Narrative Criticism: The Past, Present, and Futures of the Fourth Gospel as Literature edited by Tom Thatcher and Stephen D. Moore Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, 2008. 304 pp. $35.95. ISBN 978-1-58983-370-8. IN 1983, ALAN CULPEPPER'S Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel: A ...
Judaism of the Second Temple Period. Vol. 1: Qumran and Apocalypticism
Oct 01, 2009; Goff, Matthew ... Judaism of the Second Temple Period. Vol. 1: Qumran and Apocalypticism by David Flusser Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2007. 370 pp. $36.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-8028-2469-1. DAVID FLUSSER (1917-2000) was a leading Jewish scholar of the NT and Second Temple Judaism who wrote primarily in Hebrew ...
Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple Times
Oct 01, 2009; Ahearne-Kroll, Patricia D ... Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple Times by Sidnie White Crawford Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2008. 172 pp. $16.00. ISBN 978-0-8028-4740-9. THE MODERN CONCEPT of "Bible" did not exist in Second Temple Judaism; the books of the Old Testament/Tanakh today were not fixed during this time ...
Challenging Prophetic Metaphor: Theology and Ideology in the Prophets
Oct 01, 2009; Tull, Patricia K ... Challenging Prophetic Metaphor: Theology and Ideology in the Prophets by Julia M. O'Brien Westminster John Knox, Louisville, 2008. 202 pp. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-664-22964-1. The EASIEST WAY TO protect the Bible's reputation is to leave it unread. Faithful readers intent on knowing what ...
Sexual and Marital Metaphors in Hosea, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Ezekiel
Oct 01, 2009; Claassens, L Juliana M ... Sexual and Marital Metaphors in Hosea, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Ezekiel by Sharon Moughtin-Mumby Oxford University Press, New York, 2008. 320 pp. $130.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-19-923908-5. AS THE TITLE SUGGESTS, Sharon Moughtin-Mumby explores the sexual and marital metaphorical language in ...
A Pathway of Interpretation: The Old Testament for Pastors and Students/We Have Heard That God Is with You: Preaching the Old Testament
Oct 01, 2009; Boyce, Richard ... A Pathway of Interpretation: The Old Testament for Pastors and Students by Walter Brueggemann Cascade, Eugene, Ore., 2008. 180 pp. $16.80. ISBN 978-1-55635-589-9. We Have Heard That God Is with You: Preaching the Old Testament by Rein Bos Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 2008. 384 pp. $28.00 ....
Resurrection: The Power of God for Christians and Jews
Oct 01, 2009; Adams, Samuel L ... Resurrection: The Power of God for Christians and Jews by Kevin J. Madigan and Jon D. Levenson New Haven, Yale University Press, 2008. 284 pp. $30.00 (Cloth). ISBN 978-0-300-12277-0. KEVIN MADIGAN AND Jon Levenson maintain that Jewish and Christian doctrines of resurrection have their ...
Meet the Rabbis: Rabbinic Thought and the Teachings of Jesus
Oct 01, 2009; Eisenbaum, Pamela ... Meet the Rabbis: Rabbinic Thought and the Teachings of Jesus by Brad H. Young Hendrickson, Peabody, Mass., 2007. 270 pp. $16.95. ISBN 978-1-56563-405-3. BRAD YOUNG'S BOOK is an introduction to rabbinic thought and literature directed to a Christian audience with the expressed purpose of ...
