The Character of Christian Scripture
The Significance of a Two-Testament Bible
CHRISTOPHER R. SEITZ
BakerAcademic
a division of Baker Publishing Group
Grand Rapids, Michigan
STUDIES in THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION
Series Editors
Craig G. Bartholomew
Redeemer University College
Joel B. Green
Fuller Theological Seminary
Christopher R. Seitz
Wycliffe College, University of Toronto
Editorial Advisory Board
Gary Anderson
University of Notre Dame
Markus Bockmuehl
University of Oxford
Richard Hays
Duke University Divinity School
Christine Pohl
Asbury Theological Seminary
Eleonore Stump
Saint Louis University
Anthony Thiselton
University of Nottingham
University of Chester
Marianne Meye Thompson
Fuller Theological Seminary
Kevin Vanhoozer
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
John Webster
University of Aberdeen
Jim Kinney
Baker Academic
© 2011 by Christopher R. Seitz
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Seitz, Christopher R.
The character of Christian Scripture: the significance of a two-Testament Bible / Christopher R. Seitz.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 978-0-8010-3948-5 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Bible. N.T.—Relation to the Old Testament. 2. Bible—Theology. I. Title.
BS2387.S38 2011
230′.041—dc23
2011025005
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.TM Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com
Scripture quotations labeled NRSV are from the New Revised Standard Version, copyright © 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
For the students in the Scripture and Theology seminar
at the University of St. Andrews, 1998–2007
1. The Canonical Approach and Theological Interpretation
2. Biblical Theology and Identification with Christian Scripture: “We Are Not Prophets or Apostles”
3. An Illustration of the Challenge: The Letter to the Hebrews, Biblical Theology, and Identification
4. Theological Use of the Old Testament: Recent New Testament Scholarship and the Psalms as Christian Scripture
5. Old and New in Canonical Interpretation
6. “Be Ye Sure That the Lord He Is God”—Crisis in Interpretation and the Two-Testament Voice of Christian Scripture
7. The Rule of Faith, Hermeneutics, and the Character of Christian Scripture
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About The Character of Christian Scripture: The Significance of a Two-Testament BibleChristopher Seitz illuminates the two-testament character of Scripture and examines its significance for the contemporary church. He explicates the canonical interpretation project of Brevard Childs, interacts critically with current interest in the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament, and addresses an issue of perennial concern: how to hear both testaments as Christian witness. This volume will be useful for biblical studies scholars and grad students, and will be utilized by professors and students in biblical studies, theological interpretation of Scripture, and hermeneutics courses. |
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