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The turn of the millennium appears to be a good time for a fresh assessment of the discipline of Biblical Theology, where it has been, the status of various questions within it and its future prospects. Scott Hafemann pulls together a stellar team of practitioners, scholars from the disciplines of both Old and New Testament studies, to give us a status report. After an introductory essay by...

of God’s redemptive acts in the history of Israel, Jesus and the church. At the prescriptive level, biblical theology will and must last as long as the Bible is held to be God’s Word about himself and his relationship to his creation. The Bible is not merely a witness to revelatory events or theological ideas but is itself an expression of theological activity and affirmation. To do biblical theology is to go where the Bible leads us, since the Scriptures are a record of historical events interpreted
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