Daily Gleanings: Scripture (30 October 2019)

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Joseph Gordon discusses his Divine Scripture in Human Understanding (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019) in an interview with Matthew Bates.

One of Joe’s constant encouragements in the discussion is to consider what it might properly mean to say x, y, or z about Scripture or the realities to which it speaks.

For the full interview, see OnScript.

Boersma, “Scripture as real presence”

Reading time: < 1 minutesBoersma, New this year from Baker is Hans Boersma’s Scripture as Real Presence: Sacramental Exegesis in the Early Church. According to the book’s blurb,

This work argues that the heart of patristic exegesis is the attempt to find the sacramental reality (real presence) of Christ in the Old Testament Scriptures. Leading theologian Hans Boersma discusses numerous sermons and commentaries of the church fathers to show how they regarded Christ as the treasure hidden in the field of the Old Testament and explains that the church today can and should retrieve the sacramental reading of the early church. Combining detailed scholarly insight with clear, compelling prose, this book makes a unique contribution to contemporary interest in theological interpretation.

For more information or to order, see the Baker website, Amazon, or other retailers.

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (Catch-up Ed.)

Reading time: 8 minutesThe latest reviews in the Review of Biblical Literature include those below. In biblioblog time, some of these reviews date back almost to eternity past, but I’m going ahead and posting them here for future reference.

Update (5/13): The following now includes the April 24 listings I’d missed out previously.

March 14

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Hermeneutics

March 20

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Hermeneutics

March 26

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

New Testament and Cognate Studies

April 4

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Hermeneutics

April 10

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Miscellaneous

April 15

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Hermeneutics

April 24

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Miscellaneous

May 2

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

New Testament and Cognate Studies

 

 

Seitz, Christian Scripture (Excerpt)

Reading time: < 1 minutesBaker has kindly provided a substantial PDF excerpt from Christopher Seitz’s The Character of Christian Scripture: The Significance of a Two-Testament Bible (2011). Besides front matter, the excerpt includes the book’s introduction and first chapter, which account for 74 pages of text.